Manchester, UK - Manchester Arena (Aug. 20, 2016) post-show

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Setlist:

Suedehead / Alma Matters / All You Need Is Me / You Have Killed Me / Ganglord / Speedway / Istanbul / World Peace Is None Of Your Business / Kiss Me A Lot / I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Ouija Board, Ouija Board / Everyday Is Like Sunday / The Bullfighter Dies / Meat Is Murder / It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small / Jack The Ripper / One Of Our Own / The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores / I Will See You In Far-Off Places / What She Said / Oboe Concerto // Irish Blood, English Heart

setlist provided by Sarcasmos, corrections by BennyandBrummiearec*nts.

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• Morrissey review – bloodied but unbowed by Dave Simpson (4 of 5 stars) - The Guardian. Link posted by Uncleskinny.
• Review: Morrissey at Manchester Arena by Sarah Walters, (4 of 5 stars, 3 photos by Eddie Garvey) - Manchester Evening News. Link posted by docinwestchester.
• Morrissey: Manchester Arena – live review by Nigel Carr (11 photos by Melanie Smith) - Louder Than War. Link posted by @louderthanwar / Twitter.
• Watch Morrissey get called a 'c*nt' after failing to pay tribute to David Bowie - NME.com. Link from Rene.
• Morrissey - Manchester Arena - 20th August 2016 review (7 photos) - Even The Stars. Link posted by oneofthethree.
• Why Morrissey has the most loyal fanbase in the music industry - Manchester Evening News. Link posted by Calamine Lotion (original post).
  
• Morrissey in Manchester Arena 20.08.16 by SER (video footage, clips, 1:09) - Sep. 8, 2016
  
  
  
  
• Photos by efsb / Flickr (37 total). Link posted by EFSB.
  
  
  
  
  
• Photo from tweet by @sophieleigh01 / Twitter. Link posted by docinwestchester.
  
  
  
• Photo from tweet by @Paul__Husband / Twitter (3 total).
  
  
  

 

[Anonymous]

No! He was joking.

But from where I was sitting it seemed strange moz was pulling his jacket together before the guy ran on stage and he seemed to appear from backstage I guess he must have got on at the side? The bandage fell off soon after that

 

[MisguidedTrousers]

It's a hierarchy. If you prove your Cult delusionality you get preferential treatment as you become a front-of-house stage prop to bolster Morrissey's performance. The List are to Morrissey's performance as Viagra is to the sex antics of many a man his age. Without his cult devotees who've swallowed their little blue pill Morrissey can't get it up to perform and sulks.

It's his equivalent of The Golden Circle at other gigs. But if Morrissey had had a golden circle ticket last night charging £150 it would have been an entirely empty space as the nutcases who are on The List are mentally ill trustafarians who have to watch their cash after years of delusionally following Dear Leader across the globe and the rest of The Audience would just laugh at the idea of paying £150 for 75 minutes of The Smiths Karaoke Tribute Act Morrissey. Madonna, maybe, because she does all that Cirque du Soleil nonsense but not Dad pub rock singer Morrissey who just stands there or emotes like a silly puff in his frilly shirts. At least this time he put his hand in his pocket and paid for side screens so The Poor folk in the upper reaches could see him...WAIT! The upper reaches were empty...LOL!

The whole upper tier was full. I`d say 90 to 95% sell out, the unsold tickets looked to be standing as the seats were full on both tiers.

 

[Girl Racer]

But from where I was sitting it seemed strange moz was pulling his jacket together before the guy ran on stage and he seemed to appear from backstage I guess he must have got on at the side? The bandage fell off soon after that

Yeah, he came from the right side of the stage, but he was removed by security wasn't he? So he couldn't have been part of the crew?




I posted a pic in the gallery of the seats, but sadly I didn't get one once everyone came in. It really was full for those doubting it!!

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah security removed him just appeared a bit odd maybe I'm reading too much into it. The whole arena looked packed to me including upper tiers

 

[Anonymous]

Good gig spoilt by all the people in block 210 who could not just stay in their seats and spent more time upping and dowing to the bar and god knows where else. Plus all those that were moaning about him not playing songs they knew... maybe you should go check out a Smiths tribute act instead.

