* As published in: www.itsmorrisseysworld.com *

Morrissey’s new studio album “Years of Refusal” will be released on 16th February 2009 on Decca/Polydor, preceded by the single “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” one week prior. The single will be supported by two new songs “Because Of My Poor Education” and “Shame Is The Name”, the latter featuring additional vocals by Chrissie Hynde.

After an incredible 2008, Morrissey has announced his first UK shows for 2009.

Morrissey will perform at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday 11th May and two homecoming shows at Manchester Apollo on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd May. Friday’s Manchester show is also a cause for dual celebration as Morrissey celebrates his 50th Birthday.

I suppose there'll be no dates then then!!! Old habits die hard!

Anyway 50th birthday at Manchester Apollo??? Not too confident of selling uot the MEN Arena I suppose. credit crunch reasons I guess.

Looking forward to it

Are they selling tickets for a show that is 6 months away because they feel like the economy will be that bad? What's the deal?

Just researched my flight and I can get a pretty decent deal. I'll be there!

What will they be?

    He`s bound to be playing other dates, it`s pretty much what he does...!

www.myspace.com/kingofrob

Oh my gosh – I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. And my baby Morrissey is going to be playing Manchester on his adorable birthday May 22, 1959. A star came into this world on 5/22/59, the brightest most beautiful star that lit up the Irish skies. Why does everyone obsess about 50 (only I can do that about myself) – he looks pretty damn good for his age – actually in my opinion he looks better now at 49 then he ever ever looked since The Smiths. He is more handsome and more attractive than he has ever looked in his whole life. This reminds me of the DVD Who put the “M” in Manchester.
  This is very very good news and I hope that that beautiful little baby that Morrissey is holding in this picture attends my baby’s birthday as well. The baby looks so distracted but so happy at the same time, because my baby is holding him.

The end.

By the way I hope that he makes that same expression on his adorable face like he did in the DVD at the end of There is a Light…

I thought for sure he would make a triumphant return to Indio this year, but these dates look important and their timing makes me think he will be holding out on touring until May. Anybody hear otherwise about the possibility of Moz playing Coachella?

Hope there's a few more UK dates to be announced, surely there will be. Think it was 2006 last time he covered the whole of the UK. There'll be more, right? This can't be it, right?

...doesn't he realise what the economy's like? Might have been a decent gesture of him to lower his prices a bit, wee bit of a thank you to his loyal fans. But maybe he just loves money too much. Sad.

I'm planning on attending the 22nd (aren't we all) and the 23rd May gigs. Searched for pre sale info and I can't find any. No pre sale info has come my way from either the True to You or It's Morrissey World web site mailing lists. I take it there is no pre sale info?

Can we assume this will be another set of dates that will sell out in minutes? Seems incredibly short notice to announce dates. I wonder if it will catch many people out.
I'll be on the phone and internet from 9.57!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-MORRISSEY-TICKETS-MANCHESTER-APOLLO-LANCASHIRE-5-22_W0QQitemZ300278548495QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Tickets_Tickets_LE?hash=item30 [ebay.co.uk]0 278548495&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

I am in the UK in May...Do I go to a gig in the UK or wait until Jan/Feb 09 and wait for him to appear out here (Melbourne Australia)? OR DO BOTH?

Has anybody got any news on the Aus/NZ Tour?

Sheridan

Why is the ticket shop closed down? I'm getting nervous and it's only 20 minutes left. Please help!

Accoridng to gigs and tours. I assume they'll release more soon. Got tickets for the birthday night anyway

Damn, that was quick!
That's what I get for taking a light snooze!

Can't imagine the fetching prices on eBay now. This is Mozza's 50th.

Ticketmaster, Seetickets and Gigsandtours all sold out at 10:01! This is f-ing ridiculous!!!

When I bought tickets, there were two links for 'standing' and two links for 'seating' beside each date. Does anyone know what these multiple links were for? On the 23rd, the first standing link said sold out but the second had tickets available.

Oh, the conjecture!

well thats what the websites telling me :( ahwell i shall wait for him to come to ireland.

Just spoke to someone at See Tickets who said they only had 40 tickets per night as all others had gone yesterday on a pre-sale.

...for almost everyone when I say, motherfucking cunt!

How the hell should anyone been able to get their hands on a ticket when they go so quickly?

Got tickets for both. You've really got to be quick off the mark.

Bluebirds

Happy birthday dear Steven

Ring up the venue direct, they still have tickets

Got three tickets for the 22nd May. I did pick standing but they put me on seating, probably because they sold out dead quick. Gonna try get standing tickets for the 23rd on ebay, even though they will be ridiculously extortionate

..a couple of minutes ago and i was lucky, they still have tickets! or had. anyway, give it a try. it was worth it to spend a few minutes "on hold". dont get discouraged when you hear "we are experiencing a high level of calls - i wonder why!! - at the moment, your call will be answered by the next agent available".

i am so happyyyyyyyy :))

Dissapointing but nothing £300 and ebay couldnt rectify....

