I used these sources for all of my information:
A Guide to the Best Smiths Live Recordings
I used these sources for all of my information:
http://passionsjustlikemine.com/
http://www.akiraware.com/
http://foreverill.com/bootlegs/
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Mezzanine/3692/
http://members.tripod.com/~davestapes/home.html
(video)
http://users.adelphia.net/~strangelittlegirl/mywebs/moz.htm
(video)
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/discuss/indexm.cgi
forum
http://www.oz.net/~moz/
lyrics & interviews
http://arcaneoldwardrobe.com/
discography & interviews
http://shoplifters.morrissey-solo.com/
Smiths/Morrissey headquarters
1983
4/2/83
BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR
very good (Amsterdam) to good (Manchester)
HACIENDA, MANCHESTER 4/2/83 (GOOD)
These Things Take Time
What Difference Does It Make?
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
Handsome Devil
Jeane
What Do You See In Him?
Hand In Glove
Miserable Lie
VINYL PARTY, DE MEERVAART, AMSTERDAM 21/4/84 (VERY GOOD)
Hand In Glove
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Barbarism Begins At Home
This Charming Man
Miserable Lie
I Don't Owe You Anything
What Difference Does It Make?
Girl Afraid
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Still Ill
These Things Take Time
Handsome Devil
The Amsterdam concert comes from a broadcast to Dutch radio KRO, and is almost complete. "You've Got Everything Now" is missing and the track listing is resequenced. The last few tracks are a bit slow. But this is still the best bootleg for this concert.
The Manchester concert is complete. It is the earliest Smiths concert available on bootleg (also on cd on "Morrissey 1959-1986"). It was their third concert ever.
MISERABLE LIES "These tracks come from a broadcast on Dutch radio, which might explain the fact that tracks are missing, and the order is not the same as the original concert. The LP is now very difficult to find, so fans should try to find the "Butterfly Collector" bootleg cd which is more common and has a near complete concert.
3/6/83
Very Good Sbd
see REEL AROUND THE FOUNTAIN-Compilation
BIRMINGHAM
You've Got Everything Now
Handsome Devil
Accept Yourself
What Difference Does It Make?
Reel Around The Fountain
Wonderful Woman
These Things Take Time
I Don't Owe You Anything
Hand In Glove
29/06/83
TENDER HEARTS
Good (sbd?)
Brixton Ace, London, England
You've Got Everything Now
Handsome Devil
Reel Around The Fountain
What Difference Does It Make?
Wonderful Woman
These Things Take Time
Hand In Glove
I Don't Owe You Anything
06/07/83
Little Charmers
Very Good- Stéreo (Soundboard, TV)
Hacienda, Manchester
Handsome Devil
Reel Around The Fountain
What Difference Does It Make?
Wonderfull Woman
These Things Take Time
I Donīt Owe You Anything
Hand In Glove
Miserable Lie
Accept Yourself
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07/07/83 ROCK GARDEN 83 Youīve Got Everything Now Two songs are missing to make the otherwise unavailable Rockgarden concert complete.
05/10/83
7/12/83 ASSEMBLY ROOMS, DERBY 7/12/83 (fair soundboard) (Sorrow's son is excellent to very good) VINYL PARTY, DE MEERVAART, AMSTERDAM 21/4/84 (good) This bootleg was reissued with a different cover under the title "Live In Derby Dec. 7th 1983" (see further in this list). Both this and the reissue are the best versions available of the Derby concert. It is complete and comes from a broadcast on the Old Whistle Test. The Amsterdam concert is not complete. Most of the tracks are on "The Butterfly Collector". "Miserable Lie" is mostly instrumental because Morrissey had just been hit on the head by something thrown on stage and went backstage for part of the song. Sorrow's Son: "This is the complete broadcast from The Old Whistle Test (UK television, BBC1). The bootleg is now very difficult to find. Fans will have better chances looking for either "Handsome Devils" or "Live In Derby Dec. 7th 1983"
19/12/83 Many tracks not listed, or listed but absent, or again mis-titled ("Crack On The Head", "Mess Of My Life"). This has the exact same track listing as "Live At The Electric Ballroom", so it might be a reissue. In total, three tracks are missing to make it complete, two of which are on the "Devil's Charm" bootleg.
