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AIBU?

To sell my Stone Roses tickets for this weekend and go out with DH for dinner instead?

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Washbasin · 12/06/2013 18:48

DH and I have tickets for The Stone Roses this weekend. It looks like it's going to rain. I'd love to see them again (previous saw in 1995 twice) but I'd also love the money and a night out just me and DH. We have a babysitter arranged to look after our three kids but I honestly cannot remember the last time we went out for dinner just the two of us.

Would IBU if we put the tickets on eBay then went out for a lovely dinner and some peace instead? Or is that just plain boring!

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MusicalEndorphins · 13/06/2013 06:10

I'd go to the concert. Bring a large umbrella and dress for the rain. www.thestoneroses.org/
You can eat anytime!

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MusicalEndorphins · 13/06/2013 06:13

My user name was inspired after a concert! Will you be floating on a cloud for days after you eat a nice dinner?

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KrazyKurls · 13/06/2013 06:29

Go, you can do dinner anytime!

I can hardly sleep with excitement already about going to see Robbie Williams next week, it's just been so long since DH and I were child free and just really let out hair down, live music lowers your inhibitions and you will talk more on the way home than you would in a whole night over a meal!

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piffpoff · 13/06/2013 06:44

Go to the concert, I saw them last year and it was one of the best nights of my life and has made me determined to do it more often, going to see Deacon Blue and Bruno Mars later this year.
Will you still remember your nice meal in a years time?

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roughtyping · 13/06/2013 07:06

Ah, you should go. We saw Primal Scream a couple of years ago, they were amazing. OH is off to Stone Roses on Sat with his brother, think he's really looking forward to it. I'm going to a Bowie tribute night

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SingingSilver · 13/06/2013 11:06

RedToothBrush Have they always attracted that element? Because they don't seem that type of band. It's like the disenfranchised Oasis fans have latched onto them until Kasabian tour again. Ian Brown especially is very anti class A drugs, but apparently Finsbury Park was crawling with pills-&-coke dealers.

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orangeone · 13/06/2013 11:29

YABU - it's the Stone Roses. That is all....

if you really don't want to go I'll buy the tickets

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ComposHat · 13/06/2013 12:28

Have they always attracted that element? Because they don't seem that type of band. It's like the disenfranchised Oasis fans have latched onto them until Kasabian tour again. Ian Brown especially is very anti class A drugs, but apparently Finsbury Park was crawling with pills-&-coke dealers

It probably stems from their roots in the baggy/2nd summer of love scene of the late 1980s. They always had a following of pillheads. But you are right in later years Ian Brown has been very anti-class A. John Squire got himself a fairly hefty coke habbit during the making of 'the second coming' and got grandiose ideas about making a sub Led Zep effort with 1000s of guitars on it. Ian Brown was pretty much catatonic and paranoid due to weed use. It is usually a bad sign when the Singer and the songwriter are on different drugs, it usually makes for bad records (and the second coming is a very bad album IMO)

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melliebobs · 13/06/2013 12:30

Are u insane?! Lol GO!!!! We went to heaton park in Manchester last summer and it was bloomin awesome. Plus it was our first night out since having dd 4 months earlier!

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SugarSpunSisters · 13/06/2013 12:34

YABU

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Avondale · 13/06/2013 12:43

Go to the gig!
Get takeaway curry on Friday night and talk then.
Talking to the DH is overrated anyway.

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TheFallenNinja · 13/06/2013 12:46

You can sell your tickets on ticketmaster.

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PrincessOfChina · 13/06/2013 12:49

Go. You crazy fool.

I'm taking my DP to a gig tomorrow night. Mark Owen. He is NOT IMPRESSED and would much rather go to The Stone Roses.

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10storeylovesong · 13/06/2013 12:50

YABU.

Heaton Park was one of the best experiences of my life. And full of all age ranges, not just people reminiscing! It poured it down... We wore cagoules and wellies. I danced with people I'd never met before, and everyone sang every word to every song.

And you get Jake Bugg...

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ephemeralfairy · 13/06/2013 12:57

Go! GO!! You'll regret it so much if you don't! I went to see Blur in Hyde Park last year and it was amazing. I was feeling all meh about it in the morning as I'd had a shit week and was knackered but as soon as the synth-y intro to Girls and Boys started all that just disappeared and it was like being 14 again...

FWIW if you're feeling middle-aged my 68-year-old mother is going to the Rolling Stones gig in Hyde Park next month ON HER OWN. Words can't express how ace I think she is.

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SingingSilver · 13/06/2013 13:50

CompsHat I actually love the second album. I understand why people didn't think it was up to their standards and it's not on the same level as their first album, but I love Breaking Into Heaven, Ten Storey, and Love Spreads. I believe all three are on their recent live set lists (along with Elephant Stone finally!)

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Fifilosttheplot · 13/06/2013 14:24

YABVVVVVVVU there will be other times to go to dinner, you may never get the chance to see the Roses again.

Sooooooooo jealous you have tickets, we couldnt afford it and they aren't playing anywhere near us anyway.

"She carries on through it all, she's a Waterfall...la la la la la lala........."

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ComposHat · 13/06/2013 15:02

Singing I think Elephant Stone is probably my favourite Stone Roses song, along with 'What the world is waiting for' the only Roses song I'd listen to now.

I just think both albums sound very dated now. The first one a good exemplar of its era, the second one sounds like an over endulgent exercise in fretwankery. IMO It has aged far worse than the Monday's Pills Thrills n' Bellyaches, which I still play periodically.

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diddl · 13/06/2013 15:36

" It was released the same week as my first child. "

I don't no why, but that absolutely made me howl.

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ParadiseChick · 13/06/2013 15:44

Talking to DH is overrated

Exactly!

Hope your going OP!

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KevinFoley · 13/06/2013 16:19

There is NOTHING I would put before food.

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moodyblues · 13/06/2013 17:10

Sell them.

I went to Finsbury Park last Saturday and it was fucking awful. 90% old pissed men puking on the grass by 7.30.

Ian Brown sounded shocking too, I mean I know he's not exactly tuneful but he made me wince.

Thank god we went with some old friends we hadn't seen in a while, it was fab to catch up with them - but would rather have been in a restaurant than at Finsbury Park!

I realise I sound like a miserable cow but, oh god, I was SO disappointed!

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Washbasin · 13/06/2013 18:56

I still don't know what to do! I think I'm leaning towards going though... Folk at work have been talking about it so its got me all excited now :)

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