Morrissey? Cancel? Surely not...

Still, if he's started apologising to people, maybe he'll stop letting people down soon too...

Fuck buying your album and singles, i'm downloading them for nowt. I know you read this Moz, PULL YOURSELF together you fucking embarrassing joke. Fucking wimp.

Didn't he cancel a few other appearances in the last few days? Does anyone know what is going on?

And would everyone who is about to abuse the man please hold your fire.

Knew it was too good to be true. Hope everything's alright in the Moz camp though.

if Moz will still be at Koko on Monday? I managed to get a ticket but I shant bother to go if he isn't there.

It's great that people are so quick to attack him, maybe he's just having a bad day and would rather not have to go and talk to Jonathan Ross (I wouldn't like to talk to him on a good day, but his wife on the other hand...).

Devious, truculent and UNRELIABLE, enough said

"Ooh, i'm shy, i can't do my hair"

YOU are a fucking 50 year old man ffs, GROW UP man!

Ohh......
Let's face it. Jon Ross isn't biting. And Moz could ax him before he starts, period.

assuming that everything really is OK in Mozland and nobody is sick or whatever, and he pulled out simply because he flaked, can you really be upset at this point?

I thought it was peculiar that he was returning to a show that he felt very uncomfortable doing the first time around.

It's like, we all know that Morrissey doesn't turn up quite often for whatever reason. If people want to continue spending large amounts of money trying to track him down halfway across the globe knowing this, well, good luck to them. You've had warning.

Any proof to this RUMOUR?

Is he just sitting around the house in LA or Rome or wherever it is he lives these days and just didn't feel like heading over to England just for this TV appearance when the actual tour is still 10 days away?

All I can say is that IF he is ill or has some (hopefully minor) voice problems that he is under doctors care doing every little thing possible to get well for the tour!!!!!!

this is danbutt's first posting and he said he heard on bbc...no one else has come forward saying the same thing. is it true or not? anyone call to confirm? it could be a hoax.

shagging jesse up the arse to appear on the show

I heard is throat was sore from giving too much oral!

Not me? Ross is a complete and utter tool and Moz should be better off not putting himself the ordeal that he obviously went through the last time he was on his show.

Anyone got any thoughts on the comments written here of late by the way?

Is there a super troll doing the rounds or has a) Mike Joyce or b) One of Morrissey's spurned ex-lovers been set lose to wreek havoc on this site?

What an absolute bunch of wankers you are.

If all you want to do is criticise him what on earth are you doing on this site?

And if you're so pathetic that you will now not buy his albums because he cancelled bloody Jonathon Ross then you're probably more suited to buying albums by somebody like Westlife anyway.
Did you ring the Samaritans when Take That spilt up too?

Morrissey is what he is, we all know at times he can be unreliable but surely it's his music that's the important thing. It is to me anyway.

Rant over. I'm off to do something more constructive with my time than listen to whiny adolescents.

I like that he cancelled - it means he is still the same old Moz. The one that I love because he cannot sell his soul, no matter how high the price.

And yes I have bought tickets in the past for cancelled gigs and no doubt will do again.

He might reschedule his appearance; it's not the end of the world. And why all this talk of cancelled live dates? The tour is weeks away yet. I wonder who they'll book at the last minute to fill in for the absent Morrissey? My money's on Ricky Gervais.

I'm afraid that this is the type of story that gives this site a bad name. Morrissey hates "so-low" because of the amount of rumours that make headlines. If this is a hoax it should never have been published. If it's true it should have still been confirmed before hitting the headlines on this site.

