This Charming Man sends the link:
Smiths reunion ruled out by bassist and drummer - NME.com
Bassist says Morrissey is uncontactable
Former bassist with The Smiths Andy Rourke has quashed hopes for a future Smiths reunion, insisting Morrissey is impossible to even contact, let alone coax into reforming.
Rourke spoke at the launch of documentary 'Inside The Smiths' last night (July 19) alongside drummer Mike Joyce, who refused to pass comment on the elusive star.
"He makes himself unavailable. He only communicates in postcards. But I suppose time is a great healer, and can change your perception of people," he told fans, implying they would have to patch up their relationship before any reunion could take place.
The bassist made a cheeky joke about the singer's enigmatic sexuality when asked if Morrissey ever had any groupies, quipping, "He had a delivery once and the boy was in there with him for a good ten minutes, but apart from that, I don't think so."
Meanwhile Joyce claims in the documentary, which also features talking heads including Kaiser Chiefs, Buzzcocks and Mark E Smith, that once guitarist Johnny Marr left the band, he realised how difficult Morrissey could be to work with.
The crunch, for Joyce, apparently came when the band and crew were sitting down for a meal.
"Morrissey was giving me the eye as if to say, 'we need to have a word'," recalled Joyce. "So he took me aside and said, 'Who are these people we're eating with?' I said, 'Well, they're the producer, the engineer, the bassist, guitarist and me.' He said, 'I don't want to eat with these people'. What do I do? Tell them to piss off and not eat with us? That was the brief."
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Also, link posted by Young And Alive in the forums (
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Smiths drummer: 'Morrissey's curse failed' - Digital Spy
Ex-Smiths drummer Mike Joyce has insisted that he remains unaffected by the curse Morrissey placed on him a decade ago.
In 1996 Joyce successfully sued his former bandmates Morrissey and Johnny Marr for an equal share of performing and recording royalties from The Smiths' back catalogue.
Morrissey later described the case as a "terrible miscarriage of justice" and wished Joyce "the very, very worst for the rest of his life".
However, the drummer insisted that the curse has failed, telling the NME: "Well it's not worked so far. Things are fantastic. But I'm only 44 - there's plenty of time for that to kick in. I'm looking out the window now and everything seems alright. Apart from a huge fireball..."
