"Inside The Smiths" documentary DVD could be out "as soon as the end of this month"
posted by davidt on Wednesday April 11 2007, @10:00AM

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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smiths reunion in 2007 (Score:1)
it's been 20 years. bury the damn hatchet already.
leedoggpimp <leedoggpimp@hotmail.com> -- Wednesday April 11 2007, @02:27PM (#254092)
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True friends stab you in the front.
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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, @04:55PM (#254116)
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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, @02:27AM (#254145)
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Finally, after 3 seasons of watching MLB.tv in my bedroom in Salford the Boston Red Sox are champions of the world.
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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, @02:56AM (#254147)
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    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, @06:06AM (#254156)
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      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, @02:34PM (#254206)
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      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, @06:37AM (#254271)
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      Re:An Exclusive Swallowneck Club! (Score:1)
      Your writing is not making much sense to anybody. The style seems strangely familiar though.
      MarkJones -- Thursday April 12 2007, @10:13AM (#254181)
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      Re:evil persecution of Swallowneck too! (Score:1)
      You love the bile you masochist - you scrabble round on the floor and lick it up after it's been spewed forth you bitch scumbag wanker
      Shakingobscene -- Friday April 13 2007, @02:33AM (#254260)
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      "If I was the wife of an acrobat - would I look like the living dead boy?"
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