24 September 1985 - Playhouse, EDINBURGH
Shakespeare's Sister
I Want The One I Can't Have
What She Said
What's The World
Nowhere Fast
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Frankly, Mr Shankly
Bigmouth Strikes Again
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
Stretch Out And Wait
Still Ill
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians
How Soon Is Now? /The Headmaster Ritual /Meat Is Murder //Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now //Hand In Glove ///William It Was Really Nothing ///Miserable Lie
The setlist was identical to the one for the previous gig in Irvine.
As the Smiths came on stage, Morrissey greeted the audience "Hi... what do you think?" before launching into "Shakespeare's Sister". About the cover of James' "What's The World", Morrissey announced "That song was written by... errm..." and never finished his line. The current single "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" was introduced as: "This is our new single... I hope that... the fastidious members will find it politically right to buy it..." After "Frankly Mr Shankly" which was yet unreleased, Morrissey announced "That's a new song called 'Frankly Mr Shankly'... this is another new song... called err... what?... which?... I can't hear you, louder... which? Ah yeah bigmouth... 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'!" Soon after "Still Ill" was introduced with "This is a funny old song called 'Still Ill'." "How Soon Is Now?", which was the last number of the main set, was "...dedicated to anybody who's ever had to use Blend The Blemish".

Returning for the second encore, Morrissey shouted "No! No!" to various requests and went into "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now". Then returning for a third encore, he said "You've been very nice" before doing "William It Was Really Nothing". Throughout the gig fans had been kept in their seats by security guys who patrolled the aisles. There were a few attempts to get closer to the stage, but all failed. During the extended outro to "Miserable Lie" which included new Morrissey mumblings, a fan was dragged out by security and Morrissey asked him to stop, sarcastically calling him a "...macho man". After the song Morrissey simply said "Goodbye... God bless you... we love you!" and the band left stage.

I remember it as if it were yesterday.

Morrissey's 2nd Solo show in the USA.

I highly recommend the ABC footage if you can find it. Also Request Video broadcast on a UHF television station that was only accessible in Orange County, California showed some of the sound check (Sing Your Life & There Is A Place In Hell..) + an interview with the then very young Lads (Alain, Boz, G. Day, & Spencer) which is generally also found on this bootleg often compiled (with Tonight Show x 2, Hangin' With MTV, Sat. Night Live, Kilborn 2002) as “US TV Appearances Volume 1.”

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June 1991 - Pacific Amphitheater, COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA

Interesting Drug
Mute Witness
The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
November Spawned A Monster
Will Never Marry
Sing Your Life
Asian Rut
Our Frank
King Leer
Everyday Is Like Sunday
(I'm) The End Of The Family Line
There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends
Piccadilly Palare
Trash
Suedehead
That's Entertainment /Cosmic Dancer /Disappointed

The 18000 tickets for this concert sold out in only one hour.

Many fans got on stage, some of which being acknowledged or even hugged by Morrissey. The presence of all the cameras seemed to have an effect on the atmosphere in some portions of the audience. After "That's Entertainment" Morrissey took Boz's guitar and pretended to play.

Peter Cetera and Sylvester Stallone were seen at the concert.

The concert and the pre-concert activities outside were taped by Tim Broad to be shown on MTV, but nothing of it has surfaced yet. "Will Never Marry", "Sing Your Life" and "Mute Witness" were shown on ABC's "In Concert '91". See television concerts.

Bootlegs:
The three songs shown on ABC's "In Concert '91" are commonly found on VHS and DVD bootlegs of television appearances.

I'd listened and liked Smiths songs, but was too young to think about going to see them (being obsssed by football and other things). To be honest I'd never made a connection between Morissey and The Smiths until I turned up at University - what a late developer I am!

Bona Drag had just been released and by this time I was a big fan. To be honest I am gutted I didn't make the 1991 Wembley Arena gig. Anyhow I finally made it during the Your Arsenal Tour at Alexandra Palace. Got hold of a nice big chunk of green-lame shirt.

Big memories of the night were: Seeing Moz and his amazing stage presence. The fight that broke out at the end over bits of shirt. Alexandra Palace - a realy interesting venue. The pyramid on Canary Wharf Tower lit up, almost as if in honour of Moz.

Great poll by the way.

Kill Uncle Tour, at time of Pregnant for the Last Time. Song I remember are; Sing Your Life, Pregnant for the Last Time, Our Frank, November Spawned a Monster, Trash, Cosmic Dancer, Suedehead, Angel, Angel Down We Go Together. Excellent concert, remember Alain doing silly slidey dance and nearly falling over.

