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New album and tour planned for 2008 - Billboard.com

posted by davidt on Friday November 02 2007, @11:00AM
An anonymous person writes:
A nice bit of information concerning our man's motives for 2008.

Morrissey Eyeing New Album, 2008 Tour - by Evie Nagy, N.Y, Billboard.com

As his marathon tour in support of the 2006 album "Ringleader of the Tormentors" winds down, Morrissey is already making plans for the future. The artist has two new releases in the works and will be back on the road early next year, according to his manager, Merck Mercuriadis.

Mercuriadis says Morrissey, who was last inked to Sanctuary, will sign a new record deal to be announced soon. A greatest hits collection with two new songs and a new studio record produced by Jerry Finn, who was behind the boards for 2004's "You Are the Quarry," are on tap for 2008.

And while Morrissey has tended to stay off the road for long periods, the upcoming break will last only a few months, given the high demand to see the man in person. "He'll be back out in January," Mercuriadis says. "We'll take a short break and then start again in March."

Launched in mid-March 2006, the "Ringleader" tour was initially set to end in the United Kingdom the following December. But from the start, the routing philosophy was to "take it to the people instead of having the people come to us," according to Mercuriadis.

"He loves to play off the beaten track," Mercuriadis says. "Playing Merrillville, Ind., is at least as important to him as playing the major markets. It's also what allows him to continue going for 18 months. Everything is a fresh experience."
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  • the people demanded another best of! hooray for democracy! I wonder what this one will have.... wouldn't a GH comp have to be 2 discs for him now?
    mattorefice <[email protected]> -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:06AM (#282547)
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  • i shouldn't kill myself. good info. thanks.

    -DAVIDismyHERO
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:08AM (#282548)
    • Re:So... by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 02 2007, @11:14AM
  • yes hopefully it will be a smash with the new songs he has penned and performed for us it looks like its going to have potential. 2008 is a year of change for us here in the U.S so hopefully it will be a year of change for the man himself.
    BEAVER -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:21AM (#282551)
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  • Can't Morrissey just go ask The Sweet and Tender Hooligans for their usual setlist for a tracklist?
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:23AM (#282553)
  • It's great how the article mentioned Merrilville, Indiana. I couldn't have thought of a more arbitrary location. Great show. Dates please so I can plan a U.K. holiday? Do we really need another Best of?
    SpanishBloodUKHeart -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:24AM (#282554)
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  • holding back tears of joy. that made my day. there is hope.
    leavewithme -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:36AM (#282557)
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    • Re:sniff! by dbowie (Score:1) Friday November 02 2007, @11:47AM
      • Re:sniff! by leavewithme (Score:1) Friday November 02 2007, @12:51PM
  • about how we don't need ANOTHER Moz compilation (which is totally true, by the by), please remember how Moz has always been good enough to his fans to release the new tracks as a single, so that if you don't want to buy yet another compilation, you can get all the songs via the singles! Hopefully he will do the same yet again!
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:42AM (#282558)
  • How can one person tour so much? Has Morrissey ever done this much touring in his whole career?
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:43AM (#282559)
    • Re:On the road by robiskeen (Score:0) Friday November 02 2007, @12:11PM
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  • A new (third) box set of singles! He actually has enough for nearly 2 more boxes done up just like the last 2! That would be the greatest!!
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:45AM (#282560)
  • so happy!
    LucasT -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:46AM (#282561)
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  • But, will Warners release the DVD from the Hollywood Bowl next year also?
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:52AM (#282563)
  • Jerry Finn!!
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:58AM (#282565)
  • He's got 4 new ones right now. PLEASE let the 2 new songs be "All you need is me " & One day goodbye will be farewell"

    sdsuedehead
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @12:01PM (#282568)
  • I'm just curious, who exactly are these "greatest hits" compilations for? Are there really that many people out there interested in buying a best of for Moz but unwilling to go back and buy the previous compilations? I would figure that a new album would generate more sales than a greatest hits, but I guess that shows how little I actually know about how the music industry and market work.
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @12:05PM (#282571)
    • Re:question by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 02 2007, @12:32PM
  • Re-issue ! Re-package ! Re-package !
    Re-evaluate the songs
    Double-pack with a photograph
    Extra Track (and a tacky badge)

    Best of ! Most of !
    Satiate the need
    Slip them into different sleeves !
    Buy both, and feel deceived

    Climber - new entry, re-entry
    World tour ! ("media whore")
    "Please the Press in Belgium !"
    (THIS was your life...)

