Dave Swindells shot an infamous 90s Stone Roses gig

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Summer 1990 ✅ 30,000 Stone Roses fans ✅ What could go wrong? 🤔

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on documenting London’s acid house scene in the summer of 1988, Dave was commissioned to shoot both the gig, and around Manchester the weekend prior. “This meant going back to the Hacienda for Mike Pickering and Graeme Park's Nude Night on the Friday and heading to the Dry Bar and shops like Geese, Eastern Bloc Records and the shops in Afflecks Palace, as well as taking snaps on the street of kids wearing the 'Madchester' and baggy looks,” he says.

Following the gig’s 30th anniversary last summer, Dave decided to look through his archive and see what he’d taken. The images he found now take the form ofthat parachutes you into the gig and a moment in history when Manchester’s scene’s music and clubs and style seemed unstoppable. So, even if the concert turned out to be more “shambolic” than “iconic”, these pictures — chosen and captioned by Dave himself below — will certainly make you wish you’d been part of the chaos.

 

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