Details for the four Irish gigs are now up on the Aiken Promotions website.

Aiken Promotions are proud to present...
Morrissey

To play Live at the INEC Killarney - 28th April ‘09
Tickets €54.80

Live at Leisureland Galway - 29th April ‘09
Tickets €54.80

Live at the Leisure Centre, Omagh - 1st May ‘09
Tickets £33.00

Live at the Waterfront, Belfast - 2nd May ‘09
Tickets £33.00

Tickets on sale Friday 12 December at 9am
Book on-line http://www.ticketmaster.ie/

Morrissey
House of Blues Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach, SC
Fri, Mar 6, 2009 7:00 PM

Onsale to General Public
Price : $29.50 - $74.00
Start: Fri, 12/20/08 10:00 AM EST

http://hob.com/tickets/eventdetail.asp?eventid=55573

NME has revealed more UK tour dates:

Here are my notes from the listening of "YoR" in Stockholm last friday. It's a bit sketchy, but at least I tried to share something with you guys here.
Kindly
/ Matin Söderström, Stockholm.

Impressions from the pre-listening of ”Years of refusal”, Stockholm, Sweden, 081205.

"6/12/08
Well, well, well. He turned up! Morrissey was actually in our actual dressing room. Being very funny. He asked me did I have any "new moves"!! Genius.

Steve Jones (the Sex Pistol) was there. A proper dude. Can't tell you what a buzz it is to have 2 of the people who are absolutely responsible for you making music in the room. I love meeting my heroes. They're all top, top geezers.

Gig was good. Went to the after show to see a few cats who come over from England. Didn't hit it hard though. Got my boy in town. Not fair dad rolling in at dawn stinking the gaff out. Got another 2 weeks of that.

Which brings me to tonight. Back in Vegas. At The Palms. Very 70s. Ricky Hatton's in town (again!) as is Russell Brand and the elusive Matt Morgan. Gonna watch the Oscar de la Hoya fight and then rip it up (so to speak). Could and should get messy.

In a bit.

GD"

The Waterfront gig in Belfast (May 1st)is now on Ticketmaster.ie

Tickets go on sale on Friday 12th at 9AM

‘Losing in front of your home crowd’; that’s the recent fate of Roy Keane who has been managing the Sunderland soccer team for the past 2 years. He has just stepped down without a push, dissatisfied with his own failure to maintain the initial team turnaround under his tenure.

Irish Times columnist Keith Duggan, writing in the sports pages of the newspaper last Saturday 6th December, reminds us of Keane’s place in Morrissey’s world (and I think hints at Morrissey’s place in his own!)…

…”Ten years ago, when Morrissey was singing Roy’s Keen on Top of the Pops, Keane was a marauding, suedehead midfielder who was at the epicentre of Ferguson’s empire and he was regularly portrayed as a half-wild Irishman in the British red tops – a character one step removed from the excesses of Punch magazine. In later years, they allowed that he might just be a smart lad after all but they could never fully come to terms with the fact he spoke and behaved in a way footballers never did before nor will do again…”

After describing some of this behaviour and popular reaction to it, Duggan concludes:
“Perhaps his last two years in football have taught Roy Keane the old truth; you can’t go home again...” Which has a ring of familiarity.