1984
16/02/84 Hand In Glove
24/02/1984 Hand In Glove Not much info, of the 3 websites sourced only 1 had it. Scarce?
12/3/84 This is one of the nicest cd bootlegs. The quality is excellent and the concert is complete. It probably is a reissue of the infamous "Misery Loves Company" vinyl bootleg, though there is also a reissue on cd under that title. Many different named versions with lesser quality available.
HULL UNIVERSITY
21/4/84 HACIENDA, MANCHESTER 4/2/83 (GOOD) The Amsterdam concert comes from a broadcast to Dutch radio KRO, and is almost complete. "You've Got Everything Now" is missing and the track listing is resequenced. The last few tracks are a bit slow. But this is still the best bootleg for this concert. The Manchester concert is complete. It is the earliest Smiths concert available on bootleg (also on cd on "Morrissey 1959-1986"). It was their third concert ever. MISERABLE LIES "These tracks come from a broadcast on Dutch radio, which might explain the fact that tracks are missing, and the order is not the same as the original concert. The LP is now very difficult to find, so fans should try to find the "Butterfly Collector" bootleg cd which is more common and has a near complete concert.
4/5/84 This is a reissue on cd of the same concert that made the bootleg LP "The Smiths". It has the complete concert, from a broadcast on German television show Rockpalast while the original LP lacked three tracks.
09/05/84 They really played "Barbarism..." twice. The song was quite new back then, and wouldn't see any commercial release before the beginning of 1985, many months later. "Hand In Glove" was also played once more as an encore, but it is absent here.
01/12/84 1985
18/3/85 Dated Europe '85. This has to be the best bootleg for the Oxford Apollo concert. The track listing is complete and in the proper order. The quality is the best you can get, directly from the soundboard. Also on Flowers-(Apollo Theatre, Oxford 18/3/85, National Ballroom, Kilburn 23/10/86, John Peel Sessions 17/12/86 )
24/03/1985
31/3/85
18/5/85 This is a complete concert from a broadcast on Spanish radio. Parts of this were already available on the vinyl bootlegs "Spanish Sun Live In Madrid" and "Never Had No One Ever". The LP version has white labels and comes slipped inside a generic Swinging Pigs sleeve.
18/06/85 What She Said" and "Barbarism Begins At Home" are missing to make this concert complete.
27/06/85
25 / 09 / 1985
26/9/85 & SOUNDCHECKS CAIRD HALL, DUNDEE 26/9/85 SOUNDCHECKS EDEN COURT, INVERNESS 1/10/85
28/09/85 1986
08/02/1986
12/02/86
17/07/1986
20/07/1986
LIVE IN ONTARIO
05/08/86 Also as Mansfield 86 and Ready To Split all good sound quality The concert is complete.
12/08/86 CD 01 CD 02
23/08/1986 CD 01 CD 02
26/8/86 This is one of the best bootlegs from the US "The Queen Is Dead" tour, it even includes Morrissey and Marr cursing at the security guards! Only "Bigmouth Strikes Again" is missing to make the concert complete.
23/10/86 Quality: Very Good NATIONAL BALLROOM, KILBURN The Queen Is Dead This is an incomplete concert, it has most tracks available on the official live album "Rank" and a few of the ones missing. The best purchase for this concert remains "The Bad Boy From A Good Family", but it is only available on vinyl.
24/10/86 01 - The Queen Is Dead Genius steals is a bit sped up This is a reissue on cd of the "Brixton Academy 20/10/86" vinyl bootleg. It has the complete concert minus "Cemetry Gates". This gig was recorded the day after the one available on the official live album "Rank", so the song selection is very similar. However, the band didn't sound at their best that night. "Meat Is Murder" starts with a slowed down intro to "The Headmaster Ritual".
12/12/86 |
BRIXTON ACADEMY, LONDON (incorrectly billed "Live In Belgium 1986")
Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty
Ask
Bigmouth Strikes Again
London/Miserable Lie
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Is It Really So Strange?
Cemetry Gates
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Still Ill
Panic
The Queen Is Dead
William It Was Really Nothing
Hand In Glove
This is the best way to get the Smiths' final concert in the UK on cd. It even includes the intro music and has the only live performance of "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others", a unique medley of "London" and "Miserable Lie", a superb version of "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" and a very punchy "Panic".
