SFX, Dublin, Ireland
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I WantNote: There is confusion about the dates of the first three concert of this Irish tour. This second Dublin concert is usually credited as having taken place on the 14th of November, but it was actually on the 13th. The confusion stemmed from an incorrect advertisement of the Irish dates in the UK music press.
William, It Was Really Nothing
What She Said
Nowhere Fast
Reel Around The Fountain
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Rusholme Ruffians
This Charming Man
How Soon Is Now?
Still Ill
Barbarism Begins At Home
I Want The One I Can't Have
Miserable Lie
/Hand In Glove
/What Difference Does It Make?
//Jeane
//These Things Take Time
For the second night at the same venue, there were significant setlist changes. "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" was moved up to the opening spot. In the song Morrissey changed a line to "See the luck we've had..." Morrissey only greeted the audience after that first number then launched into the latest single "William, It Was Really Nothing". The fans followed him into a singalong.
After the yet unreleased "What She Said", Morrissey explained "That was a new song from our next LP... it's called 'What She Said'." There were constant requests for "Reel Around The Fountain" and when the Smiths finally did it, the crowd joined in with another singalong. After "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", Morrissey said "You're very grave..." and then introduced "this song is called 'Rusholme Ruffians'." As on earlier dates, the latter song was played as a medley with "This Charming Man" in which Morrissey changed a line to "Will nature make a mouse of me yet?".
During the first bars of "How Soon Is Now?", Morrissey softly articulated the title: "How Soon... Is Now...". Then "Still Ill" was introduced with "This is for the kittens". In it a line was adapted to "Ireland is mine, and it owes me a living". The other new live addition was introduced with the words "This song will be our next single, it's called 'I Want The One I Can't Have'." Of course that single never happened because plans were changed in favour of "How Soon Is Now?".
Coming back for the first of two encores, Morrissey just shouted "No!" to the numerous requests and launched into "Hand In Glove". The audience once again accompanied Morrissey in a big singalong. He probably thanked them in his own way by singing "This one is different because it's you". When the band returned on stage for the second encore, Morrissey started by leading the audience into a chant of "Smiths! Smiths! Smiths!" before doing "Jeane". In the latter Johnny cleverly inserted a few bars of the intro to the Beatles "Day Tripper". In the final song "These Things Take Time", Morrissey changed the intention in one line and roared "You said I was ill and you were wrrrrrrongah!"
The complete concert is circulated on untitled tapes and CD-Rs from bootleg traders (recorder: Soundsville's Paul). A digital transfer of this has made it on the internet.
"Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" can be found on the 'official' bootlegs "A Nice Bit Of Meat" (available on CD and LP) as well as the cd edition of "Before Love" with other material from other dates. Its source is probably the recording mentioned above.
In 2006 the following 10 tracks were released on a bootleg LP titled "Blue": "Reel Around The Fountain", "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", "Rusholme Ruffians", "This Charming Man", "How Soon Is Now?", "Barbarism Begins At Home", "I Want The One I Can't Have", "Miserable Lie", "Hand In Glove" and "What Difference Does It Make?". The source for this is the audience recording mentioned above.
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