Birmingham - O2 Academy (Oct. 5, 2022) post-show

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Setlist:

How Soon Is Now? / We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful / Our Frank / Knockabout World / First Of The Gang To Die / Frankly, Mr. Shankly / Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings / Rebels Without Applause / The Loop / I Am Veronica / Little Man, What Now? / Save Me ( brief Joan Armatrading a cappella) / My Hurling Days Are Done / Half A Person / Bonfire Of Teenagers / (Auld Lang Syne intro) Everyday Is Like Sunday / Never Had No One Ever / Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want / Jack The Ripper // Irish Blood, English Heart

Setlist (as it happened) courtesy of @NealCassidy

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• Photo: @richardtrehy / Twitter. Link posted by NealCassidy.
  
  
• I went to see Morrissey at Birmingham O2 Academy - and it was a gig unlike any other by Josh Sandiford (4 of 5 stars) - birminghammail.co.uk. Link posted by Famous when dead. Also linked on Morrissey Central: "WORLD ENDING? IT’S JUST BEGINNING …" (October 7, 2022)

 

[Watson]

Many thanks, Neal - brilliant updates. Hope you had a splendid evening and a safe trip home.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

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(Juan)

under the Iron man bridge we kissed ?

 

[BrokenFrame]

I live in oblivion and Kerouac seemed to have been dropped from the set for a few shows in a row now. I wonder how he decides.

 

[javert]

I live in oblivion and Kerouac seemed to have been dropped from the set for a few shows in a row now. I wonder how he decides.

He plays what he feels like - I think it's one of the best features of his tours, you get his real emotion.

 

[Moz Fan]

under the Iron man bridge we kissed ?

"My 14-year-old self would have slept on this bench".

If my portunhol is not mistaken.

 

[CHMozheart]

The best part was the t-shirt fight at the end. You must to see it how All the people fight for it.

 

[Mike Rourke]

I Live in Oblivion is a great new song but I also really like Sure Enough, the Telephone Rings. It’s punky & catchy. Sure, the lyrics are a bit basic & repetitive, & the song doesn’t go anywhere, but it’s a great blast of energy that doesn’t out-stay it’s welcome.

In fact, I see promise in all of the new songs & can’t wait to hear the album.

I Am Veronica is the one I feel least compelled to listen to, for some reason. Apart from the catchiness of the way the title is sung, it just leaves me a bit cold; the lyrics aren’t direct enough, & when he reaches the bit about fish & dolphins, or whatever, I’m just thinking “what are you talking about, Moz? This is a song about a prostitute, right?”

Veronica is an odd one. I think the best singing melodies are actually in the verse and the pre-chorus. The chorus melody is a bit dull. Yep, lyrics are indeed a mess.
At least in 'Rebels' we have a genuinely all-round great song...

 

[theprivilegeismine]

I’m currently in bed drifting in & out of intermittent sickness sleep when I should really be at this gig.

I was really happy that I managed to book tonight off work & nab a ticket at face value on Sunday evening…at about the same time I started to feel my throat getting a little sore…

The past couple of days I felt gradually worse and then today, I awoke from a 12 hour sleep feeling like a reheated corpse.

Even up to the last couple of hours I was making myself dinner & forcing myself into the shower, attempting to gear myself up to head to the gig, but even listening to a podcast makes my throbbing skull ache so there’s no way I could stand in a crowd of people being blasted with extremely loud live music.

Absolutely gutted. I was so looking forward to hearing him sing so many of my favourite songs tonight…& with Alain back in the band; just as he was when I first saw Moz back in ‘91 & ‘92.

Anyway, I just hope the new album really is coming out soon & that he’ll tour again to promote it, playing a similar set-list in similar-sized venues.

I even thought about just turning up near the end of the set & entering the venue just in time to hear him play Please, Please, Please… but my poor head & body are not supporting this idea.

I hope everyone who attended tonight had a great gig & that plenty of pics & videos will be shared here…

Awww, I really feel for you. There is nothing worse.

I'm sure you'll be tickety boo if he undertakes a(nother) tour to promote BoT, once it escapes into the ether. I know you said you really wanted to hear PPP live.

