Johnny Marr & the Healers

One of my mom's friends showed me a photo of her daughter at what looked like a NYC rooftop cocktail party.
"GUESS WHO MY DAUGHTER IS DATING?"
The daughter was standing next a completely bald dude with with his back to the camera .
"THAT'S MOBY. THAT'S THE ONLY PICTURE I HAVE RIGHT NOW"
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The Messenger is the debut solo album by the British musician Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths. It is due to be released on February 25, 2013 in the UK through Warner Music Artist & Label Services / Warner Bros. Records. and on February 26 in the US through Sire Records.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "The Right Thing Right" 3:41
2. "I Want the Heartbeat" 2:47
3. "European Me" 3:56
4. "Upstarts" 3:38
5. "Lockdown" 3:58
6. "The Messenger" 4:29
7. "Generate! Generate!" 4:21
8. "Say Demesne" 5:37
9. "Sun & Moon" 3:23
10. "The Crack Up" 3:52
11. "New Town Velocity" 5:11
12. "Word Starts Attack" 3:29
Total length:
48:22

He's opening for New Order on their Spring US dates.

he is delegating cover design to teenagers who stay late in the computer labs learning how to use image editing software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TntIX_wfXUk

This is one of my all time fav. Johnny Marr moments. Very clearly feeling the ecstasy he and Johnson were taking on this tour and playing a great wah-wah disco tinged section during the breakdown in the middle of Giant. Unfortunately I can't find a soundboard recording of this tour that includes Giant so I have to keep watching this video.

Did anyone listen to that Johnny Marr solo album yet?

Am curious about it but have just seen the press release so far. US tour is happening too

He's headlining some US club dates

Album is more than solid, some stuff on it better than solid. Oddly enough, I kept thinking his singing voice was similar to, of all people, Phil Manzanera's.

tbh, though, I kept thinking of what awesome guitars he must be using, or whether he was using his hybrid Jaguar for everything, but I doubt he is.

I like the album a lot, actually. A few clunkers but overall solid like Josh said.

And he's one of the great music guys, super cool and nice.

thanks for the info, a little better than solid, you say. that's what i expected though of course that would be disappointing for the first solo album of someone like johnny marr who was the most exciting guitar player for a couple of years and then almost totally disappeared into session musicianship. the last great album he was on was the first electronic album or did i miss something?

Guitar playing's lovely. Melodies are strong. Let down by his singing and lyric writing. You spend the whole album wishing Morrissey or Matt Johnson were fronting it.

The loveliest man though. A real delight to interview.

Would love to have heard the literally lost album he recorded with Ian McCulloch.

^^^^ x 10^99!

the underground is overground
the overground will pull you down
it's how it goes
in these times

^^^^^sounds like top shelf new order. suck it haters

the last great album he was on was the first electronic album or did i miss something?

Dusk was 1993

dusk was quite good but not what i'd call a great album, i haven't listened to it for at least 15 years, so it didn't leave the same long-term imprint on me as the first electronic album.

Last great thing? STRANGEWAYS

still digging this. "sun & moon" is a great song. sounds a lot like a top shelf lee renaldo sonic youth jam

has anyone seen him recently live? he is coming to berlin on monday and i was thinking of going. does he and his band still do smiths songs live? the one song from the new album (out June, 15th) i heard ("hi hello") was ok, his guitar sound is still ace.

The live album that was put out a year or so ago is a good listen. From that and videos I have seen, it looks like Johnny Marr puts on a good show.

Yeah we're seeing him in a couple of weeks over here. Going in with no expectations and we'll see how it goes.

I saw him a couple of years ago and he was pretty good! Does a great approximation of Moz vocals.

I'd go

I thought Johnny Marr's take on "Getting Away with It" was really good on the live record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irxlqTm-SI

His solo work is much better than I'd ever have guessed it would have been. He was good on the last tour when I saw him.

Great concerts. Lots of young people
The succession of How soon is now?, New town velocity (he said he wrote this on the day he left school, i had never heard it, a fabulous song) and There is a light that never goes out at the end was godlike. His guitars still sound magoc. They got switched after about every second song. I came late and missed Bigmouth, I think. I am pretty sure that his kind of modest renditions of the Smiths songs are probably better than over the top Morrissey interpretations. Anyways he is the closest you can come to the Smiths live these days.

My sp is so bad, sorry.