BANDS WHO DISAPPOINTED YOU LIVE

[StraightOuttaCanton]

Where did you see the Smiths mate?

I was at Portsmouth Polytechnic and saw them in the Students Union in November 1983... was about a month after This Charming Man was released. It was packed out but still only about 500 people in there.

As you can imagine it was pretty cool but back then they only had enough for a 40 minute set and I only knew the tracks I’d heard on the John Peel show... what a legend he was by the way

[Baker]

I was at Portsmouth Polytechnic and saw them in the Students Union in November 1983... was about a month after This Charming Man was released. It was packed out but still only about 500 people in there.

As you can imagine it was pretty cool but back then they only had enough for a 40 minute set and I only knew the tracks I’d heard on the John Peel show... what a legend he was by the way

So were they relatively unknown at that point? What was the show like?