Fans and Critics

On a slight tangent here, what EXACTLY is the Morrissey fan stereotype? I have an idea, but it was kinda shattered when I went to see him in 1999 and the Kentish Town Forum was full of beer boys.

It used to be sensitive flowers in the 80s, then he started invoking the National Front and it gradually mutated ...

That would explain the mutants at the gig then :) . Actually, the gig was packed with funny little groups who seemed to pop up sequentially. First the Forum was awash with teenage art-student stereotypes, then hard-looking gay men trapped in 1987 (before anyone shouts at me, the observed persons usually had their arm round their boyfriend, which is always a bit of a giveaway), and then finally the Beer Boys and Essex Girls, which shocked me I can tell you. I always thought that all that NF business would have been self-defeating, as I could never picture skinheads EVER liking Morrissey, and I didn't see any, but who could claim to know the political persuasions of the Beer Boys (or anyone else, for that matter)?