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Please!!!

Just got off with a friend who was at the gig. Not a sell out, almost full, Moz was chatty.

Opened with You Have Killed Me, followed by Still Ill. Nothing from Vauxhall, some stuff from Quarry (First of the Gang, Let Me Kiss You, Jesus), lots of Ringleader plus Suedehead, Reader Meet Author and Trouble Loves Me. Other Smiths were How Soon Is Now?, Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me was the encore. I am sure someone will be along with the full set... but this is a pretty good idea of what was played.

Who's in his band this time around? Drummer?

first off, it was a great show. the crowd was good, and i had fun with nothing hampering my night. tiger army was a little to loud for me, so i stoud towards the back for their set. they played longer then most moz openers. moz started with you have killed me. i drank alot so i cant get the setlist down to detail but i can give you the best that i remember.

you have killed me(opener)
still ill
the youngest was the most loved(freaking awesome live and the highlight of the night for me)
smiths songs they played were, how soon is now, girlfriend in a coma, stop me if youve heard this one before(encore), still ill

the quarry tracks they played were irish blood english heart, and first of the gang to die, i have forgiven you jesus.

those were the songs. sorry that i cant get them in order for you. my boston friend i met at the concert kept me drinking. great show all in all.

now if we can only get confirmation from someone who isn't anonymous.

If he played Trouble Loves Me i'll have an orgasm upon hearing the bootlegs... you can't ask for much more than that! hopefully he'll ease up on the quarry songs as the tour goes on though, first of the gang is on it's 3rd leg now...

1. You Have Killed Me
2. Still Ill!!!!
3. The Youngest Was The Most Loved
4. In The Future When All's Well
5. IBEH
6. My Life Is A Succession of People Saying Goodbye
7. Girlfriend In A Coma!!!
8. I Have Forgiven Jesus
9. I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
10. Reader Meet Author
11. Life Is A Pigsty
12. Let Me Kiss You
13. Trouble Loves Me
14. HSIN
15. First Of The Gang...
16. I Will See You In Far Off Places
17. Suedehead
18. At Last I Am Born
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19. Stop Me If You Think...!!!

no hairdresser on fire or november spawned a monster. thank gawd.

I'm sure others will have a complete set list up...
Boys all wore black v-necks and gray slacks... very sharp.
Matt Walker is the drummer... Morrissey commented that their last drummer was "poached" The gong now reads "TORMENTORS" in peel-and-stick decals!
Lots of new stuff, all sounds good... Made me cry, really. Onward to OKC! :)

Very interesting setlist. Hope a bootleg presents itself soon... how exciting!

Wow Morrissey is lettin us have it! He usually maxes out at 17 and if the show is getting recorded, then maybe 18. I am thrilled with this! And great song selection...He picked the best songs off of Quarry and a nice balance of the hits, bsides, and our wonderful Johnny marr classics to boot!
Hopefully he might throw in
EDILS OR Boy with a thorn!
Cheers all!

Retire IBEH and FOTGTD

This now will make THREE tours in a row with these, change it up!

Yes, now heading to Oklahoma City.

And if you did, where can us lonely hearts find a link to download it?

Fuck yeah. This would have seperated the real fans from the pretend ones.

Hi, can anyone please tell me what time Moz came on stage and about how long the show was time wise. this is very important to me..thanks!

Two great looking pictures. Thanks to the original poster!

http://community.livejournal.com/morrissey_daily/6 15981.html?view=6604077#t6604077

or more or less the same as last tour?

Trouble Loves Me? Stop Me...? Girlfriend...? Still Ill? Endless Succession live? Wow...

Anybody who complains needs their heads examined, seriously.

Comprehensive report with all the details, por favor.

Nice set, wish I could've heard Stop Me.

Anyone who saw the show--how did they do Still Ill's guitar? Bigmouth's arrangement was appropriate to the recorded version, with Boz playing acoustic and Jesse playing electric.

I guess Jesse is finally a technically-minded axe handler that Morrissey needs to play the tough Smiths songs. Bring on This Charming Man or You've Got Everything Now!

Can anyone describe please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/strph/112316958/

GIC clip. wow! Matt Walker looks like Spencer on the drums.

Excellent show -- Moz was well received in Tulsa. He commented about arriving yesterday under tornado warnings; he figured we must be used to it here (nah). Concert seemed shorter than it really was; I didn't realize he played 19 songs. A lot were from the new album, but there was a good mixture; it was inevitable some favorites would be missed.

