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Morrissey: You Are The Quarry

 
  

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Ganesh
01:12 / 10.07.04
Erm, quite. I'd say more but, not being a magickian (or however the hell you spell it) I'm sort of at a loss. I can see how easily the Mozzster lends himself to archetypal categorisation, anyway.

In this week's Boyz (free gay paper - 'gayper') there's a review of the June 25th Meltdown performance, entitled 'The Light Still Hasn't Gone Out'. Essentially, it gives Morrissey a glowing review but comments of the sense of disappointment that, firstly, he waxes: "during the much-anticipated shirt-throwing in the last 20 minutes, he revealed a Hollywood torso which wasn't very sexy dad at all". I can sooo relate to this; I'd love to see Morrissey in all his woolly glory (and there must be some hairy beariness there). Secondly, the Boyz review commented, pertinently, that "any visit at the shrine of Morrissey in concert has to let you down. There's just so much you want him to sing and not enough time to sing it".

Which is true.
 
 
Topper
13:51 / 21.10.04
Caught the man at the Palace Theater in Louisville last night from the second row. The Palace is a lush venue, marble statues on alcoves, red velvet and the like. Good sound at the venue (unless Mozz brings his own PA?). The band came out dressed in matching kilts and T-shirts, which all said Kentucky Track Team. He had the giant light-up MORRISSEY letters behind the drumkit. I was stunned that Boz and the other guitarist were both playing through 5150's! (That's Eddie Van Halen's signature amp for the non-guitar geeks reading.) Opened with How Soon Is Now and continued for an hour and a half. We also got Now My Heart Is Full, Big Mouth, and Shoplifters ("Last night the plans for a future war were all I saw on CNN"). Mostly the new album, Bona Drag/Viva Hate, and a couple off Vauxhall. No Your Arsenal. He was friendly, chatting between songs, touching hands in the front row and he brought one girl up on stage with him for a few moments. The band was in fine form and I had a fantastic time.

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Ganesh
08:27 / 22.10.04
It's a fairly shit transplant, then. He should ask for his money back.
 
 
Ganesh
10:03 / 02.12.04
Hmm, special 'deluxe edition' of You Are The Quarry out in time for Christmas, including all the B-sides (which actually are pretty fabulous, especially The Never Played Symphonies, so it's not that much of a rip-off).

Mooore to the point, he's releasing the sublime I Have Forgiven Jesus on December 13th. Joy to the world, the Moz has come!
 
 
Topper
11:43 / 02.12.04
Forgiving Jesus just in time for the holidays! It brings a chill to my arms, and a swoon to my heart.
 
 
Loomis
12:10 / 02.12.04
May Moz bless us, every one!
 
 
Ganesh
23:21 / 02.12.04
Just in time for our joyously-alcoholic reunion with Loomis and Ariadne at New Year. In an ideal world, the Scissor Sisters would enthusiastically (and groovily) cover
'Late Night Maudlin Street' - or bloody Mozzer himself would, at New Year. Ah well...
 
 
Loomis
07:53 / 03.12.04
Indeed! I think my new year celebrations would be truly complete if La Moz turned up at five to midnight and performed his new single, "I Have Forgiven Lemurs" with full lyrics by Gypsy Lantern.
 
 
Ganesh
11:26 / 08.12.04
In the meantime, as Word's Man of the Year, he's interviewed by Stuart Maconie. Godawful cover photo (too much hair, quiff collapsed - and not in a good way) but excellent interior shots, presumably from the I Have Forgiven Jesus session, of La Moz dressed as a saturnine vicar, with adoring boyband nuns.

Best snippet, when discussing who's been signed to Attack Records (Nancy Sinatra, Jobriath, Damien Dempsey, etc.).

Maconie (mischievously): You could sign Michelle McManus. She's been dropped.

Moz: Really? She must have made a hell of a dent.
 
 
Topper
11:56 / 24.03.05
You can stream the upcoming new album, Live at Earl's Court, on Mozz's site. Don't know how long this will be available, so hie thee hence!

Stream!

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