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on Thursday April 20 2006, @03:00PM
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Just Got Back (Score:0)
Leeds Town Hall (Score:0)
Set list same as previous recent gigs shame that it looks like he's gonna stick with it.
All good stuff tho!
Did freeyourself steal any wallets tonight? (Score:0)
We should be told.
Moz Pink Shirt (Score:0)
The missus got a piece of yer mans pink shirt which he threw out at end of main set after How Soon Is Now! Smells so good shes taking it to bed!!
Trouble Loves Me was back, I was pleased to see.. (Score:1)
I can't remember exactly, but I'm sure the set list was in a bit of a different order to recent gigs. It was bluddy great anyway.
Moz saying how much he liked Leeds.. Billy Bremner, Allan Clarke, etc.. Top Bloke, top gig, top night.. One Happy Punter.
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Our night (Score:2, Interesting)
BTW, I was the short brown-haired one in a jacket and my sis was next to me with bleached hair and talked a lot. Everyone around us was really nice and looked after me in the squash so thanks for that (especially the guy behind me - sorry if I elbowed you - my arm went to sleep!)!!
Top setlist, was really close, loved the venue. Brill!
Was that a 3D sticker he had on his chest?
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Loved it (Score:0)
Loved every part of the gig...apart from the way Moz had his shirt tied in the first part of the show. It wasn't very complimentary to his gorgeous figure !! sorry..
Got some really nice pics, but have no idea how to upload them on here, can anyone help ?
going to bed happy
Sam !
xx
Absolutely beautiful! (Score:0)
Best bit for me was when I got pulled out of the crowd during Trouble Loves Me and I reached over and shook Morrissey's hand.
I agree with an earlier poster, those drunk girls were annoying.
I met and spoke with some really lovely people outside before the gig, I can't remember anyone's name but you were all great! I was the girl in the polka dot dress and red cardigan with short black hair.
Claire x
wheey (Score:0)
I got some of his t-shirt
which i was abit proud of..
couldn't breath for half of it though =]]
Can't stop smiling noww
also (wheey cont-d) (Score:0)
I gave someone some Morrissey thread
Leeds Best Show So Far (Score:1)
I was to the side on a radiator close to those drunk women who nearly started fighting, besides that the Leeds crowd was great. Was as good as Bradford 2002.
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Leeds (Score:1)
Got Morrissey's water that he drank out of. an a guitar pick.threw my red beads at him got them back after...
loving the "England is A Swine" Change In Still Ill
Also Got Sum Photographer For the Tour Book Theyre Releasing In September Time. Afterwards He Took Like 5 Rolls Of Film Worth Of Me, 'Cos I Look Like A Young Moz Apparently, He Is Ment To Take 20 Rolls Per Show So Ya No Hopefully In It:D
Xxx
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Stood in a bucket (Score:0)
I was stood at the right side of the stage against the wall in a bucket!! I think it was supposed to contain fag ends and the like, but the sand in it gave me an extra 3 inches and for a bloke of 5'7" that's super!!
Really enjoyed it tonight: Still Ill was brill, Pigsty is a belter live and he even played Just Want To See The Boy Happy, which is my fave off ROTT. Oh, and Girlfriend In A Coma, which was nice of him.
Got a big bit of the pink shirt at the ends, apologies to those whose feet I might have trodden on or who tripped over the cigarette bucket with me in it!! Some things can just be tolerated when the Great Man's onstage!!
Yawksher (Score:1)
Shook the man's hand three times, my hand was the first he shook during
Great gig. Love to all my new found Leeds friends.
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Jesse Tobias was in the crowd (Score:0)
It was a brilliant gig, he mentioned his petition about kicking the dingles out of Emmerdale and said 'ooh look Alan Bennett's there!' (pointing in the crowd) then said ha ha made you look, which made me laugh anyway. He also said he was number one in Malta and that he should stop boasting. Leeds loves him, even if he is from Manchester.
Grat Gig (Score:3, Informative)
Music/Band
I was gutted to read the previous posts citing the Pigsty and Trouble highlights, because I thought the same. Guess it validates them I suppose. Loved ‘Reader’ as well (but there were no lowlights). I thought the band was excellent and Moz is just getting better vocally (previously said I know).
Did anyone catch Mike E during ‘Still Ill’? Case for redundancy? He just stood with his arms folded. Matt is close to usurping Spencer as top drummer, but not quite. Band tight as a knatts chuff with pleks and drumsticks etc. Only 1 shirt throw.
