Dear Morrissey . . .

Hahaha, nice.

he also pulled a young girl onstage briefly and said "This is my daughter." Still can't figure out if he was joking or not, but I can't find any buzz about it anywhere so I'm presuming I just missed a wink or something.

My sister left a message all giddy and said she held his hand three times, hmm maybe it was my sister on stage! Word is Pigsty and National Front Disco were on the setlist but were scrapped u_u

Curis-

She's my flesh and blood. I had a torrid three day affair with her mother after a particularly memorable stay in Albuquerque some years back.

Regards,

Morrissey

Morrissey came!

Dear ILX Morrissey,

I think I love you.

Erica

Erica, my dear-

You have always kept the faith.

Thank you for this.

Yours,

Morrissey

Word is Pigsty and National Front Disco were on the setlist but were scrapped u_u

:( He played ~17 songs plus a 1-song encore and then left. He was touching a lot of people's hands though! Wish I'd been up front :/

Myrtle Beach was off the hook. Sigh. No more shows for me.

Oh, you went to Murder Beach, too? I'm sorry I missed you!

I was up front on the Mikey Farrell side. Flew in at 9 am on the red eye from SoCal after pulling two consecutive 12.5 hour clicnicals. It was worth it. Except Moz was kind of a dick to me.

Here's what I wrote to a list about the incident:

I felt things were going swimmingly until Moz handed me the mic again and pwned me a little past the set midpoint. At first, while he was standing in the center, he looked over towards me and squinted a lot, trying to read my shirt.

http://www2.gol.com/users/melemail/stuff/greatesttits.jpg

I think this was during a song. After it, he came
over and stared down at my chest and face. He leaned in and asked, "Do you still see Charles?" and gave me the mic. I answered, "Yes, I ran into him a couple of weeks ago. Didn't he tell you?" Moz took back the mic and responded, "Why should he?" and then HANDED the mic BACK to me. If it were simply rhetorical, he should've just kept the mic.

I began to answer, but before I could get four words out, he became impatient, made tapping gestures on his imaginary wristwatch. So I said, "I'm sorry" and handed the mic back to him. He proceeded to mock me as he is wont to do saying "See, you give someone the spotlight and they go blah blah blah." Bastard. Then I yelled at him, "Well, you asked for it!"

At least Moz didn't fall down in mock agony and the stagehands didn't come out and try to pull the mic cord away from me the way they did to a girl on the opposite side of the stage who told her tale of woe of how
she had to come to Myrtle Beach to get more of Moz because she only got 4 songs at the Hollywood Bowl due to being stuck in traffic. Moz is very impatient: Five seconds (1 sentence) seems to be the max time
allowed for an answer.

The first time he gave me the mic, he was much nicer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t-AezM_-nBc

He sounds like a bit of a dick.

He sounds like a bit of a dick.

Yeah, but I still lerv him. I'm getting used to his teasing. On some thread about being nice, someone English commented on how he thought it was practically a national trait to be nice to those whom you despise but not so nice to people you like. Moz is like that. He is so kind and polite to the rudest stalkers, and yet he has said the unkindest things to his own band members on stage.

I liked how th'Lads sported bruises and black eyes. Moz introduced them as once robust ice hockey players. But I think Moz beat them up himself...or at least directed the make-up application.

Hey Mel,

We were probably in very close proximity--though I would have noticed that shirt for sure. I was second row center, slightly Boz-side. About that incident, I thought he was talking to Julia, so I didn't think much of it, just thought he was being cheeky. Yeah, I thought it was funny when he lay down on the stage while the girl was talking. I think he was just in a very rambunctious mood. It must be so hard to be handed the mike impromptu like that. I wasn't in any danger of that, being farther back, but one of my greatest fears came true, with the shirt being thrown in my general direction: carnage. I didn't even try to get a piece, I just tried to get out of the melee. The boys in the band all looked smoking that night--and they didn't sound bad either:)

Ban Melinda Mess-injure.

Dear Morrissey,

It's me again. I recently purchased tickets to your next show here in Boston on October 30th. I'm just giving you a heads up so you can prepare in advance to be as wonderful as you were last time. I'm looking forward to seeing you again and hope the tour is going well.

Love,

Erica

Morrissey really is a plump old bugger now, isn't he?

my friend sent me an email the other day:

the only record i ever bought twice (well, that i can think of right now anyway)

kill uncle

Dear Autumn Almanac,

Step Off.

Love,

Erica

Dear Morrissey,

I haven't heard from you in a long while. How are things?

I still love you always.

Love,

Erica

I don't get it! I thought there would be a heckle, a fight, an arrest or something. Is it just meant to be funny? Cos it's not, really.