When asked about Morrissey's album he was very dismissive and gave the impression he couldn't be bothered listening to it. I don't think he's that much of a fan judging by that conversation.
Moz should grace Marc Riley's show with his presence. Old Lard has been praising the album to the high heavens for the past two weeks.

poor bloke

now? Can someone who went let us know?

broken

he is also into 'Bear scene' and lipstick

Yours fuckably- Broken xxxx

No Morrissey, no morrissey...please do more crap TV!

the rumour does not seem to be backed up anywhere else online
im concerned we are all getting stressed over nothing

Morrissey was advertised as being included by BBC2 in this documentary in a story posted first by danbutt some months back, but the information from the BBC was inaccurate. Maybe someone got the wrong end of the stick again here; there should be more corroboration by now. I'd be thrilled if it goes ahead, but if it doesn't, let us pray for the Mozzer's intentions to be answered in the very near 'future when all's well', and that he be delivered from all evil...really. : )

i just called the bbc
and the guy was very helpful he did a check on his computer
and he said that a colleague had a similar enquirey
but he looked on the computer and the days breifing and says has no record of moz pulling out

It would be great for the new album to get some mainstream publicity, its just a few days until YHKM is released and hes not had much in the way of mainstream television or radio coverage.

Whats happened to this site!? Why are some people on here swearing and being rude and most of all posting pointless comments?

Some girl on the discussion board says she was there and so was Moz.

http://www.morrissey-solo.com/discuss/index.cgi?no frames;read=321288

On his radio show he was saying that he and David Attenborough (who was also due to appear on the TV show) would explain to Morrissey how human beings had adapted to eat meat, and that Moz would then finally see the light. If Morrissey had heard, he would've been pretty incensed.

It is a shame though coz You Have Killed Me is picking up very little airplay (even XfM who went bonkers for YRTQ are hardly playing it): only Radio 2 are, and there are so many people who heard about Morrissey for the first time through his Jonathan Ross appearance back in 2004.

Maurice

So Have Me!

He's on it. Confirmed on discussion board.

Personally, I don't care. He's totally free to do whatever he wants, because he has just earned it babys กก, if he appears in that show we all be happy, but if he don't... our admiration will not dissappear, this is not the end of the world, I'm sorry for all the bitchy commments (shame on you people)

he didn't show up.
really pissed off with him right now.

I was at Television Centre in White City tonight for the recording of the Jonathan Ross show.

After the crap warm-up guy and a song by "Four Poofs And A Piano," Wossy himself did a couple of minutes of warm-up. He asked who was here to see Morrissey, which was met with a couple of whoops from the crowd.

He then said "...the miserable cunt has cancelled." And he reported Moz being "fluey." He also stated that Morrissey has pulled out of other things, including Top Of The Pops.

In Morrissey's place on the show, was some 24 year-old Welsh rugby guy, who could barely string a sentence together. It's the guy who's going out with Charlotte Church.

However, Wossy did say that he wants to get Morrissey back on the show later in the series, describing him as something like "one of the greatest songwriters this country has produced." A bit hypocritical, since he had earlier described him as a "miserable cunt" before the cameras were rolling.

Anyway, in case you think I'm making this up, here are some other things that happened on the show, which you will see on Friday night:

1) Pink was actually a really good guest, sticking up for vegetarianism and PETA. Shame her song is shit.

2) David Attenborough was defending zoos (but attacking them too).

3) Wossy managed to persuade the Welsh rugby lad to propose to Charlotte Church.

-Stu.

thanks for your reliable information.

...but maybe Morrissey has a really good reason for pulling out. Also, it wasn't important, only that lisping fool Jonathan Ross and his inane line of 'questioning'.

Also, Morrissey does have a life y'know- something you folks should try sometime (yes, go ahead and crucify me).

Oh, just ignore me and get back to the bitching.

Morrissey is still listed as being on the show...
10:40 pm
      Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
A mix of music and celebrity chat with Jonathan Ross. Guests include David Attenborough, Gavin Henson and Morrissey, while music comes from Pink. [S]

If you guys had Morrisseys TALENT, LOOKS OR MONEY you would call in sick as well.
I just saw him last week in Oklahoma, and he's never looked or sounded better.
How two faced you are!!! I bet your playing(or downloading)his music right now.
OFF WITH YOU BEFORE SOMEONE DROPS A HOUSE ON YOU TOO!!!

