Johnny Marr and The Healers at The Deaf Institute

photo by Fino76, 'Nowhere Fast' video above by JackTheFat93

Johnny Marr and The Healers played their last scheduled show at The Deaf Institute in Manchester on 6 October 2011. ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ was dedicated to the late Bert Jansch. ‘The Headmaster Ritual’ was not played, but ‘Nowhere Fast’ was added.

Set List ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’, ‘Psychic beginner’, ‘European Me’, ‘Sun and Moon’, ‘Nowhere Fast’, ‘Upstarts’, ‘I Want The Heartbeat’, ‘Say Demesne’, ‘How Soon Is Now?’,
‘Generate! Generate! Generate!’, ‘Sweet and Tender Hooligan’, ‘Word Starts Attack’, ‘It’s My Life’ and ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’

‘Shakespeare’s Sister’ video by maxrennclvictv

Johnny Marr, James Doviak and Max James - 4 Oct 2011, photo by John Robb

John Robb from Louder Than Bombs reviewed the 4 October 2011 show.

Marr still sports that scruffed up mop of hair- his follicle tribute to Howard the bass player from Slaughter And the Dogs, the Wythenshawe yobs who inspired both the Roses and the Smiths by making it from outside the city centre hipster circle and who took the bootboy glam ethic to it’s logical conclusion.

The band are not hanging about and launch straight into the Smiths ‘Shakespeare’s Sister’, it’s strange to hear the very familiar guitar aligned the the unfamiliar vocal. Marr understandably sounds a touch nervous tackling Morrissey’s idiosyncratic vocal but he acquits himself well before launching into the first of the new songs, the twanging guitar shakes of ‘Psycho Beginner’ which instantly sets the stall. It’s brisk, focussed and twangy with a great chorus, great song and Marr is back in business.

John Robb, Louder Than Bombs

Johnny Marr and The Healers - 6 Oct 2011, photo by jennabee