I made myself twenty minutes late for a meeting, furiously trying to get tickets for Manchester for Friday 22nd. I couldn't get them anywhere.

But suddenly there are hundreds available on ebay being sold by total bastards who want £99 for a single ticket, with a face value of £32.50.

I feel like crying. Why are people such complete and utter %^*&s?

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/stoptouts/ [number10.gov.uk]

PLEASE SIGN, tell your friends etc etc etc

The stories on the forum beggar belief...

Bluebirds

Joke when will some one do something true fan have not a hope. I have no tickets was on 3 seperate computer at work sold old 10.02.
I despare My thoughts are action needs to be takn my plan is to buy all tickets for the gigs on ebay to teach these robbers, the venues and ticket agents need to do more.

Steve

Fans who did not get tickets can only be gutted but why blame ebay? This seems rather misdirected? Morrissey/or his management did nothing to make sure real fans got pre access to ticket sales. Ebay is an auction site and as such, I think it provides a damn good service.

For me the C*nts in all of this are touts, who prior to ebay, existed and would still exist if ebay did not sell tickets. Unscrupulous people always find ways to exploit others.

I got all the tickets I wanted this time around but have previously missed out and made a choice to pay inflated prices rather than miss a particular Morrissey gig. I get pissed off at the thought of having to do it - but it's a choice I make and live with.

There will be many fans on this site, I'm sure, who have more tickets than they need. They should pass them on at face value. I did this with two of my tickets to a true fan, who missed out on the 23rd and he almost exploded when he found out I had some and they were his. C'mon, the best way to deal with touts is: a) send Morrissey a petition from this site letting him know that HE has a responsibility in all of this and b)support each other and share the tickets we as fans have.

As for the touts - well, shooting is too good for them!!!!

I hope that all of you who really want to be there - get there. Good Luck!

refreshing the ticket master from 9.50 onwards- the first time the page loaded it was sold out!? as no one seemed to know anything of the pre sale on here i'm assuming touts took the full advantage. ebay here i come

Moz must be reading all of these stories from true fans who are sick to the back teeth of 1.Touts 2.Ticket Agencies 3.No pre-sale (which worked well in the past)

Do something about it !!!! Your fans deserve better!!

My mate queued up from 7-30 this morning and was told at 10-05 it was sold out.(Froze his ass off!!!)

I was on Ticketmaster, Gigs and Tours and at 10-06 all sold out.

BIG BAG OF FESTIVE BOLLOCKS!!!

The problem however, is that as much as I hate touts and I hate paying well over the odds for tickets, imagine if they didint exist...

Morrissey concert sells out..and then there is absolutley no way, at any price you can get a ticket,

Given the two choices, I think id like the option to buy on ebay so that I can guarantee myself tickets, albeit at a grossly inflated price.

Perhaps they should have a little Mozza test you have to pass before you are allowed to buy them!!

The fact that the tickets all sell out in minutes is not strictly down to touts anymore. Morrissey is very popular and with every tour there are more and more people who are not only disappointed that they never got tickets, but also determined to be more determined when they next opportunity comes. Put simply, there are many more fans than tickets and the fans know that you have to get in there straight away. I am a Liverpool fan, a football club where there is a twenty year waiting list for two season tickets together.

Collectively and not apparent, to some, we are working against the touts, because we, the genuine fans are making more effort and becoming cleverer. The touts are probably sitting there now saying "bastard Morrissey fans, they are not playing the game any more. We are supposed to buy the tickets and rip them off."

Evidence of this can be found on EBay. There are still tickets being sold, but less than in the past. These days it is individuals and maybe even Morrissey fans who are snapping up a couple and selling them, whereas touts used to have bundles. I got tickets for the MEN in 2004, the first to buy them actually at 9.30am that Saturday morning. But the stories on this site afterwards about people, some of them kids, queuing up at the MEN and then walking around the corner and handing them to touts never made me smile.

One thing I need to do now is warn everybody about a particular ticket seller on EBay. He has several companies, one of them, coincidentally being, 'Royallberthalltickets'. This guy is ripping people off left, right and centre and has just ripped us off for an AC/DC ticket, which we had paid him £181 for.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/08/ticket-tout-michael-rangos-cle.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmetickets.net

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/mar/29/

So, even if you are willing to pay well over the odds for a ticket, you may as well be buying a ticket on the tour bus for your money, as you are never going to see it. I would forget about Ebay. Sellers can change company names too easily. The ticket you may be about to buy could be this parasite's latest con job.

