4 October 1991 - Hammersmith Odeon - London, UK
This show didn't start on a good note. Security at the Hammersmith Odeon was very strict and no one was allowed to leave their seats, something that annoyed Morrissey. But he took care of the situation halfway into the concert (read further for details). "The Last Of The Famous International Playboys" returned to the setlist, as set opener. "Pregnant For The Last Time" replaced the noisy "That's Entertainment", perhaps because of the venue. In live performances of "The Last Of The Famous International Playboys" Morrissey was known to change a line to "just to make myself attracted to you", but on this date, he took it a step further by singing "just to make myself less attracted to you". In "Pregnant For The Last Time", the line "If ever we had the nerve to" was changed to "If ever we had the chance to" and "And people being nice for the very first time" to "...the last time". There supposedly were microphone problems at the beginning of "Interesting Drug", although this can't be heard on any recording of the concert. At the end of "Mute Witness", Morrissey posed for an extended period of time with his forehead on his fist, in a thinker position. For some reason, in "Piccadilly Palare", at the end of the line "good sons like you, they never do...", Morrissey added "...at last". After that number, Morrissey asked "I hope you haven't been hammered to your seats?". Then, at the beginning of "Driving Your Girlfriend Home", a fan who was trying to get on stage was brutally dragged away by security. This prompted Morrissey to move forward in order to see what was happening. He then stopped the band and asked "Why does the security have to be so ugly? We're going to have to have two minutes to do something about the security because this is shit". He and the band then exited the stage to discuss security matters. After 10 minutes, they came back to resume the show, to a relieved roaring crowd. The venue's security was replaced by Morrissey's own and it did make a difference. But it might not have been the best of ideas because the crowd became uncontrollable. As soon as the first notes of a second take of "Driving Your Girlfriend Home" were heard, fans started climbing on stage and before he could barely sing his first word, Morrissey was already buried under 5 or 6 fans while others were struggling to make it up on stage. Meanwhile the band kept on playing the song as an instrumental, until Morrissey managed to free himself and make it back to the microphone. The whole situation could have angered any other performer, but it wasn't the case with Morrissey. He got back up with a smug look on his face, which he quickly hid. The fans didn't miss a single word because Morrissey started singing from the beginning, and not where he would have been in the song had he not been disturbed. "Disappointed" was the standard set closer, or at least main set closer for the whole Kill Uncle tour. It was a natural position for that song, given its line "This is the final song that I will ever sing". Only twice was the song performed in a different position in 1991: the very first gig in Dublin, and this one. On this date, the band actually started playing "Cosmic Dancer", but after Morrissey did the first line "I was dancing when I was twelve", the band went straight into "Disappointed". Although Morrissey acted surprised, the whole thing was planned. In "Disappointed" Morrissey changed a line to "your friends and your foes, would rather die than have to shag you". The end of the song usually saw more changes, but on this date Morrissey just decided to leave his lines unfinished: "Young girl, one day... but the thing is... this is the last song I will ever sing... ooooooooooooh aaaaaaaaaah..." In "Our Frank" a line was changed to " the world may be ending, but look, I'm practically human". These events left the seats in the first four or five rows smashed to pieces. This concert was recorded and broadcast on KROQ radio in Los Angeles three weeks later. Some tracks (possibly the first two) might have been edited out of later re-broadcasts. The concert was also shown on Japanese television with Japanese subtitles for the lyrics. The first television broadcast took place on 21 December 1991 and it was limited to one hour, so only 13 songs were shown. However some later re-runs featured the complete concert. In all cases, the banter in between songs was edited out. For obvious reasons, the security matters and concert interruption were also edited out.
01 The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
02 Sister I'm A poet
03 November Spawned A Monster
04 Pregnant For The Last Time
05 Alsatian Cousin
06 Interesting Drug
07 Mute Witness
08 My Love Life
09 Piccadilly Palare
10 Driving Your Girlfriend Home
11 Everyday Is Like Sunday
12 Sing your Life
13 The Loop
14 Suedehead
15 I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
16 Cosmic Dancer Intro
17 Disappointed
18 King Leer
19 Our Frank
20 Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together
21 Asian Rut
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