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What is your favorite live appearance opening statement/greeting by Morrissey as a solo artist or with The Smiths? (suggested by sumonessweetie)

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Welcome to New York Shitty! (Hammerstein Ballroom)
  7% 85 votes
We have a Durham, too. But yours is...nicer? (DPAC-NC)
  2% 29 votes
The city of 'brotherly love'? (Electric Factory)
  3% 37 votes
Hello!!! (Rank)
  29% 356 votes
This city is named for an Englishman? (Raleigh)
  1% 13 votes
We've just come from a beach blanket lobster bash (Myrtle Beach-ROTT)
  4% 52 votes
This is a beautiful place with a rotten name- Wolftrap...Is Mrs. Bush on the board? (Vienna, VA)
  3% 45 votes
Welcome to the first night of our one month residency here at the Apollo. (NYC)
  4% 60 votes
I am angry, I am ill and I am ugly as sin (Myrtle Beach-YOR)
  28% 346 votes
other
  15% 183 votes
1206 total votes.
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  • I am angry, I am ill, I'm as ugly as sin. What a great opening. The gig could only go downhill after that.
    Anonymous -- Monday May 31 2010, @12:06PM (#352675)
  • In Blackpool in 2004 he opened with something like Hello Blackpool, "WELCOME TO A GREAT BIG SLICE OF SATURDAY NIGHT"

    I quite liked that one.
    Anonymous -- Monday May 31 2010, @12:55PM (#352676)

  • Human abattoir! (Score:2, Interesting)

    In berlin in !7 Dec 2006 he said: "Welcome to the human abattoir", in Athens in nov 2002 he said: "We're Aphrodite's child" this is the former band of Demis Roussos "Forever and ever"
    Argyris_Kravaritis -- Monday May 31 2010, @01:18PM (#352677)
    (User #3786 Info | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX2tRTuJags&feature=channel_page)
    The only thing that I know is that I don't know anything...Socrates
  • something about swinging dead cat, at the Bowery.
    Davinder -- Monday May 31 2010, @02:30PM (#352678)
    (User #355 Info)
  • ...it was then, but it's called the O2 now
    Fr. Neil Horan -- Monday May 31 2010, @02:39PM (#352679)
    (User #22649 Info)
  • We're the funny Manchester group
    Mmmmmm -- Monday May 31 2010, @08:03PM (#352687)
    (User #204 Info)
    • Correction... by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday June 03 2010, @02:49PM

  • Liverpool (Score:1, Funny)

    It's Saturday night...
    It's Liverpool...
    It's raining, and it's prefect!

    then some tosser ruined it lol x
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @05:09AM (#352690)
  • This is a great poll. Always makes me laugh:

    "I am sick, I am dull, I am plain- HELLO."
    -9:30 Club, Washington, DC (Oye Esteban)

    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @05:11AM (#352691)
  • "Welcome to Hamburg's toilet" (Gaswerk)
    paradroid82 -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @05:28AM (#352692)
    (User #22672 Info)
  • The one I'll always remember, helping the rabid Latino fan growth came one night in Los Angeles: "Hallo, I am Oscar De La Moza (instead of Latino boxer Oscar De La Hoya)!"

    -Shoplifterromo
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @05:51AM (#352693)
  • "Welcome to the West End"
    Drury Lane Theater, London
    1995
    bpzmag -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @07:14AM (#352695)
    (User #22333 Info)
  • what Morrissey said at whatever gig

    or

    at recording live gig [not bootlegs]

    well, as for just a show

    "my name is Gilbert O Sullivan" when he sang, and the Lads played[ in Dublin] 'Nothing Rhymes'
    Celibate Cry <[email protected]> -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @07:29AM (#352696)
    (User #220 Info)
    and the hills are alive with celibate cries
  • The all time best opening line to ANY concert: At a low point in popularity Morrissey played a really tiny venue 30 minutes outside Baltimore, MD. The place looked like a tiny VFW, when he came out he said something like (forget the exact words): "Welcome to the Cohen Bar Mitzvah" It fit the room hysterically perfectly!
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @09:35AM (#352697)

  • I loved... (Score:2, Insightful)

    "Welcome to a night, you will live, to FORGET."

    Might have been Liverpool Royal Court in 2004.

    His crooning at the start of Who Put The M In Manchester is pretty wonderful, too. "Regrets...."

    NOBODY HAS BETTER INTRO LINES THAN MORRISSEY. I bet they get filed away in a little book on the tour bus.
    Stan <[email protected]> -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @09:44AM (#352698)
    (User #9752 Info | http://www.stanleymchale.merseyblogs.co.uk/)

  • 50th Birthday Gig (Score:1, Interesting)

    "Fifty Gruesome Years!"
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @11:07AM (#352699)
  • Ones I've been present at:

    Hey Hey Hey! its Tiger Bay.

    the Blackpool 2004 one

    Tonights gonna be a bumpy ride (RAH 2009 after Swindon)

    Two lips for tulips in ol Amsterdam

    Tonight Matthew I am Mike Joyce

    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @11:38AM (#352702)
  • "Cambridge, here is your starter for ten, no conferring" (Cambridge Corn Exchange, May 16th 09)

    And wasn't there a line at Great Yarmouth about the last person to play the venue having been Tom O'Connor and how Moz hoped to God he lived up to it....?
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @11:58AM (#352703)

  • Australia (Score:1, Funny)

    "It's taken us seventy-two years, but we're finally here...this is a night to forget"

