The Magic Numbers sone "See you See me" is amongst one of the finest pieces written this century IMO. I shall certainly be at this event..Tom York is also an understated demi-god like Genius. The combination of this talent mixed woth the Mozfather endears me greatly to pay the reasonable asking fee for the tickets.

Perfect.

Get in there this is great news went last year and it was quality but now wiith Morrissey it will be even better,shame he is playing stafford on the saturday and not closing it. Hope the touts dont get there mits on the tickets again,another early friday morning me thinks.

Brilliant news! I've often wondered if he'd ever play that particular festival, and now it seems he will!

I write this here because the original thread has now disappeared, but I read in Music Week a short interview with Q editor Paul Rees BEFORE the review of ROTT.

In it he said that he "stood by [Q's] decision to award album of 2005 to Coldplay's 'X and Y'" because he did not "subscribe to the theory held by most of the UK music press that only albums by those with forever selective appeal are of any artistic merit".

Now - he did NOT mention Moz, but strangely I instantly thought of Morrissey and Tom Waits when I read this. I'm not even saying Rees had Moz in mind, though M might well fit that description in his eyes. But - it does suggest an editor who wants to be populist, to speak for the masses, and I do wonder if ROTT was marked down by Tom Doyle because, as with so many magazines, he writes for the editor. I mean, it got only three despite Doyle saying that "for much of the album he's as focussed as he's ever been". I didn't detect outright bias in there, but I do wonder if Dolye, knowing that Rees isn't a fan of Moz and in the absence of an interview, deliberately erred on the cautious side. Just a thought and possibly totally untrue, but something to ponder!

He just hasn't made enough songs that the average festival goer knows.
Most festival headline acts have had a fairly large number of highly acclaimed and commercially successful (i.e multiple platinum) albums, or at least songs which have received lots of radio airplay. These acts would include Blur, Radiohead, REM, Oasis, The Cure etc each of whom must have nearly 10 well-known songs (NB I don't particularly like these bands). The only Moz songs which have been (small) radio hits are Gang, Suedehead and Everyday. Normal radio never went anywhere near the Smiths.

Anyway, I'll still probably go. With any luck he may have two radio hits to add to his list by the summer time although the initial reception for YHKM (ignored by all UK stations except XFM) suggests otherwise...
J

Until you read it on Julia's site.

Need I mention IOW?

I'm surprised he's doing this.