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What I remember best is Morrissey singing London and then segueing straight into the falsetto coda of "Miserable Lie". I remember his voice soaring over my head.

I wore a courduroy jacket and a white blouse and my friend Philip mocked me for it. He still does.

Off topic I know, but this was also the place where I saw The Cure for the first time (1987). On November 1, 1992, I remember waiting in line for hours to be one of the first ones inside. And after the show, I remember following the bus for awhile hoping they would stop, but they never did and to this day I still have not been able to meet Him. I came close in Boise. But if given the chance, I wouldn't know what to say. Depressing.

It was the finest hour plus of my life.

Even if I missed the opening song, thanks to a busted tire.

Grrr!

I saw the Smiths from the second row of the Warner Theatre(to this day the best concert i've ever attended)A group of us went down to the Shoram Hotel the next morning to meet the band. Morrissey was registered under the name Kevin Morrissey. I stole his Do Not Disturb sign and replaced it with one from the maids cart. We happened apon Mike Joyce walking down the hallway eating a bowl of Sugar Pops. We told him how great the show was the night before and that we were headed to Philly for that night's show. We asked if the set list would be any different and he said they planned the same set but you never know (note to Johnny Rogan; they definitely played This Charming Man in DC - not sure about Philly and they played Barbarism as an extra encore in Philly. But the sets were not identical)We met the band in the lobby as they were preparing to board the bus. I got them to sign Moz's door sign which I still have. Moz and I look quite a bit alike and we are exactly the same height I remember him being really intrigued. He also seemed a bit skiddish with all the attention he got in the lobby that day.
I'm sure that will remain one of the greatest 2 day spans in my life!

-The Treading Lemming

"how i learned to love the bootboys"

Interesting Drug
Mute Witness
The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
Alsatian Cousin
Sing Your Life
King Leer
November Spawned A Monster
Yes I Am Blind
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Piccadilly Palare
Asian Rut
The Loop
Pregnant For The Last Time
Our Frank
Suedehead
Angel, Angel Down We Go Together
That's Entertainment /There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends /Disappointed

This gig was rescheduled from May that same year when Morrissey got a sore throat and had to cancel. Historically it wasn't one of the best gigs ever, but it was the first time I had managed to see Morrissey perfom having been too young to see The Smiths.

This is memorable for me also as the first time I bumped into my friend Hugh at a Morrissey gig (or "Scottish Dog Guy" as the Morrissey Tour.com website has christened him). I'll never forget the sheer jaw-dropping moment when he (Hugh) moved from his seat in the balcony to the side of the stage, climbed over the balcony and jumped onto the amp stacks situated on the stage then ran along the amps and jumped down onto the stage! He ass was duly dragged out of there but it was still stunning to see the sheer audacity of the guy. He jumped down from the balcony for goodness sake!! I've met him a few more times at Moz gigs since (he's also from my hometown Whitburn) and he still talks about that night and the many other times when he's touched Moz/grappled with security. His expolits can be read if you Google search "Scottish Dog Guy"

The gig was pretty violent in terms of the security not being ready for the many attempted stage invasions. I could be remembering it wrong, but I'm sure the gig was halted slightly early too.. anyway, just though I'd share this small story.

TT

I was far too young to have seen the Smiths, alive but too young, and Morrissey has only ever come near to my town in the middle of exams. I love Morrissey, but unfortunately my parents seem to think he is less important than my career.

I'm sure it's a big conspiracy never to travel to Birmingham unless there are atleast one set of important national exams going on, so Morrissey is never exposed to the rabble that is the youth of the suburbs of Bham)

i was born a few months before the smiths split up, and then i was supposed to see him here but he cancelled... figures.

no one cares, but i checked the entire smiths/moz gigography and there's only been one concert on my birthday in the past 23 years :(

I saw Moz for the first time in June of 2002. The show was in Colorado Springs at an old skating rink. The venue was dirty, dirty, dirty. The parking lot had more weeds than asphalt. I want to say there were maybe 400 people there. I wouldn't have wanted things any other way. Such a fantastic memory. That first moment he came onto the stage, I was in awe. To see him, in the flesh. I tripped out Beatlemania style...well, minus the peeing myself and crying. I went to the Denver show the next night. It was the best two days!

27 September 1992 - Riverside Theater, MILWAUKEE, WI

You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
Glamorous Glue
Girl Least Likely To
November Spawned A Monster
Certain People I Know
Sister I'm A Poet
Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference
My Insatiable One
Tomorrow
We'll Let You Know
Suedehead
He Knows I'd Love To See Him
You're The One For Me Fatty
Seasick, Yet Still Docked
Alsatian Cousin
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful /Everyday Is Like Sunday /The National Front Disco

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sometimes, i like to think about that evening and walking in the snow from the hotel.

will never forget it. had been waiting to see them for nearly 2 years. Phranc opened and amazingly was a huge hit. some clearly insane people were chanting Phranc Phranc Phranc during the Smiths set and Morrissey left the stage for a good 20 minutes. i sat very still and quietly praying for him to come back which of course he did.

never saw him again until last year and it was like a dream come true to hear the old and the new live again ....

