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The Resurrection – Stone Roses, Heaton Park Manchester, June 29/30th 2012

On Friday night as Primal Scream were rousing through Country Girl, I saw approximately thirty coppers running frantically through the disabled section to the rear of the bar which was next to where the wheelchair platform was. Over the previous five minutes, I’d seen a few people gently walking back to their places in the field with crates of orange breezers and packs of small plastic bottles of white wine. Word went round that the bar had been stormed by disgruntled punters who’d been getting crushed in the queue. Having been in that same queue about half an hour earlier, I wasn’t that surprised that it had happened, you wouldn’t have been able to get a cigarette paper in between the seething crush of humanity. People were being swayed from side to front with no control over their movement. Getting away from the bar without spilling any drink was akin to walking a tightrope with a ball and chain.

Primal Scream perform Movin’ On Up at Heaton Park on Friday night

Primal Scream were excellent and I was pleasantly surprised. Continue reading The Resurrection – Stone Roses, Heaton Park Manchester, June 29/30th 2012