Morrissey's fuming!

Hang on a sec... his new album We Are The Quarry?? methinks some of us might already have it (once or twice)
I say good on you Morrissey, you tell 'em. whatever some people say about his ego/proudness etc i don't think he'd lie to his fans. damn record co! (and yes i do have a ticket still, am wondering if i should try to get a refund...)

I could crush a grape !

The Roxy Music as special guests thing...was that also Sanctuary's design? I could easily imagine Morrissey asking them to appear (even though Ferry has never had any kind words for Moz), but maybe it was all "in theory", which Sanctuary then put into practice without the Mozfather's stamp of approval.

Saw a televised Roxy concert on that first comeback tour a few years back. They were absolutely storming I have to say! Every bit as good as the old records.

Morrissey MUST have known that he was booked for Isle Of Wight weeks ago. Why was his statement made only last weekend? He - if anyone - knows that the tickets will sell out straight away and fans will lose out (Festivals tickets are no refundable because the event in itself is not cancelled - only some of the acts).
Morrissey knew all this time that he was "booked" to play Isle of Wight. Why was the fact that he will not play announced only just now? This man must have been trough more record companies than anyone else. It's be interesting to know excatly why the deal with Sanctuary is off.

What really puzzles me is that Morrissey uses "True to You" website to announce his reasons. The Man must have known for weeks and weeks that he is not going to play the festival. Is this meant to be adding to the mystery of Morrissey?

I was looking for a gig and then I found a gig and heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Should Morrissey feel obligated to all his fans who have shelled out to see him at the IOW? I think so!! I'm not interested in half arsed excuses from Morrissey or record companys all I know is I have spent/will spend £200+ and now feel conned. The ferry company I have booked with have offered a refund for the crossing minus a £5 cancellation fee WOW!! thats made me feel a whole lot better.

Thank goodness for Xfm and contactmusic; let’s hope other info outlets also make sure to present both sides of the story. As fans – and a fan subgroup at that, who rely on the computer media a lot for news - we want our music, and the promises made kept. But the world operates in a complicated way. Starting with how many black musicians’ copyright was stolen from them with the birth of rock n’ roll, the history of pop culture which we’ve largely neglected in our impatience, contains many examples of how artists are ripped off, coerced and hoodwinked with tall tales of how their interest is being respected. When Prince changed his name twice, it was in response to unreasonable demands of record companies, and when Lou Reed was forced to fulfill part of a contract he’d not agreed to by making another record, he protested in obedience, by packing the album with industrial metal sounds only!

These are isolated examples amongst many, and I’m no expert, so it’d be great to hear from anyone who is to any extent. The system is hardly going to switch to fair-play for conscientious individuals overnight. The balance of power is on the side of Sanctuary & co where Morrissey is concerned, and I’m pretty sure that one of the characteristics about him cherished by those fans conscious of the dignity of the human spirit, is his tenacity to demand enough space and freedom to retain some control over his own decisions. If he didn’t, his music and what he stands for would change irrevocably.

That’s true, isn’t it? So let’s stick with him ‘cos he’s not doing a bad job of it at all.

We seem to have. I've calmed down a tad anyway. He's frustrating, infuriating, truculant? deviant? etc, etc. He's a genius too though.

I've decided to go to the IOW anyway, gutted Morrissey doesn't wish to show his face there but I'm going to sit through the tedious days music that was booked as a warm up to the main man and hope for the best. Mabye next time he decides to pull a stunt to teach his (ex?) record company a lesson he'll remember to let us all know in good time that he's going to do it.

he probably cared more about making his record company look bad than how it affected his fans. if he waits until a week before IOW to make this announcement then theres a greater chance of fans hating the label. not to mention the publicity that will surely come from it all.

and how childish of him to bad mouth his label like that rather than going and talking to the label privately. they would have let him do whatever he wanted with that website and we all know it. he could have done whatever he wanted. instead he chose to be himself and do nothing and never give the fans updates from his official site. they give a washed up old musician a 2nd chance and then he goes and pulls the same childish crap he always has. this is indeed why he couldnt get a label to sign him for 7 yrs. people know his reputation.

why are we surprised? every knows morrissey the real person is a jerk. lets just leave him up on the stage where we like him and not dive in any deeper into his real personality.

this is why the man will remain alone until the day he dies. not because he chooses to be alone but because anyone who really knows him cant stand to spend a day with him let alone a lifetime.

