03/06/30/1555219
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
paulybob writes: Alain Whyte played 2 of his Motivators songs live on Liz Kershaw's show today Monday 30th June. The 2 songs he played solo and live in the studio were called Where You Ever in My Life and Stuck. Inbetween those 2 Liz played Black Dog Day from a demo CD.
His guitar playing was very good and his singing wasn't bad at all but I'm sure it will be available for anyone interested to listen to soon on the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/presenters/liz_kershaw/
He said he wanted to get the Motivators tracks recorded properly perhaps with Brendan Lynch producing before they made the Morrissey album. Which he said they would probably be recording in October.
03/06/28/1559257
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
An anonymous person writes:
In last week's NME Supplement 'Greatest Festival Photos Ever' (or some other banal, pointless title) there was a picture of Morrissey at 'Madstock' on the inside cover. Just goes to show how hypocritical they are to print it, seeing as it was this that kicked off the whole 'racist' debate.
03/06/28/1611259
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
nervously_juvenile writes:
It still continues. Morrissey pervades the British press. Today's (27/06/03) Guardian Review section carried an interview with the Thrills where they waxed lyrical about Morrissey:
"He came down to one of our rehearsals in LA, and we got ot know him. He's definitely on the up again, and his next album is going to be amazing... Whenever we hung out with him, we were laughing the whole time. You throw something off the cuff to him and he'll come back with the perfect one-liner. His songs are very funny, too - like Girlfriend in a Coma."
But that's not very surprising. What got me is that the Guardian put "The Thrills on Morrissey" on the Review cover for only a couple of paragraphs in the article. The whole world secretly loves Morrissey.
03/06/30/0452238
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
East Lancs Road writes:
Yes!...Morrissey, in person came into my place of work on Tuesday. The Virgin Megastore in Chester U.K., he played here in 1997. Aviator shades, kangol hat.... after a ponder around, he bought 5 "On the Buses" videos. Really shy, he was, said "he looked fat" on the Channel 4 documentary. But insisted the videos were not for him, but couldn't wait to get them home. What a man!
03/06/30/1551243
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
UncleSkinny writes: Hello everyone.
As a hopeless Smiths/Morrissey nut, one who even plays the songs in pubs and clubs, I thought it would be a lark to enter the new BBC Mastermind series with The Smiths as my subject. I felt sure they would reject it, but I was able to point to several good books on the subject (Goddard, Rogan), and bless 'em, they accepted it.
So, off I went to Manchester to record the program; John Humphrys in the chair, intimidating atmosphere......
The other folks' subjects were Charlie Chaplin, Classic Cars and the Roman Empire - and here I am with The Smiths. Yikes.
Anyway, on we go, I get through my round on The Smiths (I don't think too many of the questions will trouble hardcore Smiths fans), and in the middle Mr Humphrys accuses The Smiiths of being depressing, so, I thought, here we go again, same old accusation, so I told him there was loads of pathos and emotion in the lyrics, so I quote from The Queen Is Dead to him, and he seems suitably impressed.
On we go to the general knowledge, and it's closer than anyone could have thought at the end...
On BBC2, Monday July 7th, 8.00pm. It's the very first of the series.--- Update: 07/08 03:22 GMT:
Steve writes: Mastermind is returning to the BBC and according to this article, one of the contestants will be specialising in the music of The Smiths. Full story at the BBC Take our Mastermind quiz.
03/06/28/1910244
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
Mike writes: in the weekend pages of the Süddeutsche Zeitung from June 28 is a short article about Morrissey signing a new record deal:
"[...] There was one in the Eighties who though the Queen of England was as undignified as laughing about her; Morrissey, Singer and Founder of the pop-band The Smiths. He considered almost all humans foul and nasty. Life: gruesome, a bad joke. On this basis he wrote unforgettable pop-hymns. He wore his misantropy everywhere he went, just like an accessoire, he adored the poets Keats and Yates and wrote refrains that sounded like poetry, lovesongs, that dealt with the romance of crashing into a double-decker bus and dying side by side....
People like him have more than one life, ironically. In the 90s, his albums didn't sell any more, he went from label to label and lost his last deal in 1997. Smiths-songs went into oblivion; contrary to a lot of 80s hits, nobody wanted to cover or sample them. Morrissey fell silent, despairing.
And now, twenty years after his first success, England celebrates his resurrection. He got - a little miracle these days - a new record deal and plans to tour Japan and America. In september a single-collection will be released; possibly the spreading depression saved his artist's life. [...]
... And a small pictures even shows the album cover "The Best of Morrissey"
It's nice to read he's not forgotten by those who do not read morrissey-solo.com regularly!
03/06/27/0558217
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
I fell for the "Ludus Lumini" submission from "olly storey" last week ( link) but then recently I received this submission from what appears to be the same person from the ip log:
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moz accident
sebastian melmoth writes: heard this morning from l.a. that moz got hit by car on the sidewalk late last night after walking home with friends. heard it from some guys i know who live nearby him. not too serious but they said he hurt his shoulder or something. he spent night in l.a. district hospital.
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Time for a reminder - this website is not my full time job and I usually do not have the time to follow-up on story submissions so I will make mistakes on occasion and unknowingly post something that is made up. I will try to correct them whenever I can.
I would say 99% of the submissions are honest. Thanks for those as always. Thanks also for respecting my time and the time of others who visit the site. I realize I am a gullible person - please do not take advantage of that fact!
03/06/29/1710243
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posted by
davidt
on Monday June 30 2003, @09:00AM
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