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on Thursday September 02 2004, @03:00PM
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Paisley - 2 Sept. (Score:1, Interesting)
He sang beautifully, and the band where tight as ever.
Great banter from Moz, quite a few annoying arseholes in the crowd though.
I followed Moz since the early 80s and seen dozens of solo and Smiths gigs. He is in the form of his life at the moment.
brilliant (Score:1)
Great set tonight - he added shoplifters of the world unite and I think he dropped i'm not sorry.
Opened with How Soon Is Now again, which blew everyone away. So cool that it was in a small venue.
The new guitar guy is pretty good, alan is still not back
great show, can't wait for newcastle in my home town! I have tickets for all the shows!
sorry to make you all jealous!
ha
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McGig (Score:0)
A few fools in the crowd, but alas the world is full of them.
I have not seen a better Moz since those old days when he was in that band..... now what were they called?
ctid
awesome (Score:0)
were the cheeky chappies... (Score:0)
Is Johnny Marr involved in any of this? (Score:1)
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edinburgh....paisley......the world (Score:1)
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Again (Score:0)
good night (Score:0)
highlights:
telling the crowd to stop booing Julia - 'you interneters'
'I know it's gonna happen someday'
telling local music journalist Billy Sloan where to get to (bit harsh on Sloan - he's a fan and was singing along with every word)
'There is a light' going on for ages at the end with the crowd singing to him - was it just me or did he seem genuinely moved by the crowd at this point
like a fanclub gig more than a concert (Score:1)
the changes in the setlist from the edinburgh show making it a bit more special for me.
really liked the venue (which surpirsed me it being paisley)
superb banter from morrissey:
referring to the local paper as the Paisley Parrot ('we played edinburgh the other night, that doesn't start with a p does it?)
introduced the bad as musicans turning professional in a week, and himself as a scrubber from the north east of endlang ('i'm not ashamed')
no morrissey stage lights tonight (didn't fit onto the stage!) but then moz has never needed them anyway.
strange to see peoepl taking little children around 5/ to the show (think it was bit surreal in that respect)
managed to get to the second row and was in the middle for the entire show (sadly the guy just to me left got the shirt he throw in)
moz's singing was superb the whole set (especially on the more slower tracks where he waws really hitting the notes perfectly)
sound died a bit on the encore (there is a light, so the crowd did most of the singing for the first verse ('he asked julia to do the singing at this point...)
great gig, just a bit saddened i'm not doing all 3 scots gigs, tempted to go to perth tonight after the experience of the last 2 shows.
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Even better than Edinburgh (Score:2, Interesting)
'How Soon Is Now' took the crowd from the begining and didn't let them go.
Every note was sung back to Morrissey, with maybe the exceptions of 'Munich Air Disaster' which had the mildest reception of the night and 'Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice' simply because it's not been released, still it got devoured greedily by the crowd.
The crowd's jeering at Billy Sloan (Local HACK, perma-misery face, at every big gig trying to be cool even though he's a relic of the eighties)was really funny, during 'You Know I Couldn't Last' the crowd pointed up at him and Morrissey looked really puzzled, but when he heard who it was he said:
'Oh, Billy Sloan, he's been following me around for years.'
Other gems:
'Hello Paisley we're for a night of poetry, song and violence' (Very apt as I was going to punch the idiot who elbowed me and several others out of the way to get a better view, ooo, and I never get violent too!)
'This song is called 'Kilt-lifters of the World Unite!'
He's the best form I've ever seen him in and he really deserves it, what a man, what a night!
P.S. There was more laughs to be had outside when some chancers stole loads of the bootlegger's t-shirts, what were they gonna do? Call the police?
Har har.
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Paisley / Embra. (Score:1)
Two top shows from the consumate showman.
Paisley just edges it though, more a cosy fireside gig in your own living - room type of bash.
I doubt if Billy Sloan's review will be favourable.
Excellent gig.
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Blackpool tomorrow night (Score:0)
No only joking..really looking 4ward to the catty comments about Geri Halliwell and McFly before the World Is Full Of Crashing Bores and of course Everyday Is Like Sunday in Blackpool (how apt!)
