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| Morrissey playing 'Live at the Marquee' - Cork (June 26) |
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posted by davidt
on Thursday May 08 2008, @09:30AM
bingobars writes:Aiken promotions have confirmed Morrissey will be playing at 'Live at the Marquee', Cork - Thurs 26th June '08. Tickets on sale next thursday the 15th of May.
The last time The Moz played Cork he donned a Roy Keane Republic of Ireland Jersey and performed 'Roy's Keane' insisting the song was not about 'A certain boy from Mayfield'
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See story:
Morrissey Live at the Marquee, Cork - 26th June '08 - Aiken Promotions
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| Morrissey to play Benicassim Festival, Saturday Night Fiber (Castellon - July 18, Madrid - July 19) |
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posted by davidt
on Thursday May 08 2008, @05:30AM
Parola writes:Benicassim Festival 2008 lineup confirmed today. He also will Madrid for Fiberfib night on saturday, 19th july. ---
MiguelTegen writes:Just got this pressrelease from the Spanish festival Benicassim: Morrissey at FIB Heineken and Saturday Night Fiber – Benicàssim Day in MadridMorrissey returns to FIB Heineken (17 - 20 july) and to Madrid as well to perform at Saturday Night Fiber – Benicàssim Day (july 19th) in Madrid His presence at the head of a band as influential as The Smiths, with whom he visited Madrid in 1985, and his stellar solo career represent an authentic homage to impeccable taste and talent. Great albums and killer songs attest to the thrilling trajectory of a unique artist. More info: http://www.fiberfib.com and http://madrid.fiberfib.com
JazzFuneral writes:Morrissey will be playing in Madrid,on july 19th, at the FIB festival, with My Bloody Valentine, Mika, BabyShambles, Siouxsie and many others.
He also will be playing the day before at the FIB festival in Castellon (also in Spain), with Leonard Cohen, Tricky, The Racounteurs and many many others.
See you there!!
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| Rumors: Morrissey Vs. NME - anecdotal development |
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posted by davidt
on Thursday May 08 2008, @05:30AM
Colorblinded writes:Hey folks
i was in LA recently during the NME US Awards and this little story was doing the rounds.
Apparently NME's Editor Conor McNicholas was checked into a plush suite in an LA hotel that he did not know Morrissey had been staying in for a three week residency. When he walked into the foyer, Morrissey was there. Morrissey immediately walked off and got in touch with the manager, insisting that Conor should not be allowed to stay in the hotel and that Morrissey was the better customer so they had to be pick between him or the NME.
Conor got booted out!!
Question is, who is the bigger ass, Conor, for obvious reasons or Mozza, for acting like such a big baby?
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| "Children In Pieces" composing credits revealed |
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posted by davidt
on Thursday May 08 2008, @05:30AM
Joe Frady writes:Only detail I can add is that according to the listing for the new single on the German Amazon site 'Children In Pieces' is a Morrissey/Tobias composition:
All You Need Is Me/Children in Pieces [Single] [Maxi]
von Morrissey (Künstler, Komponist), Tobias (Komponist)
Although I do not spracken ze lingo even I, thick as I am, have to assume 'Komponist' means composer.
And I really do hope that Kunstler means singer!
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| Help a French band to win a single @ Rough Trade Records |
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posted by davidt
on Thursday May 08 2008, @05:30AM
Guillaume Metayer writes:Hi there, I just want to introduce you a French band "JINX". The singer is a huge Moz fan. His band did a cover of What Difference Does It Make, you can listen it here : http://www.myspace.com/jinxrulesThe band enters an online competition for the best cover of Rough Trade Records band !! Their choice is THE SMITHS with "What Difference Does It Make". I know and support them and ask you to support them too voting here : http://www.cqfd.com/jinxrulesSelect "Votez pour ce morceau" (vote for this track), if you like the cover of course !! (You need to login before at http://www.cqfd.com/) If they win, Rough Trade Records will offer to sign a single !!! GREAT isn't it ? So, VOTE VOTE VOTE Thanks for you help
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| Marianne Faithfull to cover "Dear God, Please Help Me" on new album |
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posted by davidt
on Wednesday May 07 2008, @09:00AM
Originally posted in the forums by faithfull:
Marianne Faithfull sings Morrissey!
Hi folks!
Some of you might remember me. The Faithfull hardcore from the Strasbourg gig in January!
I do have hot news regarding the new record of Marianne Faithfull to be released in late September:
06 Mai 2008, 00:00
Marianne’s new album ’EASY COME, EASY GO’
Marianne's new album EASY COME, EASY GO will be released at the end of September 2008. Recorded over a two week period at the end of 2007 at the historic Sear Sound studios in New York.
All the songs have been chosen by Marianne and Hal. The album includes interpretations of songs from such varied artists as Billie Holiday's 'Solitude', Merle Haggard's 'Sing me back home', Bessie Smith's 'Easy Come Easy Go Blues' (the title track), Morrissey 'Dear God Please Help Me' and Dolly Parton "Down from Dover.
Using a brass band and string section, the band also reunites Marianne with Marc Ribot, and Barry Reynolds. Both Marianne and Hal feel the album is one of their best to date. The album will also come out as a special edition; keep checking in for details.
I wonder how this cover will be like - so you are likely to love OR hate Marianne for this... ;-)))
Have a nice day!
Roland
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News also at the Marianne Faithfull official site.
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| Sparks interview : Morrissey mentions |
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posted by davidt
on Wednesday May 07 2008, @09:00AM
DianaDors writes:Great interview with Sparks from The Times (London) with some lovely comments about being friends with Morrissey and noting his "lyrical supremacy". Here’s 21 they did earlier: Ron and Russell Mael create Sparks - Times Online
Excerpt:
Not forgetting Morrissey, of course, a longtime champion of Sparks who used to pop over when he lived in LA. “Our only disappointment was that he didn’t draw up in a horse and carriage,” Russell sighs. “It was a Jaguar XKE.”
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“I’m sure his horse and carriage was just being reshod,” Ron dead-pans. “It was in the blacksmith’s that day.”
Morrissey invited Sparks to join his Meltdown festival lineup in 2004. Now the Maels have belatedly repaid the compliment, in a backhanded way, with a song called Lighten Up, Morrissey on their shiny and sardonic new album, Exotic Creatures of the Deep. Despite its arch title, the song is really a plea for a potential girlfriend to cool her obsession with pop’s most famous celibate vegetarian.
“We gave it to Morrissey about two weeks ago and he’s in love with it,” says Russell. “We wanted him to hear it before it got out there.”
“It could have gone either way!” laughs Ron. “There is some humour in telling Morrissey to lighten up, but I would hate it if he ever did, because then he wouldn’t be Morrissey. He would just be . . . one of us.”
Another standout track on the album is a sleazy, sarcastic electro-glam stomp called I Can’t Believe that You Would Fall for All the Crap in This Song. A very Sparks confection, it is a seductive pop tune that sneers at seductive pop tunes.
“It’s directed at a person who would fall for a generic saccharine expression of love in a song,” Ron says. “Too much pop music is so lyrically generic. Getting back to Morrissey, I don’t hear too many threats to his lyrical supremacy. He is definitely Attila the Hun in that regard.”
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