Morrissey : Wolverhampton 88 (Complete Film)

Complete Film
Generously shared by Adam May @ www.smithstorre...

[@luisezequielcampos8215]

Tracklist: 13:29 - Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before 17:13 - Disappointed 21:36 - Interesting drug 27:02 - Suedehead 31:22 - The last of the famous international playboys 35:04 - Sister I'm a poet 39:06 - Death at one's elbow 45:29 - Sweet and tender hooligan

[@oscillatewildly6553]

Thank you!

[@r.c.9163]

Thank you! People like you are really underaprecited.

[@andrewcounts7136]

Thank you....🌾🌾🌾

[@calumdunce]

fantastic but how come the set is so short?

[@gargantuk]

​@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!

[@emartinezr]

If this hadn't been filmed, nobody would believe it

[@andrewcounts7136]

I champion said statement mate..

[@chrisgoodson9312]

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

[@OlDirtyMatress]

Iconic. This man changed my life.

[@h0lysockbob401]

Best live clip of any band ever! ❤

[@petersison7804]

I bought this video on VHS from Tower Records early 90's. I was wearing a cardigan and smiths shirt with my red doc martens. I still wear cardigans and my red doc martens on special occassions. Morrissey/Smiths forever.

[@c-lokes3636]

Yep, I still rock my docs when I go out

[@dpatrick1a]

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

[@armandouandm3512]

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

[@armandouandm3512]

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

[@moneyallspent7117]

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 😎)

[@thewildmitchell]

38:01 is that someone's panties?? He's completely unphased when hundreds of people run on and nearly knock him over but that one got a reaction out of him haha

[@lizzieblom592]

why dont boys look like this anymore lol

[@sheridanwhiteside6503]

The beautiful thing is that Morrissey is still going strong 35 years later, and the fans are as passionate as ever.

[@garnGad]

The fans are passionate and much much older now I’m in my 60’s ❤

[@leebp9106]

The greatest single experience of my young life. Makes me cry to see this again (lol I’m 49 now). Sister I’m a Poet remains the greatest explosion of music, flowers and fan adulation ever captured on video.

[@33cattt49]

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

[@leebp9106]

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

[@tamusbaby]

All fkn true!

[@Crisstti]

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

[@appiolazaadrian4682]

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

[@davidmcdonald6804]

Omg,,,,I fucking love the Smith's and Morrissey...remember the days he would tell people to charge the stage...he would challenge people and I got to him in Boston...me and my girlfriend...all though the 90s he loved people who did this...THE VERY BEST,THE SMITHS AND MORRISSEY

[@carljones9331]

When this was filmed I would have had no idea who this Morrissey person was. Years later I have now been to 20 plus gigs and saw him in New York on my 30th birthday in 2009 at the Bowery ballroom in downtown NY. Like all Smiths/Moz fans I have stories that will blow your mind. This is an amazing record of what happened to the people who lived through this. I’m jealous but I have certainly made up for this in my own way. There is a special bond throughout the world with being a Moz fan and every gig is like a religious ordeal but super empowering and emotional. I don’t have the words to express my joy but every Moz fan will understand. I thank you from the heart of my bottom✌️

[@Plaw01]

I can still remember HMV in the town centre being stuffed full of Smiths T-shirts and all the fans hanging around town before the gig. Was only 15 at the time and loathed the Smiths and Morrissey. A few years later I decided to buy 'Louder than Bombs' just to see what all the fuss was about from Woolworths in the town centre and loved them ever since.

[@aethanfriday3568]

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!

[@n136h]

All the kids here would be getting on for 50 now.

[@edwardmulholland7912]

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

[@poodlerockin]

47 soon to be 48!

[@mishatomskovich7103]

Memories keep us going.....

[@rodrigomunoz3012]

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

[@laurentcaylet8456]

48...

[@nicobashford6513]

At the end of 'Death at One's Elbow' Morrissey took off his black sequined shirt and hurled it into the audience, whereupon it landed straight on top of my head. I recall I was lucky to retain my noggin in one piece as grasping hands from all corners tried to take fragments of this relic (sweaty as it was). I ended up with a small piece that got caught painfully between my fingers.

[@nicobashford6513]

@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?

[@nicobashford6513]

@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.

[@nicobashford6513]

@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.

[@jasonlefler3456]

There are many amazing things about this footage. One particularly amazing thing is that Joyce, Rourke, and Gannon, all had pending legal cases against Morrissey at the time of this performance.

[@29memyselfandi]

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

[@InglewooAce]

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

[@DanRelayer_Ukraine]

Joyce sued in 1996, way later

[@ibtaba]

They still had to put food on the table.