Moz Mood
Happy and a bit flirty. I lost count of the number of raised eyebrows, gazes into the crowd and pointing at the audience to accentuate the lyrics. Not to many nobbers shouting for Smiths songs and the couple he heard he just turned away making ‘Blah, Blah’ type noises.
Moz Quotes my Alzheimer’s will allow me to recall:
After Girlfriend in a Coma he said ‘you have weird taste in music’
After Reader Meets Author a guy next to me (see you in Glasgow mate) shouted ‘Operation’ to which Moz replied ‘I have already had it’
‘I am from Maaanchistaaar you know, do you still like me’?
After one song I cant recall (…please someone fill in the gaps) He said ‘thanks to the 11 people who clapped’ and said something about him becoming very big headed.
‘I know you like your statistics, so I thought I would tell you ROTT went to number 1 in Malta this week‘.
Moz named Leeds Players (Bremner/Clarke) and then some guy I cant recall (…..more gaps to fill in peeps) and asked the crowd if they had heard of him. Some replied in the positive and he called them liars. He seemed to like Leeds for some unfathomable reason (although I don’t recall him playing there much!
Thanked Leeds saying ‘you have made an old sweaty wrestler very happy’. I do not have a Scooby why he referred to himself as a wrestler.
Crowd
Very vocal and up for it. A bit of Yorkshire ‘Partisan’ on display. Pretty rough mosh in the middle. I got elbows raked down the back of my head and in the small of the back (Moz lyric there somewhere) as people pushed to the front, but hey it is a gig and it comes with the territory. I stood my ground and saw 80% of the gig from the barrier.
Merchandise (some have been asking):
Enormous array of T-shirts (18 to 30 snots price range) and vastly superior to 2004 (did anyone actually buy one of those)? I got one of the Ringleader - Morrissey pale blue ones for 25 notes (be prepared to wait to buy one at the end, only 1 guy serving). There were jackets, vastly overpriced pin badges and even a medal! They should have probably given the out free to people who survived the Mosh. For those of you the ‘syphilitic globs of sputum’ have wiped out with their over priced tickets, there was an endless supply of snides outside and some very good copies of the Tour T-shirts (some shite so shop around). Also haggle as I knocked one guy down to £7.00 for a Tour copy one.
Finally - did anyone catch what Moz had stcuk to his chest like a necklace? It looked like an ice cream sticker? Fuck me readers, Bletchley Park could not have worked this guy out.
Well - you did not have to read this far!
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So where's the set list Leeds? (Score:0)
What was the song before "under the floorboards" (Score:0)
Marlay Park (Score:0)
It was a good lay (Score:0)
Ps: Who was the arse kicking off big time 10 mins before the start. Stage left. I was standing 15 feet away and it looked like blood was about to be split
All Positive!!! (Score:1)
Most of the people I've met at the gigs have been wonderful and really helped to make the night. Glad Leeds was so good; can't wait to see him again - he's addictive isn't he?
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leeds (Score:0)
leeds should use the town hall more
the man was in scintillating form
another one for the good memory bank
Leeds thoughts from a Moz virgin... (Score:2, Interesting)
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Oh my lord - I worked through my lunch so I could leave at half four and there were maybe 20 people in the queue ahead of me. I'd obviously heard how Morrissey fans were obsessive but there was a couple of Irish sisters behind me who were going to 8 and 15 of the gigs on the tour (one of them had even got a second job to pay for it... the were talking in the region of £2k each allegedly for the whole jaunt... they were even going to Serbia and had been to Llandudno the night before....!). Doors opened at 7 and Hayley and I had one person in front of us on the barrier, front and centre. Sons and Daughters were pretty entertaining - I quite like rockabilly style guitaring and I can see how Morrissey's picked them for his tour because they're quite intense, not amazingly tuneful but the lead singer has real presence (and had a v short knitted gold dress on and kept flashing her knickers, I think not on purpose but you can never tell with pop stars). I'm going to be giving the album a listen now
But as for the main event - wow. I've always liked the Smiths, got all their albums and really enjoy some of his solo stuff (have only got the last two albums and the usual singles collection) but since watching him on that Dial M for Morrissey live show I've always really wanted to go and see him. He didn't disappoint and was everything I wanted him to be - quipping inbetween songs, letting fans touch him as they went over the barrier (I just held out my hand desperately along with everyone else, it's amazing how you can get caught up in the hero worship) and the songs of course, well.... apart from the solo stuff, he threw in Girlfriend in a Coma, Still ill and How Soon is Now. I came away a knackered, sweaty mess and didn't sleep very well because I was still hyper - I still am, to a degree. Music wise I've seen better (the White Stripes blew me away when I saw them last year) but for a complete experience, my god - I'm 34 and can still be moved like this by going to see a band.... I think it was Kevin Spacey in American Beauty who said that it's the most amazing thing when you still have the ability to surprise yourself.... this definitely applies here.
