Morrissey Inks New Management Deal with Irving Azoff after being represented by Merck Mercuriadis. Curiously, six months ago, Guns N’ Roses and Axl Rose also signed up with Azoff after being managed by Mercuriadis. Coincidence?
So does this mean that we should expect to see a new Moz album exclusively sold at Best Buy or Walmart? Can’t you just picture all the hockey moms and joe six-packs: What in the Sam Hill is this guy?
I was Morrissey’s roadie (for one day) by Andrew Winters.
“Be careful, Andrew,” someone warns me. “Moz hates people who are boring . . . but then, he also hates people being too pushy around him. Establishing common ground quickly is important.”
If this tale is to believed, it’s no wonder that the Smiths could never find a suitable manager, a fact that Johnny Marr blames for why he quit the band…
Via lhb.
Aw shit. Looks like Morrissey and the NME are at it again. Haven’t read the NME article yet (we’ll be sure to post the link as soon as it’s available), but it sounds like the same old story. I.e., “a man in his 50s looking back nostalgically on the England of his youth” interpreted, once again, as racism.
Mega-manager Merck Mercuriadis is on the case, kicking ass and taking names, as well as announcing that “Morrissey signed his new record deal with Polydor / Decca.”
Update: BBC has the offending quote (after the jump)…
According to Billboard, opening act Kristeen Young was booted from the Morrissey tour for saying rude things:
According to reports at morrissey-solo.com, some audience members were chanting “Morrissey” during Young’s set, to which she replied, “Morrissey gives good head, I mean, er, cunnilingus…”
She opened when I saw Morrissey last year, and it was one of the most grating performances I’ve ever witnessed. Even from the relative cloister of the Aragon Ballroom’s Casbah lounge, her obnoxious screeching was still far too penetrating. Imagine, if you can, a louder, less musical, more affected Dresden Dolls. It’s hard, I know.
Read Young’s full statement after the jump…
Dig this pretty hot new Morrissey track, “All You Need is Me” performed on Last Call with Carson Daly on October 10.
I love the lyric, “You don’t like me but you love me either way you’re wrong, you’re gonna miss me when I’m gone,” which pretty well sums up most people’s feelings on Mozzer.
Via The NME.
Passions Just Like Mine, a feature length documentary exploring the culture of obsessive fandom, is currently in post-production. Check out the trailer:
Previously: I Have Forgiven You, Morrissey; Why “Rubber Ring” Is the Best Song Ever.
Continue reading Passions Just Like Mine: Morrissey Fan Film
Morrissey at the Aragon Ballroom
November 21, 2006, Chicago
I could’ve seen the Smiths on their Queen Is Dead tour in this same venue, the Aragon Ballroom, in 1986. They also played the Aragon on the first stop of the Meat Is Murder in 1985, but I hadn’t heard of them at that time.
A guy in my French class had made me a cassette with Meat Is Murder on one side and The Queen Is Dead on the other. I can’t remember why he gave it to me, but maybe it had something to do with the fact that I dressed fruity and liked Wham and a-ha. Everybody copied tapes for their friends back then. He and some of his punker friends had seen the Queen Is Dead tour, and I should’ve gone with them.
A few months later, I got my hands on a taped copy of Louder Than Bombs. By this point, I had become a fan. By the time Strangeways, Here We Come was released, I owned all of the officially released albums, and I picked up the new one after school on the day it hit stores. Of course, the Smiths had broken up by then so there would be no new music. But I had fallen deep into the world of buying imported 12″ singles and trading bootleg cassettes through the mail, so there seemed to be a never-ending supply of new-to-me material to collect and study.
Papal attraction – Douglas Coupland interviews Morrissey: “Morrissey is interview-proof. Don’t bother. He’s not an asshole and he’s not the Dalai Lama, but you could interview him for a thousand years and you’d learn nothing.” Via lhb.
New Morrissey video for “You Have Killed Me” off Ringleader of the Tormentors.
Morrissey has released a statement clarifying his legal proceedings with Mike Joyce. Here’s the post that set him off. And here’s “The Cowbell Track” (mp3). And Joyce’s stuff on ebay.
