Wapping Music Videos - Morrissey in Wapping
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| Morrissey taking one to the Bollards on Tench Street/Reardon Street |
A couple of videos I've been meaning to share from the early to mid 1990s.
First up is the music video to 'We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful'. It's pretty interesting as it shows two parts of Wapping undeveloped - firstly the Turks Head pub and secondly what I think is the small housing estate off Reardon Street that is now home to Waterman Way. The album it the single was from was recorded in March 1992, and the single was released in April 1992, so this gives an approximate timing of the filming - it's not really a sophisticated video, but certainly has local interest. I'm not sure which warehouse it's filmed in. There are exterior shots of Oliver's Wharf, but that was converted in 1972, so not the derelict warehouse it's filmed in.
Towards the end of the video is a shot of the Reardon Street sign with grafiti - this is presumably because a photo from a Juergen Teller photoshoot was used to promote 1990's Bona Drag album and indeed the corner of Tench Street and Reardon Street featured on the album artwork (see here) so by 1992 the area had presumably become a place of pilgrimage.
This more importantly is the corner of the Great Wapping Tobacco Theft I wrote about.
(NB the embeded links to youtube videos may require you to click through to view on Youtube/Vevo)
First up is the music video to 'We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful'. It's pretty interesting as it shows two parts of Wapping undeveloped - firstly the Turks Head pub and secondly what I think is the small housing estate off Reardon Street that is now home to Waterman Way. The album it the single was from was recorded in March 1992, and the single was released in April 1992, so this gives an approximate timing of the filming - it's not really a sophisticated video, but certainly has local interest. I'm not sure which warehouse it's filmed in. There are exterior shots of Oliver's Wharf, but that was converted in 1972, so not the derelict warehouse it's filmed in.
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| Just being melancholy |
Towards the end of the video is a shot of the Reardon Street sign with grafiti - this is presumably because a photo from a Juergen Teller photoshoot was used to promote 1990's Bona Drag album and indeed the corner of Tench Street and Reardon Street featured on the album artwork (see here) so by 1992 the area had presumably become a place of pilgrimage.
This more importantly is the corner of the Great Wapping Tobacco Theft I wrote about.
(NB the embeded links to youtube videos may require you to click through to view on Youtube/Vevo)
The second video 'Introducing Morrissey' was released in 1996 and was a live recording of some of Morrissey's songs from a 1995 concert and has a few snippets of Wapping starting one minute in.
Great blog, just discovered it as a Wapping resident searching for more info on the Morrissey/Wapping connection. I know the (scrapped) first attempt at the Smiths' debut album was recorded at Elephant Studios in Wapping, do you have any idea where the studio used to be? I think it was on Wapping Wall, but can't narrow it down any further than that.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, lovely stuff, keep up the good work.
(My first comment seemed to get eaten, sorry if this is a duplicate)