If you’re like us, you tend to look at Stone Roses reunion rumours with suspicion. After all, they crop up at least once a year — kind of like that groundhog out on the prairies (can you really trust a groundhog to determine the end of winter?). We guess you could kind of say The Stone Roses are like a groundhog that always sees its shadow and returns hibernating in its hole.
So when yet another rumour that The Stone Roses were reuniting popped up on the intertubes on Wednesday, we originally looked at them and scoffed. But looking a bit closer, there seemed to be some hope.
The Sun reported that former Stone Roses vocalist Ian Brown and guitarist John Squire — who have been at odds for years — had finally settled their differences at a funeral for bassist Mani’s mother and the band looked to be “resurrected.”
Brown and Squire haven’t spoken in 15 years — basically since Squire blew up and walked out of the band in 1996 — but the paper reported a source told them they’d had “an emotional reunion” at the funeral and “have been in regular contact since.” Further, the source apparently said Brown had been thinking about talking to Squire for a while.
Yeah, right, huh?
Well, then former Inspiral Carpets keyboardist Chris Boon tweeted that the meeting had indeed taken place, and everyone was apparently quite civil. Could there be some actual truth to the rumour?
“It’s true that Ian & John met recently,” he wrote on Wednesday. “It was at Mani’s mum’s funeral. We all went back to a pub in Failsworth. Ian & John got on great…
“… they spent a couple of hours chatting. All very relaxed n that.”
Cool, right? Well, Boon did end by saying “Apart from that, i know nowt else…..”
Despite that, it seemed like there might be some actual truth to the perennial rumblings this time.
Then Mani hunted the NME down and set them straight.
“I’m disgusted that my personal grief has been invaded and hijacked by these nonsensical stories,” he said.
“Two old friends meeting up after 15 years to pay their respects to my mother does not constitute the reformation of The Stone Roses. Please fuck off and leave it alone. It isn’t true and isn’t happening.”
Okay then.
So there you have it, folks. The groundhog has seen its shadow and gone back into its hole.
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