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What's happened to Julia? (Score:0)
Better Than Salford (Score:0)
Memorable quips: "Much more important than all of this..please sign my petition...to have the Dingles removed from Emmerdale".
"I'm boasting again but I know you like statistics. Ringleaders of The Tormentors is..(dramatic pause) number 1 in Malta...Amazing!"
Setlist?! (Score:0)
Setlist (Score:0)
First of the gang
Still Ill
You have killed me
Leeds Photos (Score:2, Interesting)
Few snaps from Leeds last night. They were clearly clamping down on the henious crime of taking photos from a couple of years back when I had mine snatched from a greedy security guy in Bridlington, I honestly think the directive comes from Moz himself. Just incase somebody snaps his embarrassing knot in his shirt that he had, how bizarre. But I sneaked in around my wife who was being strip searched and I lived to tell the tale. They were from just in front of the mixing desk so apologies for the lack of clarity.
Anyway, truly fantastic performance from Moz and his merry followers, but I'm sure they can do without Mr Boorer and his old man dancing now that he has pretty boy on lead (who Moz clearly adores, did you see his admiring stance when he decided to take centre stage for a guitar solo?). Best song of the night - Trouble Loves Me. Nice to see him keeping faith in songs from albums that 7-8 years ago were being slated for being awful, when we all know that fickleness prevailed and now everybody loves him again. Damn the people who drove him away.
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Enjoy
Luv Dave x
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Leeds Gig (Score:1)
Morrissey and band were absolutely amazing as ever, Moz on top form and Leeds town Hall really is a stunning venue, I was right at the front and was ringing, minging wet by the end of the night. My favorite was pigsty, it sent shivers and made me fill-up. how soon is now was cookin too. Set was almost same as last few shows. Just in different order.
Ace night
See you all in Sheffield!
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Pictures (Score:0)
Here are the pics I took.
First time posting pics, so I hope it works..
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Enjoy, I certainly did.
xx
Touts (Score:0)
to the barnsley guys (Score:0)
i should no better you played it cool
Yorkshire (Score:0)
End Of UK Tour Party (Score:0)
Morrissey (Score:0)
Quarry Nights - End of Tour Party... (Score:0)
Truly Disappointed (Score:1)
I think it really is time he found some new collaborators and also stretched himself as a lyricist.
Life Is A Pigsty. I'm sorry, just because a song goes on for more than 7 minutes, it does not make it epic. It makes it what it is, namely turgid.
Next to I Know It's Over, it is a very poor relation in epic terms.
For someone with a fantastic back catalogue, he doesn't vary the set list enough. Whilst I can agree with the "if it aint broke
He played too much of the new album which gave the show a disjointed feeling. I think 5 or 6 tracks off the new one is more than enough thank you very much or he should at least integrate them in such a way where large numbers of people don't nip to the bogs where 3 newies are played back to back.
Finally the band. Gary Day is the luckiest man alive. His basslines are unimaginative and he adds nothing to the songs whatsoever.
I thought that the drummer was extremely good however and certainly earned his corn.
As for the other guys, It's time they were put out to grass. Jessie Tobias may improve overtime as a co-writer but evidence thus far suggests he does not have the musical savvy to marry Morrissey's words.
The man himself remains one of the most charismatic performers around and his voice is fantastic. To me though he is treading water and revisiting old themes in much less interesting ways. His between song banter is as ever very witty. Shame then that it's not translated into song.
I am not one to hanker for the old days but you do feel that if he were to co-write with people such as Vinnie Reilly or anyone with great pop song writing sensibilities, Moz could yet reach the heights of the Vauxhall, Arsenal and Viva Hate Days. 4 poor to moderate albums on the trot is simply not good enough. Gone is the wit, the great turn of phrase and the melodies to die for.
What we're getting is 3 or 4 great songs per LP and heck of a lot of filler.
He has so much to offer but is selling himself short.
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So 'I Just Want To See The Boy Happy' was dropped? (Score:0)
As good as Bradford 2002 (Score:1)
Heaven knows I'm excited now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Potato fritter vs scallop? (Score:0)
(HEAVEN HEAVEN HEAVEN)
why do you call potato fritters scallops?
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