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apparently six figures each member.

― Sheila Takeabow, Thursday, 20 January 2005 09:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

mmmm.

is it 1 April already ?

or is there proof of such historic events ..

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

No, you'll have to try harder than that...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

this is with holly johnson on vocals, right?

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

ok, i'll bite.

GIVEMEDETAILSNOWORISHALLSMITETHEEWITHWEAPONSFORGEDFROMSTEEL

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

seems reasonable.,

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

"apparently six figures each member."

Unfortunately it's somehow accidentally slipped Morrissey's mind to mention to Andy and Mike that the figures they've been offered are in Japanese Yen, while the figures he and Johnny Marr have been offered are in GB£ Sterling....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 million pounds each. apparently, this was a proposal from either Joyce & Rourke or Gannon & Rourke! Although I would guess the former. I still can't believe it myself, especially given the bitter lawsuit and all. Then again, I think all but Morrissey may be hungry, possibly on the edge of starving now, not so much Marr, as Joyce, Rourke, and Gannon.

― Sheila Takeabow, Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

"1 million pounds each. apparently,"

[a sad, tedious, pedantic accountant writes]:

That's seven figures.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Have you seen the rythm section recently? They are in no way starving

― Hey Dudes, you should check out some o dat Phil Collins dat be da fly shit dat n, Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

If Morrissey's hungry after the year he's had, it can only be cuz he's EATEN TOO MUCH!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

I wouldn't be that surprised if it ever happened cuz Morrissey's whole shtick is about scratching away at old wounds in that sour old way he always had. He was always about the past. Grist for t'mill innit?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

yep, morrissey really must be on his beam ends living in clark gable's old house in hollywood.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

At this moment Martin Rossiter is sat by his phone waiting for it to ring. Waiting, waiting, waiting...

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Am I the only one fed up with reunions?

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

i wouldn't mind the original scritti politti reuniting!

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Is that CD out yet? I saw it in the 'pile' that is the first page of the Mojo reviews, but no review inside...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

I would rather not go
Back to the old house
I would rather not go
Back to the old house
There’s too many
Bad memories
Too many memories
There...
There...
There...

When you cycled by
Here began all my dreams
The saddest thing I’ve ever seen
And you never knew
How much I really liked you
Because I never even told you
Oh, and I meant to

Are you still there ?
Or... have you moved away ?
Or have you moved away ?
Oh...

I would love to go
Back to the old house
But I never will
I never will...
I never will...
I never will...

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Or,

"Oh I won't go and be in that band again
but I'll have a cup of tea with you johnny
And it's OK if Andy and even Craig are there
But Mike's still overdue a slap with a wet slipper..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

the scrit early album comes out on valentine's day, but rough trade already have copies in stock.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Re-issue ! Re-package ! Re-package !
Re-evaluate the songs
Double-pack with a photograph
Extra Track (and a tacky badge)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

they should ALL come and play at the winchester club!

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

At this moment Martin Rossiter is sat by his phone waiting for it to ring. Waiting, waiting, waiting...

Hahah. Hey, it worked for Ian Astbury.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

When was the last time Green Gartside performed on stage?

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

the scrit early album comes out on valentine's day, but rough trade already have copies in stock.
-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...) (webmail), January 20th, 2005 12:44 PM. (link)

And so do I, now. A fiver. Whee.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

I remember him doing "Oh Patti" liveish on the Tube's 'when it's not on' fill-in programme. Forget the name. The Roxy, or some such...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

Muriel Gray. You know...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

Is that CD out yet? I saw it in the 'pile' that is the first page of the Mojo reviews, but no review inside...

that sucks, i wrote that... should be in the next issue!

― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

I never thought they would have reunited...but then again, I didn't think The Pixies would either!

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Andy put his bass up for sale on eBay? And not just any bass, but the one he used to record all those songs?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, just after he left Badly Drawn Boy's band.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

has anyone else heard the rumor that the smiths will be playing coachella?

http://www.productshopnyc.com

just the idea of a smiths reunion blows my mind.

― rm265, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

That would be pretty perverse. A festival show in likely 110F heat.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

...I would still go though. Which is a sign of poor mental health, probably.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

Extra Extra!! Smiths reunite after joke thread on message board gives them idea!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

well it worked out for the pixies

― the first church of latebloomer, friend of plebians and santa (reformed) (latebl, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.hallmundur.com/goodle/goodle.htm#

Radiohead to record "happy songs"
Guardian - 11 hours ago
Critically -acclaimed rock miserablists Radiohead are to release an album of covers of happy songs from the Eighties. Songs will include “Happy Talk”, “The Birdie Song”, and a duet with Cliff Richard on a startling re-interpretation of his 1988 Christmas smash “Mistletoe & Wine”
The Smiths to reform Reuters

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 21 January 2005 20:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Kung apparently has recent word on this. Kung?

― (plurplurplur) ^_- DJ 'O' Nut -_^ (rulprulprulp) (donut), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

You rang? Oh, sorry.

― klung (Ken L), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

That wacky Kung.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Kung?

