Now here’s a turn up for the books. First Ian Brown does a gig full of Stone Roses material and then he pitches up with quite possibly his finest solo record to date. The double whammy comes when you find out that it was written with Noel Gallagher and that we can indulge in all sorts of ‘Manchester across the ages’ nonsense. So yes, it does sound like the singer from the Roses fronting Oasis but the results are so good that it makes perfect sense. And it might even mean that we should be awaiting both parties’ new records with more excitement than expected.