Mmmmm...yes...the great Lifeguard Predicting says it will be January 24, 2001 (DAMMIT! C'mon already, Morrissey!).

As for suggestions for other activities to participate in while we're anxiously waiting, how 'bout "What's Your Favorite Morrissey Song?"

HAH!

I'll be over here. ---->

Though we keep hearing it's a record company thing, it does seem like there may be other reasons for the lack of a new album. Like the lack of any evidence of any new songs. You'd think that if Moz had any new songs he was proud of, he'd've played at least one on the recent tour. Everyone has a creative block at one time or another - maybe this is just Moz's turn. After all, it's not something he'd want to admit to (far too embarrasing for an artist). I think we'll be lucky to see a new CD before 2002.

Drive in saturday b-side 2002

Early 2001 release date for "Irish Blood, English Heart" (I hope that's the title as I so indeed like it).

Of course, we got record contracts needed. How long will that take?

If Moz or one of his web surfing pals is reading, why not give an exculsive interview to Morrissey-solo since both sides have nothing to do? All royalties can be sent to me!

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the new album had been held up by legal disputes. If people want to get any deal done - be it signing an artist and putting out an album, or taking over another company - it gets done.

If you have the following factors
1. A primadonnaish artist
2. who has suffered from a lack of proper legal advice in the past
3. and who is a prevaricator

you can be pretty sure that it is going to take an age for the deal to get done.

I can imagine the scene - it will have generated a mound of paperwork, and that's about it. . .

If I had to guess..I'd say November 2001. Its a good month..and It would be just plain wishful thinking if he released anything this year. Gawd...I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas..I really wish he's hurry the hell up. I want to see him in concert again. I couldn't make it to any of his U.S. dates (I was in the hospital..I had tickets to the show in Chicago) :P Grrrr...I'm so impatient. *sigh* Oh well...I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I just got off the phone with steven, the first single, Aural Sects, will be released August 31 2000, Yes less than a month away. Thank your lucky Fen stars.

MLU

California, Los Angeles specifically, has a very different "climate" than England - in EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.

I am prepared to hear lyrics reflecting this change. And perhaps the transition is causing what appears to some as a delay. Morrissey is experiencing a very different life from the one he knew in England.

I spoke to Boz on July 29 and he said that he had not spoken to Morrissey in awhile, but when asked when they will be doing something he said(hinted) in October.
So I am going for the long-shot and take the word from the horses mouth and guess October 19, 2000.
Call me crazy.
www.homeatead.com/moz2k/moz2kwebpage.html

My birthday is October 20 - so if Morrissey would be so kind as to indulge me with a new release, October 20 would be fantastic....
and a tour that comes anywhere near southwest Ohio....

May 2nd 2001

It's my wedding aniversary, you see...

Go on Morrissey!!! Release a novel, and don't try to tell us you don't already have one there on the bottom of your drawer.....or a play.....or a script....! I bet there's something useful or useless, we almost don't care at this point...

except that this is all but an atmosphere a Morrissey needs for working...

I'm still waiting for a miracle.......
December 25,2000 ??

If he wasn't so difficult to work with, they'd work with him... Unless he gets his own label, there will be no more releases....

February 8th

70 years after James B. Dean's birth in Marion.... and 13 years and one day after Morrissey´s visit to Fairmount.

Witty Brit or not, that brat prince MORRISSEY will never release anything EVER at this rate! GOD DAMNIT! See what happens when you move to L.A? ya get distracted and loose your mojo baby! MORRISSEY GET YOUR ASS IN GEAR! To bastardize and slightly alter one of your own lyrics "must we suffer and cry for a longer time?". WE'VE EARNED IT BABY! HAND IT OVER!!!! woah, 2 songs in one rant.nice.

of course it is. what do you think, that on the day its over he will disband himself? he will declare retirement? of course not. not him. so he lets us think there will be something coming up, months and years from now we will all forget about the "album-on-the-way" or just think it didnt work because of record companies. the 2000 tour was a goodbye tour. he has nothing to sing about, he can go nowhere musically without exploring new realms, and the USA forced annonimity on him. on UK he was criticized, but at least they printed his name (...and spelled it right!). on the states he`ll never get countrywide recognition, they allways think he`s morrissette, morrison or van-morrison.
oh, and spetember 15th 2000 would be a great day for releasing anything...