    But you could have said no
    If you'd wanted to
    You could have walked away ...Couldn't you ?

    Sir Steve -- Friday November 02 2007, @12:10PM (#282573)
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  • I'm glad to see he's still going strong. Enjoying what he does.
    Granvik -- Friday November 02 2007, @12:40PM (#282587)
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  • Wow! Fantastic news.
    Hopefully UK tour - a few dates at least - in January 2008?
    Glad Visconti won't be producing this time.
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @12:45PM (#282588)
    • Re:Holy Shit! by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 02 2007, @02:46PM
    • Re:Holy Shit! by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday November 03 2007, @06:57AM
  • ..... so that I could leap up on to the stage, grab the mic from his hand, and serinade him with "Get Off The Stage" !!!
    Sir Steve -- Friday November 02 2007, @01:08PM (#282596)
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  • The only reason he keeps doing more tour dates and going back and forth between North America and Europe and around the US in circles is because he knows that Julia will run out of money eventually.
    bored -- Friday November 02 2007, @01:30PM (#282600)
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  • I am glad Jerry Finn is back to produce, because Morrissey needs a hit album now since "ROTT" pretty much stiffed thanks to Visconti's outdated production values. I would also like to see Travis Barker recruited to play drums. He almost played on "Quarry" but his wife was expecting and he couldn't make the sessions. Hopefully Alain will be back on board as primary songwriter/guitar. 2008 should be Moz's best year ever!
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @01:41PM (#282605)
  • My god!! This is wonderful news! I'm sooo happy :)
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @01:56PM (#282608)


  • There are many new fans now, that want to listen to a compilation to know more to morrissey and especially songs chosen by him, after 15 years of career

      They are songs mean him, and I would like to know which are. I wait with anxiety.

      This they are the big successes of morrissey I do not believe that refers to the successes of the industry of the music.

    here we go 2008 !!!!!!
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @02:03PM (#282614)
    • new fans by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 02 2007, @02:07PM
      • Re:new fans by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 02 2007, @03:39PM
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  • I would still like to see him take a year off to put out an album of entirely new songs, and then go back touring the following year. It looks like the story here says there will be "the best of Morrissey" album and then just two or three new songs. As beautiful as his daily sung songs are, too much of anything is not good.
    Mrs. Woolf -- Friday November 02 2007, @02:09PM (#282617)
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  • If it's a greatest hits album does that mean it will be a greatest hits tour (nothing but the hits)?????
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @03:06PM (#282640)
  • can any artist really give up what they've known for so long? even for a little while? I say let the man do what he wants since he does it best...
    shorts -- Friday November 02 2007, @03:38PM (#282652)
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  • elvis has just released a another single, followed soon by a new cd for christmas, last year 18 cd & 10" box set, beatles are to release all the singles on 7" and cd singles, the sex pistols are currently re-releasing there 7" singles, wake up people, they wouldnt do it if no one bought them, thats why in 2008 all the smiths singles are to be re-released, you all have a choice, you dont have to buy them, and if you dont want to dont go moaning about it, i'll be buying them because i like morrissey and the smiths.
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @03:58PM (#282655)
  • Sounds good- I'll buy them both- on cd! I don't do that download crap!
    thetexasbloke
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @04:08PM (#282659)
    • Re:Sweet by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday November 04 2007, @11:03AM
  • Morrissey's petulance is only exceeded by his bad manners.
    I'm sure that the recent sacking of Kristeen from the tour ruptured another relationship with a gifted producer. Wasn't it his dream come true to be produced by Tony Visconti?, the man behind excellent records of yore and the architect behind the sound of Ringleader.

    I can only expect another Finn production of plastic (virtual instrument) strings, to say nothing of those arrangements; over compressed drums and brittle low-end.

    Congratulation Steven, you've succeeded in disappointing even yourself this time.
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @04:20PM (#282663)
  • i wonder if he know's how many canadians went to see him recently in new york, and how he has offended them by bringing up a topic he knows nothing about....again.