23/08/1986
BERKELEY '86
The Greek Theater, Berkeley UCB

  - Still Ill
  - I Want The One I Can´t Have
  - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
  - How Soon Is Now?
  - Frankly Mr. Shankly
  - Panic
  - Stretch Out And Wait
  - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
  - Is It Really So Strange
  - Cemetry Gates
  - Never Had No One Ever
  - What She Said/Rubber Ring (Medley)
  - That Joke Isn´t Funny Anymore
  - Meat Is Murder
  - Shakespeare´s Sister
  - The Queen Is Dead
  - Money Changes Eveything
  - I Know It´s Over
  - Hand In Glove
  - Bigmouth Strikes Again

I saw him for the first time in Lakewood, OH, in 1997 on the Maladjusted tour. Lakewood is a western Cleveland suburb.

That was the show where, during "Satan Rejected My Soul," which I believe was the final song of the set (excluding 2 encores), some guy held up a sign that read "Joyce 1, Morrissey 0." Morrissey stared the guy down, refusing to continue signing. He then stormed off stage in a tirade even Mariah Carey could have been proud of.

Alain Whyte grabbed a microphone, and pointing at the guy with the sign (who was being pummeled, it looked like, by the people around him) shouted "You ruined it!" or something like that. Moz then came back out in a new outfit for 2 encores, one of which was a GREAT rendition of "Paint a Vulgar Picture," one of my favorite Smiths songs of all time.

Morrissey's diva reaction was probably the greatest rock & roll moment I have ever witnessed.

Great show, though, even if a little Southpaw-heavy.

Anyone know whatever happened to Elcka, the band who opened? I still have their CD (released on Island - I searched high and low to find it) - they were a Duran Duran-ish glam outfit. Amazing drummer. "Supercharged" still gets regular rotation on my ipod. Anyone know why they never rleased a follow-up album? I was really impressed with them.

It was the day before my 19th birthday. Me and my gal in attendance. She finished with me the very next day. Imagine the shame.

17 October 1986 - Coliseum, ST AUSTELL, CORNWALL

The Queen Is Dead
Panic
I Want The One I Can't Have
Vicar In A Tutu
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Ask
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame/Rusholme Ruffians
Frankly, Mr. Shankly
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
What She Said (with Rubber Ring intro and outro)
Is It Really So Strange?
Never Had No One Ever
Cemetry Gates
London
Meat Is Murder
I Know It's Over
The Draize Train
How Soon Is Now?
Still Ill
Bigmouth Strikes Again

September 20, 1997 - Capitol Ballroom (Washington, DC)

Set List: Maladjusted / The Boy Racer / Billy Budd / Alma Matters / Ambitious Outsiders / Speedway / Wide To Receive / Sunny / Reader Meet Author / Paint A Vulgar Picture / Roy's Keen / Satan Rejected My Soul / Now My Heart Is Full // Shoplifters Of The World Unite

First time was the "Kill Uncle" tour. Saw him outside on the Nautica stage on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. :)

It was a night...ohhh what a night it was, it really was such a night...the moon was bright, oh how so bright it was, it really was such a night...the night was alight with stars above Ooo Ooo when he sang, I had to fall in love.....

This is easy to describe for everyone, watch Morrissey's VHS or DVD "Live In Dallas" and that will spare me the details. My ticket stub says something ridiculous like $18. At the time, the only songs he sang that I knew were "Picadilly", "November", "Sing Your Life", "Playboys", "Sunday", and "Suedehead". I thought he was going to be playing more Smiths songs, which of course he didn't, so I was disappointed. I was confused about the all the flowers thrown on stage, fans rushing the stage to hug Morrissey, and his posing and collapsing on the floor, etc. But looking back on it, I wouldn't have preferred it any other way, to experience a true Morrissey concert with no prior knowledge or know what to expect. The fans there that night were great as well. So every Morrissey fan should also be thankful for the fans before them, because without those fans, the artist wouldn't have made it long enough for you to get to know that artist, and pass down the traditions, Morrissey in this case.

