Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues (July 27, 2024) post-show

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Setlist:

The Boy Racer / Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings / You're The One For Me Fatty / I Wish You Lonely / Ganglord / How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? / Bigmouth Strikes Again / The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores / Girlfriend In A Coma / I Like You / Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself / If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look At Me / Munich Air Disaster 1958 / Half A Person / All The Lazy Dykes / The Loop / Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Jack The Ripper / I Will See You In Far-off Places // Speedway

Setlist courtesy of @Amsden

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• Photos no.mi.richie / Instagram (4 total). Link posted by Famous when dead (original post).
  
  
  
• [Morrissey Central] "LAS VEGAS, NIGHT 2" (July 28, 2024)

 

[Vesper Nocturne]

There was before. And then there was after. Never anything else. He is to die for!

 

[bhops]

Comes out and announces a happy anniversary to Your Arsenal. Immediately segue ways into a track from Southpaw Grammar

 

[Compadre]

A couple of gentle embraces during Speedway. Great to see him in such a good mood. “And when you’re standing, on my beautiful fingers, can you see it in your heart? Maybe yes. Likely no."

Always love speedway , great to see someone made it onstage with him as well

for me speedway should be the closing song every gig.

Agreed! This made me so happy. I was there Friday night and no one got on stage. It seemed in the videos from yesterday like Moz was helping them up, at least the first 2 girls. Lucky people! If you are on here please share about your experience would love to hear it! #goals

 

[Eliza]

Does anyone have an explanation of why Morrissey appeared on stage with a red box of Utz to his ear? It looked to me like it was a "joke" about Trump's ear and the way people have worn bandages in "support". The robotic walk and emphasis on the size of his left hand suggest a Trump impersonation. And with the "Shoplifters" (.....unite and take over), wording he wrote on the box, what is Morrissey saying? Is he taking the piss?.....or not?

I think he may be trying to say he has a chip on his shoulder (or more than one).

 

[Anonymous]

It's been ages since I've heard him do 'I Will Smell You in Far-Off Places'. Hopefully it sticks around a bit.

 

[Tingle3]

I think he may be trying to say he has a chip on his shoulder (or more than one).

That works!, thank you. I was forgetting they're called chips, not crisps in the US.

 

[Tingle3]

That works!, thank you. I was forgetting they're called chips, not crisps in the US.

But then again, he's holding the box to his ear, not carrying it on his shoulder. And his slack-jawed, dead-eyed facial expression is also a Trump reference. I think it's definitely about Trump. Seems that Morrissey has been watching the news after all.

 

[Mozzer1980]

Thank You ! Very good recording.

 

[Ryan]

Comes out and announces a happy anniversary to Your Arsenal. Immediately segue ways into a track from Southpaw Grammar

Kinda like how he put Fantastic Bird on the reissue of the wrong era.

 

[bored]

Now that’s an opener! Sadly it only ever happens once in a blue moon.

Bigmouth was better.. so that's twice???

 

[The Alchemist]

Second night in particular looked incredible. I'm very happy for all who were fortunate enough to be there.

Morrissey is looking and sounding great, and he looks invigorated. Whatever you've been doing M, long may it continue.

 

[bored]

Agreed! This made me so happy. I was there Friday night and no one got on stage. It seemed in the videos from yesterday like Moz was helping them up, at least the first 2 girls. Lucky people! If you are on here please share about your experience would love to hear it! #goals

He did help them up. I didn't really see anyone trying too hard on Friday.

Saturday I only saw one guy try to get up (as opposed to the 3 women who made it), he was all the way to the right (audience perspective) and he was pretty a pretty big dude. Morrissey's security pushed him back. Not sure if his size had anything to do with it but I suspect it did.

 

[bored]

Second night in particular looked incredible. I'm very happy for all who were fortunate enough to be there.

Morrissey is looking and sounding great, and he looks invigorated. Whatever you've been doing M, long may it continue.

I went to both nights and they were both great shows.

Morrissey was really into it both nights and his vocals were as good as ever.

Someone commented that the band was great on the heavier songs and that was true. Things sort of fell apart during Half a Person and Find Out For Yourself.. not sure why but they were clunky.

On Shoplifters Moz gave the guitar solo to Carmen and she totally nailed it.

I was happy to get some pretty big changes to the setlist but it is definitely time to put The Loop, Jack the Ripper, Munich Air Disaster 1959 and Half a Person on the shelf for a while. This comes from someone who went to 7 shows in the past 3 years. You might feel differently if these were the first shows you've been to since COVID.

I was glad How Soon Is Now and Everyday is Like Sunday were dropped and even Suedehead was starting to get old.

Speedway has also had a lot of play and while I do love seeing it live it's starting to wear thin on how much energy it fills me with.

I've been to more shows than I can count and I give these 8.5/10.
If these were my 5th and 6th shows ever I would probably rate them as 9.5.

As for the people who had a bad time or were really disappointed, I think there are some people who at this point are trying to find a reason to complain rather than enjoy the show. If you go in with the attitude that it's going to suck you'll probably find you were correct.

