The Smiths made a few changes to the setlist. "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" returned, replacing "William, It Was Really Nothing".
The Montreal experience was supposedly very different to the rest of the tour. The crowd dressed and reacted differently, and very few people had brought flowers (it was a custom at the time). This show is remembered as one of the wildest of this leg. There was a great deal of pushing in the crowd, coins were thrown on stage and some fans climbed up and threw themselves at Morrissey. Some fans had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Morrissey ran the risk of being pulled into the audience each time he moved forward to touch hands. At one point he gave the microphone to a girl who was gesturing for him. She said out loud "We up front are getting flattened" to which Morrissey plainly replied after retrieving his microphone "The lady is a star!".
Not long after, during "How Soon Is Now?" three male fans got on stage together, ran into Morrissey and fell to the floor over him. Morrissey didn't defend himself or fight back, he simply curled into himself and waited. After the bouncers took care of the men, Morrissey slowly got up again and finished the song. During the last encore, "Hand In Glove", a girl approached Morrissey and simply stood beside him with an arm around his waist, stroking him as he sang. She left the stage at the end of the song.
The violence continued after the concert. Outside some people had set some things on fire and ambulances could be seen, giving an eerie feeling to the place.