Yay, first to comment.

My friend Math Tinder made it on stage!
Morrissey pulled her up during the encore which was again "Stop Me..."!!!

So happy for her!

Will post more details once I've caught my breath.

According to some on the board, you were the only one there last night. Morrissey should have realized that you are his number-one fan, and so he must have sang directly to you tonight.

I await your insight.

Handsome young lad, holding a guitar.

Someone please identify it?

Excuse my ignorance.

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Almost the same set as last night.

Lots of talking between songs.

Someone threw up a big black bra. Mozz made a scrunchy face and threw it back! Classic.

Awesome show, very small crowd. The venue did not even seem half full.

All in all, not as energetic as the 97 show in tulsa, but worth seeing.

Thanks for coming to shithole oklahoma!

My best friend lives in Norman and got to see him (I'm in Boston). She managed to call me during it and I could actually hear it without too much feedback!

I only got to listen to parts of it, but I know he opened with FOTGTD. Then he played Still Ill (I'm so sad she didn't call me during this) and I Will See You In Far Off Places. I'm sure there are others I missed. I did get to hear How Soon is Now?, Girlfriend in a Coma, Suedehead, Trouble Loves Me (I bawled like a baby through the entire thing because it is my favorite song ever), two ROTT songs, and he encored with Stop Me...

I know this is a useless comment but until people who were actually THERE can comment, =).

Yes, Julia was there. I went up and spoke with her for only a moment, but she seemed very amiable and fragile. Very small woman.

She took up her spot, at the front, and to the right, as usual.

washed my face, brushed my teeth, masturbated...still no set list

More or less they went something like this:

"Ringleader of the Tormentors is the name of our new album. Which will be buyable within two weeks or so. Or not.
Walgreens' has ordered 4 copies..... this is the big one!"

"This song was written by Hank Snow." ::I Have Forgiven Jesus begins::

"I wrote this song when I was 3, and it's called, 'Life is a Pigsty'." ::Introduces the band and gets to himself::
"And I'm Bob Hope."

After the first stage invader in the middle of the set got up, they were pulled away immediately. Morrissey went after to try to touch them but security had already gotten rid of them.
Morrissey looked annoyed by this and gestured that the guard was a "#### sucker" A hand motion into an open mouth... I think you understand.

Here's the girl that Morrissey handpicked.

Don't bother looking at me.
Hope you don't mind my posting it Math!

Remember to delete the SPACE in the link:

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

I'm pretty sure this was the setlist and a huge thank you to the girl (Angela from Australia???) for the flag!!!

Same one he did last night too, only with a slight change.

During "Suedehead" he sings:

"you had to sneak into my room
just to listen to Your Arsenal
it was just to see, just see
all the crap you knew, i'd written about you"

At Cain's it was this:
"you had to sneak into my room
just to listen to Your Arsenal
it was just to hear, just to hear
all the songs you knew, i'd written about you"

Ok no more random comments, I'll do a write up now.

because it's a really remarkable album

i'm so proud of morrissey . . . i thought he'd never do anything of such high quality again after hearing the shitty tepid bullshit of YATQ, but now I take it all back! deep down he's still a pop music snob

and he's got death on the brain too, which is always fun

of the new merchandise?

Whatta setlist! If he plays Still Ill when playing in Gothenburg, I swear to God I will piss meself!

First tme I have seen Morrissey, awesome gig. I thought how soon is now was excellent and always wanted to hear that baby performed live.

I could not believe my ears when he sang "I have forgiven Jesus" He replaced Jesus in one of the choruses with the word "Johnny" I nearly choked on my nachos!

unreal... did anyone else hear this?

Of all the shows I have gone too this time I came out with the set lists, and security gave me this form that shows the special access badges to show and they clear people for that enter with them. Which isn't as lame as it sounds its color copies of the badges looks pretty nice, to bad I don't live in europe I could probably fake some up for future shows. Anyway, I had a great time and made lots of friends, especially from Texas, I met one particularly enthusiast group, Paul and Julie and Lupe and Crystal. We shared cheese sandwiches in line all day and had a fun time waitiing 10 hrs together for the show.

As for being OKC resident I found this to be the "Old School" reunion. Everybody showed up many that had not seen each other for 20 years but still came to see our hero unified again. I felt like some strange version of a WWII vets reunion.

Got to go to work now, catch up later.

cmon, lets get a proper review outa someone.

how did the new songs sound? how bout "My Life...", "Still Ill", "Girlrfrined In A Coma" and "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before". has he changed up anything in the songs hes performed before/relatively recently?

how are the new songs being recieved by the crowds? as compared to the older stuff/Smiths stuff? how are the crowds in general? atmosphere?

iknow its a pain in the ass to type it all out, but itd be much appreciated.

Hello Everyone,
My G-Friend and I attended both shows in OK and we were not disappointed. Met alot of nice people, especially Charley from Texas, he will be traveling to Amsterdam to see one of the Eurpean shows, go Charley. Also met another person from Texas, good people.

