Morrissey a bigot? Hardly. If he was, do you honestly think he'd allow the Dears to open his Toronto show?

hasn't he fucked off somewhere for good? just another also-ran loudmouth legend in his own lunchtime, championing non-events (riot grrl) running down great bands (posies) and of course STILL stabbing away at morrissey. they can't stop, they'll never stop!
 
it's so great to be an older (38) fan enjoying moz's new success and his increasingly revered body of work, all without dirtying my hands on NME & melody maker.

indie professionals: yuk, keep 'em away!!

No need for any of these pundits' comments.

Moz is NOT a bigot, that much is obvious! He has explained the context to 'Bengali In Platforms' and 'The National Front Disco' many times. As to his immigration comments - isn't he entitled to an opinion then? This is just more-politically-correct-than-thou stuff.

Secondly, it hardly matters whether Morrissey meant every word he sang (and I believe he did) - the point is, he stood up for the loner, the outsider, and expressed honest emotions to which we could relate. We were, and are, given a spokesperson who cuts through the bullshit. Morrissey has given us that.

Thirdly, the Smiths were the best indie band of the last thirty years, period. The demographic of their fans is entirely irrelevant, be they working class, middle class or otherwise. Or should we "close our borders" to fans who don't fit the "right-on" indie stereotype. Such cobblers.

I think what's most interesting in all this is that this was on a Rough Trade compilation, the label that was not only Morrissey's home for many years, but the label of which was saved by Morrissey and Marr. Without The Smiths, Rough Trade--along with many other indie labels, since Rough Trade distribution was faltering along, and would have taken down lots of little labels with it--would be long out of business. I'm sure Geoff Travis's summer house was paid for by Morrissey, so how he and Rough Trade could allow such slagging off of one of their own is pretty damn shallow and wrong. Travis is an old git anyway; when their latest signings are the Moldy Peaches, god help them.

It's Matt Haynes, not Hayes.

Funny, isn't it, how the people who intone the word 'white' as the worst possible insult and call anyone who has the temerity to question that logic 'a bigot' are themselves almost always white.

There are two kinds of people when it comes to this sort of comment, a) those who understood and appreciated The Smiths and Morrissey and b) those who didnt, and subsequently felt left out, and react like spoilt children.

Morrissey is a cult hero and a very very intelligent man, this is not to say he is above criticism, however, the comments that were made in this instance are juvenile and smack of jelousy and resentment to me.

Not everybody has to like Moz as a person or enjoy his music, but criticism should be well informed and sensible. None of these comments come any where near that.

On the other hand, I dont know who is more stupid, them for writing it, or me taking time to react to such nonesense.

Morrisey made Rough Trade, now they decide to be yet another knife in his back!
Sean+ Evettte ROT IN HELL you pathetic ignorant TWATS I'm sick of people making their name by putting other people down.
Name a motorway lets hope for a pile up!
Look what MORRISSEY means to Andrea & Bryan (R.I.P.)
ROUGHTRADE should NOT get away with this.
I suggest WE BOYCOTT the cd in RESPECT for OURSELVES and our MAN!
RUSS

How can you call it "Excrutiatingly Rascist".
It was just a harmless bloody comedy. We didn't have all this pc piffle in the 70's.

I hope Morrissey is getting in touch with his lawyers immediately. His comments on immigration in the NME were fair, although perhaps misjudged seeing as he lives in LA.

and do not buy this rot..............

steal it (or download it).

                      That'll learn 'em !

If the world is for everyone, why does this Sean person want to have anyone who disagrees with him silenced? Sounds like just another Stalinist leftoid to me.

And this Everett fellow sounds like the bigot to me, with his bigotry towards white middle-class people.

Yawn. These people are just boring left wing cliches.

To be fair to Everett, he didn't use the word 'bigot', yet his anger at Indie-kids being described as 'white middle-class boys' is a little off the mark. Most of the people in the bands that he championed WERE indeed white, but that's hardly anybody's fault is it?

As someone myself who entrenched himself in 'Indiepop'(and still does, if he's being honest), it's this assertion that True can speak for me, and other Indie-kids, in saying that we all thought Morrissey was fraud that bugs me.
Does he think that members of Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes or The Fizzbombs thought Morrissey was a fraud? If so, how come I saw Andrew from The Desperadoes and Margarita from The Fizzbombs at some of the recent Scottish concerts?

Morrissey seems to have become an easy target for those who wish to indulge in cliqueish snobbery, almost as if some people detest the idea of someone from an independent pop/rock background having anything like a lengthy or succesful career.

Everett True was the biggest champion of Nirvana. If Kurt was still alive and pursuing some kind of major star trip would he berate him in such a fashion?

Quite probably, actually.