Chicago, IL - Riot Fest - Thursday Preview Party (Sep. 16, 2021) post-show

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Setlist:

How Soon Is Now? / Irish Blood, English Heart / Alma Matters / Everyday Is Like Sunday / The Loop / Shoplifters Of The World Unite / I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Never Had No One Ever / First Of The Gang To Die / Ouija Board, Ouija Board / Lady Willpower / Knockabout World / You Have Killed Me / Back On The Chain Gang / Satan Rejected My Soul / Half A Person / Jack The Ripper

Setlist courtesy of Samuel Valdez, FWD & setlist.fm

(2 lines from "My Way" prior to How Soon Is Now?).

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• Riot Fest 2021: A ‘grateful’ Patti Smith returns, Morrissey wins over the crowd; plus Day 1 photo highlights - Chicago Sun Times. Link posted by ListeningLoud.
  
• NME: "Morrissey at Riot Fest review: pop’s problematic uncle wisely shuts up and plays the hits" 4/5*s - September 17, 2021
• Consequence.net: "The Agony and Ecstasy of Morrissey at Riot Fest 2021: Concert Review" - September 17, 2021
• From Alain Whyte / Facebook. Link posted by Famous when dead:
  
• From @mandophotos / Twitter. Link posted by Nerak:
  
  
  

 

[Anonymous]

Despite the usual moaners on Twitter, I never expected there to be much of an actual protest at this show. It may be a festival, but he's headlining the day - you'd have to be a pretty hardcore hater to stay past the support bands to throw sausages at the stage, rather than just leave.

 

[nicky wire's legs]

Does anyone else get really burned up at the idiots bitching and moaning on social media about the food stands going meat less for one stinking day but then when you check the person's profile doing the complaining and they talk about stopping global warming. You can't make this up. Shit for brains.

who even goes to a concert thinking "i hope they've got meat!!"

 

[nicky wire's legs]

so was this festival vaccinated persons only?

 

[dotmatrix522]

so was this festival vaccinated persons only?

You had to be fully vaccinated or have a current negative covid test.

 

[nicky wire's legs]

You had to be fully vaccinated or have a current negative covid test.

thanks!

 

[BookishBoy]

From the Chicago Sun Times' review of Patti Smith's set, earlier in the day:

Smith dedicated the reggae-pop pulse of her song “Redondo Beach” to Morrissey, the evening’s headliner and former vocalist of The Smiths, who has covered it.

 

[fastpulseboy]

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Ow I like that brown/yellow shirt!

 

[Anonymous]

Ignore above question - a couple of lines from "My Way" in to HSIN.




"...to say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels..."

(Slightly altered).

Racist old man.

 

[Siris]

Despite the usual moaners on Twitter, I never expected there to be much of an actual protest at this show. It may be a festival, but he's headlining the day - you'd have to be a pretty hardcore hater to stay past the support bands to throw sausages at the stage, rather than just leave.

No, I didn't expect that either and I suppose that even if they stayed long enough to attend Morrissey's show, they would probably quickly realize that that they are outnumbered by Morrissey fans.

In the end, the Twitter moaners are just a very vocal minority. A petition to remove Morrissey from Riot Fest did not even manage to raise more than 65 signatures: https://www.change.org/p/riot-fest-replacing-morrissey-from-riot-fest?

 

[gordyboy9]

who even goes to a concert thinking "i hope they've got meat!!"

fat bastards who only think of their stomach.

 

[Esther Rancid]

The Loop!

 

[Trans]

Wow we did get the loop which is pretty cool

 

[Deleted member 28251]

I saw the Frankenstein monster in the backdrop. Did anyone else notice this?

One to acknowledge the psychobilly attendees, I expect. I think there are a few left.

 

[Vegan Cro Spirit 444]

INCREDIBLE SHOW BY MOZ!
HUGE CROWD FOR MOZ DAY IN
RIOT FEST aka MOZ FEST
TROLLS NOT TO BE SEEN TOTALLY DECIMATED
CORRECT SET LIST CORRECT ORDER
INCREDIBLE ASSORTMENT OF SWAG SOLD OUT!!
MUCH SUCCESS AND MONEY FOR MOZ IN SOLD
OUT TOUR!!!

BACK TO FOR NEXT LEG OF TOUR.
NO UKRAINE SHOWS CANCELLED TOO MANY
MMUFFINS

>

 

[Vegan Cro Spirit 444]

Moz rules over Riot Fest
Peeps, no meat, no McMuffins, McQuarter Pounders, or chicken chunks
no pork chunks
no roasted ukrainian boar
no cheeseburgers or solid worm soup

good food, veggie burritos

 

[Moz Fan]

That's not that old!

I didn't mean he's old at all.

What I actually meant is that it seems some people on here expect to see in 2021 a Morrissey from many years ago. Someone that no longer exists, for obvious reasons.

I think Moz is great. I love and respect him.

 

[BookishBoy]

A pretty positive write-up of last night's show from Bob Chiarito, for the NME.

(Worth clicking through to see the photo of the ass-hat protester with the "Shut Up Morrissey" t-shirt...)

 

[Famous when dead]

From 'anon' via Strange thread.
Absolutely relevant here:


FWD.

 

[Vesper Nocturne]

Looking and sounding GREAT, Mozzy. Showing them how it’s done.

 

[Moz Fan]

From 'anon' via Strange thread.
Absolutely relevant here:


FWD.

Absolutely relevant.

The boys from Manchester feeling. I like it.

Or am I wrong, FWD?