Also as "NEVER HAD NO ONE EVER"- The Brixton Academy concert is better here than on "Royal Command Performance". It has all the tracks and the sound is better. The fan who is especially after the Brixton concert might want to find the cd version of this album. It has all of the latter concert, but only one track from Madrid.
Compilations
ASLEEP
Good soundboard (tracks 1-5), good audience (rest)
KID JENSEN SESSION 26/6/83
Wonderful Woman
QUEEN MARGARET HALL, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, 2/3/84
Girl Afraid (from the NME Department Of Enjoyment cassette)
TV APPEARANCE, EARSAY, 31/3/84
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (broadcast on Earsay, 31/3/84)
ALTERNATE STUDIO MIX
How Soon Is Now? (from the italian "William..." 12")
PEEL SESSION 9/10/84
William It Was Really Nothing
SOUNDCHECKS CAIRD HALL, DUNDEE 26/9/85
The Boy With The Thorn in His Side (instr.)
Frankly Mr. Shankly (instr.)
Bigmouth Strikes Again (instr.)
Rusholme Ruffians (instr.)
Shakespeare's Sister (instr.)
Jeane
What's The World
The Boy with The Thorn In His Side
SOUNDCHECKS EDEN COURT, INVERNESS 1/10/85
How Soon Is Now? (instr.)
Nowhere Fast (instr.)
Groovy Kind Of Love (instr. excerpt)
Every Day (instr. excerpt)
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (instr.)
Asleep
This is one of a series of great bootlegs put out by Chelsea. Its highlights are the early mix of "Heaven Know I'm Miserable Now" from a television broadcast two months before the song was released, and the extremely rare alternate version of "How Soon Is Now?" that was prior to this only available on the Italian "William It Was Really Nothing" 12". The fact that half of this bootleg is of (mostly instrumental) soundchecks might be of special interest to certain fans while it might annoy others.
See "Reel Around The Fountain", "Unloveable" and "Wonderful Woman" for other bootlegs in this series.
UNLOVEABLE (compilation)
(Very)Good to Poor
JOHN PEEL SESSION 1/6/83
Miserable Lie
LIVE ON Y.E.S. 6/02/84
What Difference Does It Make?
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
LIVE ON THE TUBE 16/03/84
Hand In Glove
Still Ill
Barbarism Begins At Home
LIVE ON DATARUN 7/04/84
Still Ill (excerpt)
This Charming Man (acoustic)
Hand In Glove (excerpt)
LIVE ON SPLAT! (CHARLIE'S BUS) 04/84
Jeane (Sandie Shaw + Johnny Marr)
LIVE ON THE WHISTLE TEST 20/05/86
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Vicar In A Tutu
LIVE ON THE EUROTUBE 5/07/86
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Panic
LIVE ON THE TUBE 10/04/87
Sheila Take A Bow
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
SOUNDCHECK INVERNESS EDEN COURT 1/10/85
Hand In Glove
Rock 'n' Roll part II
Unloveable
Unloveable
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
This is one of the more interesting bootlegs, putting together most television appearances, one radio session, and a few soundchecks.
WONDERFUL WOMAN-Compilation
Very Good
BARROWLANDS, GLASGOW 25/9/85
What's The World
JOHN PEEL SESSIONS 17/12/86
Half A Person
Sweet And Tender Hooligan
Is It Really So Strange?
London
TROY TATE DEMOS
What Difference Does It Make?
Accept Yourself
Wonderful Woman
ROCKGARDEN, LONDON 7/7/83 (almost Complete)
Reel Around The Fountain
What Difference Does It Make?
Wonderful Woman
These Things Take Time
I Don't Owe You Anything
Hand In Glove
Miserable Lie
Accept Yourself
Hand In Glove
DE MEERVAART HALL, AMSTERDAM 21/4/84
You've Got Everything Now
Like "Reel Around The Fountain" and some Morrissey solo bootleg, this one pairs a rare early concert with other rare tracks. Two songs are missing to make the otherwise unavailable Rockgarden concert complete.
REEL AROUND THE FOUNTAIN-Compilation
Very Good
JOHN PEEL SESSION 9/8/84
How Soon Is Now?
HACIENDA, MANCHESTER 4/2/83
What Do You See In Him?
