Can I be the first (seeing as I've had to go to work at some ridiclous hour this morning) to congratulate Mr Vauxhall Driver on a fantastic night in Leeds. May there be many more of them!

It was great to put faces to names as well....will hopefully see you all again in Manchester for the Mozza night there....

So can I be second then...
Excellent night of PANIC in Leeds.
Great to meet the UKer's off this Board.
A big thanks to Vauxhall Driver for making it happen.
I can't find the resolve... my heads are banging!
Looking forward to Sunday to see the Boz-man. (after City put the ipswich out o'the cup).
Don't forget also the Moz neet in Manc' Feb 15th @ the Star & G.
The Grim.

Echo previous comments, though the venue was a little posh after years at The Star and Garter!
Thankfully the car was still where I left it and we were not attacked by members of the local football club.... mind you, we were all white LOL
The Goat

PS Ruffian - dont forget to look for the quote from the book!

Well I had to panic when the equipment wasn't working properly but thankfully all went well in the end.

I have to say a BIG BIG BIG BIG THANK YOU to everyone who turned up, I hope we can have a proper chat when I come over to the S&G in a couple of weeks time.

Quo Vadis are keen to put more Smiths nights on again and I should know on Monday when the next dates are.

See you all in a couple of weeks in MCR

V.d.

> Well I had to panic when the equipment wasn't working properly but
> thankfully all went well in the end.

What happened to the plan to project a giant image of Moz onto the Town Hall?

TMF

> Can I be the first (seeing as I've had to go to work at some ridiclous
> hour this morning) to congratulate Mr Vauxhall Driver on a fantastic night
> in Leeds. May there be many more of them!

> It was great to put faces to names as well....will hopefully see you all
> again in Manchester for the Mozza night there....

Yes, I concur.. well done VD. Well played. And I can honestly say that everyone I met was as friendly as I thought they would be. Must be a Northern thing.. so here is the Ruffian review of the characters from this board!

Thanks to Grim O'Grady for showing me Bolton, Mozers house, the Cemetry Gates, etc etc.. and then letting me sleep in his loft with his cat, Dave. (And I never told him I feel out of bed twice. No dreams though) (well, artistic licence there).. and for those valuable CD rarities of course.

Thanks to the Magic Fairy for letting me question him on Orange Juice obscurities when I was probably boringly pissed by then (and I forgot to mention Cinerama and heap praise on Gedge with him).. anyway, you were probably the smoothest looking dude in the place.

A big shout for Shaun Goater who drove us over the highest motorway in England with no incident even if I nearly did have to suggest stopping on Sadleworth Moor for a piss.. I have never counted miles so keenly on that journey home. You won Morrissey looky-likey (Circa 1986) of the night award.

Bangin'em Dave... Now I thought you were the best. Managing to have a friendly and enthusiastic conversation when you were clearly 19 times over the legal drink/drive limit. I thought you looked a little like the lead singer from OCS! And the bemused look on the face of your girlfriend attempting to understand a Morrissey night (the look that says 'what is going on here!?!) was a treasure.

Swallow On My Neck.. Bloody nice bloke. (for a youngster). Keep rocking and rolling and having liasons with enigmatic bass players from Leeds. You looked like the lead singer from Hefner which is a pretty cool thing.

Little Miss Curious.. and how dimunitive and pretty you were. What a surprise.. and yet, oddly, exactly as I thought you would be.. but you danced better than I imagined for country girl! I'll stop with my descriptive prose there before the caustic cockney wit kicks in. Nice to meet you LMC. We Should have said more.

Truly - gets the 'fan club for the Dj' award for the night.. You must have brought about two coach loads of mates with you. Having said that, their energetic dancing was commendable... kickstarting the evening nicely.

Vauxhall Driver - Put 'Sister I'm a Poet ', 'Pregnant For The Last Time', 'The Loop', and 'Jack The Ripper' on next time.. If I'd had presence of mind I'd have pushed a request paper in your direction.. But I was afraid you'd get me as pissed as Grim confessed you got him, by buying him a rogue 'Stella'!

