2009 Tour of Refusal / Swords t-shirt and merchandise checklist

There are two versions of this t-shirt, one with Bravado text, the other without.
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With 2010? Did you buy this on tour, or is it deadstock after tour, with updated copyright? Nice to see, did not know, thanks.

And another difference is where the print starts at the bottom of shirt , one starts at the very bottom, and one starts above the seams, interesting!!
 
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With 2010? Did you buy this on tour, or is it deadstock after tour, with updated copyright? Nice to see, did not know, thanks.

And another difference is where the print starts at the bottom of shirt , one starts at the very bottom, and one starts above the seams, interesting!!
I have both, one bought at the gig in Leeds and the other one bought online a few years later.
I guess the one with the 2010 date stamp was made/sold after the Swords tour then, but the question is where? There was no official outlet back then, at least not one I can remember.
 
I have both, one bought at the gig in Leeds and the other one bought online a few years later.
I guess the one with the 2010 date stamp was made/sold after the Swords tour then, but the question is where? There was no official outlet back then, at least not one I can remember.
well, I'm going to check Bravado store just to double check, but under Bravado Merchandising, they had other outlets to sell from. Example. Spencer gifts and more, and we had a few record stores in Dallas (Bills records, Tower Records, Virgin records stores, and are independent record stores where we got are import singles) they always got official t-shirts from outlets like Bravado and other big concert tee manufacturers. I definitely don't know that to be 100% accurate but I remember in 92 that record store sold a "we look at danger and laugh our heads off" shirt . And although the tag was not a match to the one that was sold on tour, the copyright was still there to match.....all that being said, I'm sure Bravado had the green light to sell to all of their outlets.
Money is Money, Once Bravado gets hired to sell, why would MORRISSEY, s camp(management)care where, they want to see sales $$$$$$$$€€€€€€£££££££, that's unless Morrissey himself had no special request

So, the Bravado online Store only lasted from Ringleaders to Greatest Hits tours, from what I'm seeing at wayback archives. Even though Morrissey has used Bravado Tags longer than that.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070105050932/http://www.bravadousa.com/stores/morrisseystore.html
 
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all kind of replicas at this time, weird bootlegs(2009 front with 2002 dates, example),as tshirt making has become as easy as residential now and the people making them, probably not even fans, just looking for quick $$$. be careful buyers , one of the reasons I wanted to do these checklist. There are some out there that are nice, still.....
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front, this is not bad, double sided, doesn't much match though, defiantly a bootleg. but love the details of the coat of arms part
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Now I know where I saw it, on my research on Mporium 2014, they were for sale at that time.......must of continued to sell them since 2009.
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Interesting (I think things like the boxing gloves got a couple of airings separated by years too).
This is the earliest entry for Mporium:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140928035823/http://uk.mporium.org/
And can be worked forwards.
Similarly with the US version.
As they mixed in tour merch and sold at gigs merch plus their own stuff, this will be a nightmare to wade through.
There's so much hiding away.
FWD.
 
Interesting (I think things like the boxing gloves got a couple of airings separated by years too).
This is the earliest entry for Mporium:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140928035823/http://uk.mporium.org/
And can be worked forwards.
Similarly with the US version.
As they mixed in tour merch and sold at gigs merch plus their own stuff, this will be a nightmare to wade through.
There's so much hiding away.
FWD.
You see why I'm starting early, that doesn't include tour only, sal lads club, pop up shop, etc.
and we have pics of merchandise stands for almost every year going forward to separate from Mporium, and what was sold on tour and what was taken from the store to sell on tour with dated and themed shirts

I gotta take it 1 thing at a time , so I don't get depleted and ahead of myself. But yeah there are items that are starting to crossover years.
 
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Looks like wristbands made it to MEN, 2012 too.
 
Well that's all we have for 2009, and this ends the Silver Age of Morrissey solo tour shirt checklist, hopefully someone, somewhere in a small corner on this planet might find these as a helpful tool.

Going forward to the present, where very few Shirts are rare(there are some, like James Baldwin shirt, more one offs)or worth only face value and there are web sights still selling some leftover deadstock merchandise that Manhead has (Rockabilla.com), we will get into that later. But to be complete we will move forward with a different format as Passionsjustlikemine.com, a major resource, is starting to fade away. This next era 2011- 2013, is just a mess, with all the cancelation and problems that occur, and then comes 2014 Mporium UK and US(ManheadMerch)as it takes over merchandise sales. The good news we have pictures of merch stands to help go by( cell phones are abundant by now) and web archives. There are still some shirts that need to be mentioned coming up.....Fanny the cat, Salford books, 1st barbershop, just to name a few.

Thanks to everyone who has helped to make it this far, already 1990 seems so long ago.
 
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