“Morrissey sent me one of his famous letters which I’ve framed on the wall. It just read, ‘Dear Bernard, I’m sorry - I can’t’”: Bernard Butler shares with us the events that almost led to a team-up with Morrissey
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"It all started with a phone call to mutual friend and Rough Trade label manager, Geoff Travis…
“Geoff phoned me and said, ‘Morrissey’s round the corner in a phone box. Can I play him that piece of music?’” Butler told us “I said, ‘Yeah - whatever you want’… And then about an hour later, Morrissey phones me - he was gushing about it [Yes]. He wanted to meet me. It was a sunny Friday night, and we went to the Edinboro Castle pub [in Camden], which had a big beer garden. It was packed, but nobody knew who he was, and I remember thinking how odd that was. We just chatted about stuff for a couple of hours, and he was everything that you thought he would be.”
Following a few hours of good-natured pub conversation, an eager Butler awaited Morrissey’s further...