00:00 Intro: "March of the Montagues and Capulets" by Sergei Prokofiev
01:35 The Queen Is Dead
06:20 Ask
09:02 Is It Really So Strange?
12:22 Never Had No One Ever
15:22 Cemetry Gates
18:06 London
20:25 Meat Is Murder
26:10 I Know It's Over
35:27 The Draize Train
40:16 How Soon Is Now?
46:48 Still Ill
50:59 Bigmouth Strikes Again

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The Smiths returned to the UK to resume the tour promoting their "The Queen Is Dead" album. This would turn out to be the band's last tour and it started on a great note. All of the Smiths were in excellent spirits. Morrissey roared his words, grunted and danced wildly about the stage. The audience was extremely receptive.

Setlist-wise, the highlight was the live introduction of the yet-to-be-released "London" and the instrumental b-side "The Draize Train". The latter replaced other instrumental "Money Changes Everything" as first encore song. "Ask", which had been played a few times in July then dropped, returned to the set now that it was about to be released as a single. Live staple "Hand In Glove" was not played, it would actually be played only once again, on the Smiths last ever show in December.

It took some time for Morrissey to address his audience. At first he would just thank the fans, extending it with "...you're very kind" after "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" or "...you're very generous" after "Frankly Mr. Shankly". After "What She Said" he finally asked, "Any requests? Any requests?" but this was only a tease, whatever was shouted, the band still went into the next planned song, "Ask". The latter song was to be released the following week as a single, so after its performance Morrissey said "That was our new single...". He then had to shush the very vocal audience and Mike started beating his drum loudly as the fans clapped hands to the rhythm.

The yet to be released "Is It Really So Strange?" was not as well received as the previous songs in the set, which prompted Morrissey to say "That song was called 'Is It Really So Strange?'... which you obviously hate..." There must have been action on stage during "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" because the singer was kept away from his microphone for some time.

The concert ended in a massive stage invasion during the final song "Bigmouth Strikes Again". There was a constant flow of fans climbing on stage and being dragged away by security. The situation never degenerated, and Morrissey and Marr even danced with some of the fans. The October 1987 interview of Morrissey on the Rock Of Europe aka Music Box show on Holland's Superchannel includes amateur footage of this moment.

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