SER: "A Larks' Tongue In April" - Morrissey interview - Morrissey Central (24 June, 2019)

The Interview. - Morrissey Central
June 24, 2019

A LARKS’ TONGUE IN APRIL.

conversation with Morrissey,

April 2019, by Sam Esty Rayner.

*we apologize for the delay in printing this interview.

Excerpt:

"sam:
You cancelled 6 shows in Italy because of the incident. People are beginning to think your middle name is Cancellation.

M:
I know. But, as far as I can see, many bands cancel and nothing is ever said about it. The song and dance made about my cancellations is usually from people who wouldn’t go to the concert in the first place.

sam:
But you will play the Canada dates?

M:
Yes.

sam:
Is your hand bad? Obviously it’s covered.

M:
The stitches are out now but if I had shaken anyone’s hand last week blood would have spurted. That’s not a nice greeting.

sam:
I don’t think anyone ever believes that you’re ill, or that you fell, or whatever.

M:
I know. Generally colds and flu are passed on to me, and there’s nothing you can do when your voice is your instrument. I go to abnormal lengths to avoid colds."

https://www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrommorrissey/234417-the-interview



Covering a lot of recent (and old) topics.
Full transcript reproduced below in parts (due to word limits).
Regards,
FWD.

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Media coverage:

• Morrissey sparks controversy by claiming 'everyone prefers their own race' as he reaffirms support for far-right party For Britain - Daily Mail Online. Link posted by Surface.
• Morrissey reaffirms support for far-right party and claims 'everyone prefers their own race' - The Independent.
  
• Morrissey claims ‘everyone prefers their own race’ as he steps up support for For Britain - Metro.
  
• Morrissey reaffirms For Britain support, denies he is racist, and apologises to Robert Smith in an interview with his nephew - NME.
  
• 'Everyone ultimately prefers their own race': Morrissey tackles the Arena bomb, racism and Nigel Farage in bizarre new interview - Manchester Evening News.
  
• Morrissey “apologises” to Robert Smith of The Cure for 80s insults - Radio X.
  
• Morrissey Branded 'Racist' Online After Saying Farage 'Would Make Good Prime Minister' - SputnikNews.com.
  
• Morrissey says Nigel Farage would 'make a good prime minister' as he voices support for right-wing group For Britain - Evening Standard.
• Morrissey Denies He Is Racist, Attacks The Press, And Apologizes To Robert Smith In New Interview With His Nephew - Stereogum.com.
• Morrissey on Nigel Farage: “It’s obvious that he would make a good prime minister” - Far Out Magazine.
• Morrissey combats racism accusations by claiming “everyone prefers their own race” in interview - TheFader.com

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[bhops]

gross. cant imagine what she wants with you. anyway, what I meant is I pull off younger clothes better than most people.

these are the coats I think for sure i will take:






so your gross girlfriend cant have these ones

She's not gross she used to model

 

[nicky wire's legs]

She's not gross she used to model

cool, so did my mom!

not for sears magazine though

 

[bhops]

cool, so did my mom!

not for sears magazine though

But you didn't model?

 

[nicky wire's legs]

But you didn't model?

oh heavens no

but you did though, yes?! mr GQ

 

[nicky wire's legs]

can we just get one thing straight though? im really not impressed by small time models. unless you were discovered on the street and miuccia prada flew you to milan to walk her show on the basis of seeing one polaroid im not likely to be impressed. small time models undermine real models, the same way generic conventional prettiness undermines real beauty, and in a way is it's opposite.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

First Moz makes a statement against diversity.
Then Moz complains he's not being respected for his diversity of thought.

What’s the problem then ?

 

[bhops]

oh heavens no

but you did though, yes?! mr GQ

Why the f*** would I model and who the f*** would want me? Ohhhh I get it, you're being ironic. Well I happen to agree. Calling me ugly is water off a ducks back, I'm a Morrissey fan for f***s sake.

Of course I'm self loathing.

 

[bhops]

can we just get one thing straight though? im really not impressed by small time models. unless you were discovered on the street and miuccia prada flew you to milan to walk her show on the basis of seeing one polaroid im not likely to be impressed. small time models undermine real models, the same way generic conventional prettiness undermines real beauty, and in a way is it's opposite.

You implied my girlfriend is gross. She's not.

 

[vegan cro spirit 444]

Brobert, I don't know how you got onto smoking weed from my post.
White privilege is not really having to be afraid of the police. And I have been judged for being white, and had people assume things about me because I was white. All people can be bigots. I understand how it can appear that anyone can be racist.
The problem is that history didn't start this morning and we both live in countries where racism was and is part of the culture. What many people are really upset about is no longer being able to express racism openly without being challenged for it. They feel victimized by this and start crying about how "everyone is so easily offended."
#snowflakes

didnt think of that way, the Jutes were racist..you may have been reading too many Mao posts.

