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Set List:

Last Of The Famous International Playboys / Ask / First Of The Gang To Die / That's How People Grow Up / Irish Blood, English Heart / I Just Want To See The Boy Happy / Sister, I'm A Poet / Vicar In A Tutu/ All You Need Is Me / The Loop / The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores / Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself? / Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed / Billy Budd / Death Of A Disco Dancer / You Say You Don't Love Me (Buzzcocks cover) / Stretch Out And Wait/ Life Is A Pigsty / How Soon Is Now?

Brilliant as usual:

"Matador, bang
Matador, bang
Matador, bang"

A brilliant gig in a very very very hot day (he said "how can you stand this heat"). The version of how soon is now was brutal. The new band is really good.He was kind of chatty. When introducing Crashing bores he said he was las night at FNAC and when he saw the music cds he thought The World is full of crashing bores...Also he wanted someone from the audience to say something on the microphone. When nothing was said he replied: "Coward!"Also was funny remembering his first visit to Madrid in 1952!I think the band sounded really compact and they had a good time! So did we!He couldn't avoid speaking about bullfight of course...I am happy about that...No bullfight!Only one bad thing ...he didn't play Throwing my arms around Paris. I really love the song!Sorry for my bad English!Manuel, Matias...no os pude ver! Estaba a unas cinco o seis filas de la primera!

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/Morrissey/De seado/elpepucul/20080720elpmad_5/Tes

Sublime !!! La banda suena genial , insuperables y Morrissey empieza ahorrar camisas por la crisis.

It's was my first time with him.

He didn't dissapoited nothing at all.

Performing as I expected thousand of times in my mind.

One of the best tracklist that I could imagine ever.(but where was suedhead my friend?hahaha)

And with the present for me that He opened the show with "the last of the famous..." in a really peculiar version.

AMAZING

"He knows I loved to see him"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCKY0LITrA&feature =user :gorgeous:

To the recorder/uploader, THANK YOU!

"Venue was quite good but not sold out. Most of fans were younger than I expected. Morrissey was in good mood he seemed to want to interact with the audience (with little success) knowing that it had been more than 20 years since he last showed up on Madrid with The Smiths. No variations from last setlists, but the performance of he and the band was almost perfect. My loved highlights were:
ask,that's how people grow up: the crowd got mad
vicar in a tutu: very good revision
death of the disco dancer: very intense
life's a pigsty: this live performance has become a classic
how soon is now?: people ending up in ecstassy.

The talks I can remember are:

"I can speak mexican, but I can't speak spanish"

"You are too old to forget, I am too young to remember"- When introducing "vicar in a tutu"

"I am nobody, somebody who is passing through.."- When introducing himself

"Why have you lasted so long to ask for me?" - Talking about last time he stayed in Madrid, he said 1952 (!), he insisted we were not born at that time.

"How can you stay alive in that heat?" - Surprisingly he only changed shirt once.

"We went to FNAC last night and we looked at the shelves with the CDs...you know blah blah blah...blah blah bla...the world is full of crashing bores" - FNAC is a french company that mainly sells books and music very popular in Madrid.

"Matador, bang bang" - When introducing life's a pigsty, that he dedicated to all the bullfighting world. "Matador de toros" means literally "killer of bulls", but it is a word only used to call the bullfighter.

By the way I do love the bullfighting and bull running, I think there is a lot of ignorance when ranting this terrific vital experience, not forgetting the artistic meaning.

The ambiguos point of the night was when Morrissey introduced the band he said something about "???? Cockroaches" or maybe I misunderstood..can someone help me on this?

Overall, when do you come back Mozzadelo?"

Plus/minus micro-review:

+ his wit
+ his attitude
+ the sound - technically well done imo
+ the audience - although a bit shy
+ the band - seemed very pro, liked very much the gong sound when was used.

- the cucarachas
- fnac's record selection
- his mexican accent when trying to speak english
- that I could not see well what the hell was he doing when he lay on the stage floor

Morrissey es el puto amo, and I hope we dont have to wait till 2052 to see you there again.

ps "This next song is from our new CD that comes out in september, yes, you all have a copy already..."
 

Hi, Spanish quiffs, Mozfans of Spain...& others ;).
The gig was amazing, Morrissey was in a really good mood & sounded great!!!
I was for a week in holiday in probably the most hottest town of Spain, temperature 39, that's a little bit tooo ;), but allso better than rain & temperature 14 in Belgium now :(.
I hope it will change, soon.
But off course i came especially for Morrissey to Madrid, he was really amazing, looking good, burnt browny body ;)!!!
Allso Siouxsie & My Bloody Valentine were very good.
It was my first time in Madrid and not the last one.
I take some great pictures of our big M from Manchester....
go to this link and you will find them, enjoy!!!

http://nl.netlog.com/HandsomeDevil37/photo/ [netlog.com]
      greetz, Pe from Antwerp (Belgium)

It was a great show but nothing like his own concert, which are more intense and intimist even so it worth it the 6 hours under a letal sun.
At the end, one of the roadies (twat or worst)through back to the audience the Quarry box that i sent to the stage...Moz fire that incompetent!
The guy who catch the box, if you dont want it of course, send it to the written address...I´ll apreciate.

