Update: 05/26 21:23 GMT: from a record label source:

"Just to clear up any confusion Morrissey has no dates booked after August 25th, 2006 in North America or anywhere else in the world. The statement from the Toronto Sun is inaccurate and unfortunately only leads to confusion for Morrissey fans."
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An anonymous person writes:
Jane Stevenson's 2006 Summer concerts - TorontoSun.com

CONFIRMED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE TORONTO SUN:
- Morrissey, Oct. 14-15, Massey Hall
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• Related item: No Canadian concerts due to seal hunt, call for boycott - Morrissey statement on true-to-you.net - Mar. 27, 2006

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Stills from the film

Inside the Smiths

Filmed over two years in the UK, Europe and USA. Release date Summer 2006

Torr sends the link:

Veggie Mozza meat spree - The Sun Online

By JOHN COLES

A BUTCHER’S entire stock was bought by Morrissey’s manager — so the trader would not offend the veggie pop star.

Morrissey, whose songs include Meat Is Murder, had stipulated that his concert venue in Truro, Cornwall, was meat free.

But his manager spotted butcher Chris Barrow’s stall at the hall as part of a weekly country market.

Mr Barrow said: “When the manager said he would buy the whole lot I thought he was joking.

“He asked how much I wanted and I thought about it and said £200.

“He took out a wad of cash and paid it without blinking an eye. I wish I’d said £300 now.

“I’ve never even heard of Morrissey, though I understand he’s quite a big name.”

The manager then donated the meat haul to a local hostel for the homeless. It consisted of two bin-bags of sausages, lamb, venison, steak and chops, as well as 40 packs of bacon and 30 packets of sliced ham

Hostel boss Steve Ellis said: “Morrissey didn’t want his donation publicised but, as it has come out, I’m happy to say we’re extremely grateful.”
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Belligerent Ghoul also sends the links:

Morrissey's Meat Donation - contactmusic.com
Mozza buys out butcher - Ananova
Showbiz shorts - Mirror.co.uk
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J R K Harris sends the link:

Meat Is Magic! - Playlouder

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Uncleskinny sends the link:

Beauty and the beat - The Guardian

However hard they try, it's impossible for people who make wonderful music to be morally ugly

Zoe Williams
Wednesday May 24, 2006

Excerpt:

Taking as given, before we start, that Morrissey is basically perfect, and that his gig last Sunday at the Palladium was perfect, and that it was his birthday on Monday and we all wish him a happy one, I will admit: when he played Irish Blood, English Heart, I got a twang of anxiety. I'd never listened to it attentively enough to learn the words, and you worry with Morrissey that he could turn round and bite you on the arse with something that's just plain racist.

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Belligerent Ghoul also sends the link:

AFI planning two bonus tracks for iTunes - Punknews.org

AFI is planning to include two bonus track exclusively to iTunes users who pre-order the band's upcoming album, Decemberunderground. According to the band, orders placed in the next two weeks will include a new original song, "On The Arrow," as well as a cover of Morrissey's "Jack The Ripper."

Belligerent Ghoul sends the link:

How to grow old with good grace - Birmingham concert review by Neil Connor, icBirmingham

Brutalful writes:
Music group Sanctuary sacks CEO over finances

LONDON (Reuters) - Sanctuary, the world's biggest independent music company, has sacked Chief Executive Andy Taylor for his handling of financial accounts, after a tumultuous year that sent its shares crashing.

"The board's decision to remove Mr. Taylor followed their conclusion that certain of the prior year adjustments made in the 2005 accounts should have been presented as a correction of fundamental errors and not as changes in accounting policy," the company said on Friday.

Taylor has been replaced by Frank Presland, CEO of
Elton John's management company Twenty-First Artists, which was acquired by London-based Sanctuary last year.

Sanctuary, whose artists also include Morrissey and recent Eurovision Song Contest winner Lordi, nearly collapsed earlier this year, with its shares trading at less than a penny.

They gained more than 7 percent on Friday, and were up 5.5 percent at 1034 GMT to 48 pence, valuing the company at about 102 million pounds ($190.6 million).

Presland, 62, has worked as a solicitor specializing in music and copyright for over 25 years and has advised acts such as the Beatles and Dusty Springfield.

He will hold the CEO post for the rest of the year, at which point the position will be reviewed, Sanctuary said.

The company said its profit and loss account for the year to September 30, 2005, might be adjusted as a result of certain exceptional items being recognized in prior years. However, it added that no adjustments were needed to its consolidated balance sheet covering the same period.

Sanctuary in February unveiled details of a deeply-discounted 110 million pound equity fundraising to help it recover from the costly acquisition of Urban Records from Matthew Knowles, the father of R&B diva Beyonce.

After a series of delayed, rescheduled and canceled releases from Urban Records, Sanctuary said earlier this year it would issue no more from the label. Knowles later announced that he and the company had parted ways.

(additional reporting by Adam Pasick and Jeffrey Goldfarb)