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posted by davidt
on Monday November 04 2002, @10:00AM
PunchdrunkAVFC sends:
The Birmingham Post
Morrissey Birmingham Academy
By Neil Connor
It's seven years since Morrissey last performed in the city and although
his career may have nose-dived his stage presence reached new heights at
the Birmingham Academy.
With no record contract and no manager, Morrissey may have been written off
by many people in the music industry, but as he rounded off a
highly-charged set with two Smiths classics - Hand in Glove and There is a
Light That Never Goes Out- it was apparent to many of his fans that no-one
can ever take his impressive back catalogue away from him.
What makes a concert by the ex-Smiths front-man is the exuberance displayed
from his devoted followers - and the crowd at the Academy was no exception.
Many people sang along to new songs such as The World is Full of Crashing
Bores, The First in the Gang to Die, and Irish Blood English Heart, even
though the tracks have not yet been released.
It is perhaps a sign of the times that music lovers can keep up to date
with their icons through the Internet, even though Morrissey's heyday was
in a age before the dot.com revolution.
And it was the 1980s classics such as I Want the One I Can't Have, Meat is
Murder, Every Day is Like Sunday and Suedehead which really saw Morrissey
in his element.
Gone are the days when he would prance around the stage clutching flowers,
nooses and placards. Built more like a night-club bouncer than the scrawny
box-bedroom rebel he was 20 years ago, he now punches the air with a
heart-felt defiance in a two-fingered salute to his critics.
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