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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[GodEmperorMorrissey]

This is a revealing statement. No, Morrissey, I can assure you that not everyone prefers their own race. Fortunately, that's not the world I live in. I certainly know that I don't prefer my own race, "ultimately" or otherwise. Does this make Morrissey racist? Well, I honestly didn't think he was before, but he's pretty much just admitted that's exactly what he is.

Everyone inherently prefers their own race. Also you are using the (pretty recent in human history invention) word racism wrong

 

[Anonymous]

Seriously have you done the math on this, Morrissey? Nigel Farage f***ING HATES MEXICANS. Omg. He is over here meeting with Trump slapping his back on Mexican border atrocities. If I was your MEXICAN band I’d be so goddamed embarrassed.

So what you mentally unstable houseshitter?

Not like you do anything for progress other than staring into cameras and feeling sorry for yourself.

 

[Anonymous]

You mean the illegal immigrants attempting to break into America unlawfully?

She's chanied herself to the staircase at Berkeley university. If swedish she would have studied at Södertörn.

Dip the finger in it and taste 100% chicken brain.

 

[bhops]

Funnily enough one of the new songs on the coming album is entitled:

"Polynesian at the Polytechnic".

"oh so you've come to my country
rocket scientist needing a therapist
they never went to the moon
but you believe
in everything they tell you!"

Sounds like a hit!

 

[vegan cro spirit 444]

Oh great look who has to chime in. all the cranks have been
triggered by the great new Moz interview, Barnaby, CGeezer
and now the great Moz copy, .

ps Mr Comet is gaining weight by the day he got TWO folds
of fat now.

 

[Stephen Hofmann]

I guess no one is trying to go to New Zealand and you feel left out of the xenophobia but I can't understand how you believe this is any of your business.

You do not understand what racism is. You do not understand what white privilege is.

 

[Anonymous]

Morrissey lives in a bubble and his nephew seems intent on running interference with reality. The interview is full of logical inconsistencies. It isn't even a matter of agreeing with him or not. He doesn't seem to agree with himself.

Well said. That’s my thought, too. He has no coherent worldview, other than meat is evil.

 

[Dharma Chameleon]

I am not white, I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. However, none of my white friends got told "GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!" They didn't have to worry about that, that is the privilege of their skin color.

No, that's called being the native majority ethnic group in their native land. I don't know what your race is, but let's say you're of Indian descent: if you moved to China, Japan, plenty of African countries, Turkey, Mexico, you'd hear some variation of "what are you doing here", "where are you really from", and "when are you going back to your own country" no matter where you went.

The notion that this is some kind of skin colour "privilege" which takes place only in majority white countries is ludicrous.
The difference is that the native Chinese, Japanese etc. haven't been browbeaten over the years and taught to hate themselves by their media, so they would be much more straightforward in making you feel like you don't belong there.
Which you wouldn't, because they're the native homelands of specific groups and you're entering their territory.

(And you wouldn't be on their territory for very long if you tried to tell them that they have "privilege" because they're not accepting you as one of their own, and if you implied that you're as entitled to live in China/Japan etc. as they are. You'd find yourself on a flight "back to where you came from" fairly quickly.)

Only white people buy into that codswallop, so you should feel 'privileged' that you live in a country where many people are willing to accept your nonsense (after being trained over many years to believe it) and you're able to use that as leverage against them to gain social status. Because you wouldn't be doing it in any other part of the world, that's for sure!

 

[Anonymous]

White "privilege" doesn't exist..........class-ism does. Always has, always will. It's all about the money baby.

Nailed it!

You Sir are a breath of fresh air here.

 

[Erik]

as usual the new song titles take a back seat to the political pish that the usual suspects are addicted to.

I’m all about the songs! Interesting titles

 

[marred]

And the swill of time is where the song "People Are The Same Everywhere" belongs. A ghastly business.

 

[AztecCamera]

I reckon the mporium uk just make an extra million bucks today!!! Reckon lil' Sammy probably made this up while waiting at the California DMV renewing his driver's license. Still pushing the fake Brittish bullshit. "Brittish embassy" Reckon good on ya California Son...you won't have to tour Brittin to get their foreigner money....MPORIUMUK....now go buy more foreigners c*** tit wacker m8 inn nnn nnnnnn nnn nnnn it.

 

[Anonymous]

And the swill of time is where the song "People Are The Same Everywhere" belongs. A ghastly business.

If people are the same everywhere, it makes the idea of racial preference moot.

 

[Try Anything Twice]

I don’t think I know the reference from the title of “A Larks’ Tongue In April.” Can anyone fill me in?

 

[21st Century Sikhzoid Man]

I don’t think I know the reference from the title of “A Larks’ Tongue In April.” Can anyone fill me in?

I can only find the King Crimson song 'Lark's Tongue in Aspic', which a few years ago I would have thought couldn't possibly be the reference, but since Morrissey seems to be re-evaluating a lot of what he previously believed - musically and otherwise - it likely is what's being referenced.

 

[Light Housework]

Morrissey lives in a bubble and his nephew seems intent on running interference with reality. The interview is full of logical inconsistencies. It isn't even a matter of agreeing with him or not. He doesn't seem to agree with himself.

 

[marred]

This is a revealing statement. No, Morrissey, I can assure you that not everyone prefers their own race. Fortunately, that's not the world I live in. I certainly know that I don't prefer my own race, "ultimately" or otherwise. Does this make Morrissey racist? Well, I honestly didn't think he was before, but he's pretty much just admitted that's exactly what he is.

Take a look at where people prefer to live.

 

[Anonymous]

Well spotted. This gives the game away.

Hardly new. I think he sang on his first lp 'stay with your own kind and I'll stay with mine'

Not his fault you lot were so slow to grasp what he was on about.
The real bad thing is this. He isn't a racist but he is now a poster boy for racists. Just look at the dick heads on here.
The stuff that is now said on here is disgusting.

 

[Try Anything Twice]

I can only find the King Crimson song 'Lark's Tongue in Aspic', which a few years ago I would have thought couldn't possibly be the reference, but since Morrissey seems to be re-evaluating a lot of what he previously believed - musically and otherwise - it likely is what's being referenced.

Interesting. I’ll have to investigate that one. I don’t know that album of their’s. Thanks for the info.

 

[Anonymous]

BUT IS LADY WILLPOWER COMING OUT AS A SINGLE OR NOT?