Hanley, England 1985-03-16 (The Smiths concert)

The Smiths Live Concert
Tour	Meat Is Murder Tour
Date	16 March, 1985
Venue	Victoria Hall
Location	Hanley, England
Opening Act	James

Set List

1. William, It Was Really Nothing
2. Nowhere Fast
3. I Want The One I Can't Have
4. Handsome Devil
5. What She Said
6. How Soon Is Now?
7. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
8. Stretch Out And Wait
9. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
10. Shakespeare's Sister
11. Rusholme Ruffians
12. The Headmaster Ritual
13. Still Ill
14. Hand In Glove
15. Meat Is Murder

    Encore 1

16. Miserable Lie

    Encore 2

17. Barbarism Begins At Home

Information

At the start of the performance of Meat Is Murder, a string of sausages was thrown on the stage, hitting Morrissey. In Uncut ("The Smiths: the making of Meat Is Murder" - Sept. 21, 2015), Andy Rourke is quoted regarding this incident:

On March 16, The Smiths played Hanley Victoria Hall in Stoke-On-Trent. A few lines into “Meat Is Murder” an object thrown from the crowd struck Morrissey. “It was a dozen sausages with ‘Meat is murder’ written on them,” explains Rourke. “They’re quite weighty, a pack of sausages, hitting you in the face. That shocked him. Then, when he looked down he saw that it was meat. He was disgusted and he just walked offstage. They were Irish sausages. How do I know? I went to the trouble of wrapping them back up in the plastic. It was like a brick hit him in the face. If they’d unravelled, he may have got strangled by them.”

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