Ian Brown has lashed out against his former Stone Roses band mate John Squire.

In an interview with 6 Music Brown described Squire as jealous and bitter.

Brown believes Squire recently branded him a "tuneless knob" and a "paranoid mess" because he's bitter his music career failed following the band's split, while Brown remains a revered solo artist.

The Stone Roses spent much of the early 90s embroiled in legal battles after signing with Geffen records, and split two years after the release of their long awaited Second Coming album in 1994, when Squire announced he wanted to pursue new projects.

"For me, right, he split up the best band in the country at the time, the Roses, and he went on to do what? Nothing. Nothing to write home about, so he must be a bit bitter because he's got to watch me steaming forward.

"There's no stopping it, I announce shows and they're gone in a day. It must be killing the kid. They say he was the best guitarist of his generation, which I think he is. Was. I hear his music now and what's happened to his guitar playing?

"All I Know is that when he was stood next to me he had pure success. Since he's been apart he's had nothing.

Brown has confirmed he will be performing at a number of summer festivals including Ireland’s Oxygen Festival and T In The Park he has also hinted he may be performing at this years Glastonbury festival.

Also lined up is a ‘Best Of…’ album, scheduled for release this summer.

He said: "It was '98 that I put 'My Star' out, so it's like seven years later. I think it would be a good time to do a Greatest Hits. I've done four albums, I've done a few collaborations with U.N.K.L.E., I could do a great 20-track Greatest Hits album. I think it would be stronger than the Roses' Greatest Hits.”<br>
Brown has recently taken to playing some Stone Roses classics at his gigs, last year he played an entire set of Roses tunes, and there is every chance that he will continue to pepper his sets with some golden oldies.

Brown confided about why he had started playing his old bands songs: "Do you know how that came about? Someone sent me a CD of a John Squire solo gig and he was playing a few Roses tunes. Man, it was poor. I didn't think he had the right to do that to the tunes, you know, cos he was singing them as well. I don't think you can step to the mic aged 40 and cut it.

"I didn't think it was right, cos out of respect to the three other lads I'd never played any Roses tunes. I wanted to stand on my own two feet, so I kept away from the Roses and I just did my own thing, but when I heard that CD I thought 'that's out of order'.

"I thought 'if he ain't got the respect then I'm not gonna have none no more so I'm gonna play 'em meself now."