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davidt
on Thursday July 17 2003, @09:00AM
Georgethetwentythird writes:
Big Mouth Strikes again! Just bought the NME Special mag dedicated to the Glastonbury Festival. (I presume it must have come out two weeks ago in time for this year's bash, but judging by the full rack in my local W. H. Smiths, it might have been slightly late!) There's a 4-page feature on The Smiths' appearance at the 1984 festival. The first two pages are actually just a large photo taken onstage of the band; the third has a photo of Moz and Marr walking towards the stage with a setlist(full page); and the last page contains an out-take photo of the band inside their dressing room (like on Hatful Of Hollow) and one of Johnny sitting on a Merc, along with the short article . Unfortunately, the text is written by Steve Sutherland - yes, the confirmed Moz-hater from his earliest days at Melody Maker. (It was a hardly a coincidence that the Moz/NME backlash started once he had taken over as editor). While most of the band articles are about how great they were on a particular Glasto night, the point of the article seems to be solely to point out that The Smiths actually didn't go down very well. There's a couple of quotes from Morrissey on the subject, which you may already have read before. Worst bit of all is that Sutherland is forced to write "The band were at their peak, the cleverest and coolest band the UK had produced in a decade, and they were about to deliver 'Meat Is Murder' (which of course they weren't for another 8 months!!), their defining statement after the stunning promise of 'The Smiths'." Which is certainly not what he was writing at the time ... bloody hypocrite. At £5 ($7.50?) a time, I wouldn't recommend it without browsing through it first. Thought I'd mention it, though! PS: I can transcribe the text, if anyone's interested.
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NME Glastonbury Special mag features 4-page article on The Smiths at Glastonbury 1984
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transcibing article (Score:0)
If you insist ... (Score:3, Informative)
Right ...
"Never one to settle for anything less than idolatry, Morrissey didn't enjoy Glastonbury. his first appearance, with The Smiths in 1984, should have been a triumph. The band were a their peak, the cleverest and coolest band the UK had produced in a decade, and they were about to deliver 'Meat Is Murder', their defining statement after the stunning promise of 'The Smiths'.
But somehow they couldn't connect with the vast audience assembled before the main stage.
"It was quite strange," Morrissey remembered later. "It's not something that I'd like to relive. It wasn't the best of our performances, and there was some animosity from certain sectors of the crowd. It is quite strange when you're singing to people who obviously do not like you. People are there to see other groups, it's quite tricky and that's how Glastonbury turned out for us."
"I didn't know that much about Glastonbury before we did it, and it sounded a very attractive prospect, but I don't think The Smiths worked at Glastonbury. I'm not exactly sure why, perhaps because we built up our following in smaller clubs and then we advanced to larger halls ... it was always very intimate and personal which was something we couldn't capture at Glastonbury."
There was also the question of the faithful down the front. Eyewitnesses remember fans being hurt as they attempted to reach the band over the barrier and, it was alleged, Morrissey did nothing to discourage them. On the contrary, security thought Moz was actively encouraging the fans to mount the barriers and there was an ugly confrontation when the band tried to return for an encore.
Morrissey was due to return to Glasto in 1992 as a solo artist but pulled out at the last minute, leaving many fans with tickets disappointed."
(Please excuse typing - it's 3am!)
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Re:If you insist ... (Score:2, Insightful)
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Glasto memories (Score:1, Interesting)
I went to the postponed Mozzer @ Glasto festival (and Finsbury Park on the Sunday, same year... D'oh) 'cos he was second headliner or summat. ended up seeing Rolf HArris playing Stairway to Heaven on a washboard. Memories of going to festivals and not seeing the reason why you went. Apart from the Persian rugs
(Jody Morris is a complete c*ck.. has he joined those bunch of moaning dirty Leeds? 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1 (Kavanagh, Young)
The NME. (Score:1)
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Sutherland (Score:1, Informative)
Not strictly true: Danny Kelly was the editor and Sutherland was still at Melody Maker for the infamous 'racist' edition, for example.