Anyway my erstwhile Morrissey companion and I are coming from Cardiff for the gig (as Morrissey seems to have forgotten where Birmingham/Bristol and Cardiff are..) and after the pre match entertainment at the MEN gig (namely the Star and Garter) we'd just like to know a pub that will be playing the football match (Wales vs Azerbaijan not the Engerland game) at 5pm where other like minded Mozzer fans will be (near the venue obviously) AND where is the best place to go afterwards....
Oh and how much are the rides on the pleasure beach?
BLACKPOOL HERE WE COME
BLUEBIRDS ON TOUR
marvellous! (Score:0)
2 small gripes (nothing against the Moz) - the bar - why have 3 very slow people on the only bar in the venue and a huge queue? Just bizarre.
Also - julia. I've never had any problem with her before, out of sight out of mind (mostly apart from Moz's mentionitis) as I stay away from the front row. Sadly at last night's gig, she was up on the first tier, right next to the stage, looking like some smug princess Di martyr/groupie girlfriend. I wish I had been standing on the other side of the hall in a similar prime location for the stage and I could have avoided seeing that s**t eating simpering grin on head tilted to one side for the WHOLE SHOW. GAH!
She has made me an internetter!
Right, I'm going back to lurking.
The shirt off his back! (Score:1)
This was the first gig where I've been at the front and not been threatened with organ failure. Not so steamy as Edinburgh either. The were both brilliant though, How Soon Is Now sounds far better live than I could have hoped! Wish I was going to Perth tonight, but I've got Blackpool to look forward to tomorrow! :D
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Anyone have a definitive setlist yet ? (Score:1)
Seems weird we haven't got one by now !?
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An unplayed ultra-rare Smiths song on setlist? (Score:0)
the set-list (Score:1)
The First of the Gang to Die
November Spawned a Monster
How Can Anyone Possibly Know how I feel
I Like You
Shoplifters of the World Unite
Subway into Everyday Is Like Sunday
Now My Heart is Full
Munich Air Disaster 1958
The World is Full of Crashing Bores
I Know it's Gonna Happen Someday
Rubber Ring
You Know I Couldn't Last
Don't Make of Daddy's Voice
Irish Blood, English Heart
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There is a Light that Never goes Out
broken
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Paisley performance by Riggy (Score:0)
broken/hectorr talking to julia at edinburgh (Score:0)
I think he bought her a drink
anyone confirm?
Other noticeable quips and (actions) – not direct (Score:2, Informative)
Before – Let Me Kiss You –
‘Just close your eyes for a few minutes and imagine Nancy Sinatra. I’m sure it won’t be too hard’
After a blistering rendition of – Everyday Is Like Sunday – ‘You understand’
It was either during this or Shoplifters that he lay down, facing the drums in what I construed to be as if he was praying or kissing the ground. Also after Everyday Is Like Sunday, someone from the front shouted – Do you still love Jesus?’ A reference from Edinburgh, in which he did not reply.
And Billy Sloan –
‘Shall we tell him to piss off?’
‘No one has noticed him for seven years, so why should they now? (could be directed at himself as well)
Before IBEH – ‘Has he gone home to write his nasty review? Knowing him he probably wrote it yesterday’
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If it was left to the audience to provide the quips – I think I would have cried a death
Reported in an earlier post – ‘The wine-drinking bastard’ quote man was next to me. He also shouted – ‘10.45’ (possibly predicting the time the concert would end, correctly) –
Also, the idiot in black who must have wrote his heckle down the day the concert was announced. The immortal line being directed at Morrissey . This being - ‘Sing your life’. This heckle was grasped after the dying of a song. It wasn’t the funny the first time and …
Also, noteworthy – the man who, loved up on drugs, proceeded to demonstrate what it must have been like at an 90s rave. He nearly danced himself to death, with the same excessive swaying for every song (yes, even the slow ones). I’ve got nothing against swaying but there is a limit and he soon found out when upon requesting water, he nearly fell down dead. Also, several persons, who contributed to the free flowing of cigarettes and alcohol in this man’s bloodstream – disappeared in the midst of his turmoil. Were they merely demons or did they tire of the swaying? – If anyone knows, please do, hopefully tell me, they died – several times.
Obviously this bares no relevance to the man on stage but it bothered me that much that it became part of my concert experience.
It’s almost certain that they have not witnessed a concert since the early 80s and Paisley Town Hall being the venue that it is, I’m sure the Regional Pipers never helped this need to sway.