Yeah I was on 210 and everyone getting up and down really started to get on my nerves. Still really enjoyed it though. My first morrissey gig so I wasn't going to let other people ruin it for me.

 

[Famous when dead]

Boz comments on his fall.
Sam then continues to undermine his Uncle by tagging a facebook account decried on TTY (duly edited to reflect that it is a Moz quote for a title).
Regards,
FWD

 

[Anonymous]

Sam then posts an ambiguously titled picture (not best thought out if someone is ill).

"So many songs, so little time." Moz said that at some point during the show. Sam just repeats it.

 

[Watson]

"Why was you suprised..." What an idiot

I wouldn't bother picking up Benny on his dismal understanding of basic literacy. Employing primary school grammar in every single post is his badge of honour. I suspect it is because is he too busy frothing at the genitals to worry about spellings, tenses, punctuation etc.

Or it is because he is an illiterate buffoon? Probably best to ignore him and read Brummie instead. He might be a bit boorish at times, but he is never boring...and he can spell 'you're'.

 

[Anonymous]

upper tier was totally packed......with air.
look at the photos you can discern the figure of a single human being.
middle tear, one empty seat, one filled seat, two empty, two filled.... and so on.
some of the twitter photos are unnerving, its if someone had sliced off the top of a watermelon.

dim lights and lots of smoke to keep people from taking a look upwards.

 

[Anonymous]

Boz comments on his fall.
Sam then posts an ambiguously titled picture (not best thought out if someone is ill) and continues to undermine his Uncle by tagging a facebook account decried on TTY.
Regards,
FWD
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how can anyone claim the venue 'was packed' with all that smoke. you cant even see a foot in front of you.
even boz collapsed from all the smoke.

 

[Anonymous]

the fake bloody bandage is for dramatic effect, and show. otherwise, why would he wear his giant tuna-blue version-outfit? its a size too small and stretches outwards, not suited to hide bandages.

Because he is a revolting attention seeking mentally ill narcissist.

 

[Anonymous]

Only just recovering after a great gig. Moz was on form and clearly enjoying the occassion.

I was one from the front and it was wild, bouncing and electric. Great atmosphere. Always think the MEN feels 'long' and so can understand about those further back saying the atmosphere died as the gig went on. This gig wouldn't be the first and won't be the last that suffers as a result of it.

Ouija board, Small, everyday, ganglord particular highlights for me - sound was fantastic, with Moz sounding brilliant.

Ticked one off the bucket list and have a good section of shirt - not sure if collar or cuff though. Shout out to the girl who appeared from nowhere 10 mins after shirt toss with a pair of scissors, how did they get in?

Great atmosphere and buzz from afternoon to early hours. No fans quite like us.

X

You can see the crowd in this video, a big wave of people

 

[Anonymous]

I really enjoyed the show, the playlist will not ever please everyone, and seeing a few empty seats,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, get a life!

 

[Anonymous]

A large group of you are fixated at the sell out stage. If you can't move past it and it's eating you up inside , see someone.

If you are saying it to purposely be cruel? Wow. That is a lot of hate and bad news.

 

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't bother picking up Benny on his dismal understanding of basic literacy. Employing primary school grammar in every single post is his badge of honour. I suspect it is because is he too busy frothing at the genitals to worry about spellings, tenses, punctuation etc.

Or it is because he is an illiterate buffoon? Probably best to ignore him and read Brummie instead. He might be a bit boorish at times, but he is never boring...and he can spell 'you're'.

Forget the grammar bitch !
Last night in Manchester we witnessed exactly what a humasexual is live on stage.
He had a pussy on his chest and was on his period.

The boy with the minge on his chest !

One and only date in the United Kingdum and he failed miserably to fill it to the rafters even with the added threat earlier that he would never perform here again.
He's a horrible despicable man.
Total CrankFraud charlatan.
How many times do we have to spell it out

Benny-the-British-Butcher

 

[Duggandog]

Surely everybody who wants to 'tick Morrissey off their bucket list' has done so by now? In which case who would ever bother to go and see him play live again? Other than the delusional cult casualties on The List admitted for free as stage props?