    Nothing irks me more than a rich american looking down on canadian policy.

    come to canada. like last time, you wont be able to sell out a show, but put money aside for a week.
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @04:20PM (#282664)
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  • Bit of an own goal referring to the fans as 'markets'
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @04:51PM (#282665)
    • Re:Good,But by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday November 02 2007, @06:16PM
  • at "The Chateau", a country farm house in Chateau d'Herouville in the outlying area of Paris....same place recorded by Bolin, Bowie,and ironically Elton John, what an irony not to be using Visconti.....
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @06:14PM (#282678)
  • New album is welcomed in the 'delz camp. Even yet another comp. is no harm (we should be used to it by now...)

    However a return to Finn isn't what I'm looking for. I realize there is a fair sized Finn supporting contingant amoung Mozzer's fan base, but don't count me amoung them. Sure Irish Blood and First were better songs than anything from the ROTT sessions, but looking at the total package I prefer the ROTT material (just an opinion, RELAX...)

    If Moz must veer from Visconti (who I think was a match made in heaven I've been hoping for since Mick Ronson passed,) rather than going back to Finn and his prosessed cheese style of production why not try something new.

    Nigel Godrich (as others have mentioned)
    Dave Fridmanm (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev et al.)
    John Cale (as long rumored)
    Brian Eno
    Grant Showbiz
    Tony Hoffer
    Nick Luanay
    Rob Schnapf

    Are just a few names that would excite me more than "Cheeze Whiz" Finn. Oh well the new songs for the most part DO sound pretty great, perhaps they can shine through the pink neon plastic production.

                                                                ~El Boydelz~

         
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @07:26PM (#282688)
  • Time to start putting money away in the "Moz fund." !

    -Melanie.
    Anonymous -- Friday November 02 2007, @11:47PM (#282731)
  • Will Morrissey soon have more greatest hits albums than actual albums? Retarded. But yeah, I'll buy it, whatever.
    LoafingOaf <reversethis-{moc ... otstnilfcitnarf}> -- Saturday November 03 2007, @03:55AM (#282756)
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    Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling.
    • Me dos by Stoney the Pony (Score:1) Sunday November 04 2007, @02:41PM
  • "Launched in mid-March 2006, the "Ringleader" tour was initially set to end in the United Kingdom the following December. But from the start, the routing philosophy was to "take it to the people instead of having the people come to us," according to Mercuriadis." ....does this means he isn't coming back to the UK (for now)?
    Zelda <[email protected]> -- Saturday November 03 2007, @04:04AM (#282758)
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  • a new tour, and a non-visconti-produced new album. what could be better?
    mywar -- Saturday November 03 2007, @04:59AM (#282762)
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    • crack by Anonymous (Score:0) Sunday November 04 2007, @02:40PM
  • 1. Suedehead
    2. Everyday is Like Sunday
    3. Hairdresser on Fire
    4. Late Night, Maudlin Street
    5. November Spawned A Monster
    6. Last of the Famous International Playboys
    7. Interesting Drug
    8. You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
    9. Glamorous Glue
    10. Tomorrow
    11. Now My Heart Is Full
    12. The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
    13. Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself?
    14. Speedway
    15. Sunny
    16. Boxers
    17. Swallow On My Neck
    18. Reader Meet Author
    19. Trouble Loves Me
    20. Irish Blood, English Heart
    21. First of the Gang to Die
    22. You Have Killed Me
    23. That's How People Grow Up
    24. All You Need Is Me

    PLEASE could this be the tracklisting?!
    Anonymous -- Saturday November 03 2007, @06:32AM (#282771)
  • The horror that was the Jerry Finn production on YATQ continues..."Come Back To Camden", perhaps The Great Man's finest song in years, was destroyed and only rescued by Morrissey's impassioned vocals and the strength of the music.

    All the other tracks were soupily produced too.

    Visconti is me.

    Fin for Finn, please....
    Anonymous -- Saturday November 03 2007, @06:47AM (#282774)
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  • I have it on good authority that Moz will be playing a residency at the Roundhouse in London in January.

    Also Tony Visconti's production *is* far better than Jerry Finn's, so I'm disappointed that he won't be producing the new album.