I hope you feel much better soon!

 

[snoddywilko]

Awww, I really feel for you. There is nothing worse.

I'm sure you'll be tickety boo if he undertakes a(nother) tour to promote BoT, once it escapes into the ether. I know you said you really wanted to hear PPP live.

I hope you feel much better soon!

Thank you.

Yes, Please, Please, Please…is an all-time favourite & I’d be so happy to hear him perform it live one day.

 

[Simplysmiths]

Just got back from the gig. Wow just wow what a gig. Great to hear some old favourites and the new songs , my god if that is what the album sounds like , it’s going to be a cracker. Has Alain written a lot of the new songs because it shows if he has.

 

[snoddywilko]

Just got back from the gig. Wow just wow what a gig. Great to hear some old favourites and the new songs , my god if that is what the album sounds like , it’s going to be a cracker. Has Alain written a lot of the new songs because it shows if he has.

This album was written & recorded before Alain returned to the fold, so no, he didn’t write any of these new songs. Him & Morrissey are collaborating again, though, so hopefully they’re writing another albums worth of great songs to follow the eventual release of Bonfire…

 

[Deleted member 30524]

Little man what now!

One of my fave songs along with Billy Budd. Missed them both on this tour.

 

[No dog in a chain. Ha !]

Well is Morrissey. The real king of England and alternative , post punk rock whatever you call his music. Enjoy !! He still very much alive. ( Regardless of the racist and prudes there ) .....I'll se you in the in the USA tour.

 

[Deleted member 30524]

I’m currently in bed drifting in & out of intermittent sickness sleep when I should really be at this gig.

I was really happy that I managed to book tonight off work & nab a ticket at face value on Sunday evening…at about the same time I started to feel my throat getting a little sore…

The past couple of days I felt gradually worse and then today, I awoke from a 12 hour sleep feeling like a reheated corpse.

Even up to the last couple of hours I was making myself dinner & forcing myself into the shower, attempting to gear myself up to head to the gig, but even listening to a podcast makes my throbbing skull ache so there’s no way I could stand in a crowd of people being blasted with extremely loud live music.

Absolutely gutted. I was so looking forward to hearing him sing so many of my favourite songs tonight…& with Alain back in the band; just as he was when I first saw Moz back in ‘91 & ‘92.

Anyway, I just hope the new album really is coming out soon & that he’ll tour again to promote it, playing a similar set-list in similar-sized venues.

I even thought about just turning up near the end of the set & entering the venue just in time to hear him play Please, Please, Please… but my poor head & body are not supporting this idea.

I hope everyone who attended tonight had a great gig & that plenty of pics & videos will be shared here…

Half a dozen Coors will sort you out.
Never mind all this honey and Ginger shite
Shite.

 

[Deleted member 30524]

Veronica is an odd one. I think the best singing melodies are actually in the verse and the pre-chorus. The chorus melody is a bit dull. Yep, lyrics are indeed a mess.
At least in 'Rebels' we have a genuinely all-round great song...

I don’t get rebels really....
is he saying that DB didn't get the applause he should have?
And that David J never either?
If so then Bowie had been praised all his career , whereas DJ got nothing..

 

[Bluebirds]

Well - that was good fun. Genuinely one of the better gigs I've Seen him do in years... (12 years, 11 months etc, apart fron London Palladium 2018 where I suffered from minimal sleep - for a variety of reasons
Got to be honest the newer songs aren't going to get him a record deal but Little Man What Now ... First time in 20 years in UK?
Aftershow was a right laugh as well. My hangover 2moro won't be. Take care, nos dda

 

[Famous when dead]

Well - that was good fun. Genuinely one of the better gigs I've Seen him do in years... (12 years, 11 months etc, apart fron London Palladium 2018 where I suffered from minimal sleep - for a variety of reasons
Got to be honest the newer songs aren't going to get him a record deal but Little Man What Now ... First time in 20 years in UK?
Aftershow was a right laugh as well. My hangover 2moro won't be. Take care, nos dda

Yes, 20 years in November.
Regards,
FWD.

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[Light Housework]

First of the Gang


Our Frank


Rebels