YOU-you were judged for being white!!??

didnt you present your 'woke' ID???

 

[vegan cro spirit 444]

It all depends how you add up the numbers and when you started counting.

true back in the stone age all crime in the UK was by the white privelegeeers

 

[E Scott]

A few new titbits but a lot of it fairly repetitive of previous recent so called interviews i. e. Riggers and Pheonia.

 

[nicky wire's legs]

Why the f*** would I model and who the f*** would want me? Ohhhh I get it, you're being ironic. Well I happen to agree. Calling me ugly is water off a ducks back, I'm a Morrissey fan for f***s sake.

Of course I'm self loathing.

yeah, I was being ironic.

well at least your girlfriends not gross. that apparent fact along with your penchant for making derogatory comments about womens looks must help build up your self esteem somewhat.

well it's 5am, I must go to bed now. lovely chatting!

 

[Lionsy]

you really think so bearface?!?! aw that's super!

Bunny face, I promised.

 

[nicky wire's legs]

Bunny face, I promised.

but, bear face, do you pinky swear?!

 

[bhops]

yeah, I was being ironic.

well at least your girlfriends not gross. that apparent fact along with your penchant for making derogatory comments about womens looks must help build up your self esteem somewhat.

well it's 5am, I must go to bed now. lovely chatting!

I mainly make derogatory comments about your looks on account of you being a shit head to other people on this site. I tend to think of it as being a public service of sorts.

 

[vegan cro spirit 444]

You can teach your kids to repeat opinions by some pretty decent sources and if they're questioned on it they can claim they're being harassed, stalked, trolled, and obsessed over.

this sounds like something the old timer crank Barnaby would say, was he the 'sources'?

 

[countthree]

White and black are not, biologically, 'races'. Biologically there is only one race - home sapiens - and decreeing that people belong to 'another' race because of their skin colour is racist.

Also, cultural identity has constantly evolved throughout human history, and will continue to do so, so there is always going to be an 'other'. Fear of the 'other' is not necessarily irrational, it's a simple animal territorial instinct, and beyond all the niceties, territory is always going to be an issue between different cultures. The idea therefore that fear of the other is a mentality that will wholly disappear in a few generations from now is ludicrous.

Homo sapiens is a species, not a race. Human races don't exist. Skin color doesn't define a human race. That's a concept that could have been useful some centuries ago to justify human exploitation, but now it doesn't have any scientific basis considering the contemporary information on the human genome. Humans are divided by cultural differences, and it always has been so. The fact that those cultural differences can now and in some places be identified with some physical features is just an anecdote, it will change sooner or later in the same way that changed another kind of discriminations.

 

[ACTON]

Not dissing the Cure. Saw them at Hyde Park last year and they were stupendous.

That concert is gonna be played in cinemas in July, so I assume a blu ray/DVD release later this year probably around time of the new album.

 

[ForgotHowIGotMyName]

I imagine that when you see different ethnicities as being like breeds of dog lots of things blow your mind.
The funny thing is it's always the real idiots that think they are superior and have higher IQ. You cling to being "white" because you're not really very remarkable in any way and at least you've got that.

OK, so you're gonna go armchair Freud on me.

Well, gee I dunno, doc. I think my views might have something to do with how I feel about my mother. I asked for a pony for Christmas every year and never got one. Now I take out all my frustrations on Jews.

I believe what I believe because that's what the science says.

Agreed. Certain ethnicities are for more susceptible to certain diseases, sickle cell anemia being an obvious example. Certain ethnicities have higher overall IQ's than others. Asian's having higher IQ's than white/Europeans being another example. I don't even understand why any of this would be controversial. It's flat out science denial.

It goes deeper than that. There are racial difference in bone structure, muscle density, brain size, disease immunity and susceptibility, hormone levels, lactose tolerance, age of female sexual maturity...

There are also certain medications that can not be prescribe to certain races.

you should read The Mismeasure of Man.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/12/race-intelligence-iq-science

Stephen J Gould is full of shit.

Here's the thing. You can try to make a case AGAINST race realism. You might argue that the evidence is inconclusive or speculate that there might be some hitherto undiscovered x-factor causing the discrepancies, or whatever

But what you can't do is make an affirmative case FOR racial equality. You can not produce counter-data showing the races equal. There has never been a scientific study showing all races having equal intelligence. Every study on the subject has show racial differences. Not random results but the same racial differences every time.

Now, I think the evidence is overwhelming and conclusive. But for the sake of argument, let's say it's not.
The question is "What should your default assumption be absent any slam dunk evidence one way or the other?" Your default assumption should be that human beings are just like every other animal: not equal. That's where the dog breed analogy comes in.

 

[countthree]

Great interview. Explanatory, witty and made with love. Love it.