It was great! I went to see three shows in 1991 on the Kill Uncle Tour. In 1992 I went to see one show on the Your Arsenal tour. No Smiths songs, but good shows. I bought tickets to see him last year but he was a no-show. I was pissed! It's hard to believe I haven't seen Morrissey live for 13 years!
thetexasbloke

You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
Glamorous Glue
Girl Least Likely To
November Spawned A Monster
Certain People I Know
Sister I'm A Poet
Such A Little Thing
My Insatiable One
Tomorrow
We'll Let You Know
Suedehead
He Knows I'd Love To See Him
You're The One For Me Fatty
Seasick, Yet Still Docked
Alsatian Cousin
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
Everyday Is Like Sunday
The National Front Disco

Frenetic but short show. Band smashed the shit out of their instruments after NFD. I was in awe of the whole thing at the ripe old age of 18. Moz sang two lines of November right into my eyes. Unforgettable.

1986-Great Woods, Mansfield Massachusetts {Now called The Tweeter Center} This was the first summer for concerts in the newly built outdoor pavilion. The first show I purchased tickets for was The Cure. Showtime finally came and I was walking in with a friend and our Section 2, Row 10-Golden Circle seats in hand, I was approached by a Robert Smith fanatic wanting to 'upgrade' his tickets from the lawn to the seats up the front. He had $30.00 and two tickets to see 'The Smiths' who were billed a few weeks later. I grabbed The Smiths tickets because I had been listening to M.I.M and I really dug their sound. To make the story even better, a friend of mine who I grew up with helped build the dressing room area and the back part of the complex. He hooked me up with 4 Smiths passes. One was 'All Access' and the other was a 'Staff Worker Pass' which gave me access to the entire backstage area. The Smiths came out to a CrAzY greeting from the fans and they gave it all back. My highlight was seeing Morrissey on one knee singing "I Know Its Over". "Oh Mother I can feel the soil falling over my head" {repeat}, Chills up and down my spine! The place also erupted when Morrissey took out 'The Queen Is Dead' sign. Even though my seats were in Section 5, Row Q, I enjoyed it just as much as I would have if I was up the front. It gave me an overall view on just how good The Smiths were! Oh yes, I forgot to write about 'going backstage' after the show and meeting the band. But I am now out of words. I always get too 'over-excited' when I talk or write about seeing The Smiths play live. Part two coming up later.
         

So far, 14 people have said that they saw him in 1988, so that means that they had to have gone to Wolverhampton. But yet, none of them have commented. Come on guys, I want to hear your accounts of being at that show. Also, why was it so short? Was it planned that way, or was it cut short due to the enourmous amounts of people invading the stage? Spill the beans.

Gala Ballroom, Norwich. Support from 18 Yellow Roses, of whom Dave Gutteridge was responsible for persuading the management of the venue to book the band. Dave was also responsible for supplying the gladioli, for which he received a charming letter of thanks.

Through later involvement in the Norwich music scene (as a promoter & through Wilde Club Records: Catherine Wheel anyone?) I got to know Dave, and he recently gave me a CD of that gig. I've had it for nine months, and have yet to pluck up courage to listen to it...The real thing was just so good....

Barry Newman

I recall the mayhem at the front and the seats getting trashed. People were standing on the backs of the seats and launching over heads to get to the front. Morrissey made the most attempts I have witnessed him do to shake hands with fans. I only got a touch of his right hand with my left index finger.

It was also my first experiences of the 'shirt frenzy'. As it came into the crowd I got hold of a bit, but so did numerous others. A Security guy at the front came forward with a knife as if to help divide it. As he did and people relaxed as he was cutting, he grabbed the shirt, brandished the knife and said he would sell bits of shirt outside (I recall his name badge said ‘Warwick Hunt‘).

I more or less told him to fuck himself (from a distance), but some people did buy the shirt. One more of the leeches that attach themselves to Morrissey over the years I guess (cant remember if he was Northern or not).

I wish I had a bit of that shirt. I can smile about it now...u know the rest.

I was there with the Uniformed Whore and the Riddler. UH got a handshake.

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Garden state artcenter
shortley after @ the sold out 'MSG'
one thing for sure - they didnt
get good (to me)till the following
year - paramount (92)
i have seen him close to 20 times
all N.J - most N.Y - including
vauxhall record signings in N.Y and philly
(where he couldnt have nicer to me)
and still iam 872 shows short of beating julia

So far, only people who have gone to a Moz concert have written... all those of us, silent crowd, that never have remain feeling a certain Morrisseyan sensation, that one he describes so well in lots of his songs - many people do it, get it, oh but me... who cares?
Just as a personal note: Moz came only once to Brazil, in 2000; it was in April and I had just got a new job and was not only out of money (but if it were the sole reason I would get some!) but also couldn't missmy job in the very first week... cheers all Moz fans who have never seen him alive! Whenever there is hope, even the more foolish hope (TIM festival), we will stand for it.

