I champion said statement mate..

There are people that were there and still don't believe it

Iconic. This man changed my life.

Best live clip of any band ever! ❤

Imagine if this line up just stick it out ……. What a dream it would’ve been .

@Mike V. exactly how I came to love the song.

All fkn true!

@Mike V. It's a Morrissey solo song though, isn't it?

you so lucky!!! i watched this vhs on a loop back then when i was in argentina i was so obsessed that i decided i needed to go to England as soon as i'd turned 21 to see him in concert so i did go to the uk to see him in 94 in London and was the greatest experience the fans we could not get up on the stage and was a bit sad haha but he thru his tambourine to the crowds and caught it. Was an incredible

Yep, I still rock my docs when I go out

I bought that VHS tape when it came out too. It was a Yellow cover called Hulmerist.

did you buy the whole concert, or a DvD Called HULMERIST??

@@dpatrick1a I have HULMERIST too , but the concert is incomplet isnt it??

I can’t wear my docs anymore, foot problems. 😖 But I still wear my Smiths shirt and cardigan. I feel 15 when I do. (I turn the big 50 next year 😎)

Thank you!

Thank you! People like you are really underaprecited.

Thank you....🌾🌾🌾

fantastic but how come the set is so short?

​@calumdu9989 This was a free concert - entry was free to anybody wearing a Morrissey or Smiths t-shirt. It was the first time Morrissey had appeared live since the Smiths split (this was December 1988). This was the only time this line up played live together, it was the best any Smiths fans would ever get as this was the same line up as The Queen is Dead tour - minus Johnny Marr of course. This line up recorded a couple of singles together but sadly that was it. Why would anyone ever get rid of Andy Rourke, one of the best ever bass players? Anyway, the gig was essentially a promotional affair, as the 'Playboys' single came out a few weeks later. The band agreed not to play any Smiths songs that they had played live with Johnny Marr, hence 'Stop Me..' and 'Hooligan' included. I would have been a bit down at having queued for days in the freezing cold for such a short set but I don't think anybody was complaining - as you can see, the atmosphere looks amazing. It would be good to hear from someone who was there. Sadly, I lived over 100 miles away and was still at school, so couldn't go!

That was my intro album, i was 20...i had only wished i had found them sooner...but still grateful beyond words that she (an old community college friend) threw that album on for me: she said "oh you like chris Issac, and Britain?...youll probably like Morrissey." We sat in her brand-new 2001 silver vw jetta, I remembered the red a blue dash lights, the smell of 'vw new car/wax' seeing the CD slide in and her putting on "Shoplifters unite'...followed by the INCREDIBLE "sweet and tender hooligan." I remember thinking 'how can someone make the word "etcetra" sound so sexy.' However straight i am, Moz is sexy period. He transcends that typical norms of that kind of stuff. For the next 2 years, i ONLY listened to The Smiths and Morrissey albums 80% of the music i listened to, (and i listened to music all the time) I literally sit here now in 2024, typing this in my very own 08 vw g.t.i. finally being able to afford an early 00's VW; 43 and poor, i see the familiar glow of the red and blue dash lights, i hear Mozs voice, the only difference instead of the CD im streaming him.........OMFG!?!? I shit you not, the song that is starting in this concert video JUST NOW IS: YEP THE ONE THAT STARTED IT ALL FOR ME, "THE SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN " god i LOVE SYNCHRONICITY ❤️. Love all you fans out there!

Hmmm, at this stage I think it was only Gannon.

At this point? Why would they have legal cases pending at this time ?

Joyce sued in 1996, way later

They still had to put food on the table.

flx6 m23 What??!! How was that humanely possible?

Was totally different in those days. Stuff like this wasn't advertised on tv or the newspapers. Obviously no social media. Probably NME and Melody Maker and good old word of mouth. He could of filled that hall 5 times that night. Seriously. Even Elvis didn't get that love and blind obsession from his fans. Now today its Ed Sheeran. Enough said.

