Dublin - Vicar Street (July 15, 2023) post-show

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Setlist:

How Soon Is Now? / Suedehead / Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before / Irish Blood, English Heart / Girlfriend In A Coma / I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Notre-Dame / I Wish You Lonely / Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings / The Night Pop Dropped / My Hurling Days Are Done / Half A Person / Everyday Is Like Sunday / Knockabout World / The Loop / Our Frank / Bonfire Of Teenagers / Jack The Ripper // Sweet And Tender Hooligan

Setlist courtesy of @ACTON

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• Morrissey in Dublin review: Bruised and unbowed – yet somehow small and sad too by Ed Power (4 of 5 stars, 1 photo) - The Irish Times. Link posted by Phranc & Open. Transcript posted by RaisedToWait. Link to article without subscriber gate posted by Famous when dead.
  
• Photo from @my_mono_log / Instagram. Link posted by Famous when dead.
  
• Photo: @buzzerbuckley. Link posted by Mozzer1980
  

 

[theprivilegeismine]

Was a really great Morrissey gig, a shame about notre dame & bonfire being played, can talk to death about it , but both offer nothing but ammunition to those already been after him since Finsbury Park / reggae is vile days , no record company will touch him particularly regarding the notre dame conspiracy theory nonsense (the tune itself isn’t bad, just the ear damage lyrics / embarrassment to listen to it

Away from that , the beauty of seeing Morrissey in smaller venues , the interaction with the crowd (they all seemed to be enjoying it being a Dublin show , and I’m glad I travelled over to see it. i thought he would be on Great form tonight with it being so linked with his family history and I wasn’t disappointed, voice sounding brilliant , full of chat , teasing the band & crowd , I personally enjoyed the half a person interplay and the rocky horror theatre of someone throwing him cigarette on our Frank and him catching it and playing around with it

Thought the band sounded great although the piano solo / interlude before Everyday is like…went on far too long / over egged the impact

Round 2 tonight , hopefully some surprises in the set list , the middle half could do with being reworked as loses momentum after the big hitting early songs

Thought he looked great , outfit suited / very smart, although Q. Was that a hole in his top at his right shoulder or part of the design? Looked like stitching had burst , too much movement from Morrissey ruining the knitwear lol

It's part of the design and the way the sleeves are cut. Great to hear you had a fab time!

 

[Lujan369]

Loved the interaction with their fans looks more comfortable in Ireland, it seems.... Maybe I'm wrong... He laughed, not very common on stage. But.I'm sure off stage Moz must be a lot of fun, it must be a show! I imagine it shyly funny!!

 

[Mozzer1980]

Funky Alfonso

 

[gashonthenail]

Re: words prior to How Soon Is Now?
It is a couple of lines from Damien Dempsey's "Jar Song".
Regards,
FWD.

He seems to (purposely?) change the order and the wording of the lines he quotes:

Luke Kelly meant a lot to me...
He brought me great joy when I was a boy.

I do have to say, I like the setlist. Some great songs in there. I'm surprised there's been no Without Music the World Dies (song) in recent shows.
It will be interesting to see how the setlist develops when the 40 Years tour officially gets going in September. So far in 2023 there have been no songs from Vauxhall and I, nothing from Southpaw Grammar, and nothing from Ringleader. Every other solo album has made an appearance at least once this year. Would love to see Now My Heart is Full, Billy Budd, Boy Racer, or The More You Ignore Me making an appearance in future shows.

 

[Mozzer1980]

Basta !!!

 

[sweetnuthin]

Bonfire

Chills.

 

[Famous when dead]

 

[JM🇬🇧]

He seems to (purposely?) change the order and the wording of the lines he quotes:

Luke Kelly meant a lot to me...
He brought me great joy when I was a boy.

I do have to say, I like the setlist. Some great songs in there. I'm surprised there's been no Without Music the World Dies (song) in recent shows.
It will be interesting to see how the setlist develops when the 40 Years tour officially gets going in September. So far in 2023 there have been no songs from Vauxhall and I, nothing from Southpaw Grammar, and nothing from Ringleader. Every other solo album has made an appearance at least once this year. Would love to see Now My Heart is Full, Billy Budd, Boy Racer, or The More You Ignore Me making an appearance in future shows.

I’m fairly new to this but has he done anything from YATQ recently? I adore songs like I have forgiven Jesus, come back to Camden and I’m not sorry.

 

[Thewlis]

I’m fairly new to this but has he done anything from YATQ recently? I adore songs like I have forgiven Jesus, come back to Camden and I’m not sorry.

He did Let Me Kiss You quite recently.
Not much else, except of course IBEH.

 

[gashonthenail]

He did Let Me Kiss You quite recently.
Not much else.

And Irish Blood, English Heart.

 

[Dusty Miller's Hornpipe]

I’m fairly new to this but has he done anything from YATQ recently? I adore songs like I have forgiven Jesus, come back to Camden and I’m not sorry.