(I think)

16, clumsy and shy I was meant to have gone to London (Wembley Arena)in the July but I was ill so I went to Gloucester Leisure Centre later on. On my own as noone I knew at that age liked the Smiths or Morrissey ("that miserable guy") and I travelled by train from sunny Cardiff.

Can't really rememeber the gig that well... I remember thinking it was a strange venue more like a place where you'd have held a high school prom.
Things I do remember? The double bass, Angel, Angel and the pub afterwards. Oh and Morrissey's quiff and Boz's stupid dancing.
It was tremendously hot down the front too. I can take care of myself nowadyas but that was a test of my own teenage mettle.
Oh and I missed my train and had to kip in Gloucester train station... still it was worth it. I have the memories (of sorts)

At Budokan,
after the concert
many crowds
cool breeze
beautiful sunset
I was walking, thinking about you

ripped on LSD, wearing very inappropriate shoes, i saw Moz for the first time.

don't remember the setlist, but he opened with Boy Racer, and "encored" with Shoplifters. it was fairly cold for a San Diego night and Morrissey kept bitching about it, saying stuff like "welcome to Winter pops." (it was part of the summer pop series)

he wasn't very talkative and the venue was awful but i loved every second of it.

Elka, the opening band for this leg of the tour was miserable and i thought they'd never get off the stage. everyone else seemed to like them though.

It were fookin' great!

Bunking off school to go and wait outside the stage door for when they arrived for the soundcheck. Standing in awe when the tour bus arrived and the band got off. Moz very shy, but still signing stuff before darting through the stage door. Johnny very chatty and more than happy to pose for photos. And then the gig, which I witnessed from the front of the (standing) stalls for approximately 3 songs before the crush got too much and I was passed over the barrier (well...I was only 14)!

Happy days!

But of course, once again, this is a yankee site.

The first concert of Morrissey in Paris-France since the split of the Smiths took place in May 1990 with Phranck as special guest. The playlist is more or less the same as all the gigs of the Kill Uncle tour. The recording is available mostly thanks to the Bernard Lenoir radio show which aired the show in its integrity a few months after the event.

The first song Interesting Drug was barely listenable due to the short balance made 1 hour before the show actually began.

During the gig, Moz said for the first time (there's a hint of it on the Beethoven Was Deaf album) how impotent he was in French, hence the audience cheer when he goes for it for the second time.

How this poll reveals how many new fans Morrissey has attracted over the past year?

And they would have been attracted by his new songs, no matter how much some of the old timers whine on and on about how they hate YATQ.

After being a huge Smiths and Morrissey fan for many years (due to my dad bringing me up on them) He took me to Edinburgh to see Moz almost a year ago. We got right to the front but some arseholes we pushed me back and I almost collapsed due to the blistering heat (no air con). That didnt spoil an amazing gig though. Afterwards, Mozzer's car almost ran over my foot. Brilliant.

Amazing concert. Mostly songs from Maladjusted, including the song Maladjusted as an opener and Satan Rejected My Soul as a closer!
Paint A Vulgar Picture was performed beautifully in between. I saw a fistfight breakout between two jocks that were both trying to push their way closer to the stage. Violent ruffians behaving badly on the fairground. Morrissey was dynamite, lots of using the long mic chord like a bull whip. I've been looking for a recording of this concert and have never found one.

seeing morrissey back in 1991 was unbelievable. the band really was a potent combo back then. to me, it was the what watching the clash must have been like.

though i grew up in NYC and its environs, i travelled to Boston on July 3 1991 to see Moz for the first time at Great Woods Performing Arts Centre. on the trip up, i listened to an old Smiths bootleg recorded at Great Woods called 'So, This Is America". as many of you know, seeing Moz actually walk out on stage to "Wayward Sisters" was something words will never relay. it was fantastic and is still one of the best days of my life.

but since then, I've saw Moz at Jones Beach Long Island, Garden State Art Centre NJ (met him afterwards in NYC), Madison Square Garden NYC and Nassau Collesium Long Island in 1991. then saw the guy at Limelight, Roseland, and The Ritz (all in NYC) in 1992. also saw him over the years at Roseland Ballroom (1992 & 2000), Paramount Theatre NYC (1992), Brandeis University near Boston (1992), Central Park (1997), Memorial Auditorium in Lowell Massachusetts (1997), Avalon Ballroom in Boston Massachusetts (2000), Beacon Theatre NYC (2000), Apollo Theatre NYC and Radio City Music Hall NYC (2004).

And at each show, I become sad as they draw to close fearing it might be the last time I see the guy perform.