Anyway, on a positive note, I did get a couple of standing tickets for Manchester. I also hope everybody else can get tickets. If anyone has any spare tickets, I know this is unlikely, why not come on to here and offer it for face value?

Here is a good poll for the site as well.

Which Morrissey show did you get a ticket for?

List the three. To enter, you must be a registered member of the site. Just a quick way to try and judge how many of us actually did get tickets. If everyone is honest about it and only answers if they did get one, it could be interesting.

Good Luck

Ok fine lets all except that we have to pay min £90 on ebay for a ticket if we are true fans and be left wounding when the tickets will arrive who I am buying them from and will they get me in to the gigg.
This must stop real fans who have supported Morrissey over many year deserve more
This is not moaning about missing out or the value and cost of seeing Morrissey Its just wrong

I have 2 Royal albert hall tickets, they are gallery section, I bought them by mistake on ebay, thinking they were arena section. They cost me £145 for the pair. If anyone wants them at what i paid for them, email me, morrissey79@hotmail.co.uk

I was on the landline, one the internet and my partner was on the mobile. I had seetickets,gigntours,ticketmaster going and they just vanished the tickets were gone

I did though get through to see tickets on the phone an got 2 seating tickets for Royal Albert Hall, so all is not bad!

BUT TOUTS I GOD DAMN HATE U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have just got my tickets to see him at the Beckton Sewage Works on May 13th.
Now that is gonna be one hell of a gig!

Best get in their quick!

I'm lucky, I got my tickets - hit refresh at 9.58am and it popped up. 2 tickets for 22nd - one happy person.
I suppose what I am writing is ok when I have secured my place, however the venues hold 5-600 people. I run hotels and we sell our rooms through the internet in the same way the concert promoters sell tickets for gigs. If we put all our rooms available on all sites at peak times we would sell far too many rooms and have a massive issue on our hands. We therefore give a sensible allocation to each site and hold a few back in case of errors to be released nearer the time. This is exactly the case for concerts. Do you honestly think that the thousands of people needing tickets wouldn't all be logging on from 9.30 onwards hitting refresh every 2 seconds?
Remember that a percentage will be kept back for sponsors, PR companies and the band themselves. Yes some tickets are on Ebay, I thought about going for 4 but decided not to be greedy - how many fans did take four so they could sell 2 on, make a profit and see Morrissey for free? Alot of the tickets advertised on Ebay won't neccesarily materialise either as per previous threads.
Be patient as there will be more coming on and you will almost guarantee that more dates will be added - Take That, Oasis etc have all done so recently.
As I said, its easy to look at it this way when you have tickets but I knew that I could so easily have missed out as well.

that Morrissey would play a gig on his 50 birthday in his hometown though i wished it
was a sorta Hyde park event

no rickets, just a day of celebration with other
bands he likes, and who would like to play in
honour of Brittish Last Living Legend

whoever get tickets for that night, I envy you

it'll be a totally 10 minutes chaos after the ticket go on sale, and it'll be sold out, before
you could go to the toilet while waiting for connecting ticketbastards who do the sale

Viva Morrissey

...which jaded b-sides he brings out on this tour. At Amber? Skin Storm? Friday Mourning? They will surely sit nicely with the banal new songs he plays. And I do hope he plays some obscure cover versions too.

Alternatively, save your money and go and see The Smyths instead. You get all the good songs and none of Mozzer's tiresome whining.

says only restricted seats availble, blok Q

the rest sold out, or the seats are moved for
standing places, cause it says not 'sold out'but
'not available for this concert'

that London , Royal albert

Oh give us your money!

I bought tickets for both nights. Three seating for 22nd, and two standing for 23rd, and booked a coach for the 23rd. Gonna be a fantastic weekend.

Seetickets claim to still have tickets for the Albert Hall gig (as at 16:24 GMT on Friday 5th)

please,

if anybody has a spare ticket, reply to this and let me know. i really need one

I managed to get a ticket for May 11th, the day after my 40th birthday.

The question is, will the gig cheer me up, or will the reminder of my lost youth depress me?

I have a 23rd seated ticket I'd love to exchange for a standing one for the same day. I can also swap one 22nd standing for a 23rd standing one.

My email: manuelrioss@telefonica.net

I rang them about 10 minutes to 10.00 - and they were already selling the tickets over the phone!

I rang again in the afternoon and the girl told me all the tickets were pretty much SOLD OUT by 10 minutes past. She also said that they will probably not get any more.....

Ridiculous money going on eBay: £299 for a pair of standing tickets. Silly.

I would be very careful if buying RAH tickets on eBay. The Royal Albert Hall official website states that the tickets cannot be RESOLD...