morrissey

[Katie22]

anyone know where i can find video footage of morrissey/the smiths (preferbly interviews). looked on the internet loads of times but havent had any luck. i have most of the smiths/morrissey dvd's and they dont seem to have anything either (although i dont have all the vids/dvds). i know he's a shy person but there must be something out there!

[Katie22]

great, i'll go have a look at that! thankyou. is that ur own site by the way? cos u said "here's mine" i was just wondering if it was yours!! i've been on that site before and its really good.

[myron21]

Theres another site called shoplifters union, but I have a feeling I am telling you stuff you already know.  I remember years ago the south bank show did an excellent episode on The Smiths' I looked it up and it was episode 248: 1987, good luck trying to find that on video, I am almost certain there was a follow up show on Morrissey about 5 years ago.  I remember there was also a popular but short lived fanzine called 'Smiths indeed' which was supposed to be very good.  Anyway hope I have been of some help.

[zigzig]

Hi Katie
I have loads of video footage of morrissey at home but its all pretty bad quality. There's quite a lot of video interview footage from the days of the smiths but not much as a solo artist.
I take it you have seen the excellent documenatry from channel 4 called "the importance of being morrissey" its certainly the best insight into his life you are ever going to get. I dont think Morrissey was happy with it though.
One of the clips i have is from an 80s tv show where Morrissey is sitting in between Tony Blackburn and George Michael and they are all reviewing the latest books, Its very funny cause morrissey looks so odd with his big hair and very witty review compared to the bland and predictable reviews the other 2 gave.
There is also a clip i have from a childrens show from the 80s called "charlies bus" where morrissey is interviewd by a class of school children, questions like " why do you wave flowers around" and " why do oyu call yourself the smiths" morrissey answers again with wit and humour.
I have some stuff on dvd which someone copied for me i will have to see how easy it tis to copy dvd's ive never done it before.

Stuart

[Katie22]

i'll have a look out for those! thanks! hate to say it but i havent seen 'the importance of being morrissey!'. have heard of it however. am i right in saying its on dvd or video? doubt i'll be able to find any tv interviews now though as they're not very easy to get hold of. that 'charlies bus' sounds interesting! wish i'd have seen that! trouble is, i was only a child in the 80s and not into music so even if i'd have seen it it would have meant nothing to me! thats the trouble of being a younger fan!

[zigzig]

the importance of being morrissey was shown on channel 4 last year, it isnt available on dvd or video. You should be able to download it from a file sharing program like emule or something.... It's probably a large file but its worth the download.

Stuart

[Katie22]

yeh, probably would find it on something like that actually. thanks for all ur help stuart.