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PETA to honor Morrissey with Linda McCartney Memorial Award (Sep. 10)

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
radioscooter writes:
PETA is holding its 25th anniversary gala event in Hollywood, California on September 10, 2005 and this year the main humanitarian honor - the Linda McCartney Memorial Award - will be presented to Morrissey (by Chrissie Hynde)

The event is a celebration that PETA like those that PETA has held in the past that raise money and awareness of animal rights issues. Most food, services and usual 'gala' accessories are donated by the sponsors.

No mention yet of Moz actually performing at the event, but Paul McCartney did so in 1999 with Chrissie Hynde and others and that Gala was filmed and the performances were shown on television that year. So you never know...

James Murphy on meeting Morrissey

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
Fran sends the link:

The Guardian - James Murphy
Now playing at my house ...
Saturday June 25, 2005

The Smiths

"Everyone has a Smiths moment; you don't have to have been around at the time they first came out. I don't like meeting my heroes but I did meet Morrissey when I interviewed him for a magazine last year. It was horrifying. He corrected me on my grammar. I referred to something as being 'what I was proudest of '. He sneered in outrage and said, 'Or most proud of?' His antagonism seemed a little sad and contrived."
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Johnny Marr plays "Please Please Please..." at Patti Smith's Meltdown

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
frank bough posted on the general board (link):

Saw Johnny Marr at Royal Festival Hall last night as part of Meltdown.

He played with Bert Jansch then The Healers came on. He introduced the second number as "a Manchester folk song" then proceeded to play Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.

It was simply astounding - his playing was beautiful, exactly like The Smiths record, and even his singing seemed to mimic Morrissey's. As a solo performance of a Smiths song, it goes to highlight just how inadequate Boz and the gang are when Morrissey tries it. Marr was in a different league entirely.

Just delighted I was there and got to see it. Hope there are mp3s out there?
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methadone writes:
johnny marr played at london's royal festival hall last night as part of patti smith's meltdown (the event curated by morrissey last year). the night was a tribute to jimi hendrix, with different acts playing various hendrix tunes. marr played "may this be love" with robyn hitchcock (Soft Boys) singing. johnny sounded very hendrix, playing a familiar gentle blues line on his blue stratocaster. he looked a lot better in the flesh than he has on recent tv shows.

also contributing were flea (chili peppers), robert wyatt, richard lloyd & tom verlaine, jeff beck etc. the previous night patti smith performed her "horses" album including "redondo beach".
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A review by Tingle is also posted on the general board.

Smiths reference on 'TV Advert's Greatest Hits'

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
Cemented Mind writes:
Tonight on Channel 4, there was a programme about adverts which featured unknown songs and made them hits. One of them was about Coca-Cola, and one of the guests said "if Coca-Cola was a British brand their adverts would have The Smiths on them and people in Birmingham would be slitting their wrists." (or something along those lines). If I hear another ill-informed armchair pundit talking about The Smiths simply as being miserable I'll scream. Idiots!

Morrissey sketch on Armando Iannucci (1994) - BBC 7

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
oranges writes:
An old Armando Iannucci programme from 1994 was aired on BBC 7 on Friday 25th June at 23.00. It includes ‘The more you ignore me the closer I get’ and a sketch involving Morrissey stalking someone’s girlfriend, which is quite funny. You can hear it at this link.

The sketch is about 17 minutes in.

"The new Smiths" - The Boyfriends at Glastonbury

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
Claudia writes:
After dubbing them "the new Smiths" in their festival guide a couple of weeks ago, the NME described new London band The Boyfriends' music as a "mix (of) the stylish pomp of The Smiths with the ramshackle clutter of the Buzzcocks" in last week's Glastonbury preview issue. The Boyfriends became the first band to ever play the new John Peel Stage at the festival yesterday and an early review in The Independent today has described how they "warmed people's hearts with a Smiths-style racket." Perhaps worth investigation by Smiths/Mozheads. There are free mp3s available on their website, www.theboyfriends.com

Mozzer reference in Exploratorium article; by Julie Burchill

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
Belligerent Ghoul writes:
ENTER ANOTHER DIMENSION - SFGate.com

Excerpt:

...New to the Exploratorium are some very sexy scientific exhibits, like "Sex -- Who Needs it?," which explores the celibate lives of organisms that haven't been getting any in 40 million years.

Visitors get to see a puritanical process called parthenogenesis, which, according to Charles Carlson, director of life sciences, is not the title of Morrissey's next album. Rather, it's a rarely seen process that is having the entire science community rethink the whole question of sex...
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goinghome writes:
In an Edinburgh Preview of a Double Bill Stand-up comedy show, featuring Natalie Haynes and Chris Neill, a quote of Julie Burchill is used to promote this duo. She says they are “the most exciting thing since Morrissey”.

They play at ‘Komedia’ Club in Brighton, at 8pm, Thursday 28th July.

See link for details and more quotes.

Moz lookalike wanted for photo feature

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
Kevin Cummins writes:
Does anyone know of, or is anyone who's registered on this site a Morrissey lookalike. They don't have to look like his long lost twin brother - but just bear a passing resemblance.

I'd prefer someone who lives in the south east - preferably London. It's for part of a photo essay I'm working on. I need you to be available for a couple of hours shoot sometime before the end of July.

You might not think you look like Moz but maybe people tell you that you do.

Please e-mail me direct.

Site Sponsors: Sweet And Tender Hooligans play "Strangeways..." in Los Angeles (July 3)

posted by davidt on Monday June 27 2005, @10:00AM
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