 

[Light Housework]

Another camera angle of Boy Racer

 

[The Alchemist]

Saturday I only saw one guy try to get up (as opposed to the 3 women who made it), he was all the way to the right (audience perspective) and he was pretty a pretty big dude. Morrissey's security pushed him back. Not sure if his size had anything to do with it but I suspect it did.

I saw that on YouTube and chuckled - petite girls yes, big units no.

Access denied.

 

[goinghome]

Music Insider Magazine gives a brief upbeat report of the first two successful shows with setlists - https://musicinsidermagazine.com/morrissey-performs-two-sold-out-shows-at-house-of-blues-las-vegas/

Infowars totally focuses on one video from the shows - https://hw.infowars.com/posts/singer-morrissey-slams-fauci-schwab-gates-in-new-song/

Likewise bb - https://www.breitbart.com/entertain...aus-schwab-as-criminals-during-vegas-concert/

The Daily Telegraph straddle both approaches and print a reasonable short news item on the shows -https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/art-and-entertainment/morrissey-labels-fauci-schwab-and-gates-criminals-during-las-vegas-performance/

 

[Light Housework]

I saw that on YouTube and chuckled - petite girls yes, big units no.

Access denied.

What I saw was that by the time the male fan was hauled up fully onto the stage, holding hands with Morrissey all the while with Morrissey guiding him up and his security assisting, the drum solo was beginning, and Morrissey took that as a cue to make his exit, so it was just timing, not any prejudice against the male fan.

 

[Hazard_UK]

Having flicked through the footage posted I can now officially declare that in my opinion this is the worst line up he’s ever performed with………
Absolutely horrific the way these songs are being delivered to the paying audience.
I’ve seen better musicians in my local boozer.
He must be paying them in peanuts.

DREADFUL

Benny

I thought you'd be happy, with No Boz, No Mando. Then No Alain. Then no Gus.

I mean, bloody hell, make your mind up !

Hazard x

 

[The Alchemist]

What I saw was that by the time the male fan was hauled up fully onto the stage, holding hands with Morrissey all the while with Morrissey guiding him up and his security assisting, the drum solo was beginning, and Morrissey took that as a cue to make his exit, so it was just timing, not any prejudice against the male fan.

So if the song is ending, you're too late? I thought he'd at least hang on a few seconds longer....

Also, his encore shirt suggests he is partial to a big unit. But maybe not during concerts anymore.

Perhaps all this Trump stuff has everyone on edge - he might have decided the guy was a Trump supporter.

 

[goinghome]

Agreed! This made me so happy.

In an essay about themes of martyrdom in Morrissey's work, can be found intriguing speculations about Speedway:

...While the word “speedway” is referred to in the lyrics of a much earlier Morrissey/Marr composition – ‘Rushholme Ruffians’ – other than in its title, speedway does not appear anywhere in this song. Previous accounts have made reference to a range of reasons as to why Morrissey may have chosen this title.9 These include Johnny Marr’s time as a motorcycle speedway assistant in Cheshire; Morrissey’s negative adolescent experience of a violent incident at a fair in Stretford Road10 and the suggestion that it is the title of one of his favourite films starring Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra.

We hold that Morrissey’s decision to use the word as a title may in fact signify something else entirely. As a term with multiple possible meanings, speedway is polysemic. It refers to two track-based motorsports;12 it is the title of a 1929 silent film starring William Haines and it is also the name of a place traditionally associated with Gay subculture in Santa Monica. If its use is in reference to either of the two danger-laden motorsports which bear its name, Morrissey’s use of the word may be simply metaphorical. Like the motorcycle rider in speedway racing (where the bikes have no brakes), its use here may serve to signify a world where the song’s protagonist (not unlike James Dean) is heading off all sorts of dangers and threats with reckless abandonment.

Speedway is the title of two films which use stock-car racing as their respective settings. In addition to the movie featuring Elvis and Nancy Sinatra (1968), the original (silent) film Speedway13 (1929) starred William Haines, who, before becoming a very famous interior designer, was victimized by the Hollywood movie industry and who heroically refused to conform to a “straight” sexual identity. Coincidentally (or otherwise) Haines was responsible for the interior design in Morrissey’s house in Lincoln Heights (LA) when it was owned by the comic actress Carole Lombard. Speedway the place, is, as Hawkins (2002) observes, located in Santa Monica. This oceanfront thoroughfare has had a long history of association with Gay subculture. Bret (2004) notes that it was a favoured cruising area for actors including James Dean, Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift.

Thus Speedway may also signify a place of pleasure imbued with danger. So in addition to a possible nostalgia for Speedway the motorcycle sport, for its adolescent emotional resonances, for possible homoerotic longing for speedway operators, for its associations with Johnny Marr and with Elvis Presley, the word Speedway can connote danger, victimization and the liminal world of gay sexual encounters...

from, Speedway for Beginners: Morrissey, Martyrdom and Ambiguity, by Eoin Devereux and Aileen Dillane, in 2011 Morrissey Fandom book.