James Lost writes:

According to Danish music-website GAFFA, Morrissey will be appearing live at Store Vega in Copenhagen (Denmark) the 23rd of October.

devout writes:

Johnny played guitar and sung 'Tread Lightly' and 'You & Me Baby', inbetween songs was joined on stage by David Gray and played on 'Walking Down Madison'. Boz played clarinet accompanying Mary Coughlan on 'Bad'. Then the Bozman led the rocking out on 'Guy Works Down The Chipshop Swears He's Elvis'. Johnny got the loudest cheer of the night and joined up with Boz for the final bow to the crowd. God Bless Kirsty x.

Luban Jawi sends the link:

New Times LA | Music: Hot Child

New Times Los Angeles
September 19, 2002

Excerpt:

Last Friday Hot Child checked out the Morrissey show at Arrowhead Pond, where His Chinfulness opened for Mexican tame-rockers Jaguares. ("Hola, Los Angeles!" Morrissey shouted, looking precisely like a cross between Elvis and Quentin Tarantino. "We is Morrissey.") The overwhelmingly Latino crowd sang along to oldies and listened with loving attention to new songs such as "Mexico" ("If you're rich and you're white you'll be all right") and, I believe, "The First in the Gang" ("[Hector] was the first in the gang to die/Oh my"). The latter is one of the most beautiful L.A.-inspired songs I've heard in years, and rhymes "stars" with "reservoirs."

MyMelody writes:

After seeing Morrissey's stunning gig at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, I was baffled to see him declared 'Loser of the Week' in Sunday tabloid, the News Of The World. Even more so, because they declared him it for slagging off Jarvis Cocker!

It reads,

'Oh so modest Morrissey has blasted Pulp's frontman Jarvis Cocker.

In case you didn't know who Morrissey is, he used to be a member of a miserable band called 'The Smiths' from way back when... oh I can't really remember.

Anyway, he claims that he never listens to Jarvis because he 'can't sing' and is not 'a patch' on him.

Mate, as one of your old songs goes, 'What difference does it make?'

As a huge Pulp fan, I can forgive Moz this outburst. I find it extremely funny. And I think the real loser of the week is the columnist Rav. Get back to reporting on Britney and Beckham!
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• Related item: "The man with the thorn in his side" - Morrissey interview in The Observer, Sept. 15, 2002

Anthony writes:

I was at the Plea For Peace tour on Monday, September 23rd in Chicago Illinois. Dan Andriano of the Alkaline Trio did a solo acoustic set and included a pretty decent cover of "There Is A Place..." after he finished he said "that's a song by a guy named Morrissey, who can actually sing." The poor guy looked petrified up there all alone.

JohnWebster writes:

Hey there, i just wanted to let all my fellow Moz fans know about the newest record I just bought, a single to be more specific, entitled, "By The Sword" by a young female singer/violinist/pianist by the name of Emilie Autumn. When I bought the single online, I had no idea that it contained a QuickTime movie of Emilie performing The Smiths' "I Know It's Over" live. The version, acoustic, and alone singing at the piano, is in my opinion magnificent, and I would encourage any Smiths/Morrissey fan to give it a listen, as heretofor I would never have imagined a female voice taking such command of this song, and playing it with such sarcastic sorrow.

I also have a friend in Chicago who has seen Emilie Autumn live in concert, and he relates that she does a wicked version of "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out." I'll be waiting to catch that.

Thanks for your time, and you can buy the single here:

http://www.emilieautumn.com

Arleenco writes:

Maybe you heard it already, but the Russian pseudo-lesbian duo t.A.T.u. covers "How Soon Is Now" on their English language LP coming out next month in the US. The version I heard was very demo, and sounds like a couple of Russian chicks singing "How Soon is Now?" in English. The backing music doesn't stray far from the original but has the effect of Muzak. Wonder if this was an attempt at gay street credibility?

Ponyboy1955 writes:

As a librarian I'm always poking around for stories on libraries. As a Moz fan, imagine my delight when I came across an article in The Guardian about Britian's oldest lending library in Manchester.
 
Then the article went on to mention Morrissey studying for his A-levels there! Morrissey once said that he was a "failed librarian." Wow.

First library of the people marks 150 busy years - by David Ward, The Guardian, Sept. 17, 2002

The Manchester Moz writes:

While getting a Morrissey style quiff at a hairdressers off Manchester's Oldham Street I got into a conversation about the Morrissey gig at the Royal Albert Hall, The barber said "he was in London but missed it", I said that Morrissey might play Manchester later in the year but he told me how "there are to many people who dont like him up here, too many lawyers", He then said "my friend issued him a writ the other day before his RAH gig", I asked him who his friend was and he said "Andy Rourke".

I asked him what he was suing Moz for and he said the usual, unpaid royalites etc and we got into a discussion about the whole courtcase and stuff like that.

Anyway I work in a nightclub called South in Manchester and Andy Rourke visits quite a lot (he's even DJ'd there, Clint Boon is the resident DJ though), so i'll try and ask him about it next time I see him. Personally and the barber agreed with me, he's just trying to cash in on what Mike Joyce got. He told me how "Andy was in a very bad way at the time of the courtcase and had to accept the £20,000 pay off".

I guess we'll just have to wait and see. From experience though at work Andy Rourke can be a bit of a chancer and will try to get things for free coz of his name, which doesnt please my manager!

Daniel McBride,
Victoria Park,
Manchester.