Mani Mountfueld, the bassist of Stone Rises, Primal Scream and others died on Thursday. Only 63. It was a big moment for a lot of people. They would have listened through this album and found themselves awash with waves of memory like I was.
I imagined Mark at my local ploughing songs into the jukebox round the corner from the flat I live in in the centre of Newcastle. People elsewhere listening ti the music Mountfield played and thinking through their own yesterdays,.I've had a whole career in teaching and training since and have now made it to my own sixties. I hope I'll never go into an office again. I can't help but think the Stone Roses would approve. They advocate escape.
. I texted a lot of friends. My sister who had been listening to the first Stone Roses album just as I was. The university friend I was due to go to see the band with at a small arts centre in Norwich just before the band broke huge with The Happy Mondays in that incredible Top of the Pops performance on a show where Happy Mondays featured too and in retrospect ushered in the Nineties.I had a cold and didn't go. It's long been a joke between us. Andy should have gone without me.
It was the album of my last year at university. I bought it and played it a lot. It ushered a whole new thing in. Though I wasn't sure if the outfits and never went for the accompanying lifestyle the record itself is undeniable. Attitude, youth, melody and when it wants to be damned danceable. Not least because of Mountfeld's basslines. Some rhythm section. This was unprecedented. Indie bands didn't swing like this.
'Citrus, sucking sunshine.' R.I.P.
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