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

@andrewcounts7136

Жыл бұрын

I champion said statement mate..

@chrisgoodson9312

8 ай бұрын

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

@OlDirtyMatress

2 ай бұрын

Iconic. This man changed my life.

@h0lysockbob401

17 күн бұрын

Best live clip of any band ever! ❤

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@leebp9106

2 жыл бұрын

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

@tamusbaby

Жыл бұрын

All fkn true!

@Crisstti

Жыл бұрын

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

@appiolazaadrian4682

10 ай бұрын

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

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✌️

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

7 ай бұрын

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

@InglewooAce

6 ай бұрын

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

@DanRelayer_Ukraine

4 ай бұрын

Joyce sued in 1996, way later

@ibtaba

2 ай бұрын

They still had to put food on the table.

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

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@r.c.9163

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! People like you are really underaprecited.

@andrewcounts7136

Жыл бұрын

Thank you....🌾🌾🌾

@calumdunce

5 ай бұрын

fantastic but how come the set is so short?

@gargantuk

4 ай бұрын

​@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!

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...

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.

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

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, I still rock my docs when I go out

@dpatrick1a

5 жыл бұрын

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

@armandouandm3512

4 жыл бұрын

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

@armandouandm3512

4 жыл бұрын

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

@moneyallspent7117

Жыл бұрын

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 😎)

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

5 ай бұрын

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!

The greatest of all the time, Morrissey.

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

@prudenceneverpays

Жыл бұрын

he seems cool asf

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@BurtonRdForever

4 жыл бұрын

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

13 күн бұрын

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

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.

RIP Andy :(

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@andrewcounts7136

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

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! ❤☮🎵

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!

wolverhampton knows how to fucking do a concert.

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

3 жыл бұрын

@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

3 жыл бұрын

@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

3 жыл бұрын

@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.

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

@davidlindsay9564

5 жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

Seeing this makes me cry. Hulmerist changed my life.

What a great time it was to be young!

@stuartwray6175

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Jay_Kay_Redpill

3 жыл бұрын

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

What a difference Johnny Marr makes!

❤Morrissey forever

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

Hugs for Mozza

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

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.

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

Thank you!

Flowers show how great he is...

Thanks man!

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

@edwardmulholland7912

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

47 soon to be 48!

@mishatomskovich7103

5 жыл бұрын

Memories keep us going.....

@rodrigomunoz3012

5 жыл бұрын

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

@laurentcaylet8456

5 жыл бұрын

48...

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

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

I seen the Smith's in Boston on the queen is dead tour the best concert I have ever seen I was 16yrs old...and I have seen Morrissey 26 times..the Smith's concert was the best concert I have ever seen by far and I have seen alot of concerts...LONG LIVE THE SMITHS

@BurtonRdForever

4 жыл бұрын

You do know they split up in 1987?

@ryanwolfcastle5947

10 ай бұрын

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

amazing!

Excellent, thanks for posting

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

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.

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

I remember seeing this on the 'Hulmerist' video (Yeah video) back in 1990,brings back so many good memories....thanks for this,its awesome 😊

@ibtaba

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Zac2Hartsie

5 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@goldenhourkodak

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

I realy like that they took a wee break between songs.

Morrissey at his Best!!!!🎙❤

I had this on VHS back in the day

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.

Wonderful world Beautiful People

Awesome thank you!

I was there absolutely brilliant good good memories!!

Thank's❤❤!!

Que Grandioso Documento ... Simplemente hermozo 💜

@omarmereles9036

8 ай бұрын

Y algo, peyote

Such a fine man.

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

I was there as a teen! Now I'm 49

Literally this is the smith without Johnny marr

@davidlindsay9564

5 жыл бұрын

so its not the Smiths.

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"

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

4 жыл бұрын

Se nota mucho la ausencia de Johnny 💔

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

@davidlindsay9564

5 жыл бұрын

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.

I remember seeing Moz in 91, and he had security increase all the way through the set so nobody could get on stage, and then his request was that the venue security stand down for the encore so fans could do their thing and his people could escort them off, but venue security refused, and Moz came back out and said that he was cutting the show short because security was too tight. It was a bummer but I should have known at that point just how he was going to be in the future, haha.

NO HAY MAS❤

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

Knowing the state of relations between Moz and the other Smiths at this point (Johnny gone, Rourke and Joyce soon to begin lawsuit proceedings), and Moz's subsequent outright dismissal of Craig Gannon in his memoirs, it's hard to watch this show. One is at a loss to understand what the hell was going on with Moz, and whether he was the innocent puppet or the knowing puppet master in the machinations swirling at this point. And imagine being Johnny Marr - knowing that the band of which he was an absolutely irreducible member appears to be soldiering on (to chart acclaim)? Horrible. As Paul McCartney said to Johnny Marr (by way of explaining the unfathomable logic of soured creative relationships): "Bands, eh?"

@33cattt49

5 жыл бұрын

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

@ItsNotaTuhmah

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@quogir1

5 жыл бұрын

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

@raulvega4016

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@BurtonRdForever

4 жыл бұрын

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

I wish I had a time machine.

@odetteuys1111

5 жыл бұрын

Also to have seen Joy Division, right? 😢

@BurtonRdForever

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

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.

Love the early line up. Basically Smiths still

@sratus

5 жыл бұрын

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

Melhor Banda dos anos 80 The Smiths Morrissey é o máximo Irene Pontes

Well, that was a workout for everyone...

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.

Increíble :')

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

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

❤️

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

@Tomes23

4 жыл бұрын

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

Craig Gannon was a great guitarist

Não tem um Cantor como Moz é amado idolatrado em 88 os seguranças não podiam fazer nada os Fãs eram mas fortes agarravam beijavam puxavam era demais Moz tem um encanto Amo Moz 💋💋❤️♥️🇧🇷

Parfait comme d habitude

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

What's with the TC jumps? Otherwise amazing, takes me back ...

Does anyone know who’s sings the “Walk On “song at the end Please let me know ??

@justMorrissey

4 жыл бұрын

Its 'Der Nussbaum' by Klaus Nomi

what is the deal with the security pat downs???

26:06 wow

I want to sing with You, Yah, aNd not just with a great album of Your Best!!!

I Like!

Anyone knows what camera was used to film this?

What's the name of the song that starts around min 05:12? Sounds like an instrumental or very long intro to something. Cheers

@oliviavasquez7225

4 жыл бұрын

Its an altered version of the queen is dead, but i dont recognize where its from. Cheers

@theselector4733

4 жыл бұрын

@@oliviavasquez7225 Gracias.

Where song list?

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Sister I´m a poet.......