the smiths
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The Joe Moss Archive

The Smiths outside the back of the Crazy Face building, 70 Portland Street, Manchester. 1983. Some Smiths artefacts. Hand in Glove invoice. Receipt from the Hacienda, 24th November 1983. Invoice to the Hacienda from July 83. Dead flowers for Morrissey to swing. Andy’s gear The Smiths stage gear Contract for the BBC David Jensen show… Continue reading
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Worrier on the Edge of Town.

It was cold on the edge of 1984. Dread swamped around frayed hems, an ominous puddle stagnating as the year loomed closer, then subsiding as the new year broke and that dumfungled vision of a jackboot future forever stalled, mired at the sluice gates neath the ruined towers on the edge of town. The young… Continue reading