Read the post again.

Ticking one off the bucket list refers to having a section of the shirt.

Seen moz many, many a time but prior to last night - shirt toss had always evaded my reach.

And just for the crack, to bait you to respond again, i'll go and see Moz every time i can kid .

 

[BrummieBoy]

Maybe he has more than 1 bucket list by now, who knows?
And in his bucket list of all bucket lists Moz turns up again and again at the number one spot?
Why do you care?

I don't. But this is fun. Why do you care whether or not I care?

 

[BrummieBoy]

Tel-Aviv !
Please be warned to the wizard of mozz and his dirty antics.
Last night he walked on stage at the Manchester Arena with a used sanitary towel strapped to his chest, we have no idea why he did it but it's very disturbing as well as downright disgusting.
So if he rocks up with used tampons hanging out of his ears, don't be at all surprised I think it's some kind of attention disorder he's dealing with.
Disgusting behaviour

Benny-the-British-Butcher

Doubt it, doubt Morrissey would allow menstrual blood on to his humasexual skin....

 

[BrummieBoy]

Nurse, please increase the dose and tighten the straps. Ooh, that really hurt. Please, Bullshit, don't hit me with anymore of those 'knockout punches'. What a f***in' lightweight.

"Lumps hit throats when Mozzer lists 2016’s celebrity deaths (notably omitting David Bowie)"

Lumps of vomit at his disgusting opportunistic attempts to troll Bowie's death. This is just another one. He tried to get a reaction by not making any comment at the time of David's passing, now he tries to get a reaction by leaving him out of this List Of The Lost. Morrissey lost the plot a long time ago, now he is just a little c*** who tries to flog tickets by claiming he has cancer, when he's called out on that an it's revealed he's actually only on a pre-cancerous screening alert, he doubles down like the clown he is. Even if he's terminal this is all in the worst possible taste to try and troll Bowie affiliated members of his Audience. We are dealing with a troll but nobody is prepared to feed that troll anymore, hence his increasingly ridiculous and desperate attempts to provoke a reaction, any reaction beyond curiosity at his bizarre behaviour.

If Morrissey dies of cancer he can console himself as he slides into the abyss that his fate is of no more moral relevance than that of chickens slaughtered for fast food and doubly console himself at his ability to fund the best possible palliative care. A monster who has called for the death of people, celebrated the death of others through acts of political psychosis yet continues to support violence can hardly expect anyone to mourn his passing:

"Whatever happens, I love you!" trills the "poor little f*****" in his humasexualised onstage hysteria.

To which the only appropriate response is "Whatever happens, f*** you Morrissey!"

Enigmatic farewell? Here's one for you, Morrissey: "f*** off and die. Your brazen mockery of cancer patients using their suffering as a stage-prop is grotesque. As someone in remission I find you to be a shamelessly emotionally manipulative exploiter of everybody's visceral fear of this disease and sympathy for those afflicted by it. A simple statement "I have cancer" would have been ethical if true, but this is just another dance of the 7 veils like that over his sexuality. Someone needs to just ask him some simple questions such as:

"Have you or have you not been diagnosed with Cancer? If so, what stage?"

"Do you suck cocks or take it up the arse?"

Sporting a blood-soaked bandage and mourning recent celebrity deaths, the singer delivers an emotional set – then issues an enigmatic farewell

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/21/morrissey-review-manchester-arena-throat-bandage-blood

 

[Irish blood Irish heart]

the entire upper bowl was empty, reason they likely left the light off, so it wouldnt be noticed. but on twitter you can clearly see the vast empty spaces of empty, entire swaths with nobody.
also comments made that at some point they were not checking tix, just every walkabout was allowed in.
dont know if its true but would not be surprised, im sure an effort to fill the empty bowl.

You are a pathetic little liar, I didn't have to check "Twitter" I was in the upper tier and it was packed, the entire arena was full, I went in just before moz came on and they were checking every ticket before allowing anyone in, lie all you want you poor little fool, the people who were actually at the gig know the truth