"Volta Dos Smiths? Nem em 1 milhão de anos" (translated to English)

• El Sitio, Buenos Aires review (5 pictures), "Morrissey, como un duque" -  link from Martin.
  
  
• Clarín - Buenos Aires review (1 picture), "Todos los fuegos, el fuego" -  link from Martin.
  
  
• Estadão - São Paolo review - "Morrissey traz teatro trágico do rock ao Olympia" -  link from Eu.
  
  
• Folha de São Paolo - São Paolo review - "Morrissey é atacado por flores e revida com lirismo" -  Portuguese version and English translation from Fabricio.

Read this on www.blamo.org/sp:

"Q: Most of these songs are very emotional. Never mind just playing the notes, the personal investment must be considerable as well.
A: That is very true. Obviously I've been a big fan of the band since before Gish, and I've followed the career and the albums of this band very closely. Being a girl who first fell in love with The Smiths and The Cure and Tears for Fears, I realized I've always liked the melancholy music. The other day, in Albany [N.Y.], we were playing in a mall outside a Sears and a Payless Shoes, a huge mall setting and it's, like, silly and we're like the weird punk rock people at the mall; you see old ladies walking by. As soon as we start playing, the whole cloud of intensity comes across and I realize, "Wow, I'm playing in one of those bands that I used to listen to," where I would dive into my emotional dark side and turn to [the music] for shelter. The last band I was in was a very different emotional experience."

Glad to hear the Smiths influence extends to the Pumpkins (my two favorite bands)!!

I found a book called "Grown Up All Wrong" by Robert Christgau, it's about American popular music and it has a section called "Blown Away: Nirvana" where he mentions Morrissey.

"It's impossible to hear deep into Nirvana's music unless you take cobain's suffering seriously, and this, as much as their inchoate-sounding punk-metal-pop noise, is why the band quickly became a generational marker. Most parents feel life just isn't that bad. But their kids are convinced otherwise- starting with what they (supposedly) deserved and didn't get from said parents themselves. Cobain obviously wasn't the first rock hero to find power in his vulnerability- male fantasy figures from Elvis to Michael to Eddie Vedder have invited mothering as part as their natural shtick, and not to mention wimps as out-front and various as Pat Boone, James Taylor, Luther Vandross, and Morrissey. But no pure rock and roller at this level of talent and recognition has ever cried out for a hug as palpably as Kurt Cobain".