Uncle Skinny writes:

On page 10 of the review section of The Guardian today (Friday 4th April) is a nice article about Morrissey's upcoming remix album. It's also on the web:

Don't hang the DJ

Can this be true? Morrissey has mixed a compilation album - featuring the Ramones, Patti Smith... and Diana Dors. Alexis Petridis reports
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• Related item: Morrissey first artist 'Under The Influence' - to choose mix album of favorites (due in May) - Feb. 11, 2003

Andrew Overtoom writes:

Greetings Morrissey Fans, here is your chance to shine! Over the next month or two I will be shooting a short documentary film on real life Morrissey fans and would like to encourage all of you to participate. The film will be a bonus feature on the upcoming DVD release of MY LIFE WITH MORRISSEY, a fictional account of an obsessed Morrissey fan. I think it will be cool to have a documentary on real life Morrissey fans on the DVD as well. You can participate in a number of ways if you care to. We will be filming interviews at the upcoming screening at the Sonoma Valley Film Festival on April 11th, as well as at the Moz Convention on April 13th in Hollywood. We also encourage fans from around the world to contact us with your Morrissey related pictures and stories, and most importantly we ecourage fans to make a short video of themselves (5 minutes tops) telling their favorite Morrissey story, or why they are a fan, or what he means to you or even a personal message to the man himself, and send it in to us. We will use the best and brightest in the film! The film will be hosted by man about town Jay Tando so get those tapes in now!

Thanks in advance to all those who wish to participate. Please email for mailing instructions or visit http://www.mylifewithmorrissey.com/ for more details!

News from The Official Boz Boorer Site:

Here's a reminder of Boz & Lyn Boorer's performances around California and in Las Vegas this month, as well as the full list of gigs they will be playing mostly in Ireland in May - catch them if you can:

April 2003
Fri April 11th Boz +The Bozmen Fais Do Do's, 5257 W. Adams Los Angeles. (original announcement / flyer)
Sat April 12th Boz + The Bozmen Rockin' fest in San Jose, The Blank Club, San Francisco.
Mon April 14th Boz Boorer Acoustic Solo, Elbow Room, San Francisco. (flyer from Beau)
Wed April 16th The Folsom Four, Gilley's Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas
Wed April 16th Huelyn Duvall, Gilley's Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas
Thur April 17th to Sun April 20th DJ spots at V.L.V. Rockabilly fest.
Fri April 18th Boz and the Bozmen at V.L.V.

May 2003
Thurs May 1st Boz Boorer All-stars, M1 Club, Cardiff.
Fri May 2nd The Boz All-stars, Kilkenny. Carlsberg fest, Eire.
Sat May 3rd The Folsom Four (afternoon), Carlsberg fest, Kilkenny, Eire.
Sat May 3rd Boz All-stars, Kilkenny, Carlsberg fest, Eire.
Sun May 4th The Folsom Four (afternoon), Carlsberg fest, Kilkenny, Eire.
Sun May 4th Boz All-stars, Carlsberg fest, Kilkenny, Eire.
Mon May 5th Rosie Flores, Paris Texas, Kilkenny, Carlsberg fest, Eire.
Sat May 10th Boz All-stars + The Blue Moon Boys, The Verge, Kentish Town
Sun May 11th Formerly The Mountain Goats, - The Boogaloo, Highgate. 7pm
Sat May 17th The Boz All-stars, Private party, N. London. (Brian drums)
Sat May 24th The Folsom's, Gracie & Sarah's wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sat May 31st The Folsom Four, 3 Hammers, Hammers Lane, Mill Hill

torr writes:

a video clip of "Roy's Keen", as performed for Top of the Pops in 1997.
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• Related item: "Roy's Keen" - previously unseen performance to be shown on TOTP2 (Weds. Feb. 5th) - Feb. 3, 2003

Dan B. Perl writes:

Nice photographs of lots of popstars, including great Moz / Smiths ones at Proud Galleries. I went for the Dylan and stayed for the SPM.

Here's the room you need.

Tobie @ Educated Criminals writes:

The Smiths 'How Soon Is Now' is voted # 18 in this month's (April 2003) Mojo Magagzine. The full article follows -

Sire boss Seymour Stein called it "the Stairway To Heaven of the 80's" which may well be on the money. Certaintly, it's expansive, ambitious - and, importantly, formed the musical backdrop to many a teenage night out. In that sense, it's a great Saturday night record - but only if you've endured the the kind of minor nightmare that was Morrissey's meat and drink: "There's a club if you'd like to go/ You could meet somebody who really loves you/ So you go and you stand on your own/ And you leave on your own/ and you go home, and you cry and you want to die." Lyrics apart, its most remarkable aspect is the musical backdrop created by Marr, Rourke and Joyce; the former's Bo Diddley-gone-sci-fi guitar part in particular. It was recorded under red light bulbs by minds taken to the next level by heavy weed intake - an unlikely example of Moz-assisted stoner rock. The B-Side is a falsetto-strewn ballad, bolstered by one illustration of Marr's grasp of jukebox aesthetics: the grafted on sound of a downpour, inspired by The Ronettes' Walking In The Rain.

Copeland writes:

In the Jeff Buckley biography "Deam Brother," there is a mention of Jeff's March 17, 1994 concert at the 50-seat coffeehouse called Bunjie's in London's Covent Garden district. Jeff was not yet the new MTV phenom that he would become a couple of months later. At Bunjie's, the book states: "As he walked into the space, Jeff passed white roses out to the audience. While doing so, he made a reference to a British pop legend that further endeared him to the crowd: 'You must think I'm Morrissey.'"

I already knew that Jeff was a fan of Morrissey due to bootlegs of Jeff's cover of "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side," as well as his cover of "I Know It's Over" on the "Mystery White Boy" album. But the one question I have about this anecdote is do most British music fans really think Morrissey is a "pop legend" as the book proposes? I had always heard differently.

dave writes:

Friday 11th April
930-230
£2 before 1030 then £3
The Star & Garter
Fairfield St, Manchester, England
(opposite new Piccadilly station entrance on Fairfield St)

Morrissey / Smiths disco
music, booze, dancing, flowers, slides

Why don't you bring your parents, I'm gonna.

flyer
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• Related item: "A tale of two disc jockeys" by Dave Haslam (The Guardian) - article on Manchester Smiths nights - Sept. 21, 2001

aly.smith writes:

It's sometimes hard to know if the club night your heading off to this weekend is a full on Smiths and Morrissey night or a so-called Smiths night that just plays "How Soon Is Now" and "This Charming Man".

Well soon you'll find it easy to know by checking out the Smiths Night Directory.

If you do a club night or know of any then let me know.

The directory should be up and running after Easter.

Check out www.panic-central.com and click on the directory link.

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