Money well spent Morrissey. I want to make it to Manchesta someday and would luv to go visit the club and take my obligatory snap out front the club like you did.
Happy Holidays.

Morrissey, and a happy 2008 to you!

..to have his photo taken outside the club once more... the club's financial problems would be over!

Moz is a nice man.

waste of money, when people are living in poverty, and starving, and he wastes money on this so a few sad twats in their 1980's national health spex, can carry their wilting daffodils over to the club, and hang around looking gormless, and what's worse, brain dead twats leave messages on here going 'well done moz'
Come on people for fucks sake!

Your hair is reminiscent of a self-digesting yak in heat.

i'm not sure i like that picture of Morrissey.

Heard a rumor that in exchange for his donation, they will be putting a sign out front :

"NO FOREIGNERS ALLOWED INSIDE" and

"ONLY ENGLISH PLEASE"

I thought the sign might read...

Blacks
Irish
& Dogs
Only ...all others stay away, or pay a penalty!

Without this pertinent event, England would
be remembered this year for a 38sec soldout
and relevant tour for dancing fannies.

FAT!

So much for a meaningful vegetarian diet.

The man's body looks like it washed up on shore a few days ago.

This is Moz's hard-earned money busting his ass performing for us for over two years. I'm glad it's going to a great cause and not to hookers or drugs. Recreation centers are extremely important to communities. It's wonderful that Moz is a good man (that good ol' Catholic guilt? or just love?). David Johansen even acknowledged Moz was rushing on his way to sing for a children's hospital in their press conference at Meltdown. So this news just brings a smile to my face.

Yes, too bad they used an unflattering photo, since Moz has taken efforts to show his better angles and wear a more form-flattering wardrobe. But that's okay. Better happier on Ativan...To me he is still a work of art...every inch, nook and cranny!

Your turn to donate now. God knows you have the money...

People who want to know about the charitable work associated with Salford Lads Club should go here:

http://www.salfordladsclub.org.uk/

The Club is an extremely important part of the local community, and respect is due to Morrissey for supporting it, whatever his reasons.

From updated MEN article...

"Morrissey’s manager, Merck Mercuriadis, said of the donation: “The donation is a reflection of how important the Salford Lad’s Club and its future is to Morrissey. This was meant to be a private gesture but we have agreed to allow it to be made public at the request of the club directors as they felt very strongly that it would encourage further contributions and guarantee the success of the campaign and the club’s survival.”

This one's much nicer, and a fine gesture to Moz considering the NME crap.

New link: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1029 969_morrissey_gives_lads_20k

otherwise it defaults to the Business section, apparently. Sorry! I pasted it intact but I guess it just comes out that way upon post.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1029 969_morrissey_gives_lads_20k

without any blank spaces between.
thanks!

Is Johnny Marr writing the music for the next album?

I do hope so.

It’s wonderful that Morrissey has made such a contribution from his private funds to help save ‘Salford Lad’s Club’. It’s tragic-comic that he needs to following the theft of lead from the roof!

“I was minding my business, lifting some lead…” Etc.

It’s also sad that,in Britain: We are still at the stage where the rescue and renovation of our cultural and architectural heritage is dependent on private patronage. I am no ‘old fogey’. I love The Gherkin in The City of London and The Future Systems Harrods Building in The Bull Ring, Birmingham.

But: Nothing has really changed since Morrissey complained (mourned) the destruction of the fabric of Manchester in his earliest interviews. Around the time he was cavorting with Margox / Margi Clarke on that beach (?)Must find that one on YouTube!

Morrissey is a deservedly wealthy and celebrated Mancunian. I hope his generous donation ‘stirs the conscience’ of similar Mancunian, Brummies and Londoners who are his age: And have done very well financially, thank you very much!

‘Cunsidurably richer than yow!’ Etc, etc.

Even if they are not famous entertainers, they can pitch in. Even if you’re of modest means, throw some loose change in that direction...but, be sensible: Only if you can afford it.

Put your hands in your pockets, lads’n’lasses! Get that cheque book/debit card out. Give what you can, either to Salford Lad’s Club, or your local equivalent: On The Streets Where You Were Raised: Save What Can Still Be Saved!

It’s XXXmass time! Should auld acquaintance be forgot, etc…..

