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Thursday April 06, 06
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04:30 PM - Plans for the future tour, were all I saw on Channel 4
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It's evidently Morrissey's UK TV station of choice at the moment. Is he into Hollyoaks, I wonder?
Morrissey had a 30 minute graveyard slot tonight, performing four songs and supplying answers to Edith Bowman. He seemed surprisingly at ease for the interview portion of the programme - maybe because there wasn't a studio audience around? It wasn't exactly a classic interview, but the questions posed were relatively on-the-ball; Morrissey wasn't exactly over-effusive, but his answers were full, generous and non-facetious.
Others with better memories than me (or at least video recorders) will, I am sure, give fuller reports of what was said in a few hours' time. But it was nice to hear Moz say such kind words about his British fans - on their rationality and their intelligence. Kind words albeit, I think, words largely undeserved, at least on the former front. I feel rational about most things, but Morrissey - no.
Onwards:
I felt the sound was slightly on the crappy side for the performance part of the concert. Mikey was definitely too prominent in the mix. Mind you, going by what happened at Koko, when all the acts apart from Moz consented to repeat parts of their set so that the TV people could get the sound right, I suspect that again Morrissey would only perform the one time. It's not a complaint; just an observation. Or not even that really: just speculation.
The Voice was also slightly shaky during You Have Killed Me, but the other songs were much stronger. The songs not shown on The Album Chart Show were televised (The Youngest, I Just Want To See The Boy Happy), so at last the British television audience got to see Moz shaking his maracas (they're still green) and approving of his trombonist. Although, to be honest, tonight's trombone performance didn't really merit such approbation.
But Still Ill was just marvellous tonight, it made genuinely thrilling television. I'm going to be hearing it again very soon, too, and without the intermediary services of the cathode ray, which is a really fantastic feeling. Good night, chaps -
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