Ad Shelley who was with us for being nice and sociable and nice, and well, just nice. Have I missed anyone? If I have and you're here and was there.. thanks for making it a good night again.

The only shame is.. I doubt if I'll get to go that often.. But I sahll return if its the right time of the month! ha ha

All the Best, and no offence in any of this!
Ruffian

PS, even it took the whole of Saturday to get the 220 miles home.. the trains got more signal failures than I've ever seen in one drawn out journey.

> Echo previous comments, though the venue was a little posh after years at
> The Star and Garter!
> Thankfully the car was still where I left it and we were not attacked by
> members of the local football club.... mind you, we were all white LOL
> The Goat

> PS Ruffian - dont forget to look for the quote from the book!

OK.. will get it sorted out this week..
I am sure I heard it in 'A Taste Of Honey'.. but now I stand to be corrected.

> So can I be second then...
> Excellent night of PANIC in Leeds.
> Great to meet the UKer's off this Board.
> A big thanks to Vauxhall Driver for making it happen.
> I can't find the resolve... my heads are banging!
> Looking forward to Sunday to see the Boz-man. (after City put the ipswich
> out o'the cup).
> Don't forget also the Moz neet in Manc' Feb 15th @ the Star & G.
> The Grim.

Grim.. Managed to get a picture of your wanton vandalism.. British Rail are onto you now Son!! I'll e-mail you a copy.. and those we took at Salford Lads Club.of

Thanks for everything again. Now back to normality!

> Grim.. Managed to get a picture of your wanton vandalism.. British Rail
> are onto you now Son!! I'll e-mail you a copy.. and those we took at
> Salford Lads Club.

So will I have to wear a disguise next time I get the train in to Manchester?

> Thanks for everything again. Now back to normality!

Ruff, glad you finally got back home in one piece, did you get nabbed for the train fare to Piccadilly or did you dodge? Was it a Steam train all the way to London or just as far as Birmingham?
I was amazed to hear that you have indoor toilets down south, (we don't like the sound of that) hope you didn't mind having to use the outdoor lav & the guzzunda whilst you stayed up here, sorry we only had the manchester evening news on the nail, next time you come up we'll save the pidgeon fanciers & trout ticklers gazette (24 pages inc' colour supplement) as it's much softer, but as it's a monthly periodical, it's always 'used' up by the 15th. We are hoping to have 'hot' water by early 2005, if the council pull their fingers out, tsk! I mean what do I pay me stamp for? Still, you managed alright with the tin bath, didn't you? The neighbours (old mrs Sharples) said she nearly had a stroke but she was up to her elbows in flour.
Hope the northern drippin' (lard) butties (sandwiches) wasn't to heavy for your constitution, it's part of the staple diet up here, everyone was brought up on 'em. Thanks for taking us out for the posh nosh, it was a real treat, I love tripe & onions with spicey dumplins, though it's a bit of a dear do @ 3 & 6pence a lb. I remember the waiters face when you gave him that £5 note & he thought it was a cheque or something, oh how we laughed, well we don't see them kind of things up here, eee you & your southern ways, making us all chuckle.
Leeds was a lovely day out, big thanks to Mr Goater & his trusty old chara' for making the journey over the Pennines, without sparing the horses, mind those northern sing-songs on the way home do get a bit racey, I think it was too many halves of the old dandelion & burdoch (wink - wink).
V.D. d-j spun the wax better than old Jimmy Saville himself, seemlessly, though ought to have said "o.k. guys & gals, how's about this un" whilst doing a manic laugh type thingy with the aid of a cigar, still you can't have everything.
Hope the language barrier wasn't to difficult, we wern't being ignorant not speaking to you at all whilst you stayed up here, still I bet you enjoyed the peace & quiet of it all, I've heard London is a noisy town, what with £5 notes & flashy, spangly lights an all, eee up, can't see meself ever making t'journey.
Well I'm just about done here now, I love this new e-mither thingy, well the Knocker-Upper has just tapped our lass up, so I'll go stick the kettle on & empty the guzzunda, over next doors cat, just kiddin' eee we know the meaning of fun up here.
Bloody hell I've just dropped me threep'ney bit in't grate, I'll have to wait for t'fire to burn down before I can gerrit back, now. Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs, Our Steve as just traipsed bloody coal dust all through t'kitchen & jumped on t'mangle, looks like he's slept in t'bloody coal-hole. Daft beggar. Right must go & water the aspidistra, else I'll never get in the Guinness book of records for having the biggest.
Well fondest regards
Grim & Gert.
P.s. Gertrude was ever so impressed when you made them nice comments about the size of her dumplins & says she'll post that Manchester Tart recipe down, as soon as she's finished donkey stoning the front steps, there's only 27, should be finished before it gets light.
P.p.s. Ena (Mrs Sharples next door) says to tip you the nod for brightening her day up better than her homo washing powder gets shut of grime off their Alberts grimey 'work' (work my arse, the lazy good fer nowt lay-a-bout, never done a days work in his life, the shirker) shirt.

