Dickiefelton.com: "Sitting In My Stevenage Overspill Creating The Posters For Morrissey’s Los Angeles Concerts" (January 3, 2025)

Sitting In My Stevenage Overspill Creating The Posters For Morrissey’s Los Angeles Concerts.


If you are going to stage concerts in two iconic Los Angeles venues you’ll need posters that match the magnitude of the occasion.

And Morrissey turned to a designer sat in a box-room in Hertfordshire to create the visuals for his trio of end-of-year shows.

Sam Mabbitt was tasked with coming up with posters for the shows at United Theater and Hollywood Palladium.

"SITTING IN MY STEVENAGE OVERSPILL CREATING THE POSTERS FOR MORRISSEY'S LOS ANGELES CONCERTS" - Dickie Felton

"Seeing how quickly the dates were approaching, I knew I should get my skates on...." Designer Sam Mabbitt on working with Morrissey for his Los Angeles shows

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Ironbridge interview.
FWD.

 

[Light Housework]

Here is a playlist I put together of the NYE video clips.

 

[The Seeker of Good Songs]

So from the article Morrissey has involvement in the images he wants to use, which then means he must have given the approval for the album art that has been used these last years.

 

[Odbmke]

So Morrissey just steals this guys art, and then he is still just happy to work for Morrissey?

So many people want to be near fame that they will allow themselves to be walked all over. After enough years go by, the only people still around them have no backbone to speak of. And will wear whatever t shirt they are told to wear and issue whatever statement they are asked to issue.

“SM: In 2018 I was at the last night of Morrissey’s tour after following it down from Aberdeen. I noticed that one of my forays into Photoshop (Hollywood High School ‘Low in High School’ picture) had been used for the price tags on the merch stand.”

 

[Redacted]

I think it was obvious SER did not do those because it did not have that horrible gothic font with 70 other fonts mixed in

 

[BookishBoy]

So Morrissey just steals this guys art, and then he is still just happy to work for Morrissey?

So many people want to be near fame that they will allow themselves to be walked all over. After enough years go by, the only people still around them have no backbone to speak of. And will wear whatever t shirt they are told to wear and issue whatever statement they are asked to issue.

“SM: In 2018 I was at the last night of Morrissey’s tour after following it down from Aberdeen. I noticed that one of my forays into Photoshop (Hollywood High School ‘Low in High School’ picture) had been used for the price tags on the merch stand.”

That's a weird take! He's obviously a huge fan, so why not grab the chance to work with your idol if you want to?

 

[Musician]

That's a weird take! He's obviously a huge fan, so why not grab the chance to work with your idol if you want to?

Perhaps because it's a dick move to have people work for free for you when you can afford to pay them for their work?

 

[Odbmke]

That's a weird take! He's obviously a huge fan, so why not grab the chance to work with your idol if you want to?

If my band sampled Jim Jim Falls without permission, how do you think Morrissey would react?

 

[Odbmke]

Like when they just took an image I made and posted on here, then plastered it onto a t-shirt to sell at £30 a pop.
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Are you being serious?

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

Are you being serious?

Yes. You can see someone just put that film-effect border on my image.

 

[Redacted]

He has actually stolen tshirt designs from fans before

 

[Odbmke]

Yes. You can see someone just put that film-effect border on my image

Did Gordy find a way to justify it?

Morrissey stealing others work is infinitely worse than him just ruining his own career.

What a f***ing dick.

Sam knows next to nothing about his uncles career. Clueless boob. He didn’t know what Wolverhampton even was. He’s never heard of setlist fm. He has no business being involved in anything.

Imagine my surprise to find out I know infinitely more Morrissey history than either Sam or Jesse.

 

[TheSmiths_1985]

He has actually stolen tshirt designs from fans before

 

[Redacted]

Aren't there a few threads here about it? That pic of Morrissey on the balcony with the royal family? And another poster here saying someone contacted him asking for the images but did not offer to pay for them? And there is a blogger whose was a huge Morrissey fan, she can't stand him anymore, who is an artist and a book cover designer and she posted some images to her own site that he took and made into tshirts.

 

[BookishBoy]

If my band sampled Jim Jim Falls without permission, how do you think Morrissey would react?

Oh, I think Morrissey would probably issue a fatwa against you, or something similar. I realise he's extremely capable of being a dick.

But your comparison doesn't work, unless Morrissey has been a massive fan of your band for years. (Perhaps he has!)

 

[gordyboy9]

So Morrissey just steals this guys art, and then he is still just happy to work for Morrissey?

So many people want to be near fame that they will allow themselves to be walked all over. After enough years go by, the only people still around them have no backbone to speak of. And will wear whatever t shirt they are told to wear and issue whatever statement they are asked to issue.

“SM: In 2018 I was at the last night of Morrissey’s tour after following it down from Aberdeen. I noticed that one of my forays into Photoshop (Hollywood High School ‘Low in High School’ picture) had been used for the price tags on the merch stand.”

the guy can look on it as a badge of honour,he can put M on his cv for future work.
talent borrows,genius steals.

it isnt art,the original art would be the actors from 1970s coronation street.

 

[Odbmke]

Oh, I think Morrissey would probably issue a fatwa against you, or something similar. I realise he's extremely capable of being a dick.

But your comparison doesn't work, unless Morrissey has been a massive fan of your band for years. (Perhaps he has!)

It works fine. Art is art. f*** Morrissey for doing what he wouldn’t have done to himself.

 

[gordyboy9]

Did Gordy find a way to justify it?

Morrissey stealing others work is infinitely worse than him just ruining his own career.

What a f***ing dick.

Sam knows next to nothing about his uncles career. Clueless boob. He didn’t know what Wolverhampton even was. He’s never heard of setlist fm. He has no business being involved in anything.

Imagine my surprise to find out I know infinitely more Morrissey history than either Sam or Jesse.

blowing a gasket as usual,most people start the new year with a clean slate but oddie has to rake up the same old muck from the year before.
still waiting on you providing info of how you know all these things but alas we will still be sitting here next year still patiently waiting.

 

[gordyboy9]

If my band sampled Jim Jim Falls without permission, how do you think Morrissey would react?

he would be overjoyed the same way he is when someone covers one of his songs,he has said this many times,you just havent been paying attention.

 

[BookishBoy]

It works fine. Art is art. f*** Morrissey for doing what he wouldn’t have done to himself.

Agree to disagree - I still don't think your comparison works at all.

Here's another way of looking at it: if the internet had existed in 1972, and 13-year-old Moz had uploaded an image he'd made of Lou Reed, and Lou spotted it and used it on a t-shirt or drumhead or poster, do you think Morrissey would have been thrilled, or livid that Lou had stolen his art?