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posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
Charles writes:
CNN.com reports today (link) that the New York Dolls are to put out their first studio album since 'Too Much Too Soon'. Morrissey is mentioned in the article as being responsible for getting the band back together (such as it is). Strangely, the album will be on Roadrunner Records, which begs the question, "What is the current state of Attack Records?"
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
Hello Indie writes:
The frontwoman from The Kills, Alison, has commented on Morrissey in the NME, as him being a loser and far too overrated.
"It's just him. His voice drives me crazy. When I was in college I lived in a house with two huge fans and he was on all the time; that obsession some people have with Morrissey is something that I just don't get. He seems like a loser and an arsehole to me, and from what I've heard.
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
Newport Pagnell writes:
Yet another in the long line of Morrissey referencing pop groups are Pioneers who you probably know do a famous cover of Moz's "The More You Ignore Me...." ---
Anyhow, I have stumbled across the video as it is now available at www.pioneersmusic.co.uk It is recorded at Night and Day in Manchester, the scene of the Boz/Marr meeting a couple of months back.
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
someraincoatedlovers writes:
from The Montreal Mirror online: (A Review of the Dears with a Morrissey (and Marr) mention.) Hearts grow fonder >> Pop-noir sextet the Dears get their happy ending by LORRAINE CARPENTER Excerpts: ...Murray Lightburn: Our first headline gig at London’s Barfly sells out, as do many shows after that. I meet the House of the Love, and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields is at our gig in February. I cross my fingers for Johnny Marr to show up in Manchester after a journalist tells me Johnny is a fan. He is, unfortunately, a no-show. But, next thing I know, the phone is ringing with a his-people-calling-our-people personal invitation to open for Morrissey in Toronto. In tears, I shake Morrissey’s hand backstage at the Hummingbird Centre. He basically reminds me to use the force. Those aren’t his exact words, but you get the picture. Following shows with Morrissey in NYC and L.A., a write-up in Rolling Stone, and offers (which are all turned down) to tour in Russia and with Duran Duran and REM… ML: In Brussels, Natalia [Yanchak: keyboardist, backup singer, common-law wife] finds out she is pregnant. That means I’m going to be a dad. We tell the band in Australia. Everyone is excited. Then I find us on the cover of a magazine with the quote, “If Morrissey is God, I’m Jesus.” Augh. Natalia and I go to Hawaii for a week to chill out.
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
alainsane writes:
From Blender, August, 2005, p80
Flowers carries [The Killers] success on his shoulders more than any other member, and it may be because he grew up surrounded by delusions of grandeur. He inherited his older brother's cassette collection when he was 12--a 200 album bounty of the Smiths, U2 and Bowie--and so his own rock role models have always been super-serious, alluringly aloof quote machines. Flowers obviously wants to walk among them. 'I would be devastated if Morrissey didn't like us, or Bowie didn't like us,' he says earnestly. 'You want to make music for everybody, but they're the chiefs.'"
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
Geert Poels writes:
JK Rowling has already mentioned a couple of times being a big Smiths/Morrissey fan.
In the biography section of her website, you'll see some Smiths buttons when she talks about her teens. Update: 07/20 07:29 GMT: An anonymous person writes: As well as the two Smiths buttons in J.K. Rowling's biography on her website, there is a picture of a torn out bit of newspaper featuring an advertisment for rental in Whalley Range, which is circled in red pen.
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
Missing Link writes:
There is a fascinating article on crime/regeneration within Salford in The Politics Show this week.
For anyone who hasn't been to the area it gives an interesting insight into the "real" Salford and the area of Ordsall where the Salford Lads Club is located. Towards the end of the piece it features the Salford Lads Club itself and the good work it does within the Ordsall community. There's also a nice pan round The Smiths Room, accompanied by "There is a light...". As the journalist rightly says: "No visit to Salford would be complete without a tour of Salford Lads Club" To view this episode go to the following link (RealVideo): The coverage begins 49m15s into the programme and lasts about 10 mins.
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
jtang writes:
New York Times (subscription required)
July 18, 2005 Mining the Drama in a Rock Catalog By JON PARELES LONDON - Rock's conquest of the West End here, and of Broadway, has arrived largely in the form of unchallenging oldies: familiar songs that mimic the recorded hits and are attached to revue vignettes or a cobbled-together storyline. Queen, Abba and Billy Joel are among those whose songs have found that kind of afterlife, and a John Lennon musical on Broadway is now in previews.
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
elvisbragg writes:
Hardly a scoop. but was catching up on football news and on the webpage i saw this lookalike. Morrissey or the former England manager. best one i have seen.
Lookalikes: Glenn Hoddle And...? - Football356.com
posted by
davidt
on Monday July 18 2005, @10:00AM
Squire writes:
Apple has published some download statistics for the first 500 Million Songs and the 481,700,000th song that Apple sold is The Last Of The Famous International Playboys by Morrissey.
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