........in a selfish view, i'd arranged my whole friday nite watching u on jonny (w)ross.
but these things happen and the upshot is now i can go out all nite on the lash!!!!!!!!!!!

the downside is enevitably this WILL effect your sales.
its a huge show and coming out on air a couple days before release is simply ace timing..

possibly a top 2 or 3 hit now just a certain top 10.
(not that the charts are too important) - but a slight poss no.1 would of been something to smile about.

hope everything is ok on planet mozz.
you'll have to do Davina McCall Zzz now in a few weeks, (im kidding, that whore couldn't interview a stuffed toy.)

I was looking forward to a night in, a cup of Horlicks, Moz on the telly. Ho hum.

Lack of publicity surrounding this record (particularly if Moz doesn't do the other stuff the record label has pushed him into doing) may bring back halycon days of pithy chart entries and an enduring hardcore following, which would probably satisfy most of the posters on this website!!!

Anyway I think we'd all prefer Moz to do sterling live performances at the gigs, rather than knacker himself out doing these promotional duties and then cancel the gigs after. Which will possibly happen anyway:-)

Get well soon, Mr Morrissey, I will hopefully see you in far-off places.

BLUEBIRDS

after all, with the TOTP announcement last week on "next weeks show" they did not say that Moz was to be there, yet they named all artists that would come there but that are less known. Now I find that odd to leave out someone who has had 4 top 10 hits in 2004 recently.

UK reception to You Have Killed Me.
With the exception of Radio 2, no-one's playing it, not even XfM.

Moz felt really aggrieved with the YRTQ singles that Radio 1 wouldn't play them and now he knows that his last album sold half a million and simply cannot believe that Radio 1 still won't play his songs.

He wants to lash out at the BBc so he's pulled out of TOTP and Jonathan Ross; both of which are BBC programmes. He is, I'm afraid, incredibly unreliable and very thin-skinned. He actually said in a recent interview that he uses the excuse of a sudden illness to get out of things he doesn't want to do, so even if this is stated, we won't know whether to believe it.

I feel sorry for Sanctuary. They've worked hard to line all this stuff up for him. Moz played ball in 2004 and fulfilled pretty much all of his promotional commitments but he seems to have gone off in a strop this time round. Everyone loses, we the fans, Morrissey's public image, Morrissey's chances of getting to number 1, the hard-working peeps at Sanctuary. What a silly, silly, man.

9am Friday morning: Moz is still listed on BBC website as appearing on JR Show along with rugby player Gavin Henson who was always in the bill to appear. Any one smell a rat?

I can confirm that Morrissey did not appear.

The 'miserable cunt' comment was most definitely a joke.

Jonathan Ross was just pissed off that Morrissey couldn't make it. He is very clearly a big fan.

Ross also said that Morrissey had cancelled his entire schedual for this week. (Inc Top of the Pops as mentioned.)

It genuinely seems that he has some kind of flu virus...

shame that this has happened in the week running up to the release of the single but better now than during the actual tour dates!

The show went on without him.. Pink was surprising pleasant - good performance of an average song. Nothing offensive.

David Attenborough was a sweet old soul.

Gavin Henson was a cock. But he's a welsh rugby player who is dating Charlotte Church, what did I expect?

Well? ANSWER ME!!!

Maybe he should eat some bastard meat now and again. All this veg crap is clearly giving him no resistance to viruses, if he was in any other job he would have been sacked years ago. Face it, he's a shirker and a cad. I bet he couldn't get any glue for his wig.

That song is definite top 5 material and could give him a hit which isn't the lead single off an album.

In many ways, getting a hit that isn't a lead single is harder but often wins new fans and keeps album sales high for much longer. People want to hear 2 or 3 good songs on an album before buying it these days.

If Moz does the ross show and TOTP and perhaps Jools Holland to massively promote "in the future," I could see it going top 5, which would be quite something for a 3rd single.

Hope he doesn't play "youngest" though - it's a stinker.

broken

I'm really miserable now that Moz isn't going to be on the telly. Like you I was going to use the interview as a guide as to how I should talk, look and behave for the next six months. Now I've got nothing but old Moz material to go on. Anyway still up for just blindly follow him with you lot until I die. Say, a game of lemmings anyone? Moz.

The real reason Moz has pulled out is because he's signed an exclusive to do the more upmarket 'Parky' show.