Band was awesome, Morrissey sounded great, and acoustics were pretty good (although I was a little close to the speakers, so it will be a while before proper hearing returns). All in all, an excellent way to kick off the tour -- makes me wish I could go to OKC tomorrow.

If someone has some pics or a decent recording, please let me know!

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I was close, but short...therefore was run over by EVERYONE. I've never seen security this tight before on a Moz crowd...they're usually cooler than they were in Tulsa.

The setlist sounds amazing... can't wait. I've seen him over 30 times since '99 and I believe Gothenburg is gonna be my first show without "November"..hopefully. Thank God..... it was always my check-the-watch-and-yawn moment.

Bring on Sweden, yeeees!

MOzzarella

What did Moz come on stage to? I presume that imperfect list has been retired and he has chosen something new?

for the first time? fantastic! and no 'kegs between legs'? even better!
J

any shirts,stickers,posters etc.??????

Is it a co-incidence that, after writing his most openly gay songs to date on Ringleader, he's now decided to play 'Girlfriend in a Coma' live; his most heterosexual.
Ooh, isn't he a tease!
J

Thanks to all the concert attending posters so far but more more more please.

The set list is fantastic, Reader Meet Author Wow, Trouble Loves Me Wow Wow Suedehead Wow Wow Wow Roll on English dates.

p.s. did any shirts get taken off!?!?

any stage invasions?

did they offer?

this was my first time seeing moz, after being a fan for several years, and i was blown away. an incredible setlist paired with the best crowd i've been a part of for any concert i've attended made for quit a memorable show. thanks to everyone there and to morrissey for making this a night i wont soon forget.

Tha performance az a whole... wot else? astoundnn!!!
Morrissey will alwayz have that swaggrr y'dig?
tha audience n tha 'thrill' of being at a 'Morrissey' show... absent.
was we at the same show?
wot happened?!? it aint hym that'z lacknn...
it'z ya'll... get it 2gethrr.
tha chant n wot not... k'mon... if u aint follownn thru w/ total hysteria at c'n Morrissey hymself? it wyndz up soundnn braindead... "follow tha leadrr" mentality. appreciate tha effort but tha showz i been 2 bakk n tha day... peepll lost they shit!!! Morrissey fukkt it up onstage n ya'll juz stood there 4 tha most part... that'z all on u. sorry 2 b hatin' but dang! az 4 tha korny subject title("borrissey")... shit... k'mon most peepll on herre r korny... not xcluddn myself! I'ma fukk it up n okc n we all know Moz will 2!!! middle finga n tha air n I'm owt thiz bytch!!! yez n muthrrfukkn deed!!! holla atcha boi!!!

Was Alain there???

What was it like?

Can you let us know what one-liners he came out with? Someone has posted that he was very chatty...

Jesus, PLEASE.

Talk about Two CLUNKERS.

Replace with (1) Ringleader song and (1) from Vauxhall

Hi all, I promise a more narrative version of the event in the next couple of days, complete with pictures of the line and venue. In the meantime, here's a bunch of facts I remember, some being answers to people's queries. Here you have it, in the interest of completism and tiding you all over. There's some real urgency in a lot of your questions, it's lovely.

Matt Walker was on drums. There were two green maracas sitting on the drum riser, and Morrissey picked up at least one of them and shook it during at least one song. Um, can anyone help me out on that one. Was it The Youngest Was the Most Loved? Did he play the maracas more than that?

Alain wasn't there. Boz, Jesse, Gary, Mike/Michael (Morrissey introduced him as Michael), all there. Matt was the only new musician.

Stage design: none to speak of except the drumkit. The kick drum's resonant head was tri-partite green, white, and red, much in the manner of Italy's flag. (The hole for the mic was right in the middle of the white stripe.) Also, as someone has already noted, a disco ball-esque light display turned on at the start of the set. I looked up and it wasn't an actual disco ball. There was no stage backdrop. As someone has noted above, the small size of the stage didn't appear to permit for much; I'm sure later gigs will have more stage design.

