Ticket
The Smiths
Free Trade Hall
30th October 1986

“I went - I didn't have a ticket so went up there on the off chance and stood outside. I had about 12 quid and the touts were asking for 30 quid so it looked like it was going to be a wasted journey, then out of nowhere this guy walks up to me and offers me a ticket for ten quid - his mate couldn't come and he didn't want the touts to make out of it - the number of people I have told that story to over the years :-) I lost my ticket along the way (folks cleared out my room when they moved long after I had gone and threw it out with my other stuff - I used to have it stapled to the pull out from the Queen is Dead album) but I was about 10 rows back in the middle of the stalls - amazing gig.”