Gene's Martin Rossiter Interview, Comparisons With Morrissey - sabotagetimes.com

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Martin Rossiter Interviewed By Jon Wilde For sabotagetimes.com

Excerpt -

Throughout your time with Gene, you were routinely compared with Morrissey. How much of a burden did that become?


I liked The Smiths a lot. From an early age, I’d always felt a sense of “otherness” and, to me, The Smiths were the musical manifestation of that otherness. I enjoyed the fact that Morrissey would use language in a way that was very different from any other singer of the time. Morrissey did cast a long shadow and became a kind of shadow that I could never quite get away from. I did get fed up with the comparisons because his name would keep coming up whenever Gene was written about. The comparisons came up because, like Morrissey, I sing in an English accent which is surprisingly rare when you think about it. Like Morrissey I sing with a vibrato. I suppose we both have an interest in the human condition. But, as far as I’m concerned, that’s where it...

Morrissey Red Bank, NJ date - 15 Jan - TTY

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Morrissey Red Bank date - true-to-you.net
24 November 2012

Morrissey will appear at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey on Tuesday 15 January, 2013.

Tickets for this show are available on Monday 26 November. Kristeen Young will open the night.

EDIT: TTY now states tickets available Friday 30 November

"Billy Duffy on kickstarting Morrissey's singing career" - BBC 6 Music

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This morning BBC 6 Music Breakfast show with Shawn Keavney featured Billy Duffy interview who talks about how he got to know Morrissey.

You can listen again from iPlayer 1:40 (region restricted).



MORRIZSEY sends the link:

"Billy Duffy on kickstarting Morrissey's singing career" - BBC 6 Music

DURATION: 02:07
BBC 6 Music's Linda Serck spoke to The Cult co-founder and guitarist Billy Duffy about how he helped Morrissey's singing career.

The Cult returned earlier this year with a new album Choice Of Weapon and have also released a prequel to that album, called Weapon of Choice.

During the interview with BBC 6 Music, Billy talked about his youth growing up in Manchester and his involvement in city's punk scene in the late 70s, which led to him giving his friend Morrissey a leg-up in the music world.



Transcript by davidt:

We were all music obsessives in Manchester and somebody said there's this guy who's...

Kevin Cummins Morrissey / Smiths photo postcard box to be released (Dec. 7)

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... they aren't half beautiful

31 Kevin Cummins pics as postcards in a nice box - just what every collector wants from Santa this year

http://site.politecards.com/collections/coming-soon/products/morrissey-the-smiths

Dave

Cheers Dave, what a great box. Thanks for the tip off!!!
Cheers Moz

Franz Nicolay Offers Coachella 2009 Morrissey Recollection in Tour Diary Zine

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He should be your hero Skylarker

Previously unseen Morrissey photo Sheffield 1984

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As posted by Kevin Cummins on Twitter today

http://t.co/pz0EU52i

KCMANC Kevin Cummins 18 Nov
Unseen photos from my archive. No.2 in a series: Morrissey #TheSmiths at Sheffield University.

cummins_1984.jpg

Rapper Angel Haze wants to collaborate with Morrissey and Marr

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Angel Haze: ‘I’d love to work with The Smiths’ - NME.com

‘I want both of them!’ says rapper when asked to choose between Johnny Marr and Morrissey



An anonymous person sends the link to the original article from The Quietus and writes:

Zero Past A Hundred: Angel Haze Interviewed - The Quietus

Excerpt:

"Now that you've signed to Universal/Island, labels with no shortage of cash, are there any collaborations that you want to set up?

AH: Jason Mraz, and I think as far as I'm concerned, and as far as he's concerned, that's been set up. So I'm really excited about that. That's really the only person I have a genuine desire to work with.

I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different. And they just go into that little rampage where they're just...​

"Oscillate Wildly" - NYC - The Delancey - Friday, November 23rd

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Chapter 26: "MANCHESTER, SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR"


*** THE FINAL EDITION OF 2012 ***

Friday, November 23, 2012.

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The first 25 guests at “OSCILLATE WILDLY” receive a complimentary copy of Tony Fletcher’s new comprehensive 650 page bio on The Smiths: “A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT” courtesy of Crown Publishing!

So it's going to be a rough month in Morrisseyland. Moz's mother is still ill. New Yorkers are mourning the absence of The Mozfather after his brief but thrilling series of NYC concerts in October. -And of course, in a couple of weeks, much turkey will be festively sliced (it's not succulent, tasty or kind). Let's get together to rise above it all & make November 23rd's party an "Oscillate Wildly" to remember! It will be the final edition of 2012.

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