I couldn't agree more with the comment above. Seeing Morrissey solo for the first time in Paris in 1991 was a real kick in the balls. After years and years without a single Smiths setting his foot in France, the event was huge. No advertising whatsoever except a single announcement on Ouï FM, the Elysées Montmartre quickly sold out. I was so completely broke that I couldn't afford a ticket on the black market in front of the venue so I called every single person in my phonebook. Fortunately, one of them used to work at France Inter (the French BBC) so he pretended to be a colleague of Bernard Lenoir, called EMI and had a ticket delivered directly at my home !

As for the recording of the gig preivously mentioned, I never heard the concert again, it is such a good memory that I don't want to spoil it. Although the whole event was technically full of flaws (the balance was awful, the band didn't write Kill Uncle so they had to adapt it to their own playing etc.), the energy was incredible. It was like Morrissey was saying "we can't play well but who cares, let's rock the house down" !

Before the show, I met people who had slept in front of the venue, who travelled from all over Europe and everyone was so friendly. I guess it was because it was one of the first time they were given the chance to meet so many other fans.

Unlike sex, seeing Morissey for the first time is always such a good time :D

By the outcome of this new poll, to which was a very good suggestion by the way, but it looks like only about 9 percent of the people who write into this site have ever experienced a live Smiths show! Are these polls really submitted by the fans of the website? Or are they thought up carefully just to see the 'age range' of someone like myself who is writing in to it? Man do I feel old! Is there anyone else {besides Morrissey} out there who is in their mid-forties?
Jazz and Classical is always an option? Nahhhh

I first seen Morrissey at the above location in 1999.I was only 19 years old but i was already a Smiths/Morrissey fan since i was 15 years old.The venue was very small and so was the crowd,but that did not bother me one bit.I was with my sister who actually has been a Smiths fan ever since they formed,so i grew up listening to the Smiths and not much else.When Morrissey came on my sister nearly broke my hand which she was holding,but i didn't feel much as the sight of Morrissey made me immune to the pain.He was wearing a West Ham t-shirt and a pair of jeans that looked like he borrowed them from an apprentice painter.He asked the crowd during the set if they had any questions,and one person asked if he was gay ,which Morrissey heard but never gave an answer ,he just looked to the ceiling and continued on.On another break between songs Morrissey said to the crowd 'Now you know why i don't come here often,to which the crowd stood in silence,and he contiued "because i am not that popular here", to which the crowd replied 'NNNOOO'.Then during November Spawned a Monster,as if to prove Morrissey wrong,a guy appeared out of no-where,leaped onto the stage and hugged Morrissey,but he would not let go so Boz had to constantly hit the fan's hand that was holding onto Morrissey's shirt with the top of his guitar to get him to let go.I actually couldn't believe what i was seeing.It was just a brilliant night altogether and i won't forget it.Seeing and hearing the man in person ,who i have been watching on t.v and listening to on LP's and CD's ever since i can remember.Thanks Sis!

... Wow that was nearly 15 years ago up in Seattle at the Paramount... I'll never forget it... I was in the pit and some of the moshers (yes can you BELIEVE we were MOSHING? ...well it WAS Seattle) attempted to hurl me onstage... only my shoe made it and Moz danced around it for a bit before I got it back. It's a penny-loafer that I still have as the pair still looks brand-new as I have re-soled them twice since then... That was a magical night ;^)

Jay

From passionsjustlikemine.com:

29 October 1991 - Paramount Theater, SEATTLE, WA

November Spawned A Monster
Alsatian Cousin
Our Frank
The Loop
King Leer
Sister, I'm A Poet
Piccadilly Palare
Driving Your Girlfriend Home
Interesting Drug
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
Everyday Is Like Sunday
My Love Life
Pashernate Love
The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
Asian Rut
Angel Angel, Down We Go Together /Suedehead //Disappointed
This is remembered as very good show, with the usual stage invaders in fair numbers despite tight security. There was very little stage banter from Morrisser.
He introduced "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" which was unknown to almost everyone in the crowd with "The title is a ha ha ha ah... We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful... it's verrrrry true". He also introduced the other new song "Pashernate Love" by saying he had just written it and that he would sing it for the crowd. During "The Loop" he threw 2 tambourines into the audience.

Thanks to Aubry Gillio for the setlist.

3/11/02 Glasgow Barrowlands

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Bless, I was only (mildly) young. And arguably still am, but having seen Moz a modest 5 times since it seems a world away.

I still recall the feeling I had when he came onstage with the sharpest recollection. It was a feeling I've never repeated since, one of absolute...not necessarily joy, but exhilaration. Here was the man who had introduced me to music almost single-handedly, who I had resigned myself to a fate of never seeing in the flesh, a mere 20 feet away.

