“We did Belfast too. We did six gigs in Northern Ireland. Belfast was excellent. Then we played Dublin, at a place called McGonagles. It was Heavy Rock night. We walked in the place, they were playing ‘Smoke On The Water’. And there were all these rockers on the floor. Then we came on stage. People were throwing things. People were running up to the stage and going ‘fuck off home, go home’. We couldn’t even get into McDonald’s later on ‘cos we had earrings in…”
Ian Brown. The Stone Roses, Hot Press archive (July 1990)