    Australia 2002 (Adelaide??)
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @12:01PM (#352704)
  • Are you all having a good time?
    Well too bad!
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @12:40PM (#352705)
  • it was the last Liverpool one. It's Saturday night, it's raining, it's Liverpool and it's perfect. It was a fantastic opening only to be followed by the worst night.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @12:54PM (#352706)
  • "we've come to give you a sound thrashing"
    playboys -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @02:18PM (#352708)
    (User #21035 Info | http://passionsjustlikemine.wordpress.com/)
  • Similar to what Stan mentioned above, in Denver around 2004:

    "Hello Denver. Welcome to a night...to forget!"
    RomanHoliday -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @03:27PM (#352710)
    (User #18810 Info)
  • "Tonight you can be as playful as you like, or you can be your old boring self...hmm...". I might use that for a birthday party invitation...

    family lines' end
    Anonymous -- Tuesday June 01 2010, @07:20PM (#352712)
  • "Hello, Cockney rejects. You sound like you're in good spirits. That will change."
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @03:39AM (#352714)
  • - Manchester Move Festival, Trafford, 2004.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @03:54AM (#352715)
  • "We Are The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Band!"

    (in Scottish accent)

    Excellent!
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @05:12AM (#352716)
  • 'You have incredibly good taste' Yamaha
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @06:36AM (#352718)
  • April 27, 2007 and the opening night of the Greatest Hits tour, Moz came out and said 'Welcome to the first night of...The Asparagus Festival'

    Stockton has an annual Asparagus Festival and just so happens that he played the first night of the festival that year. Having been from Stockton maybe I thought it was a little more clever than people who traveled for the show. Just always sticks out in my mind.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @09:36AM (#352721)
  • It's kareoke night!
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @10:38AM (#352722)
  • "Other." (Although the wonderfully aggressive HELLO! from rank is a close second.)

    Anybody who has ever seen him live has a their own favorites from the shows they attended.

    A couple of mine are

    "Good evening. I am Marilyn Manson"

    "Me, Morrissey, Eu-Gene."

    The man is far too prolific a quipper to narrow it down to these paltry few offerings.

    Georgissey <[email protected]> -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @11:18AM (#352724)
    (User #22903 Info)
  • Unfortunetly probably only few of you have witnessed Morrissey saying: "Hello, Jazz Lovers". It's sounded strange, since Jazz vs. Morrissey are two different Universes. What is more, was his the way he was saying this.

    One of the 17 Swiss Morrissey Fans
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @02:20PM (#352730)
  • MORRISSEY was in RALEIGH????
    WHEN????

    (maybe when i was to young to go to concerts - prior to mid 90s. sigh.)
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 02 2010, @06:21PM (#352750)
    • Re:raleigh?! by Sumonessweetie (Score:1) Wednesday June 02 2010, @07:05PM
  • When he sang, "Don't cry for me Pasadena" (a la Don't Cry for Me Argentina)
    Anonymous -- Thursday June 03 2010, @09:29PM (#352800)
  • Welcome to Cecil Night! ............ My name is Cecil.

    Liverpool, '99
    Anonymous -- Friday June 04 2010, @03:41AM (#352804)
  • Grimsby on the Tormentors tour, " Who put the grim in Grimsby?".

    Visconti
    Anonymous -- Friday June 04 2010, @04:02PM (#352810)
  • Hello Blackburn - I am right behind you carrying a bucket.
    Anonymous -- Saturday June 05 2010, @02:50AM (#352815)
  • We've just flown in from West Ham. Take us as you find us.
    Anonymous -- Saturday June 05 2010, @10:31AM (#352822)
  • Hello Pub-lin!
    Anonymous -- Saturday June 05 2010, @03:57PM (#352825)
  • "Buenas noches Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires buenas noches" ....yes, in spanish,
    Anonymous -- Saturday June 05 2010, @11:07PM (#352827)
  • In Berkeley, CA in 2002 he opened with:

    "We're English, You're American--Welcome to the Greek"
    Anonymous -- Saturday June 05 2010, @11:08PM (#352828)
  • "Regrets, I've had a few but then again too many to mention."

    -RWRW
    Anonymous -- Sunday June 06 2010, @02:15PM (#352830)
  • "I have to warn you... I have to warn you... I sing in a foreign language"

    Morrissey at the Phillipshalle, Düsseldorf, 2007.

    the_wrong_boy
    Anonymous -- Sunday June 06 2010, @03:04PM (#352831)
  • "Hello Weatherfield!" when starting set at Move in old trafford Manchester (the mythical part that corrie is set)
    COLLNUIN -- Monday June 07 2010, @05:43AM (#352841)
    (User #18040 Info)
    if you can not help dont hinder !
  • I loved it when he opened with an excerpt of A-HA's "the sun always shines on TV" but there are many good intros.
    gonzax -- Monday June 07 2010, @10:51AM (#352844)
    (User #10749 Info)
  • Its friday..Its Philly..I'll try not to be silly
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 09 2010, @09:49AM (#352891)
  • Wet, it's Wednesday, it's Waukegan...

    No flash, but I liked it.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 09 2010, @11:36AM (#352894)
  • I liked the Albert Hall in 2002:

    "I'm what's left of Morrissey"

    (but, come to think of it, that may not have been an opening statement... anyone remember?)

    and last year in east london

    *Moz enters and gestures to room

    "Troxy!!!"

    *Moz gestures to band

    "Music!"
    carnal artist -- Thursday June 10 2010, @03:49PM (#352922)
    (User #7076 Info)
  • Or a simple geeky laugh to welcome the audience at his first solo gig in Wolverhampton!
    Anonymous -- Monday June 28 2010, @04:30PM (#353811)

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