News Archive : Aug. 18-29, 1997
-"Modern Rock Live" and "The Late Show" appearances
-Spotting at Radiohead
-More tour dates

Aug 29 97 - Friday

Portland

From Jose Garcia:

Morrissey will be in concert at LA LUNA in Portland Oregon. Oct. 4. Tickets go onsale Sept. 6.

Source WWW.KNRK.COM (concert calendar. . .)

Aug 28 97 - Thursday

A Moz-spotting At Radiohead

Thanks to Paul for this story:

New York - Hammerstein Ballroom 8/26/97. About a minute or two before Radiohead came on my wife and I spotted Morrissey being ushered in. He passed about ten feet from where we were standing and all around there was a collective gasp. We lost track of him as the lights went down, but it looked like he was heading towards a VIP seating area where Marilyn Manson was seated.

Las Vegas

From Jason, "...the Las Vegas venue is The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel. On sale when? Unsure. We’ll see." And from Deanna, a link to the confirmation.

Los Angeles tickets...

... go on sale Sat., Sept. 6 at 10 am at all Ticketmaster locations. Info from Jason.

"Extraordinary Ordinariness" booklet (Italy)

from Jeff Pelletier:

I just received a copy of the Smiths book... It's a cd sized booklet with a little history, discography,some photos, and drawings, lots of quotes and partial interview clips... it also comes with a 3-track cd. Plain white sleeve, the tracks are: "This Charming Man", "Jeane", "Accept Yourself".

The text of the book in in English and Italian... it's distributed by "Sonic books..#7 in a series... other books available - Bauhaus, Joy Division, Wire, etc.

Aug 27 97 - Wednesday

Chicago Venue

From E Martin Gimenez: "I was listening to q101’s announcement of the show, and they said that it would be at the Riviera Theater, which only has a capacity of 2200 but they might move it back to the Aragon later."

Vancouver tickets...

... go on sale Friday at 9:30 am ($34.50 / 280-4444). Info from Heidi.

Latest rumors

* Originating from the discussion board, the support band for the US tour - the band Elcka. In the recent Melody Maker interview Morrissey described them:

"They're astonishing. I went to see them recently and it was one of those gigs of a lifetime. One you never forget. They're really special. I wouldn't like to praise them because the press will hate them if I like them. Possibly. But that's the way the hamster wheel turns these days."

* From S. Davenport:

According to a friend of mine, Chrissie Hynde stated last night on some online chat that she and Morrissey are in the early stages of doing a song together for the new Pretenders album. That’s all I know, and I don’t know how accurate this is, or if it’s even true.

Aug 26 97 - Tuesday

Kalamazoo

Thanks to all those who reported that Ticketmaster is showing a date, Jason was the first: "The Ticketmaster Event Guide for Morrissey is now showing a date on September 23^rd at the Kalamazoo State Theatre in Kalamazoo, Michigan." I don't think I've ever heard from anyone actually living in Kalamazoo, however.

Suedehead - The Best Of Morrissey and other promos

From Mailily:

Got the best of on Tuesday (promo copy). I includes all the singles but "Sing Your Life" and "Certain Peoople I Know". It adds "Tomorrow" and "Thats Entertainment". It comes in a case like the majority of the singles do. The sleeve is just black and folded in half. Similar to the Ask Me Ask Me Ask Me interview disc. Inside it gives the track listing... The disc is all black and just has the title on it. Also "Alma Matters" has a UK promo that has the same sleeve. It also comes in the plastic single packaging sleeve. It has promo only on it and the disc. The disc is black. "Maladjusted" also saw a promo release UK. It comes in a cardboard sleeve which is brown. It has a hole in the front so you can read the plain silver disc track listing. The cover of the Best of.. is going to be the one time "Glamorous Glue" sleeve. Due out now on Sept 8^th.

A track listing from Jeff Pelletier:

High ranking in Tower chart

From Chris:

Maladjusted ranks #4 in Tower Records’ Top 1000 CDs. See www.towerrecords.com.

Chicago tickets on sale Sat., Ann Arbor on Thurs.

