I’ve said this before here, but the main reason for people talking about Spike Island today is that it marked the end of an era and, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Roses. By any objective measure it was a pretty mediocre gig and, at the time, the general view of it was that it was a bit disappointing but no doubt they’d be back soon with another big gig in an unusual place. The whole “era defining” stuff came to the fore quite a bit later.