I love this band – the mighty Stone Roses.

We were getting well beyond fatigued toward the end of the US tour this year (September). We were kicking back in a hotel in upstate New York after a show at Ithaca & I put this track on LOUD in the headphones – which made me not feel so tired after all. This was not necessarily a good thing – I then found myself having to drink a lot more beer to get to sleep (yep, a likely story but I’m sticking to it).

That said, hangover aside, I couldn’t get the song out of my head the following day or the days after that. The chorus just stays with you. It’s a pretty uplifting vibe.

‘She Bangs The Drums’ is an extraordinary song by this amazing seminal English band from the 80s & 90s. The Stone Roses paved the way for bands like Oasis & Blur some years later. In fact, it’s widely thought that if they had just held it together a bit longer, they would have taken Nirvana’s place at the forefront of cultural change. When they disbanded it left a so-called ‘void’ in the British music scene – perhaps an indictment on expectations placed upon the band, and how greatly they were respected.

Checkya tomorrow.

Fires out.