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davidt
on Wednesday February 11 2004, @10:00AM
Alan Armstrong writes:
An interesting article appeared in Monday's Independent: The Salford Lads Club has decided to open a Smiths room, which will be full of memorabilia and photos. The published article has one major glaringly obvious mistake, but it’s worth reading just for Andy Rourke's quote. The article can be found via this link: Heaven knows we're historical now - iconic youth club turns itself into a Smiths museum The Independent Newspaper UK 09 February 2004 Excerpt: The club has decided to repay the band with a permanent presence. A room once reserved for the sport of fives, is to become the 'Smiths Room', full of memorabilia and photos. "They have contributed to making us a national treasure," said community artist Leslie Holmes, who is behind the project. The concept was an improbable one when the band arrived to shoot the album sleeve in 1987. To guitarist Andy Rourke, the lads club was just another building. "We had only taken photos outside for our album," he said this week. "If I had realised the picture would become so important. I would have worn looser jeans." The club's first impressions of the band were even cooler. The members' committee didn't want their club associated with the Smiths and, at one stage, pooled £800 to sue them for using the building without permission. All that is now in the past, though. Rourke, who narrated a BBC Inside Out documentary on the place this week, said. "It's about time the club got paid their dues," he said. "They have had years of fans coming from all over the world to write on their walls and nick pieces of brick."
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Oh well... (Score:1, Funny)
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/discuss/index.cgi?read=141684
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Re:Oh well... (Score:2, Funny)
I guess you;ll be submitting that other information to all the other comprehensive Morrissey websites.
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Brick Lane (Score:2, Funny)
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I wondar if its stil posible to play (Score:0)
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"one major glaringly obvious mistake" (Score:1)
Scouting's first manual was both written and illustrated by Baden-Powell in 1908.
Therefore, it could be argued, that the club was actually opened founded four years before the “official” founding of the Boy Scouts, rather than three as stated.
Do I win a sixpence?
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dial-a-mistake (Score:0)
This charming shrine (Score:0)
Bryce
See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1146452,00.html
This charming shrine
When an iconic photograph turned Salford Lads Club into a magnet for Smith fans, the venue was furious. Now it's opened a room in their honour. Will Woodward goes on a personal odyssey
Friday February 13, 2004
The Guardian
Strike a pose: Will Woodward and friends in Smiths mode
When we later compared the snap of me and my mates pretending to be the Smiths standing outside the Salford Lads Club with the original picture, we realised we were about three yards too far to the left - too much St Ignatius Walk, not enough Coronation Street.
Still, the poses were pleasingly accurate. Hector - playing Andy Rourke - looked ambivalently into the distance. I crossed my arms, Morrissey-style. Paul poked his head uncertainly over my shoulder just like Johnny Marr, and the other Paul stood upright, arms clamped straight, in the school of Mike Joyce.
Hector bought cigarettes when it was his turn to be the drummer, and let one burn halfway - to get Joyce just so. We stopped swapping places after a while. The younger Paul, idolatrously, said there was just no way he was going to pretend to be Morrissey. Some pre-teens from the Ordsall estate cycled round us in a swirl, asked us for fags and gave us the finger. "Everyone in the street had a club foot and a vicious dog," complained Morrissey of the time when he stood in the same spot. We laughed knowingly and kept an eye on our hubcaps. Though we were only 32, we weren't that scared.
Stephen Wright's original photograph, used for the inside gatefold of The Queen is Dead, clinches the prize - despite many strong contenders from Kevin Cummins and Paul Slattery - for the most famous image of the Smiths. And ever since the album was released in 1986, fans have dribbled into off the Regent Road to stand in its doorway, write on the walls and steal the bricks. The club held the grand final to find the most obsessive Smiths fan last year and now, as part of its centenary celebration - From Baden-Powell to Morrissey, backed by £25,000 in lottery cash - it is establishing a dedicated Smiths room: our very own Smithsonian.
"It used to be a fives court and then it was a weightlifting room, just off the main gym," says Leslie Holmes, a local artist. "People can leave photographs and comments about the Smiths. We would like Smiths fans to contribute to it."
The Hollies used to rehearse at the club, Albert Finney was a former member and New Order bassist Peter Hook a regular visitor, but none of the Smiths had much to do with it before the picture. For a long time the club's committee bitterly resented its appropriation. Jo Slee's book Into the Art of Morrissey includes an angry letter from solicitors acting for the club complaining that "inclusion of the photograph may generally cause any person reading the [album] or listening to the record to attribute the material to the club, its committee or its members ... we would cite for example the reference in the song Vicar in a Tutu to the singer being engaged in stealing lead from a church roof, or indeed the very title to the album itself and the tenor of the title song."
But over the past two years or so, the club, a grade II listed building that was originally opened by Baden-Powell, has begun to embrace its more recent legacy. When it opened its doors for architecture week and heritage week, a respectful group of Smiths fans were ushered through the doors. "We've had people in from Latvia, Mexico and Guatemala," says Leslie Holmes. "You ask them what else they are going to see in Manchester and they say nothing. That's all they've come to see. The people who used to run the club were a bit bemused. The Smiths fans used to chip bits off the buildings. Now most of the people coming are too young to have known the Smiths."