Steven: With so many beatiful songs, why play Death of a Disco Dancer??

P.S. Hope that we are 3 next time.

Vaya por delante mi convencimiento personal de que a Morrissey no le gustan los festivales tipo FIB, no le gusta España ni le gustamos los españoles y siempre nos ha tratado con cierto desdén, quizá porque todavía se nos ve como un pueblo bárbaro que sacrifica animales por puro divertimento de una manera cruel y despiadada.
Esto sin embargo no puede servir de excusa para justificar el triste espectáculo del pasado sábado. Una ciudad como Madrid, que lleva 25 años esperando la llegada de un artista no puede responder de manera tan fría y distante. Realmente daba pena ver las gradas semivacías de un recinto que ni con mucho llega al aforo del Santiago Bernabeu que había llenado hasta los topes Springsteen un par de días antes.
Dicho esto, creo que tenemos lo que nos merecemos y que nuestro país está plagado de “Crashing Bores” , y creo que Morrissey no se entregó como lo he visto en otros conciertos porque el público no estuvo ni mucho menos a su altura.
Luego nos extraña que ciudades como París o Roma sean citas ineludibles en sus giras y a nuestro país viene cada 20 años.

Un inesperado y ensalzador artículo escrito por Loquillo en El MUndo de hoy:

"Conocerme es amarme" Loquillo

Abandono BNA invadida por las hordadas brucespringstinianas. A salvo, durante el vuelo, enumero mis razones para ver a Morrissey pero no en las playas de Benicassim; plagadas de guiris con chanclas, sudor y tiendas de campaña, exactamente la antítesis de Morrissey; exquisito narcisista, urbanita e individualista, pura esencia de la decadencia europea, lo que más odian los críticos musicales de este país.

Me gusta porque en el mundo de la música puedes ser artista, creador y estrella.Morrissey es artista y creador pero, por encima de todo, es estrella y, aunque ni bebe, ni fuma, ni folla, es más estrella que Kate Moss y Pete Gallaguer juntos.

Me gusta porque no haya caído en la tentación de resucitar a su banda de sus odiados 80, los Smiths, por un puñado de dólares ("antes de reunir a los Smiths me comería los huevos", dixit), porque él sabe, y va siendo hora de decirlo, que es verdad, que los supera con creces.

Me gusta especialmente el detalle de echar a un road manager porque le gusta Elton John. Eso es lo correcto, pura actitud.

Me gusta que sea políticamente incorrecto, un ególatra confeso, molesto y antipático que no hace ni un solo gesto a la galeria para conseguir el aplauso planetario, porque Morrissey es planeta y universo en si mismo. Cuando vas a ver a Morrissey no vas a ver a "un tipo como tú", vas a ver al amo y señor de su escenario, insultante versión del "porque yo lo valgo", el único artista británico de su generación que consiguió triunfar en América.

Y me gusta por algo que compartimos. Somos los dos, cada uno en su casa, los más bocas de nuestra generación.

Todo eso y mucho más me llevan al tórrido escenario del FIB madrileño -y caía un calor de plomo-, pero cuando Morrissey pisó el escenario radió Madrid como una tea. Derroche puro de elegancia y poderío musical, con una banda espléndida, a su misma altura. Intercambió clásicos por novedades, comentarios irónicos y una contundencia musical y emocional que molestó seguramente a quienes piensan que, tras 30 años de carrera, aún hay que seguir pidiendo perdón por subirse al escenario.

Y es que, ya antes de comenzar, nos llevó de viaje por sus referentes, declaración de principios para iniciados, guiños que combinaba la Bardot que Gainsbourg amó, el Vince Taylor que inspiró a Bowie, la serie Los Intocables de Elliot Ness, el clásico de cine carcelario de los 40 Cárcel de Mujeres, el inevitable guiño a los New York Dolls...que trasladó a la crónica emocional de sus canciones hermosas e hirientes, líricas y chirriantes.

Morrissey es un francotirador certero, sólo tienes que procurar no estar en su punto de mira.

His precise and synthetic commentaries showed us what a great poet he is.
His voice and tonnes told us about what a good singer he is.
His ways and manners explained us what a big entertainer he is.
We enjoyed his sentences, his songs and his presence.
Thank you, Morrissey.
Ferran from Barcelona

PD:
Dek and Tony from London did you enter at last?