The closest I've come to that feeling was when he played How Soon Is Now at Leeds, something so unexpected. But that was a mere song I had never expected to hear, against the man himself. A wonderful night.

22nd November 1984 at the Ulster Hall, Belfast.
It was my first ever concert.

James were the support, though at the time I'd never heard of them.

Front row, jammed against the stage, Andy Rourke handed me his plectrum at he end of the show, which I still have to this day.

Met Morrissey the next morning at his hotel.
Having his breakfast while the rest slept the night before off.

Remember asking him what was the new single. He replied "Nowhere Fast".
I blurted out "That's the name of Meatloaf's latest single", which was true.
Nowhere Fast never did come out as a single.
I wonder.

Shit show, bad sound, and he looked like he didn't want to be there. Saw him in ATL this past year, and he knocked it out of the park.

I wish I could remember the tiny details and write a review like some of the ones I’ve just read, but so much of that night is now only a blur. What I do know is that Morrissey had been the most important thing in my life for 2 years before I got to see him live, and that I was sick with excitement for a week before the show. My best friend and I were staying overnight in a cheap bed & breakfast in Blackpool; and we arrived early to find somewhere to buy flowers and to join the queue. I don’t know how long we waited (I remember being amazed by all the people dressed to look like Morrissey) but we got right to the front on the left hand side. Having never seen him before I had no concept of what the crush was going to be like when he came on stage, and I was just this skinny 16-year old girl clinging on to the barrier and trying to stay standing! I don’t think I lasted past the first song (Billy Budd) before I got lifted out.

But (and I’m still amazed by this) the bouncers didn’t push me round to the back. They just left me, standing next to them in front of the barriers. So I had lots of space, no bodies pushing up behind me and crucially every time Morrissey came over to my side of the stage and put his hand out (I think two or three times but again I’m a bit hazy) MY hand was in front of everyone else’s. And my luck didn’t end there. About half way through the set – when loads of people were starting to come over the barriers and it was getting too crowded – one of the bouncers lifted me up and put me on stage! If I had my moment again I like to think I’d have gone up to Morrissey and given him a proper hug, but in the excitement/confusion I just stood there for a moment not knowing what to do. Eventually I approached him sort of pressed my head against his back and walked off stage.

After the gig my friend (who also made it on stage later) and I sat on a bench looking out over the sea drinking cheap booze and giggling hysterically. And I don’t think the smile left my face for a good few weeks.

And that’s it, except to say “thank you” to the Empress Ballroom bouncers and sorry for rambling (it’s not often I get to reminisce!)

Meat is Murder tour.Some idiot spat at Morrissey mid song,it shocked him and he stopped singing,the band played on and then Moz announced "We don't do that where we come from,good night." He then walked off stage but did return to finish the set,although he looked miffed.Still my best ever gig,after all,how many other people can say they saw The Smiths?

Simon 'Foxie' Wratten

Although I've been listening the Smiths records since 1988 I saw my first Moz gig just in 1999 in Athens. But guess what? I met him in the Athens airport the next morning and had a magical chat with him for ten minutes.

Bigmouth Strikes Again / First Of The Gang To Die / November Spawned A Monster / I Like You / The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores / Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference / Shakespeare's Sister / Let Me Kiss You / I Have Forgiven Jesus / How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? / The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get / How Soon Is Now? / Irish Blood, English Heart / Rubber Ring / Now My Heart Is Full / Subway Train (into) Everyday Is Like Sunday / You Know I Couldn't Last // There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

ipined for this moment for two years and it exceeded all my expectations by meeting them. Morrissey is undoubtably one of the most thrilling performers of his time and it meant so much to me to see live.

Brixton Academy November 5th 2002

Ran to the station in my sixth form suit with two friends and caught train to London. Was served in pub for first time. Awaited Morrissey with increasing ferver/excitement. Started with 'I Want The One I Can't Have'. Undeniably the greatest concert I have ever seen.

Missed train home, slept at Station. Arrived at school following morning straight from London. Fell asleep in Lessons but didn't care, I'd finally seen Moz!