From Alison Olcott:

I just heard on the radio that tickets here go on sale at 10AM Saturday, and that the concert is, indeed, at the Aragon. I don’t think the DJ said whether or not they were through Ticketmaster, but I’m assuming they are.

From Aaron Schofield:

The Ann Arbor, MI Concert tickets go on sale August 28^th.

Aug 25 97 - Monday

Pix from The Late Show

From Mike (click to enlarge), "a picture from outside as Morrissey was leaving"

From an anonymous person, 3 screen grabs of the performance.

Charts

Christian Arvidson was first to say that Maladjusted dropped from #8 to #31 in the UK charts this week.

From Jawn, Maladjusted appeared at #27 in France last week.

Tour Info

Cleveland and Minneapolis went on sale Saturday and Monday morning, respectfully. Thanks to Brian Cohen and Travis for the info, which I have updated in the tour section.

Aug 22 97 - Friday

Cleveland vs. Norfolk

There is some confusion concerning the Norfolk and Cleveland tour dates posted on Island's website. For now we will assume Cleveland is on the 21st.

*from John Hughes:

I think the Island site is mistaken, if there’s such a thing. The Moz Cleveland date IS the 21^st, with confirmation from the venue (Lakewood Civic Center) and many print ads in our local music weeklies. The only thing I can figure is a mistype on Island’s part, or they’ve changed the date and haven’t told anyone in Cleveland.

Toronto - that was fast

I have heard ranges from 45 seconds, to 10 minutes, to it's not sold out yet. From Judy:

10:43 AM, Friday August 22^nd.

The Toronto Moz show sold out in 45 seconds! I got fourth row centre, thank heavens.

A correction, rom Mona:

Massey hall holds approximately 2900 people, NOT 1050

Next single rumors

A rumor floating around this site, "Roy's Keen" will be the next single with b-sides, "Lost" and "The Edges Are No Longer Parallel"

An extra zero

From Jarvis:

I believe all-star mag meant 19,000 not 190,000 (which would have put Morrissey at the top of the charts).

A new Late Show story

Here is a new story, from Lisa.

New Discussion Boards

I have now added two more discussion boards for your pleasure. One for tour-related postings (thanks to Carson Bording for the idea) and one for merchandise-related posting (and thanks to The Comtesse DeSpair for this idea). Make your choice here. I am always open to new suggestions.

Aug 21 97

#61 on Billboard 200

Thanks to Q for this report from All-Star Mag. Look for improvement next week! {8/22 - figure should be 19,000} :

Also debuting next week is Morrissey’s latest, Maladjusted, released on Mercury, at No. 61 with more than 190,000 album sold in its first week.

Tour Dates on Island's site

Grant e-mailed to let us know that confirmation of the September tour dates can be found on Island Records Tour News page. There are some differences to what was reported on Modern Rock Live - it appears Norfolk, VA has been slated for Sept. 21, with Cleveland on the 23rd. Several venues have been listed also, check this site's tour section for the latest itinerary.

Vancouver info

From Heidi:

I’ve just spoken to a DJ at Z 95.3 in Vancouver, BC and he told me that Morrissey will be playing at the Orpheum Theatre (Smithe at Seymour) on Oct 1^st (but you already know the date) .. but he didn’t tell me when tickets were going on sale (the concert isn’t announced yet) And he didn’t know whether the radio station was actually going to play Morrissey’s new single (they haven’t yet)...

...not sure about the date

Ticketmaster

From Mike Fidler, "I got these dates and cities off of ticketmaster: MORRISSEY: 30-SEP-97, NEW YORK, NY. Looks like he added another NY show..." We'll wait for more details.

From Mozz69, "Ticketmaster's daily ratings, based on database search requests, shows Morrissey as #20 in the top 25 tours , as of 1:30am EST. 08/21. just thought you might find that interesting." (*He's at #8 as of today.)

Top 10 in Sweden

From Christian Arvidson, "Today Morrissey's Maladjusted went from #28 to number #10 (!) on the Swedish album chart!!"

Letterman photos

Thanks to Ronnie for sending a couple scans, which I have added to his story.