Enough already! The man doesn't want to play. He's changed his mind. At a time when all those crap pop stars are queuing up to play Live (Masturb)Ate, thank God Moz still has a bit of individuality left. Fuck the Isle of Wight!

Of course he knew he was headlining the Isle of Wight festival ages ago. I am in a no hope band, and even we have to sign a contract before we appear in the listings fo ra tiny pub gig.

I don't blame sanctuary, i blame moz for not putting the record straight through the national press, so that the thousands of us who saw the ad for the festival then bough tickets, would have seen his announcement. If he is playing a game, and a game with my money (so far i have spent £100) then its not very funny. What morrissey is implying is that , in theory i could join the record company thta represents the Rollo9ing Stones, then announce (on their behalf) that they are headlining a festival, when really they have no idea about it. The very idea of this is nonsense. Do you really think that a company (record company or otherwise) would make a business commttment on behalf of 6 people (i.e moz's band) without consulting them ?? Of course not. Morrissey's excuse is absolute bare faced lies, and he should be ashamed of himself.

I can't beleive that after spending so long looking for 'the right label' he would sign to a label that exploits him like this, on ethat releases awful material like 'extra tracks and videos' on CD2, or 'deluxe versions of albums featuring b-sides' or sub standard 'live versions of smiths songs' as a-sides (which i think is a disgrace) this is such a rip off for his fans.

Maybe the man Morrissey isn't as clever as we think he is.

With all the different press that now have hold of the announcement, I think we can safely say he isn't going to have a change of heart over this one. So why has the tour dates section of his 'Official Site' still got him down to play the IOW, despite the message on the main board that he's 'regrettably' not appearing? You'd think they'd stick a big "Cancelled due to hissy fit" across the date wouldn't you!
I reckon Sanctuary want to dig their heels in and fight this one out. Wonder who'll win? My money's on Moz. I still love you Morrissey, whatever the truth turns out to be.

These additional links are not news (to us). They are merely reporting what has happened on this web-site over the last few days.

Read this lower and thought it was worth bringing to attention:
After all these years the 46 year old man is still unable to function by himself, regardless of his loner stance that he likes to portray he actually needs other people to realise his dreams whether he likes it or not, and how does he repay them? Well, he just drops people, slags them off in the press, refuses to speak to them, etc. etc. etc. For a peerless man who has so much artistic clout in this business and his fans, not to mention the massive amount of money he has accrued over the years it seems inconcievable that a person of this status is entirely incapable of or unwilling to do anything himself because he is a cantankerous, pampered mummy's-boy grown up who can't handle responsibility, probably through fear of failure and always needs a person to carry him along who is also conveniently placed to take the blame for doing it all wrong in his eyes. The lifelong pattern of vindictive, selfish and spiteful blame of others that this type of person derives from the woes of life is how every situation must end for this type of person after a life of mother hen telling you that nothing is ever your fault. Act as self-centred and mercinary as you like as you throw your self-obsessed and tantrum-throwing moodswings. It's incredibly difficult to imagine Johnny Marr and Morrissey ever working together again. Johnny appears to have matured, moved on and grown up, had a family, made more friends and opened his mind a bit, put the ghost of the Smiths to rest and talks openly and happily about the old days, whereas Morrissey has to continue with the same vitriolic venom and continuing myth in his own mind that the Smiths is still somehow happening, slagging off so-and-so, veiled threats to the others, etc, etc, etc. What he fails to ever acknowledge is the debt he owes to other people for his success. A fine case in point is this very website, as controversial as some of the news pages may have been in the past, the fact is that the site is, in principle, an absolute glowing tribute to Morrissey, not a tittle-tattle pop gossip column. How does Morrissey repay the unswerving and undying loyalty through the lean years when nobody else would give him the time of day? By threatening the site owner with legal action, that's how. It's almost an insult to his most loyal fanbase and how David Tseng never threw in the towel after that saga is, again, testament to the loyalty to the cause. I keep seeing people defending Morrissey as he blames the record company yet again, but, it looks to me as though Morrissey has let this IOW Festival story run and run right to the wire for maximum vindictive impact against the record company in the same old childish way instead of setting the record straight face-to-face with them like any other artist would do. This, in turn, has hit the adoring and loyal fans in a bad way as usual but the man doesn't care about the people who have shelled out their hard earned money to see him. I must admit that I've always found his idiosyncrasies amusing, how he is unpredictable where authority, record companies, music biz people etc. are concerned, but not your fans Morrissey, not your fans. This is so selfish it's unbelievable. As a diehard Smiths and Mozzer fan, I find it hard at this very moment to listen to his voice and his words and not think about how he really is. There is no room in anybody's life for a person like this. This time it's despicable. Just because somebody is rich and famous doesn't give them an unreserved right to forget how to be human.
shame on him.
Anonymous -- Wednesday June 01 2005, @06:07AM (#164532)

