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Morrissey back on the road

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Sax

12:13 / 18.01.06

Dates:

18/4 Salford Lowry ††
19/4 Llandudno Nw Theatre ††
20/4 Leeds Town Hall ††
22/4 Aberdeen Music Hall ††
23/4 Stirling Albert Halls ††
25/4 Dundee Caird Hall ††
26/4 Greenock Town Hall ††
27/4 Glasgow Academy †††††
29/4 Whitehaven Civic ††
30/4 Gateshead Sage
3/5 Sheffield City Hall ††
4 /5 Grimsby Auditorium ††
6/5 Manchester Apollo ††
7/5 Manchester Opera House ††
8/5 Manchester Bridgewater ††
10/5 Halifax Victoria Hall ††
11/5 Blackburn King Georges ††
12/5 Liverpool Philharmonic ††
14/5 London Palladium ††
15/5 Cardiff St Davids ††
17/5 Reading Hexagon ††
19/5 Portsmouth Guildhall ††
20/5 Birmingham Symphony Hall ††
21/5 London Palladium ††
23/5 Truro Hall For Cornwall ††
24/5 Cheltenham Town Hall ††
25/5 Oxford New Theatre ††
27/5 Kings Lynn Corn Exchange ††
28/5 London Palladium †

Alex's Grandma

12:47 / 18.01.06

So which one(s) are you going to, you handsome swine?

Ganesh

12:47 / 18.01.06

*wets pants*

This'll be the new stuff off Ringleader of the Tormentors, then? Apparently it's recorded in (and inspired by) Rome, which is La Moz's last-place-you'd-expect-to-find-him stamping ground du jour.

Clumsy title, hopefully not-so-clumsy album.

Sax

13:15 / 18.01.06

I might do Leeds and Halifax.

Album out April 3, first single "You Have Killed Me" March 27. Indeed inspired by Rome, according to this week's NME: "I'm inspired by Rome because it's the exact opposite of Los Angelese, where I've spent so much time. As stunningly beautiful as it is, Los Angeles is also essentially a police state. Rome has struck me as being a very safe city, and not at all uptight, which is a contrasting relief."

Alex's Grandma

15:14 / 18.01.06

I can picture teh Morrissey swanning about in Rome, and having fun, far more easily than I'd imagine him in LA, going for a couple of jars with Courtney Love. There are the fountains, the statues, on pretty much every street corner, and after all, he's *done* Manchester, London, etc, all of which just seemed to, y'know, depress him, poor Steve. Apparently, in Rome, he's been more optimistic, epic, swooping and romantic that he's ever been, but I can't say I'm sure about this - on the one hand, he's Morrissey, so he deserves a break, but on the other, where would he be without the, let's be honest, absence of the even vaguest, smallest, possible hope of his deams being fulfilled?

I await this album with interest though.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:07 / 18.01.06

Bastardges. I hope there's an antipodean sojourn again...

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:52 / 19.01.06

OMG.

After you with the adult diapers, 'nesh.

London and/or Portmsouth for meeeeeeee.

And the Truro Hall is tiny, that'll be an amazing gig.

Gypsy Lantern

14:39 / 19.01.06

Bad title. In some ways, I think I might have preferred it if the last record was his final triumphant word on the matter, rather than risking it all going horribly wrong again for another decade or so. I'll aim to be at one of the London dates though, as I've never actually got around to seeing Morrissey live before - which seems like a dangerous oversight on my part. Will there be monkeys though?

Goodness Gracious Meme

16:21 / 19.01.06

Prolly not. There will be bears, though.

Ganesh

13:19 / 21.01.06

Aplenty.

(Oh my!)

Tickets sold out in five nanoseconds or something, leaving one with the credit-busting option of eBay - where they're Buy It Nowing for £300 a pair...

Ganesh

10:25 / 26.01.06

Front row stalls tickets currently on Buy It Now for £950 the pair. Fuck.

Have cashed in a spare kidney and bought tickets for not qui-i-ite so near the front, on the 21st (day before Moz's birthday). Yay, etc.

imaginary mice

07:42 / 27.01.06

Managed to get the tickets I wanted - London bank holiday weekend and Portsmouth (standing!!) - via gigsandtours.com. Extortionate booking & postage fees but still a lot cheaper than ebay... I wasn't allocated a seat when I bought the ticket for London though, which is a bit strange. Guess I won't find out where I will sit until I've received the ticket in the post.
I saw Morrissey years ago at the Kentish Town Forum (1998??) but I wasn't a massive fan then and I don't remember the gig at all. It's been bugging me for ages, never thought I would see him again at a venue that size.

The Portsmouth Guildhall is smaller than the Forum.

Much smaller.

It's only just started to sink in.

Wow.

Wow.

I don't think I will get any work done today.

imaginary mice

07:50 / 27.01.06

And that should be "Of mice and moz" rather than "Of moz and mice". Nevermind.

doctorbeck

14:31 / 30.01.06

i have a baby due four weeks before the 21st gig, which me and my wife have near fron tickets to, hope the kid isn't late coming....maybe book the cesarian now?

also is it wrong that right now i am more exited about the palladium gig?

imaginary mice

09:58 / 01.02.06

Well, as a true Morrissey fan you shouldn't have a partner and children in the first place. You should be celibate.