Aug 20 97

Reports from "The Late Show"

From Jen, first in the standby line:

I just wanna say... I went to see Letterman... I camped out from Monday at 3 pm... and was deservedly first in line for stand by tickets...To make a long story short, we got to meet Moz and the band AND while waiting with our stand-by tix, a CBS employee came out to tell us that Letterman had apparently driven by in the middle of the night and saw us camping out and wanted to make sure we got in!! So he gave us tickets!! It was incredible and exciting and Moz and Co. never looked or sounded better. Of course, they did "Alma Matters", a wonderful little tease of what’s to come on the tour! (how embarrassing... I’m watching Letterman as I write this and can hear my own scream when he announces Morrissey as a guest... what a big mouth on me...)

from Sean Pugni:

I just returned from the Letterman taping. I was lucky enough to be in the third row. He played just one song, "Alma Matters". He didn’t talk to Letterman at all. In fact he left the theatre no more that five minutes after he finished the song. But, before the show he did spend quite a bit of time outside signing autographs for all the fans waiting. There were a lot of Morrissey fans that made it inside. There were huge ovations everytime Morrissey’s name was mentioned and especially when he came out.

and from Ronnie, this story (with photos)

San Francisco - another tour date

From Michelle Jouan, "Another date has been added to Morrissey’s Warfield show in San Francisco. He will also be playing there on the following evening (8 october 1997). Tickets onsale now."

NYC and Philadelphia details

Submitted by Michael Fellows: "From Ticketmaster.com, Sept 17^th- Central Park Summer Stage- 72^nd St. in Mid Park Gates at 6:30 PM presented by Bud Beer. Sept 19^th- Phila- The Electric Factory- Doors 7:30 pm club is Between 6&7 Callohill and Spg Gdn

...whatever this means :)"

Additionally, from Joshua:

NYC TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY
{according to ticketmaster}

phone for nyc:212.307.7171
phone for philly:215.336.2000

Cleveland details

Thanks to Sarah Snook for these details: "On the radio today (Cleveland’s 107.9 WENZ) at 5pm they released the news that his show on Sept. 21 will be at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium, and it will be beginning at 7:30pm. Tickets will be going on sale this Saturday morning at 10am."

Moz spotting on Mercury website

Thanks to Kobin Kendrick for this: "There’s a nice little picture of Morrissey on the Mercury web site"

Las Vegas - a warning

From Deanna:

Please, please, please... if you are planning on seeing Morrissey in Las Vegas on October 11^th, call to reserve a hotel room now. The National Finals Rodeo (ick) will be here during that time, and rooms are almost impossible to get. As of today 8/19.. it may already be too late.

Aug 19 97

"The Late Show" Tonight

Reminder: set your VCRs. Anyone going down to the taping please report afterwards. This is actually very exciting to me, on a personal level — I have actually been a big fan of Letterman since before I even knew The Smiths or Morrissey existed, so I feel a circle being completed here. That's my story for today.

A Modern Rock Live story

Thanks to Ara for this excellent account of her call-in.

Toronto details

from Mundeep:

...tickets are something like $33 and $26, depending on where you sit. Massey Hall is a small venue located in the centre of the city. It is completely seated and somewhat posh. The capacity is 1050 people and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets on sale this FRIDAY, not Thursday.

Last week's Melody Maker interview...

... is available on this page at Smiths Presumably Forever Ill

#28 in Sweden

Lastly from Jawn - "I stumbled onto a Swedish pop chart website and found Morrissey’s album sitting at number 28."

Aug 18 97

"Modern Rock Live" Report

More tour dates were announced —  New York (9/17 - Central Park), Philadelphia (9/19), Cleveland (9/21), Ann Arbor (9/24), Chicago (9/26), Milwaukee (9/27), Minneapolis (9/29), Vancouver (10/2), Seattle (10/3), Las Vegas (10/11) and Los Angeles (10/12 - Greek Theatre).

Songs were played live in studio - "Maladjusted", "Roy's Keen", "Trouble Loves Me", "Satan Rejected My Soul" and "Alma Matters".

Does anyone have some time to do a summary of the interview?

#8 in UK charts

I have been told that #8 is the UK chart entry for Maladjusted.