...sounds like fun. Wish I could be there, but stuck in Oz. Boo. And indeeed, hoo.

Me first! Up for it?

...we all know what's going to happen....
E-BAY A GO-GO.

Is it a big venue?

Mark

...if you're standing in the right place. I saw Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds there last summer and may as well have been standing in Buckingham Palace. All standing though.

Good luck getting tickets folks. I can't afford it now - unless I eBay my Palladium tix... ;-)

Is Ticketmaster selling tickets for this concert?

Great venue though.

but my wedding is going to have to be put off by another month if i keep spending like this on tickets!!!

Morrissey there before. Kirsty MacColl was supporting. It's a very nice building and I reckon it'll be big enough for all those who didn't get tickets already to some this time. Very good.

Morrissey’s live audience in London is about 15,000-20,000.
The Palladium holds 2,000 so the three shows there caters for less than half the fan base, hence the huge demand and the exorbitant E-bay prices. But Ally Pally holds 8,000 which means Moz is now playing to 14,000 in London, close to the point where supply meets demand. The result? Many more fans will get to see him, and the greedy, cowardly, E-bay touts will watch the asking price for their tickets plummet. Hoorah!
Maurice

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Mind you now with the Ally Pally show they will be out of pocket, they'll be struggling to sell! hooray!

I saw Morrissey here, in the early 90's. It is a huge place, and the Touts were desperate to flog their tickets, offering them for £5 at about 6pm! So I wouldn't use the "I'll buy extra, to swap for other dates" panic rational for this one.

The gig, I recall, was decent enough (a lot better than the Manchester Apollo gig, earlier in the week), but the venue had a serious acoustic problem. Leaving you with the feeling of watching a gig in a huge, very grand greenhouse. It was Christmas and Kirsty MacColl suported, joined by Shane MacGowan for "Fairytale", after about 3 false starts. I think Shane had been drinking?

I'll have to think about this one. Is it worth the trip from Manchester (and on my Mum's birthday).

Brel

As mentioned,it is set in a wonderful area of North London, cracking views and all that....but there is a bit of a problem I feel with the sound of the venue. I've seen various bands there including Morrissey, Pixies, Roses and you really have to have a big sound to the place justice...even Pixies this year were not all that. Still, you never know until you get there.But a day out could be made of it in the area

Is it standing?

morrissey hasn't forgotten you!

Girlie Action. Enjoy! Maurice.

"Here, the music punches its full weight, beginning with the loud and glammy ‘I Will See You in Far Off Places’. Slightly Bedouin in its complex and heavy musical undertow, the song teeters on the verge of being sonically terrifying, and is the first indication that Ringleader of the Tormentors is the most musically disturbing record Morrissey has made since The Smiths second album, Meat is Murder.
This feeling of unease and of Morrissey returning to the bleak environs of his greatest early work occurs again and again throughout the album, whether on the scene of domestic hell played out in ‘The Father Who Must Be Killed’ (clue: he is), or in the queasy children’s choir intoning "There is no such thing in life as normal." on sure-fire future single ‘The Youngest Was the Most Loved’, which details the early years of a psychopath.
And then, right in the middle, to put the tin-lid on the darkness that lies at the centre of this "happy" Morrissey record, ‘Life is a Pigsty’; seven minutes in four blighted movements building towards a final, epic and unforeseen conclusion of 11th hour redemption. OK, it’s not that happy, but it sure is both powerful and moving.
Throughout the album the lyrics have swapped some of the piss-and-vinegar that characterized …Quarry (the lock-jawed pop stars thicker than pig shit, uniformed goons, etc), for a real emotional generosity. ‘I Just Want to See the Boy Happy’ does what it says on the tin over a delicious horn-led glam rock racket. ‘To Me You Are a Work of Art’ may contain the classic Morrissey couplet, "I see the world, it makes me puke," but is essentially a paean to a rare diamond in the soggy mire.
Right at the close we get ‘At Last I Am Born’, a self-evident proclamation of the changes that have been wrought throughout this extraordinary album and, presumably, Morrissey’s life, set to a melodramatic marching rhythm and Duane Eddy guitar. "I once thought that I, had numerous reasons to cry, and I did, but I don’t anymore, because I am born." and "I once was a mess of guilt because of the flesh." It’s a personal and professional triumph, which brings us back to…
‘Dear God Please Help Me’. Orchestrated by Ennio Morricone (who has over the years made much of his significant work at Forum Music Village), this beautiful song, which for the most part simply describes walking through Rome with an unfettered heart, is almost sanctified in its atmosphere. Yes, the lyrical content is frank-bordering-on-prurient, and yet over its six rousing minutes the song swells to almost hymnal proportions, until you feel that, for all his supposed remove from the human race, few people can deliver a universal emotional message with more power than Morrissey.
So, Ringleader of the Tormentors: at least two actual deaths, a fair few metaphorical ones, the odd petite mort, even, but overall an edifying and uplifting experience. Hail Morrissey, the new Roman emperor!"

I'm glad Morrissey added an extra London date but I'm even glader I'm going to The Palladium, it's much more intimate and it's the last night! *relief*. Brixton Academy would have been ace though!!!!

I went to see franz ferdinand there a few weeks ago, it was brilliant but VERY hot, quite a few people fainted with heat (but then again, lots of them were screaming teenage girls...) the security take away you water bottle lids (oh the society we live in today) and so I recommend you think of a way to smuggle them in but try your best to bring in water otherwise it becomes bloody hot. Should be incredible, hopefully I'll get some tickets!!! :) good luck everyone!

This slipped under Julia's radar then - respect to David T for spreading the good news.

I brought tickets for Reading after i lost out on the London shows and now i find i could of seem him here anyway.
Anyone want my reading tickets?

Be warned:

The Ally Pally is MASSIVE (8000) but it's all standing & it's all one level so if you're short you almost certainly won't be able to see a thing.

There's a real mixed bag of views on the Ally Pally as a venue.

Throwing my thruppence-worth in, I think it is a splendid building sitting atop the hill outside Wood Green in North London. Inside, the venue has reasonable bar areas, decent toilet facilities and a very large space in which to congregate to watch bands.

However, the sight lines are appalling. Unlike, say the Brixton Academy, the floor is flat. If you are not in the first 5 rows in front of the stage, and are under 6 foot, you will almost certainly see very little of the stage and will certainly be craning your neck upwards to try to see some action. I can assure you, you will mostly be in listening mode at a gig at the Pally and will have to rely on elbows and bovver boots to squeeze forward.

I saw Nick Cave and the Pixies there a few months ago. Other than fantastic sounding gigs, the 6000 of us behind the first 5 rows couldn't see what was happening. The saving grace for Nick Cave was that he had angled some white lights to create his silhouette against the far wall, which did give those 6000 of us something to watch given that we were unable to see the stage.

So there we are. I have been to loads of Morrissey gigs in loads of venues. I have yet to see him perform with video screens other than at festivals, so I hope in his new found Italian optimism, he is inclined to set up a big screen to the side of the stage to let all those under 6 footers at least see a bit of his mic whipping.

I knew he'd give us another chance to see him in London!

He sold out 2 dates at the RAH in 15 mins back in 2002 with no deal and no album for 6 years, so it's no surprise his shows are selling out like they are. A lot of people enjoyed IBEH and FOTGTD and will have read the positive previews of the new album. There almost seems to be a bigger buzz now than there was just before Quarry was reviewed.

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