March 18th, 2006
Now is not soon enough for Morrissey
I’ve been really enjoying Morrissey’s new album (review to follow) and can’t wait for his Olympia gig next month (front row balcony seats - oh yes). So I’m understandably disappointed to here via this BBC story that The Smiths won’t be reforming - despite being offered $5 million dollars to do so. Organisers of the US Coachella Music Festival offered the band the princely sum to reform but Morrissey has said that “money doesn’t come into it”. He’s currently touring the US and is performing Smiths’ songs in his set including Still Ill, Girlfriend in a Coma and their ne plus ultra classic How Soon Is Now? (It’s incomprehensible to think that Johnny Marr was only 19 when he came up with that fantastic riff).
Think I’ll have to content myself with digging out The Queen Is Dead for a listen today.
There’s plenty of solo Morrissey to soak up though: he’s interviewed in depth in tomorrow’s Observer Music Monthly magazine, will be a guest on Jonathan Ross’ Friday night show on BBC 1 when it returns next Friday, March 24th and will be interviewed by Chris Evans on his BBC Radio 2 show next Saturday March 25th at 2pm.
March 18th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
I listened to The Smiths for hours on end when I was a teenager. Probably to an unhealthy extent, but there you go. So I was understandably thrilled to find a copy of the greatest hits in a record shop in Dun Laoghaire a few months ago. I couldn’t get it home and get it ripped into my I-tunes and transferred onto my shuffle fast enough.
But then a funny thing happened - I didn’t enjoy most of the music anymore. There were maybe about 3 to 5 songs that I liked, but that was it.
March 20th, 2006 at 8:37 am
The Queen Is Dead rocks.