TROY TATE DEMOS
Reel Around The Fountain
Miserable Lie
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
FIGHTING COCKS, BIRMINGHAM 3/6/83
You've Got Everything Now
Handsome Devil
Accept Yourself
What Difference Does It Make?
Reel Around The Fountain
Wonderful Woman
These Things Take Time
I Don't Owe You Anything
Hand In Glove
SATURDAY LIVE RADIO ONE SESSION 14/4/84
I Don't Owe You Anything (by Sandie Shaw)
Jeane (by Sandie Shaw)
This is one of a series put out by Chelsea. Like others in the series, it has a rarely bootlegged concert paired with rare versions of tracks. This one has an otherwise unavailable very early concert in Birmingham. One song ("Miserable Lie") is missing for it to be complete. The last two tracks, radio sessions by Sandie Shaw, are very interesting to fans who don't want to buy her album "Cool About You" of radio appearances (note: the Sandie Shaw cd includes the interview from the original broadcast but not this bootleg). The rest of the tracks are more common.
SMITH SESSIONS
Overall Very Good
DAVID JENSEN SESSIONS 9/83
Accept Yourself
I Don't Owe You Anything
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Reel Around The Fountain
JOHN PEEL SESSIONS 21/9/83
This Charming Man
Still Ill
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Back To The Old House
JOHN PEEL SESSIONS 18/5/83
Handsome Devil
Reel Around The Fountain
Miserable Lie
DAVID JENSEN SESSIONS 26/6/83
These Things Take Time
JOHN PEEL SESSIONS 18/5/83
What Difference Does It Make?
DAVID JENSEN SESSIONS 26/6/83
You've Got Everything Now
Hand In Glove (live from Brixton Ace in London, 29/6/83)
Wonderful Woman
The tracks here comprise all four radio appearances (resequenced) by the Smiths for the BBC's Radio One in 1983. The interviews of Morrissey on John Peel's and David Jensen's programs are also included.
The live version of "Hand In Glove" was from a very recent show. It replaced the planned "Reel Around The Fountain" which was causing too much controversy to be broadcast. It was finally broadcast on the following David Jensen sessions.
EUROMIXX VOL.2
MIXED TOGETHER DJ COMP (VINYL)
Excellent
THE BLACKSMITH MIX
Girlfriend In A Coma
Cemetry Gates
Frankly Mr. Shankly
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Half A Person
Ask
Girl Afraid
THE GOLDSMITH MIX
Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty
Panic
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Bigmouth Strikes Again
What Difference Does It Make?
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Euromixx is a series of various artists megamixes. The mixes were done from the original versions, hence the very good sound quality. The Goldsmith mix appeared on volume 2 of the Euromixx cd series. This might have come with subscription to some Canadian magazine.
TROY TATE DEMOS
Good (Rest of Compilation Material Only Fair)
Available on CRADLE ROBBERS & HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
Reel Around The Fountain
You've Got Everything Now
Miserable Lie
These Things Take Time
Wonderful Woman
Handsome Devil
Suffer Little Children
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Hand In Glove
What Difference Does It Make?
