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| Boz Boorer solo album out this week - interview at laut.de, article in the Sunday Tribune (Ireland) |
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| Vodafone Awards Show 2008, Best Live Male Act - Morrissey beaten by Mark Ronson |
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posted by davidt
on Monday September 22 2008, @11:00AM
An anonymous person writes:Morrissey beaten by Mark Ronson in Best Live Male Act! in the Vodaphone Awards Show 2008 ---
An anonymous person writes:Morrissey was nominated at the Vodaphone Live Music Awards, Check out the show in the UK. 25/09 - 4Music - 11pm |
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| Jerry Finn - obituary in The Independent (UK) |
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posted by davidt
on Monday September 22 2008, @11:00AM
Uncleskinny writes:Very nicely written obit by Pierre Perrone... Jerry Finn: Empathetic record producer - The Independent
Excerpt:
Recording Morrissey is never straightforward. The former Smiths frontman is a gifted lyricist and tends to emphasise that aspect of his work. By the time the American producer Jerry Finn worked with him in 2003, the notoriously choosy Morrissey had used four different producers over half a dozen solo albums. He had also relocated to Los Angeles and not released any new music since 1997. For the recording of You Are The Quarry, Finn decided to shake Morrissey out of his comfort zone by changing the singer's modus operandi.
"Having everyone in the studio at the same time made the creative process much easier," the producer said. "Instead of trying to create the music around Morrissey's vocals, which is how it used to be done, we were able to create a much more listenable album because everyone was in the same room at the same time and it made the album much tighter. It's just purely organic and it sounds incredible. I think Quarry is Morrissey's best work because of how it was recorded."
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| Morrissey / Smiths in the media |
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posted by davidt
on Monday September 22 2008, @11:00AM
torr writes:
Brandon Flowers mentions Moz as influence on new Killers album
Brandon Flowers Talks Day & Age: Best Killers Disc Ever!!! - Rolling Stone Smoking Section RS: So, if Sam's Town is about Vegas, what is this one about? BF: For me it's definitely a continuation. On this one I was thinking more universal. Like, when Morrissey was singing about Manchester, I thought, "I got it." [laughs]. I don't know. Maybe I didn't. I feel like that's the duty, I guess. You're supposed to represent where you're from, and—I'm trying to figure out what that is— I don't know how to do it. I don't know.
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Big Balls writes:
Manchester's Musical Timeline Video featuring The Smiths
"Massive" is a new BBC sitcom. First 28 seconds of video is about Moz and Marr.
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An anonymous person writes:
morrissey an marr meet up
According to a Manchester radio station today, Morrissey and Marr have been seen together in an "urban public house"
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| Morrissey remembered by his English teacher - "in his own world" |
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posted by davidt
on Saturday September 13 2008, @09:00AM
Alistair Stevenson writes:Today's Guardian newspaper (London) includes a story about celebrities remembered by their teachers, that includes Morrissey
Fame Academy - The Guardian
They grew up to become stars of stage and screen, of literature and politics, of art and sport. But what were today's celebrities like as children? Did they already have that spark that sets them apart? We track down their former teachers to find out
Morrissey (aka Steven Patrick Morrissey)
St Marys secondary modern, Stretford, Manchester, 1970-75. Aileen Power, English and art teacher
Steven had longish, curly hair, like an art student. I suppose he was reclusive, but the word that springs to mind is reverie - he was in his own world. I don't remember him as being opinionated and he certainly wasn't vociferous. But you realise that maybe things hit home that surfaced later on. I was and am very keen on the pro-life thing, and I showed the children pictures of aborted foetuses. Years later, he attended an anti-abortion rally, and obviously his revulsion for slaughter led him to champion animal rights. Steven had a soft, sonorous voice, and a couple of PE teachers said he was "limp-wristed".
In The Headmaster Ritual, he sings about the brutality of his schooldays, but that's dramatisation. He was never in trouble, but the strap was used - probably too much. There was a coldness - if you were going to be punished, you went silently to the housemaster. It was quite brutal.
Steven wasn't the cleverest, but he was a deep thinker. He had a feeling for English and literature, as well as for art. He had a sensitivity. I would have expected him to become a poet, but he surprised me with the music because we didn't have a music department. When he played at the Apollo, I wanted to find out what person he'd become. It was surreal, trying to link the artist with the reserved, seemingly strait-laced student. But perhaps he was always simmering, waiting to explode."
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| "Life After Marriage" - Word magazine (Sep. 2008, mag maybe out of print now) |
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posted by davidt
on Saturday September 13 2008, @09:00AM
An anonymous person writes:Life after Marriage.
"Six creative partnerships that at some stage all hit the rocks. But which one's winning in the perilous world of The Solo Career?"
Morrissey (49)
"The dominant half of the greatest rock marriage of our times, Morrissey was closer to his mother than his father and took prescription drugs for depression during his adolescence.In Johnny Marr he found someone-perhaps the only person-whose gift for melody and harmony could match his own brilliantly arresting songs lyrics. After huge success-their studio albums'peak chart positions were 2,1,2 and 2-Marr left, unable to deal with the stress and strain of the relationship any longer.In a 20-year solo career, including four years (1999-2003) without a record contract and characterised by an intense, combative relationship with fans and media alike, no Morrissey solo record has ever charted lower than 8. Neither he nor his former collaborator have ever seriously damaged their legacy, neither will ever run out of cash and both have devoutly loyal supporters who don't expect- or possibly even want The Smiths to reform. The perfect divorce.Morrissey's new album, Years Of Refusal, is out early in september." (ahem)
Score:9
Johnny Marr(44)
"Johnny Marr wrote-and went on to perfect-the golden rules for departing super-guitarists when he left The Smiths.First up was Electronic, his three-way collaboration with Neil Tennant and Bernard Summer.Huge hits followed.He joined The The to record Mind Bomb (quite possibly their best album) and variously wrote, recorded and toured with The Pretenders, Billy Bragg, Talking Heads, Oasis, Bryan Ferry and Beck. Then there was Johnny Marr and The Healers, the band he formed with Zak Starkey. Since 2006 Marr has been a full-time member of Modest Mouse, even moving to Portland, Oregon to work on the writing and recording of the band's fifth album, "We were dead before the ship even sank". Interestingly, he has recently joined Yorkshire band The Cribs after enjoying touring with them earlier this year, though no relocation to Wakefield has yet been announced. And just in case he gets bored, a new Healers album is "pretty much done". When, we wonder, does he sleep?"
Score:8
The other scores:
*-Brett Anderson (6)
-Bernard Butler (9)
*-Pete Doherty(3)
-Carl Barat (3)
*-Ian Brown (7)
-John Squire (2)
*Mick jagger (6)
-Keith Richards (7)
*Robert Plant (9)
-Jimmy Page (7)
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| New release date for Morrissey "Live At The Hollywood Bowl" - March 1, 2009 according to HMV.com |
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