Ian Brown

When: 26th September 2022
Location: O2 Academy

Ian Brown announces first solo headline tour in over ten years! Coming to Glasgow’s O2 Academy for one night only on 26th September 2022.

UK indie rock idol Ian Brown has announced a UK tour for September & October 2022. Kicking off in Leeds and ending in London. Which will be the musicians first solo headline tour in over a decade.

Ian Brown’s first experience playing in a rock band ended with him selling his bass guitar, because he wanted the money for a scooter. It’s hardly the image of a successful rock star. Yet over the course of the 80s and 90s, Brown would become one of the most successful of them all. That first band was called The Patrol, and his second, three years later in 1983, was named Waterfront. Neither name would stand the test of time, but Waterfront was to be the jumping off point for something bigger, evolving as the line-up changed into the Stone Roses. This was the band that would make Brown’s career.

The Stone Roses had a slow rise throughout the 80s, their major breakthrough coming in 1989 with the release of their debut album, The Stone Roses. Although it only reached number 32 on the charts, it put the band very much on the map and decades on has remained a staple of British rock. It was later voted the best British album of all time in a 2004 poll by The Observer Music Monthly. Their second album, Second Coming, was released five years later. Although it reached number four in the charts, critical reviews were divided, and the band split in 1996.

Brown took a brief break

Brown took a brief break from music but quickly returned to the scene in 1998 with debut single ‘My Star’. This was followed only a month later by an album, Unfinished Monkey Business. The album featured many ex-members of the Stone Roses, although Brown played most of the instruments himself. Between 1999 and 2004 Brown would go on to release three further albums. These works were noteworthy not just because of the speed at which he produced them or their widely positive critical reception, but because he continued to take on the bulk of the production work himself. In 2006, Brown was given the ‘Godlike Genius’ award by NME.

Brown’s fifth studio album, The World Is Yours, took on a more political tone, and was followed two years later by his sixth, which was also his last for nearly a decade. However, in 2018 Brown returned to music with single ‘First World Problems’. His seventh studio album, Ripples, was released in early 2019.