Merchandise: three shirts were available (Tiger Army had about 10 times more merch than Morrissey). My memory of the Morrissey shirts is awful, because I only looked at them briefly before the gig, but here goes. One was blue and had a scripty 'M' inside a... scripty design. There must be some technical word for it? It looked not unlike the design of an old stamp that would be used to seal letters with wax? There was also a tan shirt that had 'Ringleader of the Tormentors' on it in a box in yellow gold, similar to the album cover, but, if memory serves, not identical. The third shirt was an American Apparel ringer tee, looked like heathered brown if that makes any sense. There was a cool drawing of a drum on the front, with a picture of the Italian flag on it (a rectangular flag in the center of the round drum - different from how the kick drum looked, but same basic idea). 'MORRISSEY' was written overtop the drum and 'RINGLEADER OF THE TORMENTORS' was written beneath. The shirts were $30, $30, and $40 respectively. Unfortunately for me, the smallest available size in all 3 was a men's medium. Roomy! I think all three designs were sold in M, L, XL. The $40 American Apparel tee was sized smaller than the other two, which were of another brand.

No stage invaders. Two gentlemen went over the barrier during, I believe, Girlfriend in a Coma. No one else even got close. Not because of the security - people just didn't really try to lift each other up.

Speaking of which, YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN the astonished faces of the security! I have NEVER seen so many burly men look SO baffled! I'm pretty sure they weren't really briefed about the whole Morrissey thing. Hint #1 was when one of the guards repeated over and over 'You mean HERE, as in here OUTSIDE THE VENUE?' when a fan tried to explain that people had been 'queueing here' since 5AM.

We were told not to throw anything onstage, not even flowers. 'If you have a present for Morrissey and he takes it, great. But DON'T THROW IT ONSTAGE, even if it's flowers or a card.' Harsh! A couple bouquets hit the stage when he came out, but Morrissey promptly threw them into the crowd, and remaining little bits were picked up immediately by roadies. Is Moz worried about slipping?

One fan that I met in line, who studiously listened to the entire soundcheck with me, our ears pressed up against the glass door and our respective pairs of eyeglasses ridiculously askew - he had an illustrated book about Joan of Arc, with a letter inside, that successfully made its way to Morrissey during the show. At another point, Morrissey took what appeared to be a small cardboard box from another fan.

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I got my London Palladium tickets in the post yesterday and now reading this has really whetted my appetite! It would be brilliant to hear Girlfriend and Stop Me...

In addition to a complete rock kit, Matt had a gigantic bass drum mounted on a stand, the type of thing an orchestra would use. He hit it with a mallet. During Life is a Pigsty, Mike mostly took over that responsibility.

That is a situation that needs to be rectified this very instant.

Sincerely,

Clay Aiken

hola.... i will be needing one of those "tour of the tormentors" tee's with the 3 u.s. dates on the back. i am in denver and unable to get to okc or austin. i have a paypal and ebay account if you need to verify my honesty! if anyone can grab me one in okc or austin, please mail me today at Paris1938@yahoo.com

thanks! gregg

still ill, girlfriend in a coma, absolutely AMAZING!!! for godīs sake, someone share this!!!!!

Doors opened at 7pm, Moz took the stage sometime after nine. The show didn't sell out, scalpers in the parking lots practically giving tickets away. Moz came out in a blue shirt, and ran backstage to change into a dry black one four or five numbers in. The audience became restless during "Life is a Pigsty" and received less applause after it ended, Morrissey said "You don't have to... but really if it doesn't put you out, i'd like you to meet..." and went on to introduce the band. Some other Moz banter inbetween songs included

"So we arrived in Tulsa last night.... in the middle of a tornado/electric storm..... but i'm sure you're used to it.... what an unusual way to live"

"Let us speak plainly, the television in tulsa is awful. Surely no one watches television here." *numerous audence shouts and cheers* "So I am wrong!"

  After "At Last I Am Born" Moz took off his shirt and threw it into the audience. I couldn't see that well but I think one lucky fan managed to get it out intact. It took less than two minutes after they left the stage from the band to come back out and finish with "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before"

Great show, I'd have liked to hear "The More you Ignore Me" but with all the other classics mixed with the excellent rarities one really can't complain.

http://myspace.com/endofsorrowmusic

The first I had ever heard of them, was when I found out that they were opening, which after last night, I have to say is quite a shame. I really enjoyed them. They seemed to have quite a following, judging by the crowd. Far and away my favorite opener of all the Moz shows I've been to.

This all bodes well for the European dates. Great to hear such positive reaction to the "warm up" shows.I expect some changes to the set list by the time he gets to Ireland and the UK

I am salivating at the mouth! : )
I can't wait 'till he makes
his way to L.A!

I have more than this, these are the better ones.

Vainessa

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Not worthy for the rest of the set.