Samuel Preston, singer with band Ordinary Boys, has posted a blog giving praise for Morrissey being Morrissey:
- Friday, 3 December 2010
Morrissey: A public unapology
Teenagers are rarely subtle in the ways they emulate their heroes. This is never more apparent than when casting a glaze along the queue at a Morrissey gig. My teenage Morrissey impression lasted up until my band (named after a Morrissey song) started releasing (Smiths-a-like) records. Having dropped my unnecessary Christian name to be more like Steven Patrick and growing a proud quiff people began to notice my obsession and it was deemed as totally inappropriate behaviour for the singer in a band. I stuffed contact lenses in my eyes and demolished my quiff, flattening my fringe over my forehead. If there is an irony to be found in being uncomfortable with having to avoid copy-catting the world most notorious misfit then I see it only now. Now, when my hair is at it’s dizzying highest. Yet now, when my career is writing pop songs.
Morrissey has a lyrical style that speaks so directly to the listener that he becomes a kind of surrogate father figure. At once both laugh-out-loud funny and crushingly sad. Of course you already know this, and as I race through phases and trends in music (which is something I swore I would never do) I know that I can always return home to Morrissey. Morrissey I love you and I don’t care who knows it!!
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No!... (Score:0)
Sadly, this was your life (Score:0)
It just goes to show that not all Morrissey fans are that interesting.
Then again, he may be annoying and uninteresting, but at least he's nice.
sweet (Score:0)
Horrible people (Score:1, Insightful)
It saddens me that people are so quick to attack someone they know absolutely nothing about or have never had the fortune or misfortune to have ever met. Clearly when we are talking about politicians it is clear we know all too well where they stand on things, and therefore it is fair to make judgements on where they sit in our own assessment of what is right and wrong, acceptable or not. But what gives any of us the right to shout down someone we know little or nothing about.
Yes Preston was seen on TV's big brother, had a very public relationship break up & subsequent getting back together, but other than that what do any of us know about him?
Lets all grow up a bit eh.
Huh? (Score:0)
That must be it. Seems so from reading the posts around here...
The very ordinary boy (Score:1)
I have heard a couple,of not very bright, people have a go at Rodent Williams (fair enough), and say Preston is OK. The truth is as limited as Rodent is he a better pop star than Preston by a long, worn out chalk.
I know a few people who know tory boy Preston and he is one of lifes and pops more wretched people- which is why Weller and Moz both wanted nothing to with his band after being flattered by him and the rest of the boys, at first.
Who cares if he was nice while having a conversation at a gig, I will not be giving any confidences away by saying if you know anything about him he is a thicko with limited understanding of Morrissey and life in general.
Being middle class and pretending you are working class is bad enough but using people to make cash via hello and OK is pushing it further. Then there is the fact he is short and a complete fashion victim.
Add to this unforgiving mix the fact he is a dyed in the wool tory and the picture is vile
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Meeting Preston... (Score:0)
The kind of unprincipled, sycophantic Tory-Boy, who'll do/say anything if he believes/is told it's 'in fashion'...he'll probably be out supporting fox-hunting next week...
Cringeworthy (Score:0, Flamebait)
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