I Don't Owe You Anything
Jeane
VIDEO
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Another list http://www.geocities.com/autumnalparks/moz.html
THE SMITHS - LIVE SHOWS
6/29/83 Brixton Ace, London, England, B, 13m
7/6/83 Hacienda, Manchester, England, A, Pro, 40m
12/7/83 Assembly Rooms, Derby, England, A, Pro, 40m
5/4/84 Rockpalast, Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany, A, Pro, 70m
12/1/84 Versailles, Paris, France, B+, Pro, 62m
5/18/85 Paseo De Camoeons, Madrid, Spain, A Pro, 82m
9/22/85 Magnum Leisure Center, Irvine, Scotland, B, 30m
7/20/86 University of Salford, Salford, England, A, 80m
10/15/86 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England, A, 80m
10/21/86 Royal Center, Nottingham, England, A, 82m
10/23/86 National Ballroom, Kilburn, England, A-, 80m
10/24/86 Brixton Academy, London, England, A-, 83m
10/26/86 Palladium, London, England, A, 83m
12/12/86 Brixton Academy, London, England, A-, 60m
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THE SMITHS - TV APPEARANCES, INTERVIEWS, AND PERFORMANCES
11/23/83 Top of the Pops (This Charming Man) B+
1/26/84 Top of the Pops (What Difference Does It make?)A
1/27/84 The Tube (Brief Morrissey interview and This Charming Man promo video) A, 3m
2/6/84 Y.E.S. (What Difference & This Night Has Opened My Eyes) C, 6m
2/9/84 Top of the Pops (What Difference Does It Make?) A
2/10/84 Oxford Road Show (What Difference Does It Make?) A-, 5m
3/16/84 The Tube (Hand in Glove, Still Ill & Barbarism Begins At Home) A, 14m
3/18/84 Elektron Pop (What Difference Does It Make?) A
3/31/84 Earsay (Moz & Sandie Shaw interview) A, 1m
4/7/84 Datarun (Moz, Johnny, and schoolkids) 5m A
4/-/84 Charlies Bus / Splat! (Morrissey, Marr and Sandie Shaw; Marr and Shaw perform Jeane) A, 5m
5/-/84 Les Enfants Du Rock (Interview + Girl Afraid, Still Ill & Barbarism Begins At Home) A, 16m
5/25/84 Eight Days a Week (Morrissey reviews videos) A, 30m
5/31/84 Top of the Pops (Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now) A
5/-/84 Pop Quiz (Morrissey on game show) A, 30m
6/7/84 Earsay (Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now promo video & Hand In Glove by Sandie Shaw [lip sync]) B, 7m
6/14/84 Top of the Pops (Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now) A
7/7/84 Earsay (Morrissey edited interview with Nicky Horne) B+, 9m
7/7/84 Earsay (Morrissey unedited interview) A-, 45m
8/30/84 Top of the Pops (William It Was Really Nothing) A
1984 Formel Eins (Hand in Glove by Sandie Shaw) A, 3m
2/10/85 Old Grey Whistle Test (Band Interview) A, 9m
2/14/85 Top of the Pops (How Soon is Now?) A
2/22/85 Oxford Road Show (Shakespeare's Sister & The Headmaster Ritual) A, 6m
2/22/85 Private video of Moz/Marr leaving studio A, 1m
3/22/85 Oxford Road Show ("My Hometown" with Morrissey) A, 5m
5/18/85 Moz & Johnny interviewed in Madrid, A, 15m
5/24/85 Studio One (Morrissey interviewed by Muriel Grey) A-, 15m
10/4/85 Arsenal (Spanish TV special) B, 60m
10/8/85 Top of the Pops (The Boy With the Thorn In His Side) A
10/25/85 The Tube (Morrissey interviewed by Margi Clarke) A, 17m
10/85 MTV Cutting Edge (Moz interviews himself with cards) A 60m
1985 Grenada TV (report on tour rehearsals) B+, 5m
1985 Metropolis (Band interview in Spain) A, 5m
1985 Pebble Mill (Morrissey interview) B, 2m
1985 Rock Around the Clock (Morrissey game show appearance) B, 1m
5/20/86 Old Grey Whistle Test (Bigmouth Strikes Again & Vicar In A Tutu) A, 6m
7/5/86 Eurotube (There is a Light That Never Goes Out & Panic) A, 7m
11/-/86 Les Enfants Du Rock (Morrissey interview) A, 3m
1986 MTV Post Modern Show (Morrissey interview) B+, only a few seconds long
1986 New Video Hour (video clips and live footage) B, 7m
1986 Rock n' Roll Evening News, B, 15m
1/23/87 The Tube (Morrissey interviews Shaun Duggan) A, 5m
1/27/87 Top of the Pops / Shoplifters of the World Unite A
4/10/87 The Tube (Sheila Take a Bow & Shoplifters Of the World Unite) A, 6m
4/23/87 Top of the Pops / Sheila Take a Bow A
5/9/87 Rock Arena (Johnny Marr interview) B+, 60m
5/20/87 Network (Morrissey and others interviewed) A, 7m
5/25/87 San Remo Rock Festival 5 songs & interview A, 25m *lip sync*
10/-/87 Superchannel (Morrissey interview) A, 40m
10/18/87 South Bank Show (Smiths documentary) A, 60m
11/15/87 Morrissey in Conversation, B+, 30m
1987 South (Morrissey acting debut) B, 1m
1987 Much Music City Limits (Morrissey and Marr interviews, and videos) A, 40m
1989 Rapido (Johnny Marr interview) a, 4m
