joe frady
Vile Refusenik
Tim Broad's footage is seen in The Importance... yes? With Bowie flipping through the Kill Uncle tour book and Moz walking through the empty bleachers?
I really liked Tim Broad's simple, uncluttered style. It's a universe away from the ADD-afflicted content of recent years. James O'Brien did a good job of picking up the mantle, but unfortunately stopped working with Morrissey a long time ago. Always wondered why...
Yes, that's the stuff. That's the first time, as far as I'm aware, that it appeared anywhere and it was frustratingly brief. No idea how the 'Importance Of..' producers got ahold of it, but I would imagine EMI still control the rights to it. They were the ones (via PMI) who were set to release a long form video documentary of the tour in July '91, after a proposed MTV broadcast. Neither happened.
I think Tim Broad was shooting for most of the 'Kill Uncle' jaunt, certainly the first UK and US legs, spring to summer that year, which was an amazing time in MozWorld. Think 'Morrissey Shot' on 16mm colour film! I remember a Moz interview that summer in 'Musician' magazine with Katherine Deickmann where he discussed the apparently real prospect of some sort of theatrical release of this Tim Broad directed project which sounded like a cross between a documentary and a biopic.
That 'Morrissey Archive' must be fit to burst with treasures.