Everything he's played this decade... Spreadsheet is up-to-date. Page stats, I'll update after tonight's show.
2020 onwards live stats

 

[gashonthenail]

I've never been a fan of the Wilde statue in Merrion Square, Dublin. The sneer / leer on his face just doesn't feel characteristic of the great man or his work. One of the rather cruel but rather funny local nicknames for the statue is 'The Queer with the Leer', also 'The Fag on the Crag', which do seem to encapsulate in a very Irish way the bathos of the statue.

Dublin Statues and their Surprising, Tongue-in-cheek Nicknames

Dublin statues aren't just odes to important historical figures, but a chance for Irish humour. Check out these Dublin statue nicknames.

notesofnomads.com

 

[Bluebirds]

I've never been a fan of the Wilde statue in Merrion Square, Dublin. The sneer / leer on his face just doesn't feel characteristic of the great man or his work. One of the rather cruel but rather funny local nicknames for the statue is 'The Queer with the Leer', also 'The Fag on the Crag', which do seem to encapsulate in a very Irish way the bathos of the statue.

Dublin Statues and their Surprising, Tongue-in-cheek Nicknames

Dublin statues aren't just odes to important historical figures, but a chance for Irish humour. Check out these Dublin statue nicknames.

notesofnomads.com

I looked at the statue yesterday in the dismal weather and didn't think it was an aesthetic worthy of Oscar. The quotes were a nice touch though.

 

[DagenhamDan]

Just to let everyone know whos going to The Troxy on saturday, theres another effin train strike, last trains leaving London will be at 10pm ffs. Im off to book an Uber now, sorry to piss on everyone's chips, but just check, good luck

 

[ACTON]

 

[billybu69]

Ngl, this venue looks kinda rough/dodgy compared to some of the others.

Perfect

 

[Phranc & Open]

The IRISH TIMES review seems to be objectiv not hysterical. Full text anybody?

Morrissey in Dublin review: Bruised and unbowed – yet somehow small and sad too

At the first of two sold-out Vicar Street gigs, flashes of the controversial singer’s old drollness emerge between moments of trolling ire

www.irishtimes.com

 

[ACTON]

 

[ACTON]

 

[RaisedToWait]

Irish Times (4/5)

There’s a surprise towards the end of Morrissey’s cathartically cranky Vicar Street concert when pop’s most sarcastic iconoclast sets aside the dark wit and speaks from the heart. “I can’t release music any more because I’m an individual, and that isn’t allowed,” he says. “Everybody must be the same. Sing the same songs, do the same things, like the same people.”

He gets a roar from the boisterous crowd, many of whom see the former Smiths singer not as a problematic relic from the 1980s but as the eternal godfather of heartfelt indie pop. He inhabits both incarnations in the first of two-sold out performances in Dublin, opening with a tremulous rush of hits from 40 years ago: a thunderous tilt at The Smiths’ How Soon Is Now? leads into a revved-up Suedehead, his dashing dissection of self-loathing from his debut solo album, Viva Hate.

But the 64-year-old is no longer merely the Oscar Wilde-worshipping outsider who, with showboating vulnerability, reinvented what it was to be a rock star. That is still part of who he is. But controversial comments about, among other things, the British royals and meat-eaters, and an appearance on American television wearing a badge of the right-wing For Britain party, have muddied the marmalade.

He points out that no record company will take a punt on his latest material. Some of his newer songs are wonderful: My Hurling Days Are Done, for instance, from 2020, is a nod to his Irish roots – he’s the son of two Dubliners – while Sure Enough, the Telephone Rings recycles the laconic playfulness that was a Smiths hallmark

Sometimes, though, an incandescent grumpiness gets the better of him. Bonfire of Teenagers, the title track from one of the two LPs no label will go near, brings out a vindictive streak late in the evening.

It’s his response to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, after which Oasis’s Don’t Look Back in Anger became a rallying point: an anthem that pleaded for healing and solidarity rather than rage. Moz isn’t having it. “The morons sing and sway, don’t look back in anger,” he croons. “I can assure you I will look back in anger til the day I die.”

Amid the trolling ire are flashes of the old drollness. Morrissey appears to have been keeping up to date on the payments controversy sweeping RTÉ. “Do you know, I have never, ever been invited on Irish television,” he says. “All I can say is, thank God.”

It ends magnificently. Everyday Is Like Sunday is a pummelling and backhanded love letter to lonely coastal towns – we can all think of a few Irish ones that fit the bill – elevated by his guitarists Jesse Tobias and Carmen Vandenberg.

The encore is even more thrilling and tumultuous. As the band plunge into The Smiths’ Sweet and Tender Hooligan, Morrissey, framed by dry ice and squalling red lights, whips off his yellow T-shirt, flinging it into the audience. He’s bruised and unbowed – yet somehow small and sad too. The diehards love it. The problem for Morrissey is that, nowadays, only the diehards seem to care.

Morrissey plays Vicar Street, Dublin 8, again tonight