and thats exactly why i need another credit card..i NEED to be at all 10 LA shows. :] haha.

Given that they are selling "season tickets" for cities with multiple shows, can we assume that the setlists will be more varied?

is no one surprised at this? i can't say i really am ..but a little sad that it will be his last in the "foreseeable future". i have been a little suspicious this tour, especially with all the rumors.
now i have to figure out a way to obtain tickets to all 5 nyc shows, and to make it there even though i'm going to be busy with school 1 and a half hours away.
i'll just have to make it work i guess. but i doubt i'll find 5 people willing to go with me. my friends have poor taste in music. i better start asking around!

"...all of the venues have been specifically chosen, as they are small and intimate, where Morrissey can see the eyes of everyone in the audience..."

i'm gonna wink at him and see what happens.

Because I want to see Morrissey & I want to see life. I'm falling in love, again...

what if the demand is so high for the "residency" packages that all of the tickets are sold out that way?

who would they let close to the stage in that event?

Say it ain't so Morrissey!!! Whatever happens I love you!!! Wish you would have made Arizona but I'll be in TJ, Vegas and LA. Te quiere mucho Morrissey!!!

'these shows are the last Morrissey will do in the
foreseeable future' [somethink like this]

I hope alls well in the future, and that this is
not HIS last shows in HIS career

Callin' all playas'...Introducin' the new season of Making the Band 5, Diddy style. Yours truly is reunitng the world's ultimate Boy Band...From the hoods of Manchester, En-gal-land, give a shout out to The Smiths...They're a little pastey, but I am throwin 75 million Diddy dollars, at my homeboys feet! They got to work. Diddy don't give nothin' out for free! That ice cold pompadour playa' Morrissey, has to walk all the way to Williamsburg to get me a tofutti cutie, in order to get some studio privileges. We got Timbaland doin' the Remix...Bad boy forever!

for 50 dates all around the world under the name
The Smiths, only with Johnny.

ofcourse Morrissey refused that, HE had enough to deal with
There never will be a Smiths reunion Tour, even
with M&M it will never happen, cause 2 other
Smiths will not accept that and the court cases
will be on again.
it's not that simple a people think, even if it
are M&M under the name The Smiths

What is everyone's personal outtake on the "shows will be the last Morrissey will do for the foreseeable future" line?

What do you all think, last for now? For a few years? Forever? I'd like to know what everyone else is thinking it means.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is Morrissey's retirement tour. He's taking one last stab at getting his coffers filled before saying good-bye.

I had the feeling he was going to retire. I'm going to be at all 10 la shows.

I'm so glad I live in LA...thanks Mozzie :-)

Considering that NY is $200 for 5 dates, then LA should be $400 (hopefully $350). Hell, I spent $250 at the Hollywood Bowl. Fuck it.

He probably realizes that he can't get away with the flaky cancellations anymore, so it's best to pack it in.

However, Moz records without tours will be rather uneventful.

His current attraction is playing live, not his studio albums, which have been somewhat embarrassing in terms of their content.

Anyhow, he has performed rather poorly the four times I have seen him, and seems to be touring for the love of money. His Maladjusted, and Southpaw era tours were career low-points. You couldn't have mailed it in with anymore disinterest than he did during that time.

I remember going to see The Damned on their farewell tour in 1989...there was not a dry eye in the house that night at the Brixton academy, good times had by all as we wished them goodbye.

They were pretty good when I saw them last November as well!

i need to know how much tickets arre gonna be so i can sell shit. i WILL be at all ten of those dates. i HAVE to. any speculation?

no Uk dates, not now and not at christmas.
thank you moz , you just go ahead and keep your American fans happy.
I mean why should we count?
truly truly disappointed and let down.

i really don't think this will be anyone's last chance to see moz. that discussion always happens after a tour, "will he retire?" and so on. he's still working on new material, and he's said time and time again that playing live is what he enjoys most, so why stop now?

that said, it will probably be the last chance to see him for some time, i doubt he will tour until at least 2009 (there always seems to be at least one year between tours, and this one has been an extra long one, too)...so i'm seriously considering taking the trip across the pond for the 5 shows in nyc, now that europe obviously isn't getting anything on this tour.

Would the tickets have sold out if it was not implied these could be the last dates?

how could the fans resist otherwise?

London?... Please?

Sorry, but not at all.

i've read through the press release and it seems vague to me. livenation site says 'more info soon' - very unhelpful...

It's absolute bullshit that a person buying a ticket for all NY shows gets to go to the front of the line. So for us people that work and can only go to one show...we get screwed?????