NOAM

If he's to go to the studio with the band in October the Ides of March would be the release date barring any other complications which will more than likely, caus eI knwo my luck to well and Moz might not ever record again......

If Morrissey has a heart he should bring
out a single around nov 30.....
On that day it's exactly 100 years ago
Oscar Wilde died.
I guess lyrics for a song isn't the problem.

So I hope on monday 4 th December

i'm guessing that the next release will be around. april 5th 2001. i doub't morrisey will ever run out of things to say. he'll always feel the same. there will always be problems with the world. and we outsiders need someone to be our champion, someone to be our voice to a nation that turns it's back. there will always be morrissey and a need for him and i hope he always knows that. Moz, if you read this please know that at least I will always need your words.

Dearest Mozzer,
Miss you. Bored. Think I'm dying. When you find my body....(draped over the tailpipe of my car) please tell the police that N'Sync killed me. The only way to save me? Please, pretty please, release something new.... Soon. ;)

Well, if Boz said at the Polecats show he might be doing something with Moz this October...we had heard rumors previously of the tour perhaps starting up again in October. Then Alain told someone at a club a couple of months ago that Morrissey wanted to do a few more shows around California as soon as they had recorded the new record...so my guess is that Moz wants to get the band out here in October, record the album, play a few shows around L.A. to get some more cash in his bank account, and thus, the new album should be out sometime early next year. Well, it's wishful thinking, I suppose.
And it's hard to believe that Boz is out here in California and he hasn't spoken to Moz. Does he talk to Alain? Because Alain is out here, and Alain is Definitely talking to Morrissey. Maybe Boz is out of the band and he doesn't know it yet. Hee hee. I hope not!

although i can't tell you the exact month or year, i can defiantly say it'll be on a tuesday!

I agree with Voltaire, it's over. I don't think we'll ever get a new release. We might get another tour, especially in California, but that's it. Hell, Johnny has an album in the can and can't find anyone to release it. What hope does Moz have when he probably doesn't even have any new songs? He's not going to get a deal on the strength of the successful tour. There is always some creaky 80's icon playing to packed houses of aging hipsters, but I haven't seen many records result. All we can do is buy our re-re-releases and remember the glory days.

My unsolicited two pesos...

I'm not particularly upset over the lack of new material. At the end of the day I don't see why this long gap between albums really matters. One thing I like about Morrissey is that his career has been, to my mind, thoroughly unpredictable. I was quite surprised to hear last summer that, after a long silence, he'd be touring. I caught a few shows on the last tour & loved 'em -- thought they were extraordinary. I have since gotten my hands on a few bootlegs from "Oye Esteban." Love those as well.

I have no idea when a new album will emerge. We can all sit around and make sweeping declarations about the future, but I don't think anyone really knows what'll happen. I do think Moz will record in the future, but I don't say that with any grand conviction. It's just a feeling. In the meantime I have plenty of Morrissey's work to hold me over.

"A man who concentrates before a work of art is absorbed by it." -- Walter Benjamin

february 29th, 2001.

(yeah, it doesn't exist, that't why)

Next Release will be a special edited, extended dance remix by Fatboy Slim of "Wide to Receive" which can only be downloaded from an obscure, never heard before website and only on May 22nd, 2002 as a special birthday freebee for all remaining fans....

Stefan

... five month later we will finally see the release of his long-awaited, often delayed DVD "Oye Estaban!"

i think that Moz has new material, but he will not release, this is the end!!!, if we have luck in about 5 or 6 years they will release the "real" b-sides that we want. now is almost 3 years since the last material, legal stuff?? come onˇˇˇ

Unlike most of you poor saps, I think it's a good thing Moz hasn't released any material since 1998 (97' new material). I mean c'mon face it, we all know between solo and Smithgreatest hits and rarities packages the guy's been milking the cow way too frequently. Personally, I'm perfectly content waiting until fall 2001 for some new, kicking material.
    So chill and pick up some of my recent favourites. For example buy Primal Scream's XTRMNTR, or Mer de Noms by A Perfect Circle. And if you've got an open ear buy Low Fidelity All Star's latest disc.