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....was in 1991. I can't remember the date but it was at the Forum in Inglewood, Ca. I know it was sold out and David Bowie came out and sang a duet with Moz....a memory that will last forever. I also remember the horrible traffic getting out of the parking lot and listening to KROQ. Those are fond memories since I don't live in California anymore...oh how I do miss KROQ....sigh...

where I spent many a happy caravan holiday as a child, was the venue for my first Moz gig in 2004; roughly this time last year I do believe. Up until that point I was a rabid Cure fan and an avid Smiths devotee. I was kicking myself for not seeing Moz at the Manchester Move festival, having only enough mula to pay for the day The Cure played. Thus, when I stumbled across the gig advert in NME I was so excited I sprinted to the phone.
I know people say this about every gig they go to see of their chosen idol, but it was the best concert ever (small venue, great selection of songs and so much energy and wit) He's such a born entertainer.
Also, I've never witnessed such a crazed fanbase; if any of you out there were the guys fighting over his pink shirt, I greatly admire your tenacity, and your chivalry in passing what remained of the garment to the girl stood with you.
And the encore of 'There Is a Light ...', well, there are moments in life where words cannot describe the picture, and that was one. Suffice to say that when the skinhead beside me began to cry, I broke down too. Since that gig I've been Morrissey's girl through and through; every other artist pales in comparison.

I didn't see my first concert listed, so here it goes: My boyfriend Jeff bought me the ticket for my 20th birthday, but actually it was a "break-up" gift. He wanted to end our relationship, and this was how he did it. Not a bad way, really. I wanted to break up with him, because he was a little too into the "Morrissey-celebacy-thing", if you know what I mean. But we both loved MOZ. (In 1984 the vid for HSIN was in heavy rotation, and it was love at first sight for me.) The crowd was oddly divided at the Aragon that night; one area for the goths and punks (me), and the other for the t-shirt and jeans college crowd. (Maybe they were afraid of us? We didn't bite!) It was a pretty special show, and we all knew it. Moz flailing around as only he can, with those "protest" signs. It was strange seeing this music with all these people, because I had such a private internal relationship with it; it was almost like I was there naked. I don't remember specific songs, save for a few (TQID,Bigmouth?), because I've been lucky enough to see most every show he's done here since. And seeing him again at the Aragon last year (18 years later!) was I think the most special concert for me.

I wanted to see the Smiths in Cork back in 1984, I think it was. My mother wouldn't let me go. I met an English chap who was at the very same gig last yeat in Torremolinos. Apparently it was quite rough and for some reason some of the local knuckleheads thought it was the done thing to shower Morrissey with bottles and spit. So the band quite rightly walked off. I had to wait until 1999 to see Morrissey play at the Cork Opera House. That was ace, I even got to wash my hands in Morrissey's sweat, having briefly caught hold of his tee shirt!

I had just moved to London and was gagging for this concert. I had spent the last four years in Dallas, and now my friends in Dallas were seeing him before me because of the way the tour worked out. Miffed is not the word.
Walking up to Wembly I saw the fan club guy Hulmerist video and I thought 'wow I am really here.'
While waiting in the queue, there were three lads trying to buy a ticket for their mate, but they were ten quid short. What's ten quid? And I would have felt like shit knowing I had the money in my pocket and this poor git was stuck outside. So I gave it to him. He didn't ask for it, I just wanted to do it. You have never seen such a look of gratitude as the one on his face. Needless to say we were fast mates after that and since I was there on my own, it was great for me (rent-a-mate?)
The doors open and we were straight to the front. I remember looking back and being staggered by the amount of people behind us. I had never been to a gig that big before. It seemed like ages before Moz can on. I didn't think I would wait another second more, then he appeared and my heart skipped a beat. The rest is a blissful blur, although I remember how he stuck his tongue out a lot and whipped the microphone lead (and how his voice often didn't really sound like the one on the records that I had played over and over and over again for the last 4 years - burned into my soul). And playing LOTFIPB - fantatic (please don't anyone tell me he actually didn't do that song that night. I don't need my memories tarnished by truth). The ride home felt like the train was flying. I saw him two more times that year, but Wembly is the one I remember most vividly. Magic.

Chicago Theater...
I had been listening to Morrissey for almost two years at that point; I was in the first row, balcony and I remember just feeling breathless at the sight of him. I was surprised that he just kind of walked out, and there he was (I don't really know what I was expecting)....
the gig was pretty subdued. I remember dying to get out of my seat, to jump and scream but I didn't wan't to block everyone's view and no one was really doing anything, so I restrained myself.
I didn't know "Lost" at that point and he sang it that night ~ and I missed it ~ I mean, I missed the full effect of it...

god, if I could go back, I would try to get tickets for the Metro the following night as well, but I wasn't thinking back then..... I didn't have anyone to go with, I didn't really have the money, etc.
I've only seen him 4 times since then (all last year) and if/when he comes round again, I'll be there (smiling, on time).... I know better now......

Really memorable for the only attempted stage invader who tried to leap across the really wide (and deep) orchestra pit at the front of the stage, but didn't make it and disappeared to the bottom of the pit. Ouch.