Go to true to you if you don't know what I'm talking about

Aww shucks just when my piggy bank ran out, I gotta read this which (as it was surely intended) cause me alarm that this might be the Mozzers last- Most likely great marketing skills, but it is plausible and I'd like to see him for 6th time and perhaps my last while he is still semi grey-

What drama! There has been a sort of finalish feel to events lately. The whole MSG thing, and now those 10 nights at the Palladium - that's grandstanding. Good for him, he certainly deserves it. These gigs should sell out, and quickly.

I had plans that I did not really want to cancel, and now I suppose I must - five nights at Hammerstein with Moz, with the threat of eternity hanging over our heads - there won't be a dry eye in the house.

Some may call this a ploy to sell tickets, but I think he's just letting us know that he's giged out, and needs a break. He may be back in a few years, but who knows what the future holds, for any of us? I refuse to read anything sinister into this (although I can't help thinking there's something he's not telling us).

No to $75,000,000.00 - now that's class.

Let us all hope that Alan and Gary are back in the fold for these dates. They add something to Moz's shows and it isn't just good hair ...

No!
Hes Changed his mind again.
Good Night and Thank You!

I wish I could get the tenticket offer cause that is going to be the only way to get to the front.
  What ever happen to Old fashion, "First Come First Serve". :(

YES! YES! Thank you Moz! I will see you in Atlanta!!

All this speculation about this being a retirement tour is nonsense. The mention of no gigs for "forseeable future" merely means that in 2008 Morrissey won't tour because he'll concentrate on a new album.

I predict, 2008 - no gigs but a recording session in the summer/autumn, possibly in UK with Visconti again. Songs still by Whyte, Tobias and Boorer. Gary Day will play bass on the album but won't tour.

First new single - Feb/March 2009
Album - April 2009
Tour - May 2009 with a special Manchester or LA gig on 22 May... his 50th birthday, which will be a big extravaganza affair, maybe even a mini-festival.

Just call me Nostradamus... (that might be the album title come to think of it...)

After reading the entire story on TTY I wonder to myself, "Since theres a presale for the 10gig package, what if they sell soo many of them, does that mean, we wont be able to buy random night tickets?"
Palladium holds 2500 fans, Moz has enough diehard fans with cash that will want to go to all 10 gigs.

Anyone know what this is?

Anybody have any ideas as to onsale dates/ pre-sale dates or any info like that? This is mostly for the non 10 day stretchers, like atlanta, DC, etc.

What a bummer.

Cheers Morrissey, yeah, nice one. Play your last gigs for the forseeable (ever) in AMERICA?!

Can't beat remembering your roots can you Steven?

To paraphrase someone else who went out with a wimper in the United Hates of America, "ever feel like you've been cheated?"

I saw him in May.... I had a really bad feeling this may have been the final round of touring...Am I the only one crying???????ARGH!!!

Whenever Moz tours the US these days, he does something or says something that can be taken as retirement talk. Only is the USA...why? because it's to help ticket sales. This press release--the tour announcement--also includes the $75 million offer and refusal to play with Johnny Marr. That's also included so it will more likely be talked about in the press. It's all PR talk. ;) ;)

I know I set myself up as the voice of reason, and thus it is that I find myself having to voice the obvious once more... the forseeable future is literally seconds in front of you - if we could see the future we'd all be mystics. I cannot see the future so I have no intention of sitting down and sobbing. I reserve that for a day of blackness none of us wish to contemplate. I love Morrissey and I wish he'd come back and do some shows in dear old Blighty, but I don't begrudge the American fans one bit. That is a MASSIVE country so why shouldn't Moz do a massive tour there? And why shouldn't he then take a massive break? Touring is very hard work and it must be hard for the rest of the band to be away from friends and family for such extended periods. Besides, most of them have side projects too.

Let them play these dates, let the Americans enjoy it and let Morrissey live his life - he can write another bloody marvellous album for us, then start touring again.

And I'd like to see him tour Australia and New Zealand too - I'm not from there, I don't live there, but I am aware he has some loyal people there who would love a chance to see him live.

I am not planning on dying any day soon, though of course I cannot see past the foreseeable future, but I am hopeful that I will survive life long enough to see him again - maybe in England, maybe elsewhere, but until he's ready, I will wait patiently.

It is the stoicical English way.

Stiff upper lips chaps!

Our time WILL come.

Morrissey will be back. Period.

But then, whatever you do, do NOT miss out on the opportunity to see the ROTT tour live in the US. The band are just AMAZING and ROTT is great live with some amazing work by Boz - again !

"Rock 'n' roll drew me from my mother's hand and led me to experience. In the end it was my neighbors who put everything in perspective. An approving nod from the old Italian woman who sells me pasta. A high five from the postman. An embrace from the notary and his wife. And a shout from the sanitation man driving down my street: "Hey, Patti, Hall of Fame. One for us." I just smiled, and I noticed I was proud. One for the neighborhood. My parents. My band. One for Fred. And anybody else who wants to come along."

a rose is a rose is a rose,
best,
Hazard.

