It. Will. NEVER. HAPPEN.

The Smiths is dead. Get over it already!

This is a rant. la la la la you really are a fucking tool.

Fucking shit footballers get transferred for 8 million quid, do you really think the best Britsh band of the last 30 years/ all time will ruin their legacy. BY reforming? At Coachella? Yeh right you are.

I'm sure Mike (is that you Joyce?) is really looking forward to the inevitable low fat spread advert.

Diana Ross's best song is Reflections?

As much as this would be amazing to experience since all of original band members are still alive and can still play....I don't think it will ever happen :(

Thanks a lot Mike & Andy!!!!

I sincerely hope that Moz agrees to it, lets the entire world soil their collective pants, and pulls his usual no-show.

I don't want this to happen. I would love to see him and Johnny do some NEW material together, but not as the Smiths. The Smiths weren't a band, they were a time and an emotion.

You can never go home again.

I bet you Mike Royce and Andy Whatsisname would do it for nothing. That means Johnny and Moz can split the 8 mil. Good deal I reckon.

Well, I think it would be silly not to accept because of some ungrounded principles. It's eight million for singing the same Smits songs he does anyway, just with an other guitarist. He could just give the money to PETA or something, that would turn the whole event into something noble.
I can't, though, understand why anyone would pay that much for those two to play together. Or well, I do, "The Smiths" would sell a lot of tickets, but otherwise..

bullshit? I think someone is having a laugh with Davidt. I don't care how reliable he thinks the source is, this sounds completely made up to me.

I hope that this never happens! The Smiths need to be remembered for what they were. Anything more could be a tremendous let down.

MORRISSEY/MARR

Maybe 5% chance.

But, of all places, why Coachella? (well, I guess the 8 Million.) Remember what happened last time Morrissey played there? He nearly did a walk off.

1999 was a better performance!

If it does happen how much of the 8 million do joyce and rourke get...There may be a slight problem there..;)

I don't really care anymore. I was a Smiths disciple for 20 years, they are still my favourite band, but I'm just getting to the point now where I feel that as a band they were historic and a reunion is becoming more and more irrelevant as each year passes. The recent surfacing of those demos was only interesting to listen to at first, but I haven't listened to any of them since. Rewind to ten years ago and I would have played them over and over, as I did all my bootleg collection. It's too late to be significant now. 20 years ago, had Lennon still been alive, it would have been Earth-shattering to see a Beatles reunion, truly phenomenal. If it happened in 2011 had Lennon and Harrison still been alive RIP, it would make headlines for a couple of days and then just come and go as the X-Factor and toddler pop rages full-on in the modern ears. It's too late.

Morrissey if you value your legacy dont even consider it

The Queen Is Dead
Frankly Mr. Shankly
Still Ill
Panic
Half a Person
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
Rusholme Ruffians
Is It Really So Strange?
Cemetery Gates
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Death of a Disco Dancer
Down on the Corner (Healers; Moz has a break)
Suedehead (Morrissey Solo)
Sheila Take a Bow
There is a Light
How Soon Is Now?
----ENCORE----
Hand In Glove
Shoplifters

PERSONNEL:

Morrissey
Johnny Marr
Boz Boorer
Matt Walker
Solomon Walker

There really is no point in posting about Smith reunions at all, it just won't happen.

I know I'm going to catch hell for this but if The Smiths ever want to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame then they need to do a reunion tour first. Or at least a few shows with a live DVD issue. Something- anything. The Smiths are just not in the minds of those who vote on the Hall because they just are not around.
This would be a good time for Morrissey to do this because his last tour ended on a down note and there is NO news of him even working on any new songs. He is a fool not to do it. This is as good a time as there ever will be. I hope they do it- even if it's just one show. Now, you can all tell me how full of crap I am. LOL.

thetexasbloke

...when hell freezes over and the whole world goes vegetarian. Morrissey won't stand on a stage with Mike Joyce for any amount of money.

Still I hold out hope that, one day, Johnny Marr will join Morrissey on stage during one of his tours. I just hope that I'm in the crowd when that happens.

Why Tuesday

Yeah, so another anonymous poster wants everyone to believe he/she is sitting on a hot, COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE Smiths reunion rumor. Okay.

It would be an abject disaster. The gang ethos, spriteliness of youth and heroic geekiness are now no more.

I adore Morrissey but the man in 2011 is simply not the same man who fronted the Smiths. Instead of looking to the past, why not embrace the future?