[@jasonlefler3456]

@@29memyselfandiI believe Johnny Rogan’s book The Severed Alliance mentions that all three had pending lawsuits. Rourke dropped his. Joyce persisted. I forget how Gannon’s case ended.

[@peb5673]

2019: How many people wearing the Smith shirt 1988: A lot

[@davidlindsay9564]

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.

[@rmoalxa]

The young lad at 37:20, legend 😃 just wants to tell Moz he loves him and then cooly walks away, brilliant.

[@prudenceneverpays]

he seems cool asf

[@mili-830]

He’s an icon 🤩

[@achillesprostheticsandorth5296]

What a difference Johnny Marr makes!

[@fraancetate8759]

To realise i was 17 at the time living just down the road from this in wolverhampton and being totally unaware of the smiths or morrissey,just didnt have the right peer group to turn me on to good music

[@Tomes23]

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

[@BurtonRdForever]

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.

[@verucasalt9182]

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

[@TenderHooligan]

wolverhampton knows how to fucking do a concert.

[@wroot1]

Funny to see Joyce and Rourke playing. Must have been weird

[@brandonlarratt8761]

Fuckin everyone keeps grabbing Moz..... It's annoying cause it ruins the vocals I wanna hear him sing....

[@mateusfx7133]

Great Crowd !! people young and alive.. respect from Brazil

[@ruiliu636]

This is great simply as a piece of documentary film making and historical record, on top of it being a Morrissey gig. In fact, the music was quite sub-par, as this zombified line-up of The Smiths was quite pedestrian in its arrangements of the Morrissey solo songs. But what makes this film is the 12 minutes or so of build up, seeing the anticipation and naivete of the Moz devotees, coupled with a particularly 80s style of borderline cheesy cutting techniques, and then exploding into climax with how the crowd were reacting to Morrissey. The casualness with which many of them seemingly strolled onto the stage to embrace their hero, unimaginable nowadays.

[@user-mv3zo2ip9n]

12:47 😍 💦

[@alexmolina115]

I use to watch the Hulmerist VHS with my first high school girlfriend back in 1989. She borrowed it and sort of kept it... What can i say, i was a young teenager in love. It's AWESOME to see the whole show in it's entirety! ❤☮🎵

[@jyee2217]

Nice to see the officer at 5:36 smiling. Not like these daya where security is looking to bash someone's head if the get outta the white lines.

[@Tomes23]

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

[@goldenhourkodak]

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

[@Ashley_x_Smith]

I waited forever with great hope of getting in to this his 1st solo concert, all you needed was a Smith's T shirt for free entry but despite being local I hadn't heard in time and after shuffling around Wolverhampton Civic Hall for countless hours numbes were full as i reached close to entry. I'd seen The Smith's in '86 and Morrissey 4 times since but this one escaped me, it was basically a Smith's gig with all in attendance baring Marr. Ahh Wolverhampton... so much to answer for 😢 RIP Andy, long live the Guvnor of melancholic verse.

[@Mayo2205]

RIP Andy :(

[@tdurb0]

If everyone who said they were at that gig was actually at that gig, it would’ve been bigger than Oasis at Knebworth Legend

[@guiltbyimplication]

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

[@tobyfletcher6803]

And not a mobile phone in sight. absorbing everything as it happens, not through a lens on a mobile to see who can get it on Instagram first. all the crowd talking to each other. brilliant times im 52 and have loved the smiths since i was a teen...

[@SoraKoshinaka]

Si Johnny estuviera ahí, no sería un concierto de Morrissey, sería THE SMITHS otra vez 😥 Se me hace muy difícil de ver OMG, ojalá hubiera un reencuentro, pero lo dudo mucho 💔 Esto me hace sentir muy triste porque veo las caras de Andy y Mike (sobretodo) y sé que eran felices tocando juntos, yo sé que los 5 (ya incluyendo a Craig) eran felice, oh Dios, esto es muy difícil y triste de ver, sobretodo porque no viví en ese tiempo y no pude disfrutarlos. 😭 Me dió mucha risa la cara de Mike cada vez que se subía la gente al escenario jaja (envidia mil, por cierto) Aunque pobre moz luego me lo tiraron, se pasaban de molestos, debían dejarlo cantar.

[@karla9392]

Se nota mucho la ausencia de Johnny 💔

[@gustavosaymontufar1301]

The greatest of all the time, Morrissey.

[@kevinyoung7294]

Wish we had more gigs of any band with pre-gig fan footage.