Dear Morrissey,

Looking pretty good. Thank you for this.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8900/32399056804c54c4868bodw7.gif

Love,

Erica

!!

(Poor Boz.)

http://cache.thephoenix.com/secure/uploadedImages/The_Phoenix/Home_Entertainment/The_Ultimate/goggles.jpg

Dear Morrissey,

Just wanted to say that I hope you're resting up for tonight's show. Also, I'm sure that you'll look dapper as hell in whatever you choose to wear but if you and the boys decide to skip the whole clothing thing as in the above picture then I'd be ok with that too.

See you later!

Erica

I'd happily look like Mr Boorer in that pic if i could right the songs he's wrote.

Blimey I wasnt expecting to be seeng near-nekkid moz at work first thing in the morning before my coffee o_0

7" > CD > MiniDisc...

miniSD card :(

I wonder how the gig went and if Erica got her wish?

Well, since you asked . . .

The set list was boring and I've already seen all five of the Smiths songs they played live before. BUT he/they sounded great and he was in the best mood I've ever seen him in. He was funny and talkative and that was great to see.

He did eventually take off his shirt but sadly only once. ;-)

The crowd was weird. We were planted firmly in the section containing drunk 40-50 year olds who hadn't been out of the house or to a concert in well over 10 years and were "cutting loose". It was a bit like watching an embarrassing 20th H.S. reunion.

All in all, it was a good night.

The crowd was weird

now, i'm not sayin, i'm just sayin

he/they sounded great and he was in the best mood I've ever seen him in

I think this makes a difference - the two times i've seen him in recent times - first time - really happy = really good gig - second time - somewhat melancholy, annoyed by the constant attempts at stage invasion (those drunken 40 years old again)- whole thing somewhat subdued. He can be such a moody bugger (obviously).

Yeah, totally. He was almost . . . chipper, even.

Just wanted to point out - nothing against drunk 40 yr olds in general just ones who keep bumping into me and singing the wrong lyrics and being generally annoying and "look at me I've still got it - woo hoo!" I've been searching for a clip for these commercials we have here for a casino where it's like "By day I'm a soccer mom with a boring life but by night I let loose and am wild!". They're so annoying and it was pretty much exactly like that.

I've already seen all five of the Smiths songs they played live before.

not nitpicking, but i can only recall 'this charming man,' 'ask,' 'how soon is now,' and 'death of a disco dancer.' was there another?

i agree that it was a weird crowd, but that's boston, and more specifically, landsdowne street, for you!

i hadn't seen him since 1991, and was glad to see his performance is much less melodramatic than i remember. i seem to remember him writhing around on stage the whole show, but my brother assured me that it was only during one song ...

I'd love to see "Ask" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nothing against drunk 40 yr olds in general just ones who keep bumping into me and singing the wrong lyrics and being generally annoying and "look at me I've still got it - woo hoo!"

Reasons I don't drink anymore - part 267.

EDB - he also played "I Keep Mine Hidden." That was my first time at the House of Blues and I'm not sure how I like it as a venue.

Pinefox - Ask was definitely the highlight of the entire thing for me.

Still glad we went but the shows I saw in 2007 were MUCH better as far as the set lists were concerned.

I wish I could rememer some of the banter. At one point he said, "I rolled in with the fog and out with the fog I'll roll to wither . . . and . . . die" but laughed while doing so making it very tongue in cheek.

E--what was good/bad about the house of blues? i just bought tv on the radio tickets for june and was moderately excited about checking it out (i always liked the avalon for shows and have been missing it recently).

enbb - thanks for clarifying; i was never a smiths completist, limiting myself to studio lps, etc., so i'd never heard that one before.
&
'i just wanted to make brown rice and peppers, but you can't do that in the house of rules!' was pretty good, i thought.

cad - i actually prefer the house of blues to the avalon, insofar as they have moved the soundboard from near the back entrance, which was a major obstruction for walking and watching the show.

but shows still end early there, i was outside by 10:30. i always thought that the avalon used to do this so that they could reopen for dancing; i don't know why hob does this. though i can't complain too much, it being a sunday night and all ...

stop being so offensively vegetarian awready, you fucking tool.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/20/morrissey-coachella-meat-fumes

At least he came back on. I'm surprised Macca has never done this given his riders.

Along with a selection of solo hits, the crowd were treated to blasts from the past

subs please check

"meat fumes"

"blast from the pasts?" shurely not!

What a toolkit. And I say this as somebody who still considers herself a Morrissey stan.

xpost: unlike his solo hits, which are from the current year of 1988

im sayin

At least he showed up for this, unlike the following night's tour-closer in Oakland, cancelled due to illness.

oh right but he's had solo hits (in the uk at least) well into the 00s.