He continues making very good music within touching distance of greatness. There are four or five songs on YOR that could grace any Smiths record. The last thing he needs is Marr's middle age flab weighing him down.

A truly brilliant and current guitarist, in his prime - now that would be a different matter. I'd pay big bucks to hear Morrissey's crooning voice over some vicious glam rock riffs. But that's unlikely to happen with Jesse in the band.

B.

... $150million to appear in my back yard. They are still considering it, so snap up your tickets now, folks.

Coachella always seems to have either The Smiths or Bowie playing Ziggy Stardust in its entirety within their grasp, yet somehow, strangely, they never quite manage to confirm...I wonder why that should be? Possibly because it's all cynical, fabricated nonsense?

why would they play there, more likely would be manchester. Not that they EVER will.

Hell will freeze over before Morrissey would perform on the same stage as Mike Joyce. I could see a Morrissey/Marr collabration with Boz and the Walker Boys filling the rest of the lineup. My heart tells me that Morrissey is done with worldwide tours and will likely stick to a string of short European dates.

If the "reunion" takes place.
The Morrissey of now isn't the Morrissey of then.
Morrissey will be judged by his past...past performances and past words.
He will be judged as a hypocrite and a geezer.
Lines from "Get Off The Stage" will appear in more than one review.

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You silly old man
You silly old man
You're making a fool of yourself
So get off the stage

So get off the stage
Get off the stage
And when we get down off of the stage
Please stay off the stage old age

Get off the stage
Get off the stage
Cause I've given you enough of my time
And the money that wasn't even mine
(have you seen yourself recently)

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Morrissey will not be able to win.

I'd settle for a reunion of his best solo band, involving Boz, Alain, Gary and Spencer.

Then again any band not including the dreadful Jesse Tobias and underwhelming Solomon Walker would be fine too.

this could be great. why not the smiths? other bands have done it. they could be tighter than ever, and don't forget, the only people who truly know what's gone on are M,JM,AR and MJ. here's hoping. ;)

I can't wait till Tuesday now - when I confidently predict that the Anonymous poster of this rumour will be able to CONFIRM on this very site, via his well-placed source, that The Smiths really WILL be reuning for Coachella! How will I sleep tonight?? The excitement and expectation is simply too much to bear.

judging by the attitude on this board, the most punk thing the smiths could do is kick against the pricks and actually get back together. in the california desert, no less.

It's a large sum.

How much money does Morrissey have? He doesn't collect any Smiths royalties (since 1996?) because of the old court ruling so you'd think he just gets a fair amount (but nothing huge) from his solo royalties and whatever a tour nets him.

Obviously he's rich, but this would sort him out through retirement and that's something he must surely consider?

Ugly for it to be about dollars and cents but everyone has to consider the future and lord knows he likes to live well...

Not sure if I like the Idea or not?

We do only live once.

I just hope they can pull it off! :)

No matter what..

If they do get around to it.

If the rock titans known as "Bush" can reunite, why not The Smiths. Maybe they can do the Led Zep thing with Johnny and Steven playing with Mike Joyce Jr. and Little Andy Rourke.

Morrissey, don't do it!

Well , morrisseys star is fading and this is evidenced by two very mediocre albums in rott and yor. If I were him , I would snap jm hands off to reform because I don't see a new album tour etc any time soon , indeed , their is no album deal and I dont see a queue of people lining up to offer him and that excuse of musicians he calls a band any kind of deal.

Morrissey once said that he didn't want to go on forever and if push came to shove he would go away and mind his own business. The trouble is , people who have fame don't want to lose it

LA Times writer Randall Roberts posts re: Coachella lineup being announced 1/18/11 at 5pm on KEXP:

http://twitter.com/LilEdit/status/27421934132137984 just heard from a very reliable source that the rumored 5 p.m. announcement is bogus.

we mustn't forget why they even broke up in the first place...as much as we would LOVE for them to reunite, we should also appreciate their run...cherish the music and be thankful they arent some 80's band playing at fair grounds...The Smiths should remain intact.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/01/18/cochella-lineup-big-audio-dynamite-duran-duran-suede/ [slicingupeyeballs.com]

It's all about money not maintaining the legacy. It existed and captured a moment, they have no relevancy to todays world, esp not in LA.

He mozz does not want the old reunion bollocks..as in duran duran spandwho ballet i could name oh so many but i will not.Let it be.