Thanks for sharing

Sheridan

......are playing in the Village tonight. Their first Irish gig according the radio ads.

I wish people could send more this kind of stories.
Good stuff.

i love that wit of his.
thanks for sharing! i envy your experience.

i posted a quick review in the general forums

In the recent issue (4-17 Oct) of Dublin’s “Event Guide”, Siobhan Kane, already namechecked by Morrissey at Marley Park for her well-written summary of his career to date, has written a music preview of the New York Dolls who giggied at The Village in the city tonight. Since apparently Morrissey attended the gig (and I did too, but our paths didn’t cross!) this seems timely.

After summarizing the band’s background, she speaks about the impact of Morrissey’s interest.

“The band is so important, influencing a whole era of musicians, who in turn would influence a whole other era. You can see their presence within Blondie and The Ramones and they were seen as single-handedly kick-starting that local, vibrant New York scene. They have been invoked from Sex Pistols to Guns ‘n’ Roses, and that is all before mentioning The Smiths and in particular Morrissey who once ran their fan-club. It is no faint praise to say that Morrissey brought their essence to a wider audience and that he was the architect of their return. Tragically, when he set about doing this for the Meltdown Festival in London in 2004, only three of the band members survived; Johansen, Sylvain and Kane. Johansen said that they had been approached before by “stubby-fingered vulgarians. With Morrissey, it was different. We had such good fun playing at Meltdown that we toured a few festivals, started writing songs at soundchecks, and suddenly – whaddya know? We’d made an album!”

The poetic part of this is that it gave renewed vigour to a band that had provided that vigour to others. The performance produced a live record and DVD on Morrissey’s Attack label and Greg Whiteley’s documentary “New York Doll”. The film worked from the point of view of Arthur “Killer” Kane whose story is both gragic and uplifting, and contrasts his conversion to Mormonism against a reunion of the band and ultimately their performance at Meltdown. Kane died of leukaemia only a month after the gig (Sylvain said: “he waited his entire life for the Dolls to reform. He was a sweetheart. He died happy.”), and this, along with the band’s already emotionally charged reunion made the recent developments (their new album and tour) all the more meaningful.

The band now contains guitarist Steve Conte, bassist Sami Yaffa (of Hanoi Rocks), drummer Brian Delaney and keyboardist Brian Koonin. Johansen has said: “It won’t be very long that we’ll be together longer than the original band was”. But, as Sylvain points out, they are not ‘replacing’ anyone, for how could they? “We’re talking about the deceased here, not the dismissed, after all”.

It is not just Morrissey who is pleased to see them back; many others understand their impact, such as Malcolm McLaren – “The fundamental belief in the strength and purity of the amateur over the slickness of the professional (and the eternal devotion to an uncontrollable youthful urge to behave irresponsibly and be everything this society haves) became the legacy of the New York Dolls. It remains the war cry of the outlaw spirit of anything new in pop culture today”.

Thurstone Moore of Sonic Youth remembers harressing his mother to buy him their record, “I remember her looking at it and saying ‘who are these people?’; and John O’ Neill’s, of The Undertones, favourite albums are the Dolls’ first and second, which lifted him out of the bleakness of Derry in the 1970’s – “nothing has ever affected me like hearing that record ever since; absolute perfection.” Or as Glen Matlock of Sex Pistols has put it – “It was a big eye-opener in terms of attitude. They really didn’t give a shit”. And they still don’t – but you’ll have to experience them for yourselves”.

...for you, John! I admire you for being able to speak in His Mozness' presence!
A moment you will surely cherish for the rest of your life xxx

Moz I've been walking with you.
Forevermore-
I love you Moz so hoping you love me too.
X

A bright spot on an otherwise miserable, aptly-Mancunian day in Dublin!
Jesus, some "fans" are cunts, really. The internet has to be guilty of parading a non stop procession of fucking cretins. Congratulations, you listen to his music, you "get" his lyrics, you are therefore related.
clap, clap, clap...........

Is it not possible for the racist/homophobic/generally misanthropic shite to be deleted from this thread and this board in general?
I'm sure Morrissey would appreciate the anti-Irish or gay-baiting crap that is appearing here, seeing as how his parents are Irish and he has sung and spoken about the need not to box people in because of their sexuality.
For shame...

piss off ian

Good Lord, Stevie Wonder?. What on earth is he thinking? he'll be closing his eyes and clicking his fingers next.

Are you sure they were Stevie Wonder albums? not, I dunno' ..... Bob Marley?.

P.S- Just for the record, Bono's a dick.

Ha !

Regarding the nutter in the above...

Are you the guy who shouts my name at three in the morning then runs off, in that case, I want my other Ted Baker sock back, you can have any sock, just return that sock.