Morrissey gets a bad rap just because he keeps a tight hand on the shop-till. He's hardly Rod Stewart! It wouldn’t surprise me to find, retrospectively, posthumously (God keep him/me/you all safe for many years!):

That he has appropriately and privately given alms over the years. But hasn’t used it as a self -aggrandizing, careerist prop like so many others.

Once again, an adroit, sensitive, entirely political gesture. And the positive press coverage will make a least a start in restoring the prestige of his name and reputation following The Calumny Of The NME.
Goodness me - 9:57! Come on kids - we’ll be late for Mass!

Kindly yours
AndrewGMooney

God bless Morrissey for donating so generously to something he considers important. Salford lads club isn't just about Smiths fans who go and stand outside for photo opportunities, it's about maintaining a charitable organisation at the heart of a local community. If I ever had the opportunity to donate a large amount of cash to save part of the cultural heritage of my city, then I wouldn't hesitate to do so.
That brings me round to a bit of a vent, namely, will the detractors on here just stop whining for one minute and admit that Morrissey, though not perfect, is at least possessed of sound mind and a decent soul. Just because he didn't sponsor a village in Sudan or adopt an Eastern European orphanage doesn't make him the avaricious Ebeneezer that some on here love to imagine he is. It must make it easier to avoid the fact that you're feeling disappointed in yourself, for not being a generous or kind individual, to visit this fan site and moan about everything Morrissey does: "he's looking rough / he's mean with money / he's not investing in the right causes / he's deluded about the state of the world / he's deluded about the music industry / he's disappeared up his own backside."
Well answer me this, if he were such a thoroughly unlovable person, do you think the decent people who've surrounded him for the last decade or more would continue to do so, or speak so highly of him without being prompted to do so?
Reading through some of the previous comments on this story made me smile, as what I could envisage was a bunch a bitter and small minded individuals (or maybe just one or two 'Anonymous') furiously hammering away at their keyboards to spill their vitriol at a pop star who really couldn't care less what they think. The reason they do this? Well, my theory is that they can't handle the love they feel towards Morrissey. Why else would you go on a fan site to slag someone off? I mean, most of us here must sneer our disapproval at the odd celebrity, but do we visit websites about them in order to voice this disapproval? Well, seeing as the majority of us aren't harbouring some twisted Freudian desire for these people, we've got better things to do with our time, like visiting a Morrissey fan site for the purpose of being fans of Morrissey.
I'm not saying that this site should just be the 'Morrissey fawning emporium', there's room for jokes, banter, satire and (whisper it) sarcasm. But, for god's sake, the guy's done something really worthwhile (not to mention the worthwhile things he does that aren't publicised) and still he receives abuse.

I'm about to submit a story soon about the time Morrissey rescued a baby from a burning building. I expect someone to report back telling me that the child grew up to be a serial killer so, once again, Morrissey has done a BAD thing.

I think Morrissey's done a very sweet thing. I applaud him for his efforts and for being such a kind soul.
Morrissey, I hope you're having a nice holiday! Love you tons. xoxo
p.s. you really do get alot of support in the moz-solo forums, despite what you may see here on the main page.

You internet freaks ... what are you so sensitive about? So many of yous vent your wrath -- no matter what Morrissey does. You are always here to inject your poisons and to psychologically abuse the man. Unbelievable.

There are three words that come to mind at the moment regarding Morrissey and they are as follows ...
1) generous
2) compassionate
3) integrity

To all of you internet freaks, if you don’t have anything nice to say regarding Morrissey ... three words for you ... kill yourselves then.

Thank You and Goodnight.

Who cares about the picture? Is morrissey actually fat? No, he just doesn't have angles. Shame he can never be a myspace whore.

Anyway, it's his money and he can do whatever he likes with it. It's not your job to criticize him for doing so. At least he donated his money, which is more than you would expect from anyone, really. Everyone is selfish.

what is so special about that place, did he used to go there when he was a nipper or something?

He probably reclaimed twice that for every show he pulled out of with "influenza"
He's not paying for it

YOU are

I am currently in possession of a copy of Phill Gatenby’s new book, the Smiths and Morrissey Location Guide, “Panic on the Streets”. The entry about the Salford Lads Club includes the information that “the club has fully embraced the legacy left behind by that photo shoot and warmly welcomes visitors to the club – a far cry from 1986 when the club lost a court case against the band. The committee objected to the picture being used without permission and without royalties being paid. The then secretary of the club, a staunch royalist, was further incensed on discovering the name of the album that the picture appeared on!”

