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    Official Manager Statement regarding Morrissey’s health (January 26, 2024)

    He just needs to stop this - his body, his mind or both aren’t up to it. His gig tickets have been like lottery tickets for years now. Anybody not insuring the purchases and getting cancellable accommodation for anything involving him these days needs their head testing. I do feel for anyone...
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    YATQ 20th Anniversary Special: Jan 26th - Kia Forum, CA / 27th, 2024 - Honda Center, CA (December 1, 2023)

    I played the whole album through for the first time in years the other week - five of the 13 tracks are really not good. The opener remains one of the worst things he’s ever done.
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    Morrissey Central "Johnnissey" (July 12, 2023)

    I swear to god that website’s going to post Hampsterdance at some point
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    Morrissey Central "The importance of an artist can be found in the efforts to silence him." (June 30, 2023)

    Self-release the new record, buy back your old record with some of the profits, then self-release that. It really isn’t hard.
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    NME: "Rick Astley tells us about his Glastonbury secret set of Smiths covers with Blossoms" (June 24, 2023)

    Given Barbarism was on the setlist I assume a tribute to Andy was supposed to have happened then. Rick was pure adrenaline though, and according to my watch it was 41C in that tent at one point. Obviously he’d already played a set at the hottest point of the day too. It was a shame it got missed...
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    Morrissey Central "BONFIRE OF TEENAGERS, RIP" (February 13, 2023) - Morrissey vs Capitol Records

    This is the kind of argument/tantrum a 13-year-old kid embarks upon. Morrissey is 63. Embarrassing.
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    Morrissey Central “BONFIRE DOUSED” (February 7, 2023)

    I suspect they simply couldn’t give a flying f*** about his album, and whatever wrinkle emerged - Miley Cyrus-related or otherwise - has evidently quelled whatever appetite they did have for it. It’s really not a big deal for them in the general scheme of things. They are Abba’s label and from...
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    Morrissey Central “BONFIRE DOUSED” (February 7, 2023)

    None of the songs I’ve heard make me remotely bothered that I can’t hear their studio-recorded incarnations. This is not an unreleased album that’s going to obtain mythical status. It’s just More Songs Morrissey Recorded A Bit Ago With Titles As Their First Line. The demo of Such A Little...
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    Fiona Dodwell: "Why An Unsigned Morrissey Proves A Lack Of True Diversity In Music" (February 5, 2023)

    Even by her standards that’s a bad stance, badly expressed, and with more or less zero substance backing it up. Morrissey is having problems getting his record out because he is, as is widely chronicled and even admitted by Morrissey himself, a f***ing nightmare to work with. It has absolutely...
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    Fiona Dodwell: "A Rebel Without Promo" (January 5, 2023)

    Rebels is alright, but was obviously not going to trouble the charts. Look at chart positions of singles by huge artists in recent years. Look at how the chart changed before, during and after Christmas. He’s complaining about the outcome of a game that he’s not actually playing. If a lot of...
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    Morrissey Central "WHEN YOU ARE THE QUARRY" (January 6, 2023)

    You see one of the band reach behind an amp for a washboard and start jumping up and down shrieking: “OMIGOD HE’S GOING TO PLAY IT!?” It used to be a fairly inoffensive workout for Boz and co showing off where their musical hearts lay. About as good an example of a “well we can get off and have...
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    Morrissey Central "WHEN YOU ARE THE QUARRY" (January 6, 2023)

    Hasn’t really helped himself with his attitude on the live front either - his gig tickets have long been lottery tickets, and his setlist quality control is often bizarre. I noted with bafflement the fact that Black Cloud got revived last year, but his affection for The Loop has always left me...
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    Morrissey Central "WHEN YOU ARE THE QUARRY" (January 6, 2023)

    It must be horrible having far-right views and not realising they're far-right views. Nobody's cancelled him – it's just that loads used to like him who now think he's a dickhead … BECAUSE of the things he's said and the people he's thrown his backing behind. Not voting is not the same thing...
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    Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 40 (Dec. 30 - Jan. 5) - features The Smiths (January 3, 2023)

    These move depending on what has money off on Amazon and what pops up in the racks at supermarkets. Double-digit sales get you into the lower end of the vinyl album chart. Something that only had 800 copies pressed (and wasn’t a week one sellout) almost went top 20 recently. The HotUKdeals site...
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    Morrissey Central "MILEY IS A PUNK ROCKER" (December 24, 2022)

    For someone who has been releasing records for almost 40 years, it is batshit how often he’s managed to conjure situations like this, for the benefit of absolutely nobody. Miley Cyrus is a Smiths fan, we know this. I find it hard to believe that she’s walked away from a job that’s long-since...
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