Years of Refusal... cover?
Am currently listening to the Janice Long interview and Janice alluded to Moz holding a baby on the cover of Years of Refusal...

Well, on photobucket I found this.

I fully expect to be shot down in a blaze of wild speculation.

RECORD COLLECTOR magazine's December issue 356 (in the shops Thursday 23rd October) features a tribute to The Smiths' 'This Charming Man' on the 25th anniversary of its release. It features a rundown of its making, release and lyrics and is followed up by a run through all the versions of the song, together with valuations of rare versions. RECORD COLLECTOR can be bought at WHSmiths, Borders, good newsagents, large supermarkets, independent record shops and online (even after it has gone off sale in the shops) at www.recordcollectormag.com

I was at The Mountain Goats concert on Tuesday October 21st in Portland, Oregon and John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats covered Suedehead by Morrissey.

John prefaced the song by saying that Morrissey was pretty big in all the clubs when he was living in Portland but that he personally couldn't stand Morrissey.

There's even a song that appears on The Mountain Goats' 2002 album titled Ghana called The Anti-Music song where he trashes Morrissey;

"And I saw you on TV
Doing a bad imitation of a second rate songwriter from the eighties named Morrissey
I never liked Morrissey
and I don't like you"
*Anti-Music Song by The Mountain Goats

John then admitted that he has since come around and that he is now a fan. Then The Mountain Goats along with Kaki King accompanying on guitar proceeded to play Suedehead.

It was a fairly faithful rendition of the song, and a great concert!

re, Meetings With Morrissey posters (original thread / image posted in the forums by lightupvirginmary): in response to the discussion about the posters, I have to admit it was a publicity scam that shouldn't really have gone ahead. I'd hoped the publishers would promote the book via fly-posting but in the end they decided against it for financial reasons. But a few posters had already been made and these were put up in various places, mainly London and Manchester I think. The "sex" poster is, appropriately, a bit of a cock up really. It's definitely not the quote I wanted and in fact combines two Morrissey lines from different sections of the book. He actually said the line "sex is on everybody's mind" about characters in Alan Bennett's television plays. (See 'Morrissey's People' section.) The original plan was to use the quote from my 1990 interview: "whether you like me or not, I remain an individual...individually nauseating or individually interesting. The key word in my vocabulary is individualism". Oh well...

Hello. I co-run The Music Slut (THEMUSICSLUT.COM) and last night I interviewed Andy Rourke. He mentioned The Smiths & Moz on a number of occasions. Here's the link to the full Q&A...

8 Questions With: Andy Rourke - The Music Slut

joe frady posted this in the general discussion forum:

Janice Long confirmed this very minute that Moz is going to be on the show next Tuesday night-into-Wednesday morning (technically Wednesday 00:00~03:00), that's the 21st/22nd of October. She recorded it on Thursday evening just prior to Morrissey leaving Blighty again, spent a couple of hours spinning some favourite tunes and chatting. She said he was on very fine form, hilarious, etc.

Janice was trying to interview him before O2 wireless gig, but it's good to have him on her show before the album release.
She has many questions such as review of the year, Southpaw reissue and Years Of Refusal etc.

Morrissey came to see Doll and the Kicks' concert.

MORRISSEY HEARTS DATK!!!! - Doll and the Kicks MySpace blog

Excerpt:

I would love to say that we had an ORDINARY gig last night where lots of ORDINARY fans came to see us do an ORDINARY set. However. This is not the case.

Both of the other bands booked to play The Fly in London pull out, so we were the only official band playing. Expectation one - no one will turn up apart from er my dad, justin and maybe our managers.....

WRONG.

The Fly was busy, yes busy, full of people eager to see DATK, in fact we have been promised a gig at The Barfly (camden) because of it. And i haven't even gotten to the best part. MORRISSEY came down with some friends to watch us play. Yes. He did. Morrissey. Came to watch us. (sorry for gushing Morrissey if you do ever happen to read this).

He liked, nay loved us said i was amazing and he loved Oliviers bass lines and thought our songs were great....... Oh and i kissed him on the cheek. He went for a hand shake but i thought 'fuck it' and grabbed my opportunity to touch his face with my lips. It was warm. Like a mans face should be.

So as well as meeting my new best friend Morrissey I had a pretty good gig, oh but i did break the button from my new urban outfitters skirt after having owned it for about --- 2 days? See you think you pay for quality but really it's no better than primarni (primark to all you not in the know).
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Kewpie also sends the link to the post in the forums:

i saw morrissey at a gig last night post by brokenbottlesemptyhearts

yesterday i went to go and see one of my favourite bands, doll and the kicks http://www.myspace.com/dollandthekicks play at the fly on oxford street.

as you might know, the fly isn't known for being a bastion of the international playboys, with it's tiny stage and sticky floors, so it was a total surprise to see him there. doll and the kicks came on about 9 o clock, and there were only about 30 people there, as the crowd moved forward, i looked over and i saw morrissey and boz boorer! they were totally into it and stayed for the whole set!

moz was standing my the ladies bathrooms as as i shuffled past i heard him saying how much he loved the band. afterwards everyone went upstars and he hung out at the bar with the band, chattering away. moz was looking tres genteel and distinguished. i'll try and find pics of that night and post them.