Jonathan King?

― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

I suspect he has other things on his mind these days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

there is no way this is true, right?

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 14 November 2005 21:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

(mainly because i dont want it to be)

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 14 November 2005 21:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

If Kung says it we must keep it in mind. (In otherwards, no.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

kung and kodos?

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hahahahah. Hahah. Hahahahahahahah. Hahahahahahahahah. Hahah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Not the krung- the krung!

― klung (Ken L), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

From Holy Moly:

"Just had dinner at Daniel (NY) with some work friends, when I noticed an older and wiser Johnny Marr of The Smiths coming in as we were going out. I stopped to gawk because, well, that's what you do.

As he went to his table, he shook his dining partner's hand - it was a greying Morrissey. Smiths reunion, anyone?"

Morrissey fan sites are rubbishing these claims, but my money is on 'something' happening for Manchester vs Cancer, a charity concert at the MEN arena in Jan 2006. Maybe.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 14 November 2005 22:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's no doubt that they will reunite within the next 2 years or so, most likely for a one-off series of gigs. Without M. Joyce obv, not that it matters.

― Dr.C, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

They should call themselves "Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance" and only play clubs

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

Clubs with strings on, like the Boulder Brothers?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Without M. Joyce obv, not that it matters."

I'm sure that would be a lot of people's opinion - but I'm not at all sure I agree.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

OTM

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

Joyce totally matters, that rhythm section was half of what made the band great!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

I agree, it would matter to me (the sans-Mike Joyce), but then again, i really don't even want a morrissey/marr reunion. i think it would just SUCK, im happy with the records i have.

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

i mean, don't visions of a grizzled page and plant come to mind? who in gods name wants to see an old fart version of "this charming man"?

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

[Post photo of Stewart here]

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

IIRC there were all sorts of rumours flying about that Johnny was supposedly going to join Morrissey on stage at some festival in South California a few years back (Morrissey was performing, Johnny was apparently recording in some nearby studio) but nothing came of that.

I still tend to think that Johnny joining Morrissey on stage for a couple of numbers is far more likely to happen than any sort of actual reunion.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

"i mean, don't visions of a grizzled page and plant come to mind? who in gods name wants to see an old fart version of "this charming man"?"

-- JD from CDepot (kicksjoydarknes...), November 15th, 2005 7:47 PM. (later)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"[Post photo of Stewart here]"

-- k/l (lauter...), November 15th, 2005 8:00 PM. (later)

I'm not too sure to be honest. I'm certainly not amongst those who are against all reunions on some sort of principle (in my experience for every Page and Plant there's a Damned or a Bauhaus or a Buzzcocks or a Buzzkunst or a Penetration or a Pixies....); however there was something so essentially.... adolescent.... about so much of The Smiths material, that it's hard to imagine how a bunch of 40-somethings would be able to either recapture that or compensate for its absence.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

IIRC there were all sorts of rumours flying about that Johnny was supposedly going to join Morrissey on stage at some festival in South California a few years back

That was the first Coachella festival. No reunion happened, obv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

They should call themselves "Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance" and only play clubs

most otm post ever

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

"however there was something so essentially.... adolescent.... about so much of The Smiths material, that it's hard to imagine how a bunch of 40-somethings would be able to either recapture that or compensate for its absence."

OTM. I mean, id go see morrissey anytime, but i find it hard to believe that the essence of the smiths would be anything but betrayed by a reunion.

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

I happen to think that the Page/Plant version of "Gallows Pole" is far superior to the original. Much of Unledded is a little underrated, IMO.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

Thomas Inskeep OTM...Unledded was really cool, I thought.

A few of the reunions I've seen recent years, Mission of Burma, Pixies, Bauhaus, Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, were all pretty great, actually.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

Marr and Rourke together at least, with quite a line-up backing them up.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001659262

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's a website about the gig/charity here...

http://www.manchestervcancer.co.uk/

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

Tickets - £40 - on sale on Saturday.

http://www.manchestervcancer.co.uk/tickets.asp

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Morrissey & Marr: The Softcock Alliance

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 09:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

i thought this was a joke thread. that must be why there is so little response to the lates news.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 17 December 2005 08:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

do they have reissues with bonus tracks that i'll play once and never listen to again ?

― retrokid, Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Fuck! Marr & Rourke! Well that's as good as a full reunion, innit?

― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 December 2005 03:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Damnit why don't I live in England again?

― Halloween Spooky Party Hints! (Bimble...), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Today is the day the Smiths reunite threads reunite.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Marr. Rourke. 'There Is A Light' and 'How Soon Is Now' - it wasn't much, but it was enough to make me blub like a fule.

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm still wanting to shout Marr's praises from the feckin' rooftops. I hope this feeling never fades.

I would pimp my full review on my blog, but then people would want to poke me in the eye. And they would also mock me for my inaccuracies. No. I will go to bed and cocoon myself in memory.

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

6 years pass...

WONH WUH

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 06:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

I was wondering why this wasn't the Smiths thread that got revived yesterday.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 06:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

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