The One That Got Away

[Black Cloud]

Which single Morrissey or Smiths show that you did not attend do you most regret missing? Why?

I know this probably has already been posted here, so feel free to link the old thread, somebody...

 

[Worm]

Which single Morrissey or Smiths show that you did not attend do you most regret missing? Why?

I know this probably has already been posted here, so feel free to link the old thread, somebody...

The Smiths at the Hacienda, February 4, 1983. I don't actually know if that was a great show or not (I've read it was a bit flat) but it would satisfy two of my lifelong wishes, seeing The Smiths and standing inside The Hacienda. Can't say I "regret it" because I had no way of being there, but maybe I could say I regret not being born about ten years earlier than I was-- and in Manchester.

 

[mozmic_dancer]

If I wasn't such a classy broad, I would have liked to have attended Morrissey's gig at the Bowery Ballroom.

Only because it was so intimate.

 

[xfranklyx]

i regret not going to see him at virgin in 2000 and i regret not buying all those smiths and morrissey tshirts(there had to be 10-15 tshirts, all vintage) in 1998 at the salvation army on delancey and allen st. i wish i had the cash on me that day cause the next day they were all gone! ill kick myself everyday for it.

 

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Which single Morrissey or Smiths show that you did not attend do you most regret missing? Why?

I know this probably has already been posted here, so feel free to link the old thread, somebody...

Tomorrow night.

 

[mcrickson]

Tomorrow night.

I was going to post this to

 

[Emotional Guide Dog]

It's early in the thread but I'd like to flip it's on it's head a little bit.
On the Ringleaders tour I went ticketless to Birmingham to meet a friend & hopefully pick up a ticket at a reasonable price from a tout.
I had a nice little afternoon in Brum, saw Simon Callow coming out of the theatre next to the Symphony Hall & managed to purchase a ticket from a tout for 60 quid (on a night when even the touts were struggling to get hold of tickets). Good stuff! But I'd seen Moz already on the tour & one of the people we were with hadn't, so I thought 'sod it' & sold it to them for the 60 that I paid (I needed the money more than the ticket).
So, me & half a dozen other people spent the entrie gig stood in the foyer of the hall, agonisingly close to the door into Moz-dom for the night.
We got booze, had fun with the door staff (yes, such a thing is possible) & listened in through the door.

And do you know what?

I think I enjoyed that more than I would've enjoyed the actual gig.

I also ended up going to London from Brum for a grand total of 33 minutes, but that's another story & I've already bored you enough.

 

[Poppy Full]

Being a young 'un, I wish I could have seen The Smiths or early Morrissey. I wish I had been at many, many gigs in far-off places, but that's not really a 'regret' since there was no way I could have attended. So I guess 'The One that Got Away' would be Kilmainham last year, just because I so desperately wanted to go but couldn't (I was flying to New York the same night). And it irks me that my ex-boyfriend, who firmly believes Morrissey to be a nasty ol' racist, DID attend.