Sweet and Tender Hooligan - Morrissey The Smiths

Morrissey video I edited together from his Dec 1988 show.
First Morrissey gig/last Smiths gig,
22 December 1988,
Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Hope you enjoy it. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, Disappointed, Interesting Drug, Suedehead, The Last Of The Famous International Playboys, Sister I'm A Poet, Death At One's Elbow, Sweet And Tender Hooligan ,



This first solo Morrissey show was also meant as a farewell Smiths concert. The musicians backing Morrissey were ex-Smiths Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke, as well as once Smiths #5 Craig Gannon filling in as lead guitarist. The setlist featured a mix of Morrissey songs with Smiths tracks from 1987, so none of it had been performed in front of a live audience before.

Admission was free to anyone wearing a Smiths or Morrissey shirt. Only half the fans who traveled to Wolverhampton made it inside the venue. Outside the queuing and organisation almost turned to chaos. The atmosphere inside was obviously very charged. There was a great deal of cheering and chanting Morrissey's name to the English football tune. Throughout the short set many fans made it on stage, much more than for a typical Smiths concert.

Morrissey came on stage to a thunder of applause, after a long period of cheering and chanting. In the first song, "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before", he sang "And so I drank one, or was it four?" instead of "... it became four". He actually sang that line as it had been originally written and not as it appeared on "Strangeways Here We Come". Before "Interesting Drug" which was yet unreleased and unknown to the fans, Morrissey started "This song is called..." but never finished his line. In that song as in the previous one, "Disappointed", Morrissey missed many lines because of the mayhem with the fans keeping him away from his microphone.

Just before "Suedehead", Mike Joyce teased the fans with a few notes of the drum intro to "The Queen Is Dead", but that song was not to be played. Morrissey changed the "oh so many illustrations" line in "Suedehead" to "Oh so many blank pages". He also sang "I'm so very saddened, oh, I am so sickened NOW". Before "The Last Of The Famous International Playboys" Morrissey started "I'd like to say hello..." but didn't finish his line and simply introduced the next song.

Before "Death At One's Elbow" Morrissey managed to say what he had originally meant to: "I'd like to say hello to Julian and hello to Mouse.... your mother's letter arrived today, she has a good hand...". In that song Morrissey changed a line from "you'll slip on the trail of my bespattered remains" to "you'll slip on the trail of all of my entrails". After that number and its final lines "Goodbye my love, goodbye my love", Morrissey just said "goodbye" and everyone left the stage. They were called back with much insistence and performed one more song, a very rocking "Sweet And Tender Hooligan".

Thanks to: http://passionsjustlikemine.com/live/moz-g88.htm

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[mochilas002]

what album is this exact song on? Please help.

[johnisnotdead]

@mochilas002 it's on the record Louder Than Bombs, a collection of radio takes, b-sides...it's also on a single called "Sweet and Tender Hooligan".

[hooligun240]

this is from hulmerist. you didn't create anything

[johnisnotdead]

@hooligun240 - if you pay close attention you will notice this video is NOT from Hulmerist. True the footage is from "Sister I'm a Poet" as well as other clips from

Hulmerist. But the song has been re-edited for "Sweet and Tender Hooligan", hope you like it anyway.

[606grain]

This was trully a legendary concert. the final time morrissey played with gannon, joyce and rourke and what a final concet it was. as legend has it word leaked of the concert and a mob formed shortly before the show. tickets were scarse causing an almost riot. Ah to be at this concert. one can only dream. the song its self sweet and tender Holligan is remarkable in itself becasue it was rarely played live. this is a rare treat.

[DMCDize]

wow the best!

[whereangelsplay1]

He really doesn't like people, does he? lol

[RubyLindyBlues]

Wow. Terrific footage!

[olivertaplin]

Actually atlthogh the bootleg is very poor this is quite good. Gannon is competant

[Mitcg]

When did rushing to stage to give Morrissey a hug stop? I would love to do that once.

[ckyable]

loads of 80s hooilgans going nuts!

[LukeRoby1994]

they shud have carri on without Marr, or at least had different musicians, u have Andy Rouke, Mike Joyce and Craig Gannon, Morrissey, it just mite as well be the smiths

[tiana1017]

they need better security lol