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"Inside The Smiths" documentary DVD could be out "as soon as the end of this month"
posted by davidt on Wednesday April 11 2007, @09:00AM

 Morrissey's Cat writes:
Salford Lads' Club playing the Smiths card again, and guess which two of the band turned up?

Smiths' glory days - Manchester Evening News

Adam Moss
9/ 4/2007

THE famous photo of Manchester pop legends The Smiths outside Salford Lads Club has been recreated - to launch a DVD documentary about the all-conquering 1980s group.

The film - called Inside The Smiths - has been produced and directed by Stephen Petricco, owner of Manchester's Fab Café and TV21 bars.

The release of the rockumentary, which follows bass player Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce across England, Europe and America and features in depth interviews with the pair - could be out as soon as the end of this month.

Light-hearted

Stephen Petricco says: "The film goes inside the band but in a light-hearted way. I have been mates with Andy and Mike for years now.

"This was never a conscious effort to make a documentary - it is just something that happened."

The new Lads Club line-up features Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce plus producer Stephen Petricco, original photographer Stephen Wright, and presenter Mark Standley.

"It's both funny and sad at the same time," said Stephen.

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Swallowneck - The VHS Question! (Score:0, Troll)
Swallowneck is demanding to know whether or not this documentary will be released on his beloved VHS format too... He doesn't have a problem with dvd format, but feels he gets more for his money as a video box is bigger and looks better on the shelf.

His VHS collection is quite huge, but not to my taste as there is some "erotica" of a male variety that I cannot see any worth in, but if it floats Swallowneck's boat...
MarkFromScatter -- Wednesday April 11 2007, @09:11AM (#254058)
(User #16900 Info)
 If you don't like me, don't look at me...
    smiths reunion in 2007 (Score:1)
    it's been 20 years. bury the damn hatchet already.
    leedoggpimp <leedoggpimp@hotmail.com> -- Wednesday April 11 2007, @01:27PM (#254092)
    (User #2789 Info | http://www.morrisseymusic.com/ )
     True friends stab you in the front.
    it's sad alright ......... (Score:1)
    even go as far as pathetic

    I still like Andy but go away Mike...please!
    marred -- Wednesday April 11 2007, @03:55PM (#254116)
    (User #16308 Info)
    They look like a gang of sex offenders waiting... (Score:2, Interesting)
    for the register office to open.
    Apart from Mike who is top and gave me his autograph at Logan airport last year. He sat behind me on the plane and had to put up with a boorish American middle-aged fellow bigging up his son who is in the Blue Man Group and has a house in Vegas. Whoop-de-doo. When he asked what Mike did he just replied 'I'm a musician'. Didn't say he was in the best British group since The Beatles, just showed great humility in letting the oafish American laud his bald, mute, questionably talented son for 7 hours.
    And his vs Cancer gigs are worthy and great and will become a staple on the Manchester / UK gig scene for many a year to come.
    It is written.
    ManAlive -- Thursday April 12 2007, @01:27AM (#254145)
    (User #4261 Info)
     Thirty? I didn't think you'd make it to Thursday!
    Plz keep voting the club in the english icons poll (Score:1)
    http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/salford-la ds-club?sortcriterion=popularity&order=reverse
    Morrissey the 23rd <Morrisseythe23rd@aol.com> -- Thursday April 12 2007, @01:56AM (#254147)
    (User #910 Info | http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Morrisseythe23rd )
      I hate to be a Killjoy but, (Score:1)

          I really don't like the look of this.
          And I think then when it's Salford Lads
          Club there'd be Lads, oh but gee whiz
          what I really mean to say is:- "Come on,
          it's not 1986 anymore. Might be time
          to move onto something new."......
          But each to his own, I suppose.....
      mauve21 -- Thursday April 12 2007, @05:06AM (#254156)
      (User #13027 Info)
        An Exclusive Swallowneck Club! (Score:0, Troll)
        By 'eck, this news story takes me back to the glory years of 1988 when myself (a dithering teenager) and the Mighty Swallowneck (then a more stately 22 years old) used to sit in rough Northern pubs under the daft illusion that we were also members of Salford Lads Club because we thought of it as a "Smiths Club"...

        One night this horrendous female came crashing into the pub... she had fancied me for ages but I always rebuffed her advances! Anyway, she saw Swallowneck and said extremely loudly that that explained everything! I said, "Hey chick, what do you mean by that?" She then pointed at Swallowneck's limp wrists... and everyone just laughed at her!!!
        MarkFromScatter -- Thursday April 12 2007, @07:40AM (#254172)
        (User #16900 Info)
         If you don't like me, don't look at me...
        Sorrow will come in the END. (Score:0)
        This is so sad. Sad. SAD. And like sorrow will come in the end, it made me
        think of the words...................

        i started a joke
        which started a whole world crying
        oh if i'd only see
        that the joke was on me
        D F#m
        i started to cry
        G A D F#m G
        which started the whole world laughing
        A D F#m G
        oh if i'd only see
        A D
        that the joke was on me

        I look at the sky
        holding my friends
        over my eyes
        and i fell out of bed
        coz in my head
        are the words that you said
        till i, finally die
        which stared the whole world living
        oh if i'd only see
        that the joke was on me
        i started a joke
        which started a whole world crying
        oh if i'd only see
        that the joke was on me

        Love,
        Strawberry
        Anonymous -- Thursday April 12 2007, @01:34PM (#254206)
        Salford Lads Club (Score:1)
        My first trip to Manchester to seek out Smiths landmarks was in 1985. My friend and I had enjoyed the Mick Muddles book and set out out one rainy March day to find Morrissey . I still have wonderful b/w photographs of Whalley Range Hulme and The Caribean Club( factory Club as was) . We drew the line at stopping by Myras old house (SHAME) . I have had many trips since then the last been in 1997 when as a skinhead in nail varnish really turned heads outside the lads club. Happy days Happys Days . I am still a regular visitor to Manchester ( albeit in different circumstances) and it runs through my veins like blood.
        swallowneck -- Friday April 13 2007, @05:37AM (#254271)
        (User #16008 Info)
        Re:evil persecution of Swallowneck too! (Score:0, Offtopic)
        While we are at it, how about some respite from the bile aimed at my goodself and the Swallowneck posts?
        MarkFromScatter -- Thursday April 12 2007, @12:33PM (#254200)
        (User #16900 Info)
         If you don't like me, don't look at me...
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