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    Morrissey Central "18 YEARS AGO TODAY" (March 27, 2024)

    You're right the reviews were super positive. I thought we were in for an absolute treat. Beautiful orchestral arrangements, an absolutely legendary producer (T Visconti), a brand new songwriter composing a large chunk of the albums compositions (for the first time in 15 years). And yet we...
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    Morrissey Central "18 YEARS AGO TODAY" (March 27, 2024)

    Dude, have you completely lost the plot? It's meat and potatoes indie filler at best. Thank heavens he discovered the colourful, inventive Hispanic sounds on the subsequent albums. Ringleader is just awful. It's no co-incidence that he's virtually never played anything off it in the last 10...
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    The Guardian: Neil Morrissey on Morrissey - "Poor bloke" (March 14, 2024)

    Yep, a misunderstanding. He's just expressing sympathy that he (Neil Morrissey) managed to get a number 1 single before Morrissey did. Also, no attempt to criticise Morrissey for his views as all others do by default these days. And his comment that 'Morrissey is still making music' shows that...
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    The Guardian: Neil Morrissey on Morrissey - "Poor bloke" (March 14, 2024)

    In a Guardian interview out today (I think), Neil Morrissey is asked 'Do you find it gratifying that you have had two UK No 1 singles, while Morrissey has had none?' He replies: 'Poor bloke. I do actually feel gratified. It was a turn in my career I never expected. I ended up vicariously on Top...
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    Morrissey Central "KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY FALL DOWN" (February 17, 2024)

    Interesting one. It came out in 2019. Radio 2 were still on board for California Son but all the other previously Morrissey-friendly stations had stopped playing him by then. So, it did massively worse than 2017's Low in High School but slightly better than 2020's Dog on a Chain.
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    Morrissey Central "KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY FALL DOWN" (February 17, 2024)

    Thanks @BookishBoy , I know I go on about airplay a lot - I'm fascinated by its effect not just on Morrissey's fortunes but on many other acts too. It wasn't just Radio 2 that refused to play his stuff after 2019 - it was also Radio X, 6 Music and Absolute all of whom had given considerable...
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    Morrissey is now being managed by Pete Galli of Red Light Management (February 12, 2024)

    2017, autumn. And it was a big airplay hit (for Morrissey - possibly his biggest ever) but that's all you need to shift albums. No-one does well in the singles chart these days unless most of their fans are school children glued to streaming sites
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    Morrissey Central "KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY FALL DOWN" (February 17, 2024)

    It was his best album in years - massively better than High School yet High School sold 25,000 in week 1 compared with Dog;s 6,000. Why? Spent the Day in Bed received airplay from all the indie radio stations - none of them went anywhere near the Dog songs. On the rare occasion that they gave a...
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    Morrissey Central "KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY FALL DOWN" (February 17, 2024)

    6,000 in the first week then straight out of the top 100 in the 2nd (both of these figures unprecedented). It might have sold a few hundred more but certainly not a few thousand.
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    Morrissey Central "KICK ‘EM WHEN THEY FALL DOWN" (February 17, 2024)

    It depends 100% on whether the UK's Morrissey-friendly radio stations (mainly Radio 2) end what has effectively been a boycott on his new songs since 2019. If they end the boycott and A-list a single (which is at last half decent, and they usually are), the album is pretty much guaranteed to...
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    Morrissey Central "STEVE WRIGHT, RIP" (February 13, 2024)

    A nice quote from Steve Wright from around 2004 (I think). "Actually it's an open secret that 'Hang The DJ' was written about me. I was certainly a DJ at the time, and if he did write it about me then that's okay. I actually met Morrissey about three years ago when I was doing a piece for CNN...
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    Morrissey Central "STEVE WRIGHT, RIP" (February 13, 2024)

    Morrissey also posted this when Steve Wright's Radio 2 show came to an end in 2022: "Steve Wright … thank you for playing everything from 'Panic' to 'Wedding Bell Blues' … and, in between, Patti Smith, and also Grumpy And The Banshees. We heard. We listened. You did your best. Thank you!" -...
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    Morrissey Central "STEVE WRIGHT, RIP" (February 13, 2024)

    He did indeed but in the 90s and the 00s/10s, Steve was more than happy to play Morrissey's stuff although it was probably more of a Radio 2 playlist thing than his own decision, but he was a pretty decent person. Morrissey is generally much more generous spirited to fellow 1980s survivors these...
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    Morrissey Central "CANCEL CULTURE BEGINS AT HOME" (January 11, 2024)

    Really, it's what you might call the persona of the modern-day Morrissey that people are trying to distance from the essence of The Smiths - in many people's eyes, the clash between what The Smiths represented and what Morrissey has become simply doesn't make sense.
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    What will happen after the South America tour 2024?

    You're right that they can continue to ignore him but you're wrong about the reasons. The only real thing that's scuppered his commercial viability since 2019 is that the radio stations that had been playing his stuff since the 1990s, would (for the first time ever) no longer play his new songs...
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    The Nolans' cover of "Panic" (1990) creates a stir, The Poke, December 13, 2023

    This clip gets re-posted here every 4 years (usually by me!)
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    Sydney - State Theater (Dec. 11, 2023) post-show

    Regarding Morrissey's current choice of trouser... My guess is he's seen Shaun Ryder's health decline pretty rapidly recently, and figures there'll be a vacancy for lead singer with the Happy Mondays before too long. He needs to show that he can fit in (sartorially at least), hence the flares.
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    Melbourne - Palais Theater (Dec. 5, 2023) post-show

    In the overall scheme of things, it is indeed a much better than average set-list. About 60% of the crowd at these shows (and any shows of indie acts who found fame in the 80s) will only know the big songs from back in the day, and the relatively small number of better known songs from the last...
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    Melbourne - Palais Theater (Dec. 4, 2023) post-show

    Perhaps he's replaced Miley Cyrus's contribution with a Howard Jones collaboration?
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