Hahah. Hey, it worked for Ian Astbury.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
And so do I, now. A fiver. Whee.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
that sucks, i wrote that... should be in the next issue!
― stevie (stevie), Thursday, 20 January 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.productshopnyc.com
just the idea of a smiths reunion blows my mind.
― rm265, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― the first church of latebloomer, friend of plebians and santa (reformed) (latebl, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Radiohead to record "happy songs" Guardian - 11 hours agoCritically -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 (nineteen years ago) link
― (plurplurplur) ^_- DJ 'O' Nut -_^ (rulprulprulp) (donut), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― klung (Ken L), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Jonathan King?
― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 14 November 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― klung (Ken L), Monday, 14 November 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
"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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr.C, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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"[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 (eighteen years ago) link
That was the first Coachella festival. No reunion happened, obv.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
most otm post ever
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001659262
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.manchestervcancer.co.uk/
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.manchestervcancer.co.uk/tickets.asp
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 17 December 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrokid, Saturday, 17 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Wanderers' Wandering Daughter (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 December 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Death of a Dieskau Dancer
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
Frankly Mr. Stravinski
― bannonality of evil (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
last night i dreamt that somebody loved meat
― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
k waiting for a Chopin pun to come to me so i can remove bookmark from this thread
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
Chopinlifters of the World Unite?
― bannonality of evil (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
has anything mike joyce ever participated in post smiths ever come out righthttps://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FixHZQh-MHw/UfmJIA-jtsI/AAAAAAAAZ0o/e5mcgm85oDA/s1600/The+Mighty+Wah+-+Songs+Of+Strength+&+Heartbreak+-+Front.jpgnever read about what was going on during the recording of bona drag but i wonder what the history of getting him to play on those songs wasBona Drag is a compilation, those singles were recorded and released consecutively - Rourke and Gannon are also on them
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
― bannonality of evil (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 2:45 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thank you
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
I think there was a time when Rourke and Joyce hoped the band would get back together which might explain his involvement in the earlier singles, who knows Moz might have had those kicking around in some form towards the end of the band?Rourke is such a great bassist
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
This revive is making me think of a future remake of Annie Hall wherein Alvy Singer complains about the record store guy telling him, "We've got a sale on Mo-rrissey this week..."
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Ravel Ruffians
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
"i never read about what was going on during the recording of bona drag but i wonder what the history of getting him to play on those songs was"
bona drag wasn't recorded as an album, it's a singles compilation, and he was used to record those singles.
― akm, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Haydn Glove
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
Miserable Tye
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
I Know It's Coda
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
There is a light that has just gone out.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
― akm, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 12:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i know
still doesn't say anything about why
― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
Closure.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
Cloture.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
There Is A Ligeti That Never Goes Out
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
Statement from Mike Joyce with reference to Classically Smiths . It is with much regret that I have to announce that I will not be taking part in the show (s) Classically Smiths. I entered into agreement in good faith to perform these shows with Andy Rourke and Craig Gannon. Unfortunately it became apparent very late that Andy would not be taking part. I agreed with Andy that I would take part in the press conference and inform people that he would not be taking part. Unfortunately on the morning of the press conference I was informed I would not be able to say this. I therefore agreed to take part in the press interviews but did so without discussing Andy’s participation in the venture at any point during all tv, radio and print interviews. After much deliberation and soul searching I have decided that without Andy, an integral part of why I agreed to take part in the first place, I have come to this difficult decision. I still believe the shows and concept to be a fantastic idea and wish them all the success they deserve.
so they made up fake quotes to pretend Andy was playing. then Joyce finds out Andy didn't actually agree to it and the two of them decide to tell the press. then before he can set the record straight he finds out he can't is not allowed to discuss it. do i have this right? what the fuck
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
Rubber Ring Cycle
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
If it hadn't already been done to death, I'd have launched a Smiths website. But too many already. So I decided instead to launch a website around the music of two other great songwriters - Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan, who I was thrilled to see lead Microdisney into a reunion period in 2018 and 2019. On https://coughlanohagan.com/, I think I'm building up something worthwhile. Hope you enjoy it.
― weirwrite, Saturday, 23 May 2020 06:52 (four years ago) link
"six figures per band member" - how adorable 2005 was.
What would Coachella pay for a Smiths reunion in 2021, $10 million?
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 23 May 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
What has Microdisney got to do with The Smiths?
― Mark G, Saturday, 23 May 2020 08:25 (four years ago) link
At least we have Rick Astley and Blossoms to fall back on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XluAp8yEhZ8
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 08:25 (two years ago) link
Oops
Well, I met The Blossoms a few weeks ago and they elected to not mention it. Nice.— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 17, 2021
― groovypanda, Friday, 17 September 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
lmao at salty Johnny Marr
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Friday, 17 September 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
didn't they realise he was the perfect guitarist to be in The Smiths with a better singer? :-(
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 17 September 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link