Tributes continue to pour in for beloved Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani after it was announced earlier today (November 20) that he has died, aged 63.
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Mani, real name Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, originally found fame as bassist for the Stone Roses, joining in 1987 and playing on both their iconic albums, until they first disbanded in 1996. He then went on to join Primal Scream and stayed with them until 2011, when the Stone Roses reformed.
Just over a week after announcing a UK-wide in conversation tour, his death was confirmed by his brother, Greg, earlier today.
“IT IS WITH THE HEAVIEST OF HEARTS THAT I HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THE SAD PASSING OF MY BROTHER GARY MANI MOUNFIELD,” he posted on social media, as Manchester Evening News reports. “RIP RKID.”
Now, Mani’s last performances with both of the two bands is being discussed and shared by fans online and on social media. Check out footage of both below, together with the set lists for each.
Mani’s last gig with The Stone Roses was at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland in 2017, and his last with Primal Scream was also in Scotland during Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations in 2011.
Check out footage from the gigs below.
Stone Roses, Hampden Park, Glasgow – 2017
‘I Wanna Be Adored’
‘Elephant Stone’
‘Sally Cinnamon’
‘Mersey Paradise’
‘(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister’
‘Where Angels Play’
‘Shoot You Down’
‘Waterfall’
‘Don’t Stop’
‘Begging You’
‘Elizabeth My Dear’
‘Fools Gold’
‘All for One’
‘Love Spreads’
‘Made of Stone’
‘She Bangs the Drums’
‘Breaking Into Heaven’
‘This Is the One’
‘I Am the Resurrection’
Primal Scream, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland – 2011
‘Movin’ on Up’
‘Slip Inside This House’ (13th Floor Elevators cover)
‘Don’t Fight It, Feel It’
‘Damaged’
‘Accelerator’
‘Shoot Speed/Kill Light’
‘Loaded’
‘Come Together’
‘Swastika Eyes’
‘Country Girl’
‘Jailbird’
‘Rocks’
Mani was born Crumpsall in Manchester on 16 November, 1962. He died nearly two years to the day of the passing of his wife Imelda, who died on November 18, 2023. The couple shared twin boys, Gene and George, 12, who were born in January 2013.
In 2016, The Stone Roses released two singles with ‘All For One‘ and ‘Beautiful Thing‘. They remained together for a few years, before disbanding once more in 2017 after the old tensions recurred.
It has now been 30 years since the Manchester legends released a record, with their last full-length LP ‘Second Coming’ dropping in 1994.
In 2019, John Squire confirmed the reunion was over for good, telling The Guardian that the band had officially come to an end, and later that year Ian Brown released his seventh solo album ‘Ripples‘.
As for Primal Scream, Mani joined the band as bassist following The Stone Roses’. In an interview with Uncut magazine in 2006, he compared being in the two bands, saying: “The Primals is more of a democracy, whereas with the Stone Roses we were more looking over our shoulder seeing if Ian and John [Squire] were pleased. Because they were writing the songs and being touted as the Lennon-McCartney, Jagger-Richards kind of thing. For me now there’s a lot more freedom. Primal Scream are as good at bullshit detection as the Stone Roses ever were.”
Mani stayed with Primal Scream until the Stone Roses reformed once more from 2011-2017. Mani was also a member of a supergroup ‘Freebass’ alongside the likes of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke, Haven’s Gary Briggs and New Order’s Peter Hook.
Only recently, Mani announced details of an intimate conversation tour which was planned to take place from September 2026 to June 2027.
Per an official website, Mani was going to look back on moments such as the iconic 1990 Spike Isnad gig, as well as the Stone Roses’ comeback stadium tour.
Meanwhile, tributes for the Manchester legend have poured in on social media. Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown led the tributes with a simple: “REST IN PEACE MANi X”
“Going to miss you so much,” wrote former Happy Mondays singer Rowetta, as she also paid tribute to Mani’s late wife Imelda. “All my love to the boys, the family & all those who knew and loved him.”
The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess shared a touching memory along with a picture of them together, posting: “I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday. It never failed to bring a smile to my face – and that was exactly the same for the man himself. One of the absolute best in every way – such a beautiful friend Love you Mani x x Never to be forgotten.”
Liam Gallagher wrote that he was “in total shock” and “absolutely devastated”, Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder shared: “RIP Mani – my heartfelt condolences to his twin boys and all of his family”, and Oasis guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs simply wrote: “RIP Mani. X”.
Meanwhile, journalist, musician and friend John Robb simply added: “RIP Mani – the soul of the Stone Roses”, and Rough Trade described the musician as “the perfect example of how a bassist can be the beating heart of a band”.
You can follow all the tributes as they come in here.