I found this reference for Vicar In A Tutu:
"...sent to Borstal when a kid for breaking open gas meters and ripping lead from church roofs..."
http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/
In general, that film describes (allegedly) all those things that bothered Morrissey about Manchester, poverty, wish to escape, but inability to do that etc. I wish I could see it
If you click "Original sources of Morrissey's lyrics" and scrowl down to Vicar in a tutu, the quote is there.
Why don't you watch the DVD, read the book and find about it for yourself?
I recorded a programme called "Cast and Crew with..." broadcasted on BBC4 and repeated on BBC2 few years ago, but the video is in the storage.
If I have time to watch it again I'll post it later, but don't count on me.
The quote "Whatever people say I am thats what I'm not" was from this film, if I remember correctly.
I love the film and the language, calling women "Duck" the bit about blowing the factoy up " A dynamite dealer ready to..etc " A fighting pit-prop who likes a pint of beer" HEHE and Nelly PledgeYou are correct, but I prefer the line about blowing the factory to kingdom come.
And who can forget Hylda Bakers "Them was Rotten Days"? In reference to back street abortions. I've seen the film so many times, it's etched forever in my mind (pun intended).
As for Morrissey, he said in the South Bank Show that he liked the fact that Finney's character "Albert" was demonstrativly working class, or something like that, I havent watched it for a long time.
You are correct, but I prefer the line about blowing the factory to kingdom come.
And who can forget Hylda Bakers "Them was Rotten Days"? In reference to back street abortions. I've seen the film so many times, it's etched forever in my mind (pun intended).
As for Morrissey, he said in the South Bank Show that he liked the fact that Finney's character "Albert" was demonstrativly working class, or something like that, I havent watched it for a long time.
If you still need it, here's what Moz said in South Bank Show- 1987. Have edited it to include more pertinent comment-
'There are certain violent expressions....I can really understand that because sometimes, & certainly when you're like Arthur Seaton, from a working class background, you have to be very over expressive & you have to be overtly demonstrative in order to get anywhere & be heard'
After clip of Saturday Night Sunday Morning he adds-
'I became very interested in film history, quite specifically films from the early 1960's- A Taste of Honey, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, films with a common thread...people in the North specifically with their tails trapped in the door..trying to get out, trying to get on, trying to be somebody, trying to be seen..I find that very appealing...a great identification with that because that's really the way you feel in Manchester.'
I think it was the Telegraph which amazingly gave away Saturday Night Sunday Morning and A Taste of Honey in successive weeks. Fantastic. I think it might have been the same newspaper that gave away Brighton Rock round about the same time. Do you think there was a Morrissey fan on the staff?
You are correct, but I prefer the line about blowing the factory to kingdom come.
And who can forget Hylda Bakers "Them was Rotten Days"? In reference to back street abortions. I've seen the film so many times, it's etched forever in my mind (pun intended).
As for Morrissey, he said in the South Bank Show that he liked the fact that Finney's character "Albert" was demonstrativly working class, or something like that, I havent watched it for a long time.
If you still need it, here's what Moz said in South Bank Show- 1987. Have edited it to include more pertinent comment-
'There are certain violent expressions....I can really understand that because sometimes, & certainly when you're like Arthur Seaton, from a working class background, you have to be very over expressive & you have to be overtly demonstrative in order to get anywhere & be heard'
After clip of Saturday Night Sunday Morning he adds-
'I became very interested in film history, quite specifically films from the early 1960's- A Taste of Honey, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, films with a common thread...people in the North specifically with their tails trapped in the door..trying to get out, trying to get on, trying to be somebody, trying to be seen..I find that very appealing...a great identification with that because that's really the way you feel in Manchester.'