I felt that the first show in Tulsa had much more energy and was, overall, a better performance than OK City. I think what may be swinging my judgement is the fact that Cains Ballroom had a more pleasant feel than the Brick House in OK, it seemed stuffy and the venue was dull.

All in all, I am totally stoked to see Moz again and cannot wait till he comes back from the European leg of the tour and plays some dates in the US. Come on Moz, book the Univ.Amp in LA, many are waiting.

Had a chance to meet Julia and speak with her for quite awhile. She was very polite, very shy, and also very chatty in her own "Shy" way. It was great to talk to her and get to know the person so many people her "obsess" over. Give her a break, she's only human and obvoulsy extremely dedicated to MOZ. And for final thought, he wants her there, nuff said.

Back to CA and reality, flight leaves in 2hrs.

Viva OK, thanks MOZ~

Bradley

i leaped onto stage when moz was tugging math from the guards, and made it. i grabbed morrissey from behind and did not let go the hug go until we were on the ground. i am desparately searching for someone with pictures of me with my head buried in morrissey's back. please please please let me get what i want lord knows it will be the first time. heath@medscape.com

who are the guitarists for this tour? anybody know? i'm a little behind on the news...

Remember being teased by a "still Ill" reference in Dublin in '91. Morrissey had been sick the whole week. He arrives on stage and says "as you have probably heard I have been very ill and you'll all be very pleased to her that I am 8long pause)... Still Ill" and then launched into alsation cousin I believe. Will be at the stockholm date and expect to hear it after the fifteen year wait.

Am I the only one that cares about this? I haven't even seen this approached, but I'm always entraced by what Morrissey chooses as his intro, preshow, intermission music... Anyone know anything?

He was beautiful, it was beautiful, but I am disappointed in us, Oklahoma City for forgetting his flowers!!!

no one has said it yet, but morrissey came out on stage with a walking cane, which he used to point and gesture with for the first number. this was obviously a reference to "the home for the blind" line from FOTGTD (the first song). or perhaps a tribute to ray charles.

How is Jesse's playing on Suedehead? I assume Boz is again doing the lead for that song.

Sorry, it was just a little hard to hear, though it was slightly clearer at the OKC show. I only wrote down what was played at the Tulsa show.

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Entrance music:

Some classical piano pieces, or piece
(wish I could knew more)

Post-opener / Pre-headliner music:

1. Punk song, female vocals

2. Punk song, male vocals (possibly Ramones?)

3. Mary Hopkin - Mother Earth[?] (this one has a spoken word dedication before it's sung)

4. Ramones - Carbona Not Glue
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5. sounds older, 60s/70s, female vocalist, chorus went "Got'em got'em got'em gone"

6. Olivia Newton-John - Long Live Love
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7. kind of a rockabilly-ish song, starts and ends with that stereotypical riff melody that means "China", with guitars of course

8. spoken word track, I just remember this line "presumably we need two hands to open the door"

9. acoustic song, male vocalist, i believe it was in Italian

10 Punk song, male vocals (possibly Ramones)

11 Older French(?) song, sounded very bouncy with a circus like sound

12 Boyfriends - I Love You ( http://www.myspace.com/myboyfriendsback )

13 an upbeat summer song? male vocals

Also, there was another track, I guess I messed up, but it's:

You'll Never Walk Alone, don't know which version, I've seen the Smoking Popes thrown around though. I listened to the clip but can't decide if this was it.

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Walk-On Music:

Jobriath - What A Pretty

Exit Music:

a nice country song, the chorus is very clear but I've forgotten, I was too excited both nights!

Only about 10 songs were played during the intermission at the OKC show.
I know for sure the spoken word track was missing.
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Sorry everyone, that's the best I could do.
Let me know if the AllMusic clips don't work.

Remember to delete the spaces in the links for them to work.

Loved the whole thing

I was at the show last night and it was awesome. I took my daughter and she loved it. It was our first time to see Morrissey. After IBEH he threw out his black shirt and the fun began. We both left with pieces of the shirt. Great memory for both of us.

I need any pics you might have of the show. Want to put a good picture with my piece of the shirt. email them to me please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67dy-iwKQNo

Delete space if necessary.

You can see Math get up on stage in the middle of the song.

And no, it's not me singing over Morrissey in the first half of it!

Hey all, I have a poor quality (audio is ok, but security kept giving us a hard time whenever the camera came out) video of this song from the OKC show on Tues, but it's 407 MB. Does anyone know of one of these file sharing websites that will house a file of this size? If so I'll upload it for everyone.

Here are pictures of the three available shirts on this short tour. I had the chance to talk to Jed after the Oklahoma City gig, and he said they had very little time to get these shirts finished, and that more sizes and designs were planned. Yay! I'd love to have these designs in my size.

As I suspected, my original descriptions of the shirts had lots of errors - the 'M' on the blue shirt isn't scripty, the tour date shirt is grey not brown, etc. Like I said, I just barely looked at them before the Tulsa gig. So, here are pictures! Excuse the wrinkles, they just came out of my bag.

