Alain Whyte and band mini Ireland tour (August 21, 2023)

The BIG news is here and we're so excited to finally share it with you. We will be playing some very select live shows later this year in the following cities/venues:

29 November - Belfast, Northern Ireland (Ulster Sports Club)
1 December - Cork, Ireland (The Pavilion)
2 December - Dublin, Ireland (Whelans)

The gigs will feature my band of all-stars most of you already know and love:

Craig Gannon - guitars
Gary Day - bass
Spencer Cobrin - drums
Gustavo Manzur, Jr. - keyboards

We'll be playing sets filled will songs we've all been involved in (either written, co-written and/or played on) as well as a surprise or two each night which you won't want to miss.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (25 August at 10am GMT) via AlainWhyteMusic.com/tour & Eventbrite.ie

More info will follow, so please stay tuned. We really can't wait to play for you all!

 

[DagenhamDan]

Southpaw Grammar, minus Boy Racer/plus Nobody Loves Us, is a dynamic and very unique record. The two really long tracks that bookend the LP are highly sophisticated and simply powerful musical statements for Morrissey. He didn't have any other albums that sounded like Southpaw, and I believe the LP overall is a testament to how great of an artist he is - that he could shake-up his direction like that after V&I. The band/music really shines on that record (in the forefront more than any other LP), and it's packed with energy.

I do agree with you though about his default musical setting, albeit after Southpaw Grammar, up until Gustavo arrived. He brought such a refreshing change to Morrissey's sound - even the ideas for the horn section/accordion in Bullfighter, the backing vox at the end of Drops Dead, and all the classical nylon stringed guitar playing throughout the whole World Peace album. He is missed.

Totally agree Juan, for some reason and without going into its musical merit, its an album i always love playing.
From the two long tracks which bookend it, also Dagenham Dave which is fantastic and everything else, its just great.
Being ignored in large because of everything britpop (hate that term), and disappearing without a trace sadly.
Its up there with his best.

 

[Juan Dulces]

Totally agree Juan, for some reason and without going into its musical merit, its an album i always love playing.
From the two long tracks which bookend it, also Dagenham Dave which is fantastic and everything else, its just great.
Being ignored in large because of everything britpop (hate that term), and disappearing without a trace sadly.
Its up there with his best.

Yeah, Dagenham Dave rocks and has such a great groove. That's always been a fave of mine from first listen.

 

[DagenhamDan]

Yeah, Dagenham Dave rocks and has such a great groove. That's always been a fave of mine from first listen.

And tanked at no 26 in the charts, which is fine because most of his great singles seemed to get lost in the mid twenties

 

[Lujan369]

Beautiful smile Alain

 

[marred]

I love Southpaw Grammar and agree that "Nobody Loves Us" should have been included. However, for me, the song I just can't bring myself to like (and boy have I tried) is "The Teachers are Afraid of the Pupils".

I know what you mean re Teachers.. but I like the oddness of Southpaw Grammar that has only eight songs with two f them over ten minutes long as bookends.

 

[dneuer]

I know what you mean re Teachers.. but I like the oddness of Southpaw Grammar that has only eight songs with two f them over ten minutes long as bookends.

Speaking of which, I wonder if Alain and crew are planning to break out Southpaw in Ireland

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[marred]

Speaking of which, I wonder if Alain and crew are planning to break out Southpaw in Ireland

That would be insane!

 

[Phranc & Open]

I love Alain's washed-out vintage baggy jeans and the big belt, in the GG video. So 1992! Bring it on, Alain!

 

[dneuer]

That would be insane!

Noted

 

[Spooked]

I so hope they come to America! I want to see Alain so much!!

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[marred]

No disrespect but it sounds like great material for a Morrissey album. If only Alain and Morrissey would make up and Alain could return to... oh wait we've already tried that.

 

[DaveJCarr]

No disrespect but it sounds like great material for a Morrissey album. If only Alain and Morrissey would make up and Alain could return to... oh wait we've already tried that.

Yeah. I don't think either party seems interested in that. If they were, thy would

 

[Simplysmiths]

Why is Alain out again? Anybody know?

 

[Jamie]

Why is Alain out again? Anybody know?

Link on post 109, page six of this thread.

 

[Crisstti]

Why is Alain out again? Anybody know?

Problems with the tour manager.

 

[Crisstti]

And don't forget the time Morrissey came out on stage to tell the audience that tonights show will not go ahead because Gustavo was very ill and that we are a family, blah, blah, blah... Seems like they were quite tight.

I came across this Gustavo interview a while back. He adored Morrissey.

 

[DaveJCarr]

I came across this Gustavo interview a while back. He adored Morrissey.

If you ever find it please do share

 

[marred]

I came across this Gustavo interview a while back. He adored Morrissey.

Well management must be appalling for Gus and Alain to have jumped ship then. But it's weird Morrissey just keeps on keeping on as if there's no issue to address.