Movies: Johnny Marr

Friday 12 December 1986 The Smiths played their final gig as a band. Brixton Academy, London, England. *This concert, put together as a benefit for the Artists Against Apartheid, was originally due to be held at the Royal Albert Hall on 14 November...

It's 30 years since Manchester four-piece The Smiths changed the face of British pop with their debut single Hand In Glove. In this half-hour Culture Show special, fellow Mancunian and lifelong fan Tim Samuels sets out to find out why The Smiths have...

Last Shop Standing, inspired by the book of the same name by Graham Jones, takes you behind the counter to discover why nearly 2000 record shops have already disappeared across the UK. The film charts the rapid rise of record shops in the 1960's, 70'...

Set list: 01. Hand In Glove 02. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 03. Girl Afraid 04. This Charming Man I 05. Pretty Girls Make Graves 06. Still Ill 07. Crack On The Head I 08. This Night Has Opened My Eyes 09. Miserable Lie 10. You've Got Eve...

The Cribs are a band from Wakefield in Britain, consisting of three brothers Gary, Ross and Ryan. This film documents the process of writing and recording their fourth album "Ignore The Ignorant" in Oregon and Los Angeles, whilst also incorporating t...

This concert was filmed and seven songs ("Hand In Glove", "Handsome Devil", "Barbarism Begins At Home", "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", "Rusholme Ruffians", "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Miserable Lie") were shown in a Spanish one-hour special on th...

A documentary about The Smiths....

British artist Phil Collins has made work in conflicted geopolitical sites around the world, including Baghdad, Belfast, Bogotá, and Ramallah, creating nuanced representations of people and places. In a departure from many documentaries and site-spec...

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Johnny Marr has teamed up with the award-winning actor Maxine Peake to create a new project which sets Peake’s spoken word performances to Marr’s instrumental soundscapes. ‘The Priest’ is based upon the characters that Joe Gallagher met on the street...

Mark Ellen introduces The Smiths in concert at The Assembly Rooms in Derby. Setlist: Handsome Devil, Still Ill, This Charming Man, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Reel Around The Fountain, What Difference Does It Make?, Miserable Lie, This Night Has Opene...

The sixteen minute video suggests – through an exquisitely constructed montage of found film and video footage, appropriated song fragments, and a meticulously researched voice-over narrative – that Morrissey, the former lead singer of The Smiths, so...

A film intended as a tour souvenir for the band, roadies and tour staff was put together in 1984 by sound engineer Grant Showbiz with Jonathan Barnett and Hetty Church using stage, soundcheck and backstage footage filmed on this date....