Performing The Queen is Dead in it’s entirety to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album’s release

"A brilliant tribute to The Smiths" (i-D Magazine)

If, in the Autumn of 1982, you were a pair of budding young songwriters and performers about to unleash a series of wounding pop songs about sexual attraction and solitude upon an unsuspecting Britain and were surrounded by bands with names like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds and Slaughter and the Dogs, is it a surprise that your retort would be a name such as The Smiths?

Between October 1982, when The Smiths performed their first gig supporting Blue Rondo A La Turk at the Ritz in Manchester, and the release of their seminal album The Queen is Dead in June 1986, that same pair of songwriters, Morrissey and Marr, in conjunction with Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce, had written, recorded and performed a series of brilliantly illuminating pop songs that gave hope to a generation struggling to guide its way through the morass of a grey, turgid Britain blighted by the Falklands war, the Miners strike and Margaret Thatcher.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary since release of The Queen is Dead the album will be performed in its entirety by The Smiths Indeed, who reproduce with uncanny accuracy, the energy and the pomp and ceremony of The Smiths during this period of the 1980’s. The Smiths Indeed have been performing since 2005 and developed a rapturous following of their own amongst the notoriously hard to please hardcore Smiths fans both old and new. Due to an increasing demand for their incredible ability to reproduce the atmosphere of a Smiths show, The Smiths Indeed will be moving their performance into larger venues, enabling them to incorporate a more sophisticated concert containing state of the art lighting and video content without losing the feel of a 1980’s gig.

The Smiths Indeed will perform The Queen is Dead and a Greatest Hits set.

AGE RESTRICTIONS
hmv ritz: Strictly Over 14s, Under 16s with Adult (Photographic ID may be required to gain entry)
The Garage: Strictly Over 14s, Under 16s with Adult (Photographic ID may be required to gain entry)
hmv Institute: 14+ / Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
All gigs are 14+ with the exception of those in Scotland which are 18+ and Bournemouth which is 16+.

Under 21s require ID to purchase alcohol. Over 14s must be accompanied by an adult over 18 at all times. Photo I.D. required.

Date	Day	Time	Event	Venue	City	Status
28/10/2011	Fri	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	The Stanley Theatre	Liverpool	buy now
29/10/2011	Sat	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	O2 Academy Sheffield	Sheffield	buy now
03/11/2011	Thu	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	King Tut's Wah Wah Hut	Glasgow	buy now
04/11/2011	Fri	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	Doghouse	Dundee	buy now
05/11/2011	Sat	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	The Lemon Tree	Aberdeen	buy now
10/11/2011	Thu	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	hmv Institute	Birminghamn	buy now
11/11/2011	Fri	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	The Old Fire Station	Bournemouth	buy now
12/11/2011	Sat	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	O2 Academy Oxford	Oxford	buy now
17/11/2011	Thu	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	The Garage	London	buy now
18/11/2011	Fri	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	Brighton Komedia.	Brighton	buy now
19/11/2011	Sat	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	O2 Academy Leicester	Leicester	buy now
24/11/2011	Thu	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	O2 Academy Newcastle	Newcastle upon Tyne	buy now
26/11/2011	Sat	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	hmv Ritz	Manchester	buy now
30/11/2011	Wed	19:30	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	Buxton Opera House	Buxton	buy now
08/12/2011	Thu	19:00	The Smiths Indeed 2011 National Tour	O2 Academy Leeds	Leeds	buy now