Seriously though, I found it quite shocking and somewhat depressing to see such a huge number of couples (and even people with children!) at the Earls Court thing a year ago. Very few people were there on their own. Looks like all the old Smiths fans have grown up and developed social skills. Leaving me behind.

Btw - I managed to track my ticket on the gigsandtours website. I'll be in the upper circle. Ah well. Portsmouth should be brilliant though.

I had a rather bizarre dream about Morrissey last night. Looks like Madonna will be supporting him in May...

Shrug

22:07 / 27.02.06

New Morrissey Single "You Have Killed Me" available to stream here.

doctorbeck

09:40 / 28.02.06

sad to say, no longer slim, pallid and shy,

instead fattening up, tanned and married (a bit like morrissey except for the married bit), but those precious minutes with morrissey and i'm my teenage self again

i am wondering if they will have a string section, at least for the palladium gigs, as the lp apparently features orchestration by Morricone? anyone heard

imaginary mice

18:11 / 08.03.06

Ringleader of the Tormentors

Shrug

21:15 / 08.03.06

IM, I so barbecrush you right now.

Wow, thanks mice!

Mice, you're a star.

Ganesh

21:47 / 09.03.06

Mmmmorrissey.

Mmmmaginary mice.

Thankyou. X

doctorbeck

07:03 / 15.03.06

just wanted to mention a wonderful peice at the london photographers gallery rihgt now as part of the db-photography prize, a video of many somewhat awkward eastern-eurpean young men doing smiths karaoke

freinds of morrissey will i hope love this as much as me, their yearning to be in the song, the awkwardness of their english, shyness, how much these words mean to them, i was mesmerised, and so was my 5 year old nephew, it made me think of a lot of things but myself at that age was certainly one of them

Ganesh

20:07 / 15.03.06

Shyness is nice.

doctorbeck

15:30 / 16.03.06

although research evidence suggests that 64% of the shy do show considerable reduction in it stopping them doing the things in life they'd like to following 6-8 sessions of cbt. the case for SSRIs remains contentious.

does anyone have another link for me to here the new lp, the one above is all used up.

Got bittorrent, Doc?

Interesting interview of Morrissey by Coupland in the Observer today. I disagree with many of Coupland's opinons but there's some other, fun, factual stuff there.

... His head (this is really weird, and I hope it doesn't go outside the boundaries of taste) is enormous. It's like a huge Charlie Brown parade float head. Hehe.

Tickets for Palladium gig have arrived! Yay!

Ganesh

10:27 / 19.03.06

It's an okay interview (or set of impressions), but I wish those interviewing Morrissey or commenting on (their perceptions of) Morrissey's sexual 'awakening' as depicted in Ringleader of the Tormentors wouldn't bang on about how he's no longer celibate because - hooray! - he's sung about having sex! Morrissey's gone on record several times as admitting sexual encounters with women and men, and pretty much everything post-Vauxhall makes some oblique reference to Jake, the skinhead ex-boxer with whom he seemed to be in love.

Point: Morrissey's sexual 'awakening', if there was such a thing, happened years ago.

doctorbeck

10:56 / 21.03.06

sadly, smoothly weaving, i do not even have a home computer, just this crappy NHS one so bittorrent is out of my league, tho do seem to be able to listen to files on microseoft media player from websites sometimes.

felt a bit let down by the observer interview, they fly copeland to italy to what...write something he could have done in bed one morning in 20 minutes. watched the 'importance of being morrissey' again at the weekend to get me in the mood for the lp and gigs to come, alan bennet is just brilliant in it, especially on his inability to call anyone by their second name only.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:59 / 21.03.06

First listen I was very disappointed, but it's definitely a grower. "You Have Killed Me"'s the only one that's actually sticking in my head at the moment, but the rest are all sounding nicely familiar when they come on.

(Incidentally, should we really be linking to downloads of as-yet-unreleased albums, given the recent libel shenanigans?)

doctorbeck

08:22 / 22.03.06

it seems the old dear has really softened

http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/22563

an apology in the pages of NME just seems to unlike the Moz we knew and loved, even if it is only about the arcit monkeys

buddhistpunk

19:54 / 25.03.06

I'm proud to use my first post to say that me and Mr Buddhistpunk will be going to see Morrissey at the Caird Hall in Dundee.

I was born 10 years too late to catch the Smiths... but by golly I hope to make up for that now.

I'm only half joking when I say I'm taking spare panties. I have never been this excited in my life.

doctorbeck

06:45 / 07.04.06

so, anyone got the new lp yet? rushed out on monday and first 10 listens or so in i like it a lot, vocally and lyrically it is the man we know and love, but sonically visconti has evidently pushed morrisey beyong the competant pub band backing he has used for years and it is a real pleasure, strings, dissonance, a touch of brass

nothing of the standout anthemic brilliance of irish blood yet but an altogether very satisfying lp

haus of fraser

10:37 / 07.04.06

I got the LP on Monday too- Its not as instant as You are The Quarry- but I've only listened to it through a couple of times.

The stand out tracks at the moment are 'The Youngest Was The Most Loved' which is maybe the popiest- I like Mozzer singing with a chorus of kids- i also like the melodrama of 'Life is a Pigsty' and 'I'll Never Be Anyone's Hero Now'- this record is a lot more melodramatic than its predecessor- but its what he's good at innit?

Ganesh

23:25 / 28.04.06

Will be seeing La Moz on Monday at the Alexandra Palace. Loveliness ahoy!

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