09/08/2016, 15:41
Manchester Evening News Wrote:A 1960s double decker bus is gearing up to take Morrissey fans on a three hour tour of the streets where the Smiths frontman was raised.
Morrissey is performing only one UK date on August 20, at the Manchester Arena - and Inspiral Carpets drummer and tour guide Craig Gill is laying on a 71-seater vintage Route Master bus to show gig goers around the city.
Tickets for the unique Manchester Music Tours event are now available from the official website at £25 for adults, and £12.50 for ages two to 15, and tickets include free tea and coffee at Salford Lads Club.
The tour leaves from Dry Bar, on Oldham Street, at 11am "then it's Strangeways Here We Come", says Craig, past the Parkers Hotel near Victoria Bridge where the Strangeways street sign that appears on the album cover used to be, and on to Strangeways Prison.
The original Coronation Street, Salford Lads Club (including The Smiths Room and pop up Moz shop at the historic club), Southern Cemetery, and Morrissey's former home - which inspired the song Back To The Old House - on Stretford's King's Road are also on the trip.
The bus will also stop at the iron bridge mentioned in Smiths track Still Ill, once part of Morrissey's unhappy commute to school and now covered in graffiti quoting his iconic song lyrics.
It also passes the venues where The Smiths established their following, including the former G-Mex (now Manchester Central), the Hacienda, the Palace Theatre and the Ritz nightclub where they made their live debut in 1982.
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