This write-up appears in the Friday "Alive" section of The Asbury Park Press with the headline "His Glorious Defeat." The newspaper actually services a pretty large distribution in NJ and Moz pulled a whole page. Well done!

On the Road: Morrissey knew the end was coming

Published in the Asbury Park Press and the Home News Tribune 2/18/00

On the Road
Chris Jordan

He hasn't a record label nor even a publicist these days.

Sure signs of a music career on the wane.

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MORRISSEY
8 p.m. Thursday
Count Basie Theater
Monmouth Street, Red Bank
Sold out
(732) 842-9000

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But thanks to a loyal cadre of fans even more loyal to him than Bruce Springsteen's fans are to their Boss, Morrissey is back in town and he's sold-out his Feb. 24 show at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank.

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New York's "Black Beetle" will be opening for Morrissey at Roseland on Feb. 25th!!! Jeff Buckley's mom posted this info to the iMusic bulletin board...

Black Beetle are: Michael Tighe, Parker Kindred, Joan Wasser, and Oren Bloedow. Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred were in Jeff Buckley's band.

From dowatever:

The band Phantom Planet will be the opening act for the shows at UCI and Universal. The band found out yesterday.

And from Dan:

L.A./Irvine opening act is Phantom Planet. The drummer is "Max" from the movie "Rushmore". I actually knew them when I lived in L.A.... they are good.

Feb 17, 2000

We stress that nothing is set in stone at press time, but history could very well take place during one of Oasis' hometown gigs at Reebok Stadium outside Manchester, England on July 15 and 16. Although it can only be classified as a hush-hush rumor at this point, don't be surprised if ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr debuts his new band, Johnny Marr and the Healers, as the opening act on one night of the two-night stand. For Mancunians and fans of British rock in general, that would be the musical version of Heaven on Earth.

Shaun Ryder, Movie Star!

SHAUN RYDER, HAPPY MONDAYS singer ROWETTA former STONE ROSES guitarist AZIZ IBRAHIM and ex-SMITHS ANDY ROURKE and MIKE JOYCE are set to star in a new film titled 'SOCIAL SOUP'.

The film script tells the tale of a group of Manchester ne-er do wells and was conceived by an unknown female write from the city.

All involved in the project are still reading scripts for the parts, but it's believed that Aziz - now frontman in his own band - will play a gangland drugs boss.

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Muchmusic (the Canadian equivalent of MTV) showed about 20 seconds of the Morrissey show from Hamilton on their Rapid Fax segment. He was singing "A Swallow On My Neck".

Just wanted to say that the second part of the February survey of q+a has now been uploaded at www.jmarr.com. And yes, he talks about Morrissey,.... :))