[@manicstreetpreacher1723]

Thanks for uploading. You just eradicated 30 years of my life.☺

[@theanalogtimetraveler4346]

as someone who bought the Hulmerist VHS the day it came out I cannot tell you how happy I am this exists in it's complete form

[@Tomes23]

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

[@andrewcounts7136]

Agreed

[@simonedgbaston]

❤Morrissey forever

[@marlenen2590]

I wish I had friends like the people in the beginning... Wrong generation, I'm afraid haha

[@DominicJenx]

No. They're out there. Seek them out.

[@gibbogiorgio6828]

I am here, just in case...

[@kungmoshfu]

marlene n bunch of wankers

[@MrWeeRhys]

right im 22 lets get a fucking whatsapp going :)))))))))

[@jamesennis8837]

@@MrWeeRhys ok

[@greyfox4577]

Closest thing to a Smiths reunion after their breakup and it will never be again.

[@Simplesimple123]

have to hand it to craig for his guitar work on sweet and tender hooligan. absolute blinding track. moz is flawless and raw on it too. always loved this and when it was the b side for sheila take a bow was when it really was double A sides.

[@grasshoppersunny688]

CHEERS JUST MORRISSEY ☺ TAKE ME BACK 2 THOSE DAYS & NIGHTS WHEN ONLY MUSIC MATTERED & FRIDAY WAS ALWAYS ON MY MIND (SOUL FREE ) X X

[@mikethompson5549]

Hugs for Mozza

[@bearhughes7009]

Thank you sooo much for this I still have my original copy on VHS but no VCR

[@andrewbrown5626]

So good to see this. I had the Hulmerist video which I’ve since managed to get on DVD. Love the passion of the fans who will be of a similar age to me (51!) The crowd was so packed, especially at the front and it’s great to see that passion and unbridled joy as they swarmed forward to get to the stage. The vocals and guitar were a bit lacklustre in places to be fair but still a unique occasion and a joy to watch.

[@beetleything1864]

Ah. I think you had to have a Smiths Tshirt on to get in.

[@Tomes23]

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

[@SnowGiant.9]

Morrissey jamming with his mates minus Johnny. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@JT-ss6si]

10:13 What is this sample looping? "Take care mate."/"Take care man."

[@carlosalbertofigueiredovia8021]

Congratulations on the post, if you have more shows from the years 91/92 please post.

[@gabrielabarros2036]

Its the smiths. I mean It is not cause we dont have johnny. But all the others were there

[@patrickbateman457]

38:33 Does anyone know who Morrissey was referring to here??

[@gcord21]

I know the fans hugging him is part of the show but it gets annoying and can't listen to the song properly.

[@kneazle3603]

I love it

[@mikethompson5549]

Flowers show how great he is...

[@BudSchnelker]

I'm not seeing many signs of culturally enriching diversity. How did people drag themselves out of bed each morning without it?

[@america5356]

Off tune for a second there in the beginning of...(stop me)

[@cricketbat09]

Craig Gannon was a great guitarist

[@jr1638]

Morrissey at his Best!!!!🎙❤

[@davidcoen8860]

Great show ! Was there by accident but had my smiths t shirt so got in ! And in the video ! Legend

[@montxofort]

in fact, as Smiths wewrw rwerdis the last albun, Moz allready was working against time with Steven Steret on new material, now looking back, everythink falls on place.

[@Simplesimple123]

Such a fine man.

[@elizabeth-qx2bs]

11:47😂😂😂

[@ajh21313]

Well, that was a workout for everyone...

[@Gypsy388]

Beautiful, simply beautiful The Times , The people ,The T's!!! The Apprieciation was mind boggling! The jumping on stage wanting recognition showing that they Love him! Was Is! Amazing 👏 How simply Beautiful!!!😘 Thank you! He says! Awe the Last of the International Playboy! The 💐 🌸 🏵 🌼 💐 To shower him with! Lovely. Poor Morrissey... Awe! It got dangerous for sure! Guy jumping on him! AWE! No Cells!!! I'd have Loved to kiss him to. "Let me Kiss you!" !!! 💋 "2022"

[@quogir1]

Wonderful world Beautiful People

[@odetteuys1111]

What a great time it was to be young!

[@stuartwray6175]

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.

[@Lopfff]

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

[@Jay_Kay_Redpill]

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

[@oceaneleven268]

I wish I had a time machine.

[@odetteuys1111]

Also to have seen Joy Division, right? 😢

[@BurtonRdForever]

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.

[@Jay_Kay_Redpill]

I'm from Wolves. At the age of 13 I was helping my grandad clear out the house he rented to students. I reached under one of the beds and found an album called Viva Hate, I spent the rest of my summer holidays listening to it over and over and over, that's how I found and fell for the music of Mozza & the Smiths. It was 1988, and I had no idea he was there at the Civic :-( A few years later I performed on that same stage, so I take comfort from knowing I shared the same space as the great legend. A few more years later in 1992 I attended my first concert, I saw him at the NEC Atrium Hall where I got a hold of the shirt he threw into the audience. I didn't come home with the whole shirt, but the slither I got was framed & cherished!

