In Conversation With Morrissey - Gabfest (April 3, 2023): Difference between revisions

In Conversation With Morrissey - Gabfest (April 3, 2023) (view source)

Revision as of 19:52, 3 April 2023

163 bytes added , 3 April 2023

no edit summary

Davidt

Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators, xf_ug15, xf_ug2, xf_ug3, xf_ug4

10,973

edits

@@ Line 40: / Line 40: @@
 '''''F'': ''How so?'''''
-You still need at least six people involved to grind the wheels and be fully in the “now,” but they won’t do anything without a cut. People don’t work for wages alone anymore! Therefore you might as well stay with the established labels, and really, I had the time of my life with EMI, Sanctuary, and in the prehistory days of Rough Trade … which were actually very funny … and I don’t mean that disparagingly. I went over to Rough Trade’s lair every single day of the week … which, yes, was torture for them, but Geoff Travis was discovering just as much as I was in those days, and at least we were both determined to avoid compromise, and that worked very well.
+You still need at least six people involved to grind the wheels and be fully in the “now,” but they won’t do anything without a cut. People don’t work for wages alone anymore! Therefore you might as well stay with the established labels, and really, I had the time of my life with [[Mention::EMI Records|EMI]], [[Mention::Sanctuary Records|Sanctuary]], and in the prehistory days of [[Mention::Rough Trade Records|Rough Trade]] … which were actually very funny … and I don’t mean that disparagingly. I went over to Rough Trade’s lair every single day of the week … which, yes, was torture for them, but [[Mention::Geoff Travis]] was discovering just as much as I was in those days, and at least we were both determined to avoid compromise, and that worked very well.
 '''''F: It appears to me that there are certain figures (who I won’t bother to name here) who like to publicly criticise you again and again….and again. They can’t keep your name out of their mouths/articles/tweets. Do you find this as utterly confusing as the rest of us, that they claim to dislike you, yet can’t quite manage to leave you alone?'''''
-It comes across mostly as sexual obsession. They also strongly allude to an imaginary time when I was somehow their actual flesh-and-blood friend, and this claim allows them full rights to enlightened bitterness. The one who wears Lonnie Donegan’s head and who sees himself as a barking political voice operates no differently from Mary Whitehouse in the 1970s – offended by everyone who he just also happens to be jealous of. A child with no head can see these people for what they are. They cancel YOU because they are afraid of YOU exposing THEM. Obviously I’m an advocate of free speech, but harassment and persecution were once against the law… but not now.
+It comes across mostly as sexual obsession. They also strongly allude to an imaginary time when I was somehow their actual flesh-and-blood friend, and this claim allows them full rights to enlightened bitterness. The one who wears [[Mention::Lonnie Donegan]]’s head and who sees himself as a barking political voice operates no differently from [[Mention::Mary Whitehouse]] in the 1970s – offended by everyone who he just also happens to be jealous of. A child with no head can see these people for what they are. They cancel YOU because they are afraid of YOU exposing THEM. Obviously I’m an advocate of free speech, but harassment and persecution were once against the law… but not now.
 '''''F: I think many would agree with you on that. There’s a fine line and I’d say you’ve experienced harassment from the press and certain individuals for many years…'''''
@@ Line 54: / Line 54: @@
 '''''F: That’s good to hear.'''''
-To have the Smiths as your distant roots gives me pride, and the reasons why we were ridiculed and rejected have now become the precise reasons why so many people love the Smiths in 2023. It’s on the rise! You see, the people are always right.  On Spotify, Smiths songs have the same number of hits as Beyonce, yet Beyonce is promoted hourly on every Selfridge’s escalator, yet the Smiths have never had any form of promotion whatsoever.    Also, there was a weekly momentum with the Smiths that cannot happen now … every Thursday brought some vibrant Smiths news, and every three months there would be a new 7-inch in Woolworths and Our Price … it was a very British way of doing things and people really enjoyed it. Suddenly Smiths’ graffiti appeared on Coronation Street …  but that edge-of-seat way of following a band doesn’t happen now because radio and charts were handed over exclusively to techno dance music.
+To have the Smiths as your distant roots gives me pride, and the reasons why we were ridiculed and rejected have now become the precise reasons why so many people love the Smiths in 2023. It’s on the rise! You see, the people are always right.  On Spotify, Smiths songs have the same number of hits as [[Mention::Beyoncé|Beyonce]], yet Beyonce is promoted hourly on every Selfridge’s escalator, yet the Smiths have never had any form of promotion whatsoever.    Also, there was a weekly momentum with the Smiths that cannot happen now … every Thursday brought some vibrant Smiths news, and every three months there would be a new 7-inch in Woolworths and Our Price … it was a very British way of doing things and people really enjoyed it. Suddenly Smiths’ graffiti appeared on [[Mention::Coronation Street]] …  but that edge-of-seat way of following a band doesn’t happen now because radio and charts were handed over exclusively to techno dance music.
 For me to have moved along with ‘Viva Hate,’ ‘Bona Drag,’ ‘Your Arsenal,’ ‘You Are The Quarry,’ ‘Ringleader of the Tormentors,’ ‘World Peace is None Of Your Business,’ and others … well, who could be happier?