James writes:

Thought it would interest some....

BILLY’S SECOND AND FINAL GIG WITH THE NOSEBLEEDS - Billy Duffy

In 1978 Billy featured as guitarist in The Nosebleeds with future singer of The Smiths (Steven) Morrissey, they only played two gigs and this is the advert from the second of those.

Courtesy of Matthew Norman, Manchester District Music Archive

I was wondering about that. Because I remember a year or so ago there was some word from Johnny that he was thinking about a book.

I don't know, I personally feel like really only the Smiths bit of it will be interesting..

Does reading Morrissey's autobiography make you want to read Johnny's autobiography any more or less?

Money is nice.

Those discographies on Stephane's site, Goddard's books, here, and Wikipedia and countless other places seem not to be worth a penny. But this one is. They mentioned it.

P.

UPDATE Nov. 15:

As mentioned by ASLEF shrugged in the comments, the "Autobiography" mention is actually part of the question, not the answer.

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@torrHL / Twitter sends the link:

Matt James of Gene answers the question "Who the band would most like to punch in the music industry?" by replying "...I've just read the Moz autobiography (laughs). I'm not into punching anyone but if Simon Cowell happened to slip on a strategically placed banana skin, fall and hurt himself I wouldn't be that bothered." (3:40 mark)

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Related item:

• Matt James - Drummer of Gene talks about The Smiths comparisons - Nov. 12, 2013

Not in a Million years. To channel Roy Walker..."It's good, but it's not right"

P.

Re: 'Autobiography' by Morrissey is No.1 in the UK paperback chart for the fourth week in a row - TT

Great news



Had no idea where to put the next tidbit, so I decided it would be here, if you don't mind :

At last month's Q awards, Neil Tennant (from the PSB) mentioned Moz's Autobiography with an interesting comment -

"When presenting the Q Idol award, he asks "Has everyone read Morrissey's book? Well he hasn't won..." "


http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/q-awards-2013-winners-interviews-2475788

It would be interesting to see how they acquired the books . I love The National. Thanks for posting realitybites .

modrevolve said:

as part of a Q and A for the upcoming Gene reissues.

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Gene were a good little band in the way The Bluetones and BlackBox recorder were. To give them their due they are the best of the Moz soundalike groups.
Still basically shit though most of the fans are just Moz fans. The singer is shit though, sounds like he sings through his nose, looks a bit like a pig and the most unnatural moz alike out there, his try to be moz act is hilariously bad.
The reason there were Smiths/Morrissey comparisons is because the singer of Gene was a super moz fan who tired to get close to Moz finally only managing it because he knew one of the band, his songs and image were not just based on Moz some of the songs were about him.
To give them their credit, they did sellout venues but is was all Moz related.
He was outclassed by Bret, Jarvis, Liam and a host of others