Is when I pimp all your moms like the whores that they are. they need to be kept in line and continue to realize that Mr.Proper rulez da houze and no whore is gonna take my money. Got it whores? Ill be out there in my green turquoise jump suit,purple platform fishbowl shoes,fadora,pimpin all your moms for some money. Like I always do. Remember the movie best little whore house in texas?? that was patterned after the brothel that I kept your moms in.

hello, just another person to say how much i enjoyed fri night, only got there at 11 tho cos we had to drive for 2 1/2 hours to get to leeds.
it was my first smiths / morrissey night so didn't know what to expect about the crowd...no hearing aids?
i was the girl in the 'boot the grime of this world in the crotch' homemade red top by the way, not that i expect anyone to remember...lol
anyways, just thought i'd introduce myself and hopefully see you all at manchester.

Aw shucks.. you're too kind! I was mortified about how I might come across because I was quite drunk and I'd had a rather traumatic experience that night involving eating a spaghetti bolognaise using only a spoon.. heh. I wish we'd spoken more too, next time I won't let you and the Magic Fairy scamper off into the distance.

Us country girls have (size 5) dancing feet.

LMC x

Think a top night was had by all on Friday-

THANKS TO V.D- I know he put a lot of work into organising & promoting the night at a venue which was a bit posh (Smiths' nights are sadly, not exactly par for the course in Leeds and finding a suitably seedy venue isnt easy). Will definitely be at the Star and Garter in a few weeks where Ive heard they've got fleas- will be nice to get back to down to earth.

> Bangin'em Dave... Now I thought you were the best. Managing to have a
> friendly and enthusiastic conversation when you were clearly 19 times over
> the legal drink/drive limit. I thought you looked a little like the lead
> singer from OCS! And the bemused look on the face of your girlfriend
> attempting to understand a Morrissey night (the look that says 'what is
> going on here!?!) was a treasure.

You should have seen the look on her face when I dragged her onto the dancefloor and started doing my 'dirty dancing' routine.
The lead singer out of OCS, eh. that's a new one- suppose it's better than the usual Bobby Davro.
Was a pleasure to meet you as well Ruffian, a very friendly southern gent if ever I've met one.

> Vauxhall Driver - Put 'Sister I'm a Poet ', 'Pregnant For The Last Time',
> 'The Loop', and 'Jack The Ripper' on next time.. If I'd had presence of
> mind I'd have pushed a request paper in your direction.. But I was afraid
> you'd get me as pissed as Grim confessed you got him, by buying him a
> rogue 'Stella'!

Ah, now unfortunately I'll have to take the blame for that one- I was slurring a bit when I ordered it and the barmaid got pint of 'Bitter' mistaken for pint of 'Stella'. Hope no harm done. See you soon.

> hello, just another person to say how much i enjoyed fri night, only got
> there at 11 tho cos we had to drive for 2 1/2 hours to get to leeds.
> it was my first smiths / morrissey night so didn't know what to expect
> about the crowd...no hearing aids?
> i was the girl in the 'boot the grime of this world in the crotch'
> homemade red top by the way, not that i expect anyone to remember...lol
> anyways, just thought i'd introduce myself and hopefully see you all at
> manchester.

Thanks for coming along.

Nice t shirt, we'll see at the next one in march?