Torr Leonard writes:

http://www.citylife.co.uk/current/index.html

NEXT ISSUE out 25th JUNE

MORRISSEY Exclusive Interview
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Update: 06/28 16:40 GMT: scan of preview posted on the general discussion board by gIrL uNaFrAiD. Morrissey won the City Life "Manchester's Greatest Frontman" poll with 41% of the vote, edging out Liam Gallagher, 39%.

Flavio writes:

Morrissey is being mentioned on the Trojan Records website:

Talking Points
Morrissey and the revived Attack label - Why not add your thoughts...

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 8:10 pm
Post subject: the *new* Attack Label
Author: ReggaeFire

So now that Sanctuary has *given* Morrissey the Attack label... what the heck is going to do with it? Is he going to bring it back ala the Steve Barrow era for Reggae reissues (doubtful, he does think "reggae is vile" after all) or is he doing it simply so that the labels on his new record will say "Attack"?

If it's the former, well odd, but okay. If it's the latter I would be a little offended that Sanctuary would give away a storied piece of Reggae history to a washed up pop star (who apparently hates reggae to boot) for his own use.

Jon

Lee writes:

According to the trusty C4 teletext service (pg 161) Michael Stipe admitted he stole Morrissey's stage moves. During his warm up date for Glastonbury at the Brixton Academy he told the crowd 'I saw Morrissey pass his hands over the crowd and thought, Ooh that looks good, Im stealing that and I did'

He later went onto change the lyrics in 'Man on the Moon' from 'Mr Fred Blassie' to 'Mr Steven Morrissey'

Apparently he went and watched the Smiths on the Meat Is Murder tour!!

Hopefully he'll say something about the great man at Glastonbury as I'm going!!
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Loves Young Dream also writes:

Michael Stipe has revealed that he stole his moves from Moz (As if we didn't know!)

REM pay tribute to London at Brixton Academy show - NME.com, June 25, 2003. Excerpt:

REM paid tribute to LONDON at their BRIXTON ACADEMY show last night (June 24) by playing a host of the songs from 'FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION', the 1985 album they recorded in the UK capital.

The band, playing the first of two sold-out nights, performed the first four songs on the album in order. Frontman Michael Stipe told the ecstatic crowd: "We recorded this album in London, so it's very special to be playing these songs here tonight."

Stipe, who was in exuberant form, also told the crowd he had seen The Smiths play the 4,500 venue in 1985 and had stolen his stage moves from Morrissey after seeing him onstage that night.

David T. (different) writes and sends:

review of Under the Influence from the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is a the paper favoured by right wing moral majoritarians.

Mope springs eternal
Review by Adrian Thrills
Verdict: Mozzer prepares for his comeback
4 out of 5 stars

With School Disco-type compilations flooding our record shops, and Paul Young, Kim Wilde and ABC priming themselves for another nostalgic trek around Britain's arenas, the Eighties revival shows no sign of waning.

Kairer writes:

This message was posted on the Durutti Column Yahoo! group back in April:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/durutticolumn/message/240

=== Begin message ===
  I have a friend who works for Artful Records and have it on good
  authority that Vini is set to team up with Morrisey again for a new
  album... under the name Another Noosebleed. Apparently they have
  already recorded a few tracks already and a release date near the end
  of the year looks likely as Vini has a few other pending gig
  commitments to fulfil first
=== Message end ===
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Message was posted on April 1 so it may be an April Fool's Day joke.

Anonymous writes:

According to the BPI website, The Smiths 'Singles' was certified platinum in the UK last month, only their second album to reach this milestone. You can see a full list of Smiths and Morrissey sales awards by going to http://www.bpi.co.uk/flashindex.html and doing a search of the certified awards. The sales awards to date so far are:

(Where platinum means shipments of 300,000, gold 100,000 and silver 60,000)

SMITHS , HATFUL OF HOLLOW , Silver , Mon Nov 19 1984
SMITHS , HATFUL OF HOLLOW , Gold , Tue Nov 20 1984
SMITHS , MEAT IS MURDER , Gold , Mon Feb 18 1985
SMITHS , MEAT IS MURDER , Silver , Mon Feb 18 1985
SMITHS , THE QUEEN IS DEAD , Gold , Tue Jul 1 1986
SMITHS , THE QUEEN IS DEAD , Silver , Tue Jul 1 1986
SMITHS , THE WORLD WON'T LISTEN , Gold , Tue Mar 3 1987
SMITHS , THE WORLD WON'T LISTEN , Silver , Tue Mar 3 1987
SMITHS , STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME , Silver , Thu Oct 1 1987
SMITHS , STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME , Gold , Thu Oct 1 1987
SMITHS , HATFUL OF HOLLOW , Platinum , Mon Oct 12 1987
SMITHS , RANK , Silver , Fri Sep 16 1988
SMITHS , RANK , Gold , Wed Sep 28 1988
SMITHS , BEST ...1 , Silver , Tue Sep 1 1992
SMITHS , BEST ...1 , Gold , Tue Sep 1 1992
SMITHS , BEST ...II , Silver , Sun Nov 1 1992
SMITHS , SINGLES , Gold , Wed Mar 1 1995
SMITHS , SINGLES , Silver , Wed Mar 1 1995
SMITHS , SINGLES , Platinum , Fri May 16 2003
MORRISSEY , VIVA HATE , Gold , Tue Mar 1 1988
MORRISSEY , VIVA HATE , Silver , Tue Mar 1 1988
MORRISSEY , BONA DRAG , Silver , Tue Oct 23 1990
MORRISSEY , KILL UNCLE , Silver , Fri Mar 1 1991
MORRISSEY , VAUXHALL AND I , Silver , Tue Mar 1 1994
MORRISSEY , VAUXHALL AND I , Gold , Mon May 1 1995
MORRISSEY , SOUTHPAW GRAMMER , Silver , Fri Sep 1 1995

Ben writes:

The Motivators will be playing a small venue in London on Friday 27th June. The Progress bar 142 Tufnell park rd London N7. It is a small venue that holds about 120 people, you can book in advance by calling Andy on 07956 812 484. 5 pounds advance booking or 6 pounds on the door. This is a warm up gig before The big one at The Spitz