    Agent Provocateur -- Saturday November 03 2007, @09:33AM (#282800)
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  • Disc 1
    1. suedehead
    2. everyday is like sunday
    3. hairdresser on fire
    4. sister, i'm a poet
    5. last of the famoust Int'l platboys
    6. intersting drug
    7. such a little thing
    8. ouija board, ouija board
    09. november spawned a monster
    10. piccadilly palre
    11. our frank
    12. sing your life
    13. the loop
    14. my love life
    15. we hate it when our friends become sucessful
    16. you're the one for me, fatty
    17. certain people i know
    18. jack the ripper
    19. i know it's gonna happen someday
    20. tomorrow (single version)
    21. the more you ignore me, the closer I get
    22. why don't you find out for yourself

    Disc 2
    1. Now my heart is full
    2. hold on to your friends
    3. Interlude (with Siouxsie)
    4. Boxers
    5. Dagenham Dave
    6. reader meet author
    7. boy racer (single edit)
    8. sunny
    9. alma matters
    10. roy's keen
    11. trouble loves me
    12. irish blood, english heart
    13. first of the gang to die
    14. i have forgiven jesus
    15. i like you
    16. you have killed me
    17. the youngest was the most loved
    18. in the future when all's well
    19. life is a pigsty
    20. that's how people grow up
    21. all you need is me
    Anonymous -- Saturday November 03 2007, @01:49PM (#282836)
  • "He loves to play off the beaten track," Mercuriadis says. "Playing Merrillville, Ind., is at least as important to him as playing the major markets..."

    but playing San Diego is apparently a big pain in the ass.
    mr. superinvisible -- Saturday November 03 2007, @08:06PM (#282885)
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  • Check out these Smiths videos:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqijmjeaVcQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c10P8xGHRTo
    Anonymous -- Sunday November 04 2007, @07:52AM (#282910)
  • Thanks Moz keep it up! Your songs and shows are better than EVER.
    bluerat -- Sunday November 04 2007, @08:16PM (#282965)
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  • ... but will Australia still be forgotten?
    Midnight -- Monday November 05 2007, @06:48AM (#283004)
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    • Re:Tour, yes by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday November 05 2007, @01:22PM
  • i'm so excited about the new album. It should be great and i hope since he will tour again in January it wont be too long before he comes to Moz Angeles again. Maybe he'll play Coachella in 2008. That would be great.
    biggurl12 -- Monday November 05 2007, @03:08PM (#283072)
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  • SHEFFIELD City Hall
    Bradford
    Nottingham
    Anonymous -- Monday November 05 2007, @04:57PM (#283091)
  • should get production duties for the next record.
    Anonymous -- Monday November 05 2007, @07:29PM (#283102)
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  • 1. Morrissey has more involvement in the mixing process than people think. He has always had final say on the production.

    2. Finn said that Morrissey requested the "swoosh" noise on IBEH that is loathed so much around here. It's not too much of stretch to think that he had other influences on the finished sound as well. He said himself that he loved Finn's production.

    3. Morrissey's obsession with the bland pub rock sound is the likely reason that the band is being held back. Again, Morrissey has the final say on what is offered to him. He chose to have the band write to his preconceived vocal melodies on many songs on Maladjusted, which turned out to be a complete disaster. His best albums, YA, and V&I both involved the band being given greater freedom to experiment with effects, and so on.

    4. It doesn't matter who produces his albums. If the songs themselves are not strong in their basic form, they will likely sound weak no matter what is done to them.

    Morrissey's paint by numbers compositional strategy is what has been his biggest weakness since Southpaw.

    I think it's more a matter of him not really caring anymore. He started to give up control of the packaging around that time as well. It signaled a turning point in his overall interest, imo. Morrissey isn't the hardest working person in the world. He can give lip service all he wants, but the pattern is now obvious, and well, it's a shame.

    He has managed to sap all of the excitement out of any upcoming releases due to a very obvious resistance to musical experimentation.

    His songs now sound like they're being turned out by an overworked group of Morrissey elves.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday November 06 2007, @03:04AM (#283154)
  • disappointed as i am about the return of Finn i only hope that he captures a great performance by the live band, which right now is playing better than any morrissey solo line-up.

    Quarry to me is musical Toblerone (the big size): clear lines, thick, solid sound; no loose edges, two flavours, no depth. but if Finn can keep his processors/compressors at bay and just record the new songs, it might be a terrific record. i dream of a mad morrissey record, something beyond 'sweetie pie'; but the new songs are what they are and very catchy for that, and so i'm hoping for a spontaneous rock n roll album that breathes - London Calling?
    methadone -- Tuesday November 06 2007, @05:09AM (#283160)
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  • Moz, please try to include 'Mute Witness' on
    the set list, when touring next year. That way
    the open act will have a hint of lines on what
    not to hint about.

    Still trying to discribe what I saw.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday November 06 2007, @04:26PM (#283263)
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