the museum · Manchester post-punk
1984
Manchester Evening News · Manchester
Became famous
Draft. The ad text below is a paraphrase from documented sources. A curator will replace it with the verbatim wording once we've checked an archive scan. The outcome and citation are otherwise accurate.
classified · as printed
Drummer wanted for the Stone Roses. Influences: 60s, soul, psychedelia. — Ian.
What happened next
Alan 'Reni' Wren answered. His feel — a soul drummer dropped into psychedelic guitar pop — became the Roses' secret weapon, audible in every bar of 'I Wanna Be Adored' and 'Made of Stone.' The 1989 self-titled debut still sits high on every UK best-of-all-time list; the long-awaited Second Coming (1994) was less kind to the band.
Source
Manchester Evening News classifieds, c.1984. Per Stone Roses biographies including John Robb's 'The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop' (1997); exact issue pending scan.
Further
cite this ad
“Drummer wanted for the Stone Roses. Influences: 60s, soul, psychedelia. — Ian.” — Manchester Evening News, 1984. Musolist museum, /museum/manchester-post-punk/stone-roses-reni-drummer-1984.