First Morrissey gig
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Miss Ann Thorpe
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Newcastle City Hall 1986
can't remember owt about it...other than drinking too much sherry before the gig, standing on the seats and meeting a nice lad
can't remember owt about it...other than drinking too much sherry before the gig, standing on the seats and meeting a nice lad
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Yes I was , really got into them late 84. Was aware of them from the start, but didn’t appreciate them, until a lad I worked with got another job and took all his cassettes with him, two being their first two albums.
I found my self lost for a week or so, so decided to buy all I could RE the smiths .
Gregor Samsa
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That’s great! Must’ve been a beautiful thing to have experienced The Smiths back then and also in Northern Britain. To me, it’s a mythological thing.
This Charming Bowie
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2020 - SSE Arena, Wembley.
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Yer it was great at the time , watching them on the music TV shows, reading interviews in the music press. They really did have the world at their feet.
TheSmiths_1985
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Northern Britain? That’s Scotland.
Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
Huh? Carlisle is in Northern England. England is part of Great Britain.
TheSmiths_1985
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Rhyl is in northern Wales. Wales is part of Britain. That doesn’t mean Rhyl is in northern Britain.
Northern England is in the middle of Britain.
Gregor Samsa
I straighten up, and my position is one of hope.
Carlisle is right on the Scottish border, though.
TheSmiths_1985
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Gregor Samsa
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What say you, @Carlislebaz ? 
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Nine miles to be precise.
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Liverpool Arena 2009 
It was then a painfully long wait until the 2011 tour, but the setlists made it all worth while.
First proper gig then was Hawick Town Hall, you just had to be there ….
Probably still the best gig I’ve ever been too, honourable mentions to Bradford and Hopfarm festival too.
Now thanks to Alains return and all the 90’s era peak solo tunes look possible to be heard again - these upcoming uk dates could easily be the best since then
It was then a painfully long wait until the 2011 tour, but the setlists made it all worth while.
First proper gig then was Hawick Town Hall, you just had to be there ….
Probably still the best gig I’ve ever been too, honourable mentions to Bradford and Hopfarm festival too.
Now thanks to Alains return and all the 90’s era peak solo tunes look possible to be heard again - these upcoming uk dates could easily be the best since then
Jamie
Bluff, Ardour & Assoc.
The ill-fated Riviera Theatre of 1997, shortened because M had come down with the "Chicago flu." There were already ill omens: I was attending with someone I had unrequited feelings for and it was my first time driving in Chicago. When parking before the gig, I inadvertently turned the wrong way down a one way and had to execute a three-point turnaround in an unfamiliar VW, stick shift van.
On the bright side, M and the band made it through "Sunny." Though I was chagrined to learn later that "Nobody Loves Us" was apparently on the set list but skipped since it leapt into set list oblivion thereabouts.
My first full-length show was Chicago Theatre, February 10, 2000. Much better experience, the only fly in the ointment being that the surprise Metro gig announced for two days later saw the return of "Boxers" and the live debuts of "I Am Hated For Loving" and "Ouija Board, Ouija Board."
On the bright side, M and the band made it through "Sunny." Though I was chagrined to learn later that "Nobody Loves Us" was apparently on the set list but skipped since it leapt into set list oblivion thereabouts.
My first full-length show was Chicago Theatre, February 10, 2000. Much better experience, the only fly in the ointment being that the surprise Metro gig announced for two days later saw the return of "Boxers" and the live debuts of "I Am Hated For Loving" and "Ouija Board, Ouija Board."
TheSmiths_1985
Hello, honky tonks 💋
Actually, having perused the tour archive, I was wrong. It was Edinburgh Playhouse, February 2008.
Packof20No10s
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Nice.
Packof20No10s
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I would have held my hands out for communion from Morrissey any day. I would kiss his feet too if I ever had the chance. And if he would allow me too.
Packof20No10s
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I only started to like The Smiths because my brother played them in his room all of the time.
Packof20No10s
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It's grim up North
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