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Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

S10E7: Mani from The Stone Roses joins the Rockonteurs

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Pop, Interviews, Music, Rock

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we welcome another bassist to the show. But Mani is NOT just any old bass player, he’s the bass player from the Stone Roses.

Mani joins Guy and Gary to talk about his musical journey that took him from the Roses to Primal Scream and back to the Roses, and while doing so managed to influence almost every kid that picked up a guitar or started a band since! 

It’s an open, honest and typically Mancunian account of life at the forefront of one of the most important bands of a generation. 


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0:42.1

Hello Gary.

0:43.2

Hello, Guy.

0:43.9

Were you ever baggy?

0:45.0

Yes, I was.

0:45.9

You were a baggy?

0:46.7

I was a bit, no, I had a baggy haircut.

0:50.6

We got a bowl.

0:51.2

And there was a time, I had a bowl, yeah.

0:53.5

And there was this period around 1990 when I used to talk to the Pops quite a lot with Durgham at Broome, with... Because her Pink Floyd offshoot, the Blue Pearl, which came about from her meeting youth. And so I used to have to go on top of the Pops a lot. And I used to be very baggy on that with me big flares and me, Paisley.

1:12.7

Of course, baggy kind of came out of the way. You were baggy. You got a bit baggy for second, didn't you? I don't think so. We all did. I mean, listen, I was doing, I was doing the last Spandau album, really, when all that was happening, you know um and then uh right from 1990 I went off to L.A. And no one's baggy in L.A. are they? Oh, that's true. But it came out of the rave scene, really, didn't it? The baggy look. I can't believe you. You had to reach for that. And you're such an exponent of that phrase. I'm exhausted. But apparently, the first person, This is the sort of thing, bit of Gary Asperton type research. Apparently the first person to wear the bucket out

1:46.8

was in fact Rennie from the Stone Roses. Really? Maybe on stage, but not off, I think off stage, wasn't it? No, no, no. In bed, he's to wear him. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, no, if Gary Abston, who runs... No, Gasspin didn't say that. I was saying this was a Gary Aspen type. The trend, he runs, he looks after the more sort of trendier, fashionable arm of Adidas in this country, this is special. He's also the great, but he is the great, we should actually have him as an official consultant on the show because he's the great sort of Adidas historian. But he is. Because he was it, guy, it was you, he told you. Yeah, you can tell the story about the first person to wear Adidas. Yeah, so he tells me the first person in music, he can trace back to wear Adidas in a kind of concert situation is Nick Mason.

2:36.1

And there's a close-up, I think, of Nick's shoe playing the bass drum in the footage from

2:43.0

the UFO club.

2:44.1

And he's wearing Adidas trainers.

2:45.7

That's right.

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