...no SISMS as an encore! That's all I ask. What happened to a Smiths classic as the encore?

didn´t like the hall. bad sound, bad sight. philipshalle would have been much better in my opinion - maybe next time again. crowd was very friendly, but not too enthusiastic. moz got a present, a "very rare david bowie record". once again told the story, that he went to the local record shop and didn't find swords. only michael bublé and jamie collum. his first words were s.th. like "if you have the hussle, i have the muscle. and when i have the muscle then it´s dussel-dorf." or something like that. venue was very packed. all nice people i saw. sadly both best friends of mine couldn't come with me. missed you!
I thought doll & the kicks were much better than in june. they were in town since yesterday.

CHARMAN
CLOUD
CAROLO
IS IT REALLY?
GANGL'D
PARIS
ASK
IRISH
ONE DAY GOOD
ELBOW
EDUCATION
CEMETRY
BORES
WHY DON'T YOU?
TEENDAD
HSIN?
LOOP
DADDY'S VOICE
I'M OK BY

SKULL

Just back from Stahlwerk. To me it seemed that he really enjoyed it.
"Let´s come to the most important point of the evening...that´s when... I am receiving a gift" Then someone handed a David Bowie LP-Boxset to Moz!!!
Then there were some jokes about Micheal Buble.

So, I write as a long-term Morrissey fan who had been to both the Hamburg concert and Düsseldorf one.

TONIGHT WAS TEN TIMES BETTER THAN HAMBURG.

Don't know what it was but from the off, the beginning, the entrance, Morrissey was up for this.

We were greeted, before This Charming Man, with a decent quote unlike in Hamburg where we got "Guten Abend Hamburg". Those more memory efficient will supply you with the quote.

Mozzer got a couple of gifts and one was supposedly a rare David Bowie LP/EP. I always wonder if he keeps these gifts or they just get chucked.

Maybe true-to.you.net will let us know one day.

It is evident that our mate Moz needs a bit of a breather. Not from tonight's performance, I should add, but by reports from concerts before the German leg of the tour and from my own eyeballs at the Hamburg concert.

Morrissey, and of course you read this stuff, you are so beloved and tonight was a stark reminder of why. Back at your best, matey.

Hope to see you soon and if not, it's been brilliant.

The_wrong_boy (although apparantly anonymous on So-Low).

did everyone play nice today.

Thank you MOZ...
This was a nice one..
Love

This Charming Man / Black Cloud / When Last I Spoke To Carol / Is It Really So Strange? / Ganglord / I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Ask / Irish Blood, English Heart / One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell / Death At One's Elbow / Because Of My Poor Education / Cemetry Gates / The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores / Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself? / Teenage Dad On His Estate / How Soon Is Now? / The Loop / Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice / I'm OK By Myself // Something Is Squeezing My Skull

All I have to say is 10 more days till he's back in the states!!!

Can't wait to show him some love!!!

Making Mozapathy Tees for the gigs! 'Fook yourself' and 'Love me from the outside' It's gonna be so frinking hot!!! Just wait!

I also think it was a really good show and to me it was much better than Berlin, because he talked a lot and was very witty! I enjoyed it a lot and also the people where I stood where very enthusiastic and danced and sang along...
I would also say the sound wasn't the best but I thought it was because I stood in the front row and the PA was almost behind me.
It was great and of course much better than it would have been in the big Phillipshalle which would have only been filled to one third... Instead the Stahlwerk seemed almost packed (I know 1500 tickets were sold pre-sale and it looked to me like about 2000+ people were there) and was very intimate and close to Morrissey. This made the whole concert very intense and really good!

Hello Moz from Los Angeles, CA

Your former home away from the UK.

I can't wait for you to come here and entertain your Billions of fans here including my self.

Please take care of your health and keep pumping out good tunes and me and the droves of adoring fans will stick by you.

Sincerely,

MAP

After I had enjoyed the concert in Brussels so much, I was not sure if I should go to Düsseldorf as well or not. I gambled the ticket once again and left its purchase to the last hours. It did not seem to me such a good idea after all to end the tour with such a nice, enjoyable concert like Brussels, which had been just amazing.

What can I say. They are mean. The concert in Düsseldorf was even better.

They were greeted in style. With proper clapping and chanting. And the mood could not have been any better.

I stood close to the stage again next to two of the tallest men in the building and my view was thus perfect. :D People were in general amazingly tall at this concert.

Reviews out of Hamburg described him as grumpy old man yesterday and they made me want to go even more and I thought "We are going to rock da house!".

At first I was a bit in my own way though with my cough and this being the xst concert I went to. I literally felt like a stalker. Which lasted for about two minutes. The cough lasted so that I could not properly sing along. This did not spoil the concert for me, even though it is usually an essential part of my concert fun.

