Full recording of The Stone Roses’ legendary Spike Island gig unearthed

nme.com:

The Stone Roses‘ legendary Spike Island gig has been unearthed.Up to three hours of footage, including show preparations and the soundcheck, shot by a crew member at the time is set to be used for a forthcoming documentary showing the 1990 concert in full for the first time.Other than 10 minutes of footage from the outdoor show featuring on Shane Meadows‘ 2013 documentary The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone, very little has been shown of the concert.NME previously reported that a camera crew from Central Music TV were present, but at the last minute the band instructed them to stand down.Now, Martin Cornell, who was a crew member at the time, has told BBC News that he filmed the whole concert from the scaffolding tower in the middle of the crowd.He said: “I didn’t know that they’d pulled their cameras.

I didn’t know that they weren’t videoing it. I was just there as an independent, working for my boss, basically, on a health and safety tip on my day off, and I had a camera.

Nobody else did.”After the gig, he said he packed the tape away and forgot about it.Cornell added: “I tucked it away with all my home videos and stuff like that.

It went into a box. It got put away – not for future reference, it just got put away, as you do. I came across it again probably 10 years later and thought, oh that’s quite interesting, I’ll see if I can take this somewhere.”He said he initially offered it to the band but they weren’t interested.