[@bigaudio11]

those t shirts fetch a small fortune now,seen the lollipop ones go for in excess of 300 quid with stained yellow underarms and rips

[@stillben]

T shirt mate

[@Tomes23]

Ben Sutton No cameras

[@leecordova83]

ok mate

[@Gabecoisinha]

26:06 wow

[@markcouperthwaite3500]

You take Marr away, and it becomes a 3rd rate Smiths. Sorry, but it does

[@OlDirtyMatress]

Seeing this makes me cry. Hulmerist changed my life.

[@peb5673]

Literally this is the smith without Johnny marr

[@davidlindsay9564]

so its not the Smiths.

[@christyjia8449]

Four-fifths of The Smiths. Johnny must've been under the weather that gig.

[@davidlindsay9564]

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.

[@samanthafinn4544]

I had this on VHS back in the day

[@jasoncole767]

Wish it was 1988 now...how melancholic folk get looking back in time, for each year passes society gets worse...

[@EsromFF]

Sister I´m a poet.......

[@Sept1973]

this is the HULMERIST video !!! I still have it on VHS 👌🏽 thanks for uploading !!

[@cv_mmo510]

Honestly, that version of Stop Me just made me sad. Marr's guitar is so incredibly vital to the sound that without him it feels like half the song is missing.

[@dionisionetoator]

amazing!

[@DylanHughesPhotoVideo]

Who said I lied because I never, I never. Who said I lied because I neverrrrr.

[@carlospatricio3107]

Que Grandioso Documento ... Simplemente hermozo 💜

[@omarmereles9036]

Y algo, peyote

[@keithhammerton359]

I was there absolutely brilliant good good memories!!

[@ricardohenson8652]

Thanks man!

[@SnowGiant.9]

I have this on VHS. Thanks for the upload.🤥🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 Actually I have the edited version. Not this full concert. This is a great performance.🤥🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@antonsparkes7569]

Security did an excellent job....

[@Tomes23]

Anton Sparkes They were polite, too. They treated the kids decently.

[@Gonzalez2500]

Who else wants to run on stage and hug Andy LOL

[@mystiquesunrise8327]

THIS IS ME

[@patrickryan5570]

Held at Wolverhampton’s Civic Town Hall, the greatest takeaway for any observer was the way fans supported their idol no matter what. Morrissey’s unusual way of doing things as well as his general eccentricity meant that there were no tickets. Instead, concert-goers needed merely to wear a Smiths or Morrissey T-Shirt in order to get past the tuxedo-ed bouncers. A resulting crowd of over 20,000 turned up, far more than could possibly fit into the venue.... Oh I love those days of my youth for Morrissey connected with so many who thought they were on the fringes of society - Being not so cool was the new cool for a while any way.... It was a shame Morrissey would become so reactionary in later life.

[@Zeekism]

Worst security ever..

[@shamblesuk]

Only Morrissey can put in a throw away line like “with meths on their breaths” only essentially an average b side.

[@Zeekism]

Imagine if his fans would still do the same thing on his concert like going up the stage and dance or grope him. 😆

[@theartofhavoc5467]

Amazing film, but it's so blatantly obvious that no one on earth can replace Johnny Marr (maybe not even Johnny Marr).

[@moudvon6852]

Increíble :')

[@poorringo]

I'm guessing when Marr left, they couldn't use the name 'the Smiths' any longer. Were Mike and Andy happy now being a backing band for Morrissey? Since his name was now technically the name of the band. I know they sued for royalties, but they must have had some admiration for Moz, to continue in the recording studio and on stage. As short lived as it was.

[@happydude6713]

In retrospect, kind of the final Smiths gig as well as the first Morrissey one... I didn't go because I assumed I'd never get in. It's cool though, I saw two better Smiths gigs and some competent Morrissey ones.

[@cycleSCUBA]

The man behind the legend. The god behind the cult.

[@roskoswervin7850]

No marr no problem And crowd can careless. #Morrissey.

[@davidlindsay9564]

Still not the Smiths.

[@LivingMy9Lives]

Thank you!

[@poorringo]

Interesting. Here is Moz with Andy and Mike. He has performed so much with Boz and Alan, it's odd not seeing them on stage. What an interesting period. Compare this, with the 91 Dallas concert video.

[@Gonzalez2500]

Love the early line up. Basically Smiths still

[@sratus]

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

[@riverx6802]

It’s a live concert 😅. I thought it was a documentary.

[@petersison7804]

Thank you!