In my opinion 2006 was the UK,Ireland's and Europes year for Moz. All last year we heard his american fans (who have been extremely loyal throughout his solo career) give out about why they were ignored. Now in 2007 it was the time for America and I believe they deserve him and hope they appreciate the last leg of the tour.
Enjoy the concerts guys.

See tyou in Dublin in 2009 Mozzer

cossy

...lifted their jaws off the floor yet? $75 Million cast away...they must be crying their eyes out...and no mention of them to be included...that shows who were The Smiths. And lets us have no more talk ever that Morrissey does what he does for money. If money were the issue....

well, i know it's sacrilegious just to speak a bad word or a small slite against Morrissey but i don't mean any harm nor do i love him less. i've been to many many shows. i've traveled to see him and even had those shows that i've traveled for cancelled. so yes a pretty penny has been spent on Moz. so i just wonder and hope that when i do dig myself in yet another financial hole to see Moz for the billioneth time, that the setlist is changed from show to show. 10 nights at the palladium will be physically draining so it would be great to hear different songs each night. out of the couple of hundred songs in the Moz/Smiths catalogue, surely 30-50 can be rehearsed. after all these are his last shows for awhile. why not go out with a bang?

he only turned it down to make johnny cry.

I get that everybody is happy Morrissey doesn't "do this for the money" - and in this world it is certainly refreshing. But is playing 50 dates with your former mates really that awful when they're willing to throw that kind of cash at you??? Even if YOU don't need it, there are certainly many who do (Darfur, Peru quake victims, etc, etc). Isn't this win, win all around???...three months work, ability to help so many, bringing joy to all of your legions of fans (including the many who became Smiths fans post-breakup)...and basically going out on top...hmmmmm, seems like an easy call Mozzer - and not really impressive to be "bragging" that you turned it down.

So how exactly are we to go about getting that NY package? When is it made available, and who do we contact?

First of all, I am thrilled that Moz added more dates to the tour, but, um, excuuuuuse me but whatever happened to the Borgata show being the last show of the tour? There is no way, that he had no idea that there were 30 more dates in the works, so why act like "Atlantic City, of all places" was the last show. Please.

The "season" ticket package prices are a great idea for those who plan to go to all the shows. At least some of us can save some money. However, I don't think it's fair that they should be given early entry night after night while the other "diehard fans" can only go to one or two shows. That means, they literally have no chance whatsoever to be up front. Crazy.

Per Julia: "These shows will be the last Morrissey will do for the foreseeable future. With that in mind, all of the venues have been specifically chosen, as they are small and intimate, where Morrissey can see the eyes of everyone in the audience, and those in attendance can be in the thick of it."

The next thing you know, he'll add another 50 shows! As he admits "I'm not sure I even exist offstage"! As far as looking into the eyes of the audience,You mean, he'll be looking into the SAME eyes of the season ticket holders night after night!

On a side note, even after you wait several hours for a spot against the rail, all of a sudden Julia traipses in and you get pushed to the side! Julia, you have been to enough shows. Either stay home and update your horrid website once in a while or watch the show from the balcony instead of wedging your way to the front all the time and pushing us "diehards" who spend a fortune on tickets and spend hours on our feet waiting. Thanks.

Julia, do us "season ticket holders" a favor and tell Moz and the band to shake up the setlist for the "die hards" who plan to attend 10 consecutive concerts in L.A. and 5 in N.Y. I would much rather hear a different setlist night after night than to save a little bit of money and have early entry. That's what us diehards want! I do not want to see the same exact show for 10 nights! That is what you need to tell Moz the next time he hands you the mic at the concert.

That being said, I am still ecstatic about all of the added dates! Can't wait!

They just won't do it under The Smiths name. Marr has said that if they ever get back together, it won't be under the "Smiths" moniker. Moz mentions this for a reason. Plus, he's a greedy old boy these days...

Given all the nostalgia tours of late, I don't think $75 million is a ridiculous sum - entirely. Certainly, 'The Smiths' became legendary to a broad audience following their breakup, not during the time they were together - and that is the angle that would be played. There's certainly an existing audience for it (well beyond Morrissey fans) if everything could be hyped properly.

I think promoters are looking at the very healthy returns for reunion bands like 'The Police', and casting around for possible money-earners. If Morrissey is looking at 'retirement', one last fling with Johnny for the bucks could probably be undertaken. It's not as if he hasn't been loathed by the press for doing lesser things...

It's so exciting for you nice people to get to go see a concert again! My friends and I like to play tennis and listen to music like Morrissey. If I get a bad stomach ache, I usually take some pepto-bismol and put on music by Morrissey or Donny Osmond or The Legendary Pink Dots. We are going to a campground next week too, and I want to have a good time. Have fun and keep sending these nice messages on your computers.