The blue shirt. Gildan Activewear brand.
Full shirt - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_2006_blue_full.jpg
Detail - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_blue_detail.jpg

The gray shirt, Gildan Activewear.
Full shirtfront - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_usdates_full1.jpg
Full shirtback - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_2006_usdateback.jpg
Front detail - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_2006_usdatedetail.jpg
Back detail - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_2006_usdatesback2.jpg

The brown shirt. American Apparel brand, Standard American (men's line) imprint.
Full shirt - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_2006_drumfull.jpg
Detail - Link [pleasureiseasy.info] or http://pleasureiseasy.info/morrissey_shirts/moz_sh irt_2006_drum_detail.jpg

For the three U.S. dates, these shirts are available in men's M, L, XL.

The images are a wee bit big, 150-300k, let me know if you have any problems viewing them. If you're copying and pasting the link, make sure to delete the space in the lin.!

Words about the gig are coming! It took me much longer than expected to get back to Brooklyn.

love
math+

Thats one of the best songs off the new record and seeing it on the first nights set and not on the second worries me. Moz is known for doing certain songs the first night of a tour that just dissapears by the 2nd or 3rd. I hope this is not one. I thank you, I thank you with all of my heart.

I'm particularly ill-qualified for the task of writing an objective review of the Oklahoma City because a chain of lucky events put me onstage during the encore. In fact, I'm particularly ill-qualified for simply remembering the discrete events of the night; the whole thing still feels like one elated rush. But, I'll do my best?

In a way, there's less to say than there was about the first show, since many elements remain consistent - same Italy kick drum, same pre-show mix, essentially the same setlist. The backdrop photograph of Sacha Distel was obviously new, and the picture and Distel were/are both new to me. Beautiful picture. It was interesting how it only filled the left half of the stage. I expected another photograph to show up on the right side at some point, but we all know that never happened.

Overall, for me, the night was defined by Morrissey's gestures. General consensus seemed to be that the Tulsa show was the better of the two, but for me, Morrissey was more performative and expressive in Oklahoma City. I don't know if it's perhaps because I simply had a better spot / vantage point in Oklahoma City? But the way he enacted each line's mini-dramas was just incredible. Here's where I wish my memories were more specific. At one point (I don't recall the song), he was going to sing 'you' at the end of a line, and everyone knew he was going to say 'you' at the end of the line, and everyone was ready to point back at him. Just before he sang you, he traced his finger over the crowd, lingering on one person then another, and then when he finally sang 'you', he pointed at someone, shrugging and making a facial expression that suggested, 'okay, you'll do'. The entire night was absolutely thick with those kinds of gestures. I mean, that's simply what he did for one word. This went on and on, impeccably, to the point of sometimes appearing staged, such as when he grabbed a (Swiss?) flag from the audience whilst singing 'flag' in Irish Blood English Heart. The most dramatic thing I remember him doing with his body is mimicking the pose of a performing animal, like an elephant or something?, at the end of How Soon Is Now, when the gong was hit. He had one knee on the stage, his forehead on the stage, and the other leg bent at the knee, raised behind him in the air. Again, my closest reference point was that it looked like a pose a performing animal might assume.

In general, both nights but especially in Oklahoma City, Morrissey seemed to me like he was on the verge of bursting out laughing. He did use that aggressive sneer a lot, the one that dates from the Smiths' days. On the whole, though, he seemed so much within his music and within his element that it was as though he was singing to keep from laughing.

The sound of the songs from Ringleader of the Tormentors: fantastic, expert. I'd only heard the Amazon version previously (many, many times), and live, the songs were basically what I'd expected. 'Deft' is the word that comes to mind.

The sound of the Smiths songs - I didn't give this much attention in Tulsa because I was just, you know, EXCITED TO BE THERE!!!!!, but I paid more attention in Oklahoma City. At both Oklahoma shows, Still Ill sounded virtually identical to The Smiths' version, except with vocals by modern-day Morrissey, at least to me. Matt Walker kills on the drums. On Still Ill, Jesse basically played the entire original guitar part, and Boz played the acoustic, nearly inaudibly - in OK City, I really could barely hear his guitar on that song. Whoever noted that Jesse is a technically accomplished guitar player is right. I mean, he really can play guitar very very well.

Girlfriend in a Coma, as I wrote in that post about Tulsa, has been rearranged to have two guitar parts. Of the three Smiths songs I heard, this was the only one to sound substantially different. It sounds larger, obviously, having gained another guitar part. I believe there was some extra stuff on the synth as well? Personally, I found it rather overblown an

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My brother and I almost did not make the show. Violence seems a minor theme of the night if you consider the glorious stage rush. As we were checking in to our hotel across the bridge from Bricktown, a massive hockey thug confronted us in the parking lot, expecting us to move our car as things were cramped in the lot (and inexplicably we were being blocked in by this imbecile). The guy started to flip us off. I knew that my brother and I stood a good chance of beating this primate in a fight (though we would certainly feel some pain); but alas, I did not not want to end up in jail and miss Morrissey! So we made some sarcastic remarks while defusing the situation and sauntered on over to the ticket line with all the beautiful people.