Also, not wanting to be drawn into this escalating – Julia – situation - I will be, after last night. I completely understood how others were feeling, when upon viewing her up on the balcony – smiling and doing the cardinal sin of using the barrier to tap her hand to the beat of the song, with her head tilted, it almost made me sad to see such a drab woman have Morrissey drawn to her. I only hope she is a ‘plant’ and (doesn’t) get an – Alan Bradley – in Blackpool. To anger others even more, I had a perfect view of her throughout the concert (as if in an American movie and spying a woman through the curtains in her bedroom). During the World is Full of Crashing Bores and other assorted songs – she looked down at the throng – smiling and being very smug. As if saying she would never be involved in something like that and was above everyone, well – because she was on the balcony. I’m sure she’s very lovely at home.
Oh yes and the singing was good also.
Under Slate Grey Victorian Skies (Score:0)
After waiting over twenty years for Morrissey to play Paisley, I can say whole-heartedly it was worth the wait. The question on everyone's lips was 'Why Paisley?'. Why not I say. Personally I believe that having spent some time with a band from Paisley a couple of years ago, he made a mental note to check the place out and see if it was as bad as it is painted. Being a gentleman of leisure at the moment I took the opportunity to mill around the venue in the afternoon and observe the behaviour of the super-fans. They seem like a lovely bunch of coconuts, but sadly it's not for me. But good on you if that rings your bell. I think I'd rather accidently run into him in the street or the pub, than hang around the stage door. It didn't rain too much, so we must be thankful for small mercies. I found the weather rather clement, although a couple of the international brigade ladies felt it a tad parky. They now know why no-one winters in Scotland. Or summers for that matter.
The notion of standing around all day didn't appeal to me, so I asked a roadie what time the band were due to arrive. He reckoned around 4.30, so off I popped to a local hostelry for a guinness or three. Of course one cannot speak to a roadie without the perfunctory request for some grass, weed etc. I told him I would see what I could do, but, remarkably [for Paisley,] I didn't run into any Huggy bear types, so I hope someone else sorted him out as he seemed like a sound fellow.
Upon returning I found the band had already arrived. Speaking to a bequiffed Irish bloke, we learned Morrissey was due to re-emerge, so we hung around, and hung around until my companion decided it was time for his dinner. I stayed. Had another friend not given me his band's CD to pass to Morrissey, I would have headed back to the boozer. There is a rather long story associated with the CD, but I won't go into that. In short, Mozzer helped them out with studio time in LA, and some of the album was the result.
In between bitching about standing around, myself and the Irishman from earlier gave interviews for the Glasgow Herald and minced around for some photographs. All rather embarassing, especially infront of the home crowd. I am led to believe my ugly mug is in the Sunday edition. Oh the shame! I hope I am misquoted.
Having balcony seats I was a little concerned, as I like to be in the thick of it at the front. Luckily security was slack to begin with and we all rushed the front and found a tasty perch stage right. My sister firmly believes Morrissey lurks at this side more than the other. I personally do not agree, it is all psychological. Whatever side you are on, you alway think he spends more at the other. The support band seemed not bad although they did stray rather close to being a Clash tribute band at times, but there's nowt wrong with that. Better than the usual duffers he has in support. Had much fun inventing alternative listings during the silly poem. Surely a little harsh to have Jimmy Tarbuck in the same list as Myra Hindley. I know he's bad, but he hasn't killed any children. Or has he?
Being at Edinburgh on Tuesday, I knew what to expect, but judging by the orgasmic roar at the start of How Soon Is Now, the Paisley massive must have been caught on the back foot. I found myself somewhat sardined in and became rather jealous of my mate Simon in the balcony, although as it later transpired, he was right beside Billy Sloan. The envy did not make me cry then. I was similarly envious of another old friend Avril undulating like a lovely Morrissey tree in the fresh air of the balcony whilst I was reduced to pointing and other bizarre gestures, which I have to admit did make himself laugh at one juncture. I was that poor twisted child!
Many have remarked on the hecklers. I have to agree. A couple of the worst offenders stood behind me, effectively cocooning me. 99% of their patter was guff.
Re:Great Show (Score:0, Offtopic)
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Re:What's the point? (Score:0, Offtopic)
i am not american, but please, it takes quite the extreme case of narrow mindedness to stereotype 350 million people.
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