A sentence about the Rusholme area which still regularly hosts a funfair also tickled me. “If you are lucky, the fair may be there during your visit, so you can see for yourself ‘the grease on the hair of the speedway operator’, or even take extreme action and ‘jump from the top of the parachutes’ – though, of course, this isn’t to be recommended, particularly as you haven’t completed the tour yet.” Ha!

It’s a wonderful little compilation, by the way. : )

...for someone of his wealth.

Sandra Bullock donated one million dollars on each occasion towards charitable causes intitiated after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

The Salford Lads Club is not a natural disaster, but the area it is located in is very deprived and disadvantaged - and might as well be considered a national emergency with its high levels of poverty and despair.

Wasn't Moz shamed into making the donation as he is considered Manchester's leading light, unlike Chet Whyte who is not local, but gave at least £50,000 to local charities and day centres in Salford, during the making of the C4 programme - 'The Secret Millionaire'?

And notice the timing - just before Christmas. Very flattering!

His donation will obviously help - though the calculated amount does not speak volumes about the generosity of the donor. In any case shouldn't this act of charity have been conducted in private in the way "Elton secretly gave..." or "Cliff quietly contributed...!". Cynic that I am, I really don't believe that the directors of the club, requested that the donation be made public. Far from being a flattering act of generousity - it's an act of someone not unlike Ebenezer Scrooge (before his conversion) - a miserly skinflint making a public and marginally significant gesture. It's like someone who's won £2 million in the National Lottery giving £3.65p to the dustbin man, as a Christmas box.

Wily Moz, no doubt got his accountant to factor in a tax break somewhere along the line - no one ever said charity wasn't self serving. Just ask Bono and Geldof!

Unlike Sandra, Mr. Morrissey is obviously drinking the low fat, cholestral free, calorie counted skimmed milk of human kindness.

Just like his 'charitable' pals in Dublin.

Good for Moz...anyone who questions this donation is petty. But after the New Years stunt he pulled yesterday, I don't think the good will from his donation is going to be enough! Think first, Moz!!!!

You, you people "fans", "fans" Haaaaa … you people make me laugh at least. I swear to God, a bunch of bullshitters. Morrissey has a lot of money, a lot of money -- Too bad. Jealous, jealous, jealous. You keep psychologically abusing him, he did something lovely, tasteful, and displayed warmth whereby he gave forty thousand dollars which is by the way a hell of a lot of money, much more than yous would ever do. You people wouldn't give your last food stamp to help a dying man in the gutter. You wouldn't give your last hamburger from McDonalds where all you carnivores eat to an aging dying animal. You keep prodding at Morrissey whereby he did something once again that was lovely and you turned it into "He did a bad thing". That's a fantasy. To top it all off, Morrissey desired to give all of the thousands and thousands and thousands in an adorable secret way, but he didn't know that his "fans" would twist it into something yet again that could cause him more headaches and trouble. Look at the depths you people go to, to keep utilizing your mind terrorism on him, like your "immigration" and "racism" false allegations.

The public is wonderfully tolerant, they forgive everything except genius.

To all of you "supportive" fans, three words, cut your wrists and take Heaton the Whore along with you.
Here's wishing you losers the worst for 2008.

Thank You and Goodnight.

P.S. I'm sure you are going to bother Peter as well because, because, he defends Morrissey. You're all pathetic.

Hi, sweetie-pie. You know we love you. But, you've let us down over the holidays. So it's time to act up. Do something. Go out. Be seen somewhere. Make sure someone spots you, photographs you, and writes about it in some crappy newspaper or other. And then, get someone to leak it here so we can see.

Failing that, post here. Just anything. Tell us what you've been reading, or eating, or maybe a good movie you've seen. Nothing special.

Seriously, we miss you. Give us a little something. For our love lives. Or whatever.

Bye.

After taking my new scripts of Lunesta cause, cause, the Doctors said I cannot be tortured and sleep deprived anymore, so in order to prevent this uncalled for sleep deprivation, I am going night but ... if I have a baby, on the 31st of February or never, whichever comes first -- I want to name my baby “Starr”. And if Morrissey ever desires a baby then I hope, but he probably doesn’t desire one either, but if he ever desires a baby while taking sleep deprivation or other insomnia strange pills I desire Morrissey to want to name his baby “Starr” as well.
Starr Morrissey - how fucking good does that sound.

Thank You and Goodnight