I cannot remember when I saw Morrissey any fitter during this year. The two days in the Rheinland seem to have done him very good and this is what I had been hoping for. Sunshine at the river Rhine, a stroll in Cologne or Düsseldorf... Grumpy old man looks very different. This was a man who had just had a perfect holiday.

Morrissey also looked as if this stage in Düsseldorf was his home. But maybe that's just me, because their welcome at the beginning and the pushing woman and the punk women above my head were so familiar features of a concert. :P

The sound was perfect where I stood. I am usually very touchy when it comes to sound and a great sound can easily make me a very happy person. This was a great sound where I was standing.

In Brussels there were two moments when I thought Morrissey would leave the stage because he could not sing anymore, which was nicely caught up by the audience which just sang a little bit louder. In Düsseldorf there was none of this. He seemed to not have any problems at all. It was almost unbelievable that this was the same man who had stood on stage in Brussels struggling just a few days earlier. Even though in Brussels he also sang very beautifully, when he had no singing problems, which was most of the time.

I don't understand why he says that Swords is not sold in the shops. Especially Saturn, which is a save bet to find Morrissey's albums. I do not see why he would not want people to go there and buy it. As I am I shouted that there are Swords albums without thinking of what I was doing and got a little taste of what it is like to be a heckler. Gosh, a heckler for wanting to be nice and point out that the albums are there. Wish I had just kept my mouth shut, I had a cold and did not have the voice to do so anyway. :P

The person who handed over the David Bowie album seems to be a French native speaker. And to me sounded like the same person who had said Monsieur Sarkozy in Brussels. I once again had some very enjoyable conversations before the concert with people who have been to many Morrissey concerts over the years, and it is always nice and funny to hear their stories.

Morrissey sang something at the end but I do not remember properly what it was. Something like the heart has been searching for an answer and it just found it.

The visuals of the concert were also just amazing. I mean what the stage looked like. Everything matched to nicely. I wondered if it was the venue that intensified this, because it was rather narrow and long.

When everybody had left the stage, the keyboard player stayed and looked back at the audience. I wondered why he did this, until he rushed to the right side of the stage and helped Boz back up on stage! :D So Boz had jumped off stage to shake people's ha

moz should get this year out the way and then he needs to recharge! don't work on any new material for now just work on getting healthy and then look at getting rid of your session muscians and get gary day back!

I enjoyed this evening so much. I saw him some months agon in Cologne and I do think yesterday's show was even better. Of course there are songs that I've missed, like Meat is Murder, Everyday is like Sunday or Suedehead f.e. Yet he surpised me performing Cemetry Gates. Yes, it was a great show and I just hope it was not his final tour.

loving this charming man. I saw Morrissey second time this year and was really happy to see him better off then in cologne. He really put on a show and seemed to enjoy it as well. I really liked the set list.

Weird I like him since about 25 years. We kind of get old together and so seem other people in the crowd. What a weird mixture the crowd. About some of you out there i really wonder why you have a connection to Morrisey but then probably other wonder about me.

I always go alone to the concerts because my friends don't go for him other then is old Smith songs. Going to a concert for me is a bit like I suppose for other people going to church. Here is a guy that I feel really knows life like I know it.

Thanks and hopefully til the next time
astrid

SISMS is probably the closest Morrissey's band have come to something truly punky. It's a wonderful song and the perfect encore, I would have thought.

One thing I have noticed over the years is how much more likely Morrissey is to play the louder, heavier songs live than the ballads and torch songs. 'I'm OK By Myself' is mediocre at best but he's playing that ahead of Good in Your Time and most of Ringleaders took precedence live over 'Dear God.' Likewise, 'Camden' was hardly played but 'How Can Anybody Possibly' was played constantly. I wonder why. Is it because Morrissey enjoys playing the more raucous songs, is it because he prefers them or is it because he feels more comfortable in punkazoid rather than girlsinger persona while on stage?

I personally adore those songs more than anything else ever released. Here's a nice set-list focusing more on the slower, rarely played songs and a couple of faster tunes.

"Good in Your Time"
"Handsome Devil"
"I'd Love To"
"My Life is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye"
"Paint a Vulgar Picture"
"Back To The Old House"
"Something is Squeezing"
"Mamma..."
"That Joke isn't Funny"
"Dear God, Please"
"You're Gonna Need Someone"
"TLOTFIPBs"
"Seasick, Yet Still Docked"
"Used to be a Sweet Boy"
"The Never Played"
encore: "Now My Heart..." and "Southpaw"

broken

i'm ok by myself:

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Did somebody take pictures in Dusseldorf? Please let me know