@@BurtonRdForeverit got worse now is Taylor’s Swift.

The Analog Time Traveler I watched the beejeezus out of mine. It got us in the mood for his concerts.

Agreed

he seems cool asf

@rodrak71 ...apology accepted. I must also confess that I am no longer in possession of said relic. May I enquire if, after 32 years, you are still in possession of yours?

@rodrak71 I integrated the fragment into a giant collage a few years later. Unfortunately, I divulged its origin in the middle of a giant house party and in the morning it was missing. There was this little gap where it had been and its absence felt a bit like the end of an era.

@rodrak A very kind offer, especially when considering the nature of our first interaction. However, I no longer reside in Blighty and fear any attempt to despatch said relic would end in non-delivery.

I was at this gig, I camped out the night before. We heard about Lockerbie while we were in the queue.

you had to have one to get in, that was the rule "T-shirt mate, T-shirt mate" was on the loop on the Moz video.

Thanks for reminding me that I’m 50! But don’t worry - you Will be to in the future if your lucky, if You’re not there yet

47 soon to be 48!

Memories keep us going.....

Between 40 and 50. However the feeling now is the same.

48...

The Smiths/ Morrissey were very much at odds with the prevailing cultural and political orientation of the 1980s. It was a huge part of their appeal.

You know what? It was a great time to be young. Thanks for reminding me

I'm happy with who I am, but I dearly miss my youth during those 80's days.

I found that video in an old chest from my high school days, but i have not way of playing it today.

still got the video watched it on my tv vid combo the other night

You do know they split up in 1987?

Could someone please tell me the name of the intro song? starting at 11:49

J Yee thought the same. Of course today everyone is super belligerent as well. Rude behavior breeds rude treatment.

Police and security were even more brutal in those days. Ever seen the first season of cops? Total nostalgia goggles there for you.

Y algo, peyote

Se nota mucho la ausencia de Johnny 💔

more like three fourths, but legally only half. Marr was already long gone. He'd already recorded with the Pretenders,Talking Heads,and was a member of the The by this point.

Also to have seen Joy Division, right? 😢

Punk has hot to be a stop in the time machine too? 1976 Kings Rd London, drop me there and pick me up in January 1978...Cheers.

so its not the Smiths.

A long, long way off The Smiths for one huge reason

Beetleything The capitalists! I had a bunch of shirts back in the day. I even had a special one done.

Bubblez Beano this line up is amazing , this is the first time I’ve seen this as I’m quite a bit younger than this generation . I never thought I’d say Mike Joyce is a powerhouse . Sad sad the way things turned out

It obvious the band was in good terms, if it's basically the whole Smiths line up minus Marr. Rourke went to write and record songs for Moz, so things weren't bitter for a number of years. What happened is money.

Oh Oh this makes so much sense and explains a lot -ThevSmiths were Marrs baby but Morrisseys vehicule.

How ridiculous, who left the band on the first instance was Marr, bc he was brainwashed to get the band as "The next U2" when what they had (Morrissey and Marr) was sacred, they were the real Smiths.

Johnny was interviewed about his autobiography and said it's not the Smiths that defined him? What!?? C'mon Johnny lad! Its the worst decision you made in a career sense, leaving The Smiths. Electronic were ok. Playing as a guest guitarist for Modest Mouse, The The, The Cribs and The Pretenders is totally beneath you in a musical ability sense. You became a deluxe session musician. You didn't join a band to play Cilla Black records I understand that but you should've had a break but hindsight is 20/20. Heard the rumours of ultimatums from Angie, The Smiths or me?. Met him around town loads of times lastly at a clothes shop in Didsbury and he's a really nice down to earth guy but who you fooling Johnny? People dont remember you for Modest Mouse mate, they remember you and rightly so for being a massive part of the best band in the world in the 1980s. Manchester M20

THIS IS ME

I love it

Still not the Smiths.