{"id":45284,"date":"2016-12-12T19:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesenseofdoubt.com\/?p=45284"},"modified":"2018-12-12T23:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T23:33:58","slug":"the-smiths-last-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/box2305.temp.domains\/~thesent5\/the-smiths-last-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Ago: The Smiths’ Final-Ever Gig @Brixton Academy, London \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

30 Years Ago: The Smiths\u00a0@Brixton Academy, London<\/h2>\n

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Excerpt from Johnny Rogan’s Morrissey & Marr:\u00a0The Severed Alliance<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n
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The postponed Artists Against Apartheid concert was rescheduled, without The Fall<\/strong> for 12 December [2016] at London’s Brixton Academy. By that time, Marr<\/strong> was fully recovered [car crash] and the recent outbreaks of gig violence were a distant memory. Few in the audience that evening could have guessed that they were watching The Smiths’<\/strong> final performance [gig] on British soil [The Smiths<\/strong> offered a five-song set on February 7th (19867) at Italy’s San Remo Festival<\/em>, a two-song set on April 10th at The Tube<\/em> and a final appearance at Top Of The Pops<\/em> two weeks later featuring a miming of ‘Sheila Take A Bow’]. The set began with ‘Ask’, that strangely controversial single which, for different reasons, irked both John Porter<\/strong> and\u00a0Craig Gannon<\/strong>. A healthy half-dozen tracks from The Queen Is Dead<\/em> saw The Smiths<\/strong> caught in time, ready to step into a New Year which would actually prove their last. For fans who had followed the tour, there was the welcome addition of two songs fresh to live performance: ‘Shoplifters Of The World Unite’ and ‘Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others’. Morrissey’s<\/strong> vocal inflexions sounded more eccentric than ever, seldom more so than on the surprise medley ‘London\/Miserable Lie’. ‘This Night Has Opened My Eyes’, played for the first time since 1984, proved another highlight. Appropriately this pre-yuletide show conjured up the ghosts of Christmas past by ending with ‘Hand In Glove’, the song that had launched the group’s superlative recording career. – Johnny Rogan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Smiths @Brixton Academy, Final Gig<\/h3>\n