2 March 1984
Queen Margaret Hall, University Of Glasgow, Glasgow
Hand In Glove
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Girl Afraid
This Charming Man
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Still Ill
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Barbarism Begins At Home
Back To The Old House
What Difference Does It Make?
/Reel Around The Fountain
//You've Got Everything Now
//Handsome Devil
This concert was very crowded, sweaty and memorable, like most visits to Glasgow. There was a lot of heckling so Morrissey lectured the crowd about bad behaviour. Performance-wise and sound-wise, it was one of the best concerts of the period, probably because it was recorded.

After "Hand In Glove" Morrissey greeted the fans by shouting "Hello Glasgow!". He changed one line in "This Charming Man" to "This man said it's gruesome that someone so ugly should care", as he had been known to do now and then. "Pretty Girls Make Graves" was introduced with the words "And now, a lesson for everybody..." The following song, "Still Ill", was introduced as "...a nice song about the most enviable position imaginable, 'Still Ill'!.." There was a lot of heckling from the audience so after "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" Morrissey shouted "Aaarrgh, listen! What?". In the part in "Barbarism Begins At Home" where Morrissey just moans and la-la-la's, echo effect was applied, making it sound eerie. "Back To The Old House" was introduced with the line "This is for all you marsh-mellows..." Before "Handsome Devil" Morrissey teased the audience by shouting "More?"

 


This concert was recorded and broadcast in full on Scotland's Radio Clyde. The only material to have officially surfaced so far from this recording is "Girl Afraid" when it was included on a freebie cassette called "Department Of Enjoyment" which was given away with a 1985 issue of the British music paper the NME.

 


The "Department Of Enjoyment" track mentioned above was lifted from the tape and compiled on various manufactured bootlegs: the rare 7" "Rest In Peace" (with the studio version of "This Charming Man" and the audio for "Sheila Take A Bow" and "Shoplifters Of The World Unite" live on television programme The Tube"), the more common bootleg cd "Asleep" (with 3 radio sessions, an alternate outtake of "How Soon Is Now?", 9 soundchecks from 26 September 1985 and 5 soundchecks from 1 October 1985), "Wilde About The Smiths" (with many other live tracks, rarities and radio sessions) and "Hang The DJ (Thrice!)" (with other live material, one Troy Tate outtake and television appearances).

The complete FM recording has been traded on compact disc and in digital format on the internet. The quality is excellent. An inferior transfer of it is very commonly found on the manufactured bootleg "Oscillate Wildly" which can also be found in digital format on the internet (sometimes lacking "Reel Around The Fountain" and "You've Got Everything Now").

A reasonably good audience recording of the complete concert is also circulated among collectors, on cd-rs and on the internet.

 

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