Oh come on, everyone.
Three years is a long time between releases, but not that long. Especially with a major tour in between.
It isn't as though he's turned into Kraftwerk. Or even Kate Bush.
These things take time.

You guys don't get it, do you??

It takes a LONG time to put together the kind of ongoing Vegas act he's putting together.

First, he tried out the "Comeback" leathers and ELVIS type backdrop on the last tour (and we replied that we loved it). Now, he's packing on the flesh, had the leathers whitened (and added a few sequens). There will be back-up singers, REAL costume changes, fireworks, guest duets, you name it. Maybe even a Cirque du Soliel performer here and there.

You'll see. Vegas will forget all about the "other" performer (who blew it) when they see the real thing, on stage, for decades to come. And this one won't blow it. This one'll be there until were ALL good and dead.

I say: TCB, Moz, TCB!

They are:

1. Best of (in alphabetical order)
2. Best of (in reverse alphabetical order)
3. Best of (songs that use verbs)
4. Best of (the Mercury Years...)
5. A single (a cover Annie's "It's The Hard Knock Life For Us")

If he's going into the studio in October, then Xmas 2000 seems a pretty good bet, that is if he has all of his ducks in a row (producer, label, studio time). He could REALLY rake in the bucks with a Christmas release. By the way: I laughed out loud at the "aural sects" comment!

Whenever the Queen "old bat" Mother decides to pull down the curtain...

I believe Morrissey has come to be a man who has a great deal of patience these days. With the way in which he carried himself on the last tour, displaying total comfort and confidence on stage, most evident in his much more frequent talking between songs, of course not to say any of which could be found lacking in his singing, it is clear this man hardly feels any pressure for not having a record deal at the moment. He has also stated that turning forty was a significant epoch in his life as well as living in the climate of Los Angelas. Maybe he feels contented with life at the moment(it is possible you know.) We as his fans should trust that he knows what is in his best intrest and after all the beauty he has already given its not much to ask if we were patient ourselves. He is a person no doubt who has endured a world of stresses as young man in the Smiths, their breakup, making it as a solo artist, lawsuits...the list goes on...and still manages to keep perhaps the most rabid and dilligent following of fans the world over, because, he is that good. Morrissey, in my opinion will undoubtably produce more records, you can still see the fire in his live performance. He is just biding his time and picking his moment. My guess for the next release:June 30, 2001.
 

Morrissey is not experiencing creative block. How do I know this? He, like the Angellic Upstarts, will just put out a record and to Hell with the consequences. "Lost" was shimmering and beautiful, "Now I am a Was" plaintive and self-mocking, and "This is not your Country" magnificent and touching. Morrissey is at his peak and he's coming to a window near you as a rather keen window cleaner. Wait but don't drag your time - it's time like anyother and the more you use it, the better placed you will be to understand his next album.

Morrissey has said in an interview that the day he feels content with his life, we will never hear from him again. Now, I don't believe that this day has arrived yet -- another album, the last, will show up early 2001 -- but the day he quits we really should be glad for his sake. You cannot be a suffering poet all your life.

I reckon the realease of "The verse that will shake a nation " will be on Friday the 2nd of March.
Although I hope its sooner.
Would he get a bloody move on!!!!!

June 13,2001. Also I predict it will be a departure from the morose topics he tends to delve into, as in previous albums.
The "uplifting" nature of his life in L.A. has influenced this change. Songs about love and hope for more peace and unity in the world will be quite salient in this upcoming album. Like Anthony Hopkins, Morrissey has gotten back his life by living in America, where he can truly embrace his own individuality and creativity without feeling maligned or misrepresented as is often the case in England.