Am I missing something with this? What new album?

From the NME article, it doesn't sound like an old reference to Quarry, but rather a newer one, since there's also a mention of the loss of Dean. Strange.....

From NME: "Morrissey will regrettably not be appearing at the Isle Of Wight Festival on the 11th of June as scheduled. The pressure of preparing the new album and losing his drummer earlier this month has made it impossible to do the gig without massively compromising both the gig and the album."

I still love you dearly.

With myself.

Why do people keep posting the same things over and over?

If you are the person you claim to be - a well respected journalist who knows the truth - you wouldn't be calling us all idiots!

Morrissey may be a liar, but so are you!

Your comment was interesting to read, but it did actually upset me to read that about Morrissey. That's sad, isn't it?!

Whatever anyone says, I wouldn't really accept that Morrissey is a bad person- even if there was solid proof. I don't care if he's a bastard anyway. I reckon that if I knew him and he treated me like shit, I would be one of those people who let themselves get hurt again and again, because he's worth it. (It sounds terrible to say that.)

But it's all fine, because I don't believe that he's nasty!

Are you from Sanctuary or a jilted acquaintance?
We know Morrissey was happy with the company for quite some time; things change though. Why are you being so personal and malicious anyway? Do you need a lot of attention, at any cost?

Give him the benefit of the doubt though.
In the great scheme of things.
What does it matter?
We are all closer to death than the day we were born.

A Racist.

If Morrissey spent all his time cancelling things because his albums didn't get to number 1, none of us would ever have seen him in the flesh.

I'm the Queen of France, based in Grenoble. I have ruled in Belgium, France and Mallorca.

I personally spoke to you three weeks ago and you said you were going to write some ridiculous paragraph to post on a Morrissey website.
I have had nothing but excellent dealings with your medical team but what we need to realise is you're a pathological liar.

Give us a shout when you post your interview.

I'm not sure if everyone on this is an ill-informed idiot, which is a sweeping generalisation. However if you were particularly angry writing the above post I can understand why you said it.

I'm not a music journalist, but your views of him dovetail very nicely with my views which I have acquired over the past twenty years.

As Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke found out to their cost, 'pathological liar' sounds about right.

BTW you're not Julie Birchall are you? She started her music journalism career around thirty years ago too.

Tell you what, if anyone is going to put manners on Mr. Morrissey and turn him into an honest gentleman it is Julie B. No one fools her at all.

Go Julie. Go girl!

p.s I believe you have his email address - representing all the injured parties on this website (ill-informed idiots included) how about sending a stroppy email leaden with gravitas and indignity.

That should wipe the smug smile off his face. After all he does worship you!

Calm down you fool, calm down.

Sanctuary have screwed up the arrangements. Blame them, if you are going to blame anyone.