Binyamina-Giv'at Ada - Zappa Amphi Shuni (July 2, 2023) post-show

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Setlist:

Suedehead / Alma Matters / Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before / Irish Blood, English Heart / Our Frank / I Wish You Lonely / I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Knockabout World / Notre-Dame (live debut) / Jim Jim Falls / Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings / The Night Pop Dropped / My Hurling Days Are Done / Half A Person / Everyday Is Like Sunday / The Loop / Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want / Jack The Ripper // Sweet And Tender Hooligan

Setlist courtesy of Hagit Yaron FB.

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• Photo from @tomerabram / Instagram:
  
  
• Not every day is like Sunday when Morrissey’s in town - review by Liam Forberg (2 photos by Ariel Efron) - The Jerusalem Post. Link posted by goinghome (original post).
  
  
• Morrissey May Not Be Sending Flowers to Haaretz After This Review by Ben Shalev (5 photos) - Haaretz. Link posted by Thewlis (original post).
• Morrissey thrilled to be in ‘God’s country’ as he performs first of two shows by Jessica Steinberg - timesofisrael.com. Link posted by Famous when dead (original post).
  
  Excerpt:
  
  English singer Morrissey brought his crisp baritone and familiar, turmoil- filled lyrics to Amphi Shuni in the northern town of Binyamina Sunday night, and while all 1,350 seats of the restored Roman amphitheater were full to bursting with dedicated fans, Morrissey himself seemed a little, well, listless.
• Notre-Dame lyrics posted by This Charming Bowie.
  
  Link to video posted by federico (original post):
  
  

 

[marred]

Lmao, mad? I don't get mad with randomers on the net, but amusing how that's the only response you could manage. No addressing of anything else. If words fail you I guess resort to gaslighting, huh?

I have tickets to a plethora of upcoming shows and as I stated earlier in this thread I am actually looking to offload them to attend other gigs instead, so it's the exact opposite of mad because I wasn't there or because you asked that. I don't want to be there, sadly. Not with someone who looks like he cannot even manage a half arsed "performance".

I've just read plenty comments you've written here and realised how far from reality and objectivity you are. Especially the comment about not being a bigot but nothing being wrong with disliking Islam. You sound idiotic.

So you were all in up until now? Who loves Morrissey that much to buy a "plethora" of tickets and then seeks to offload them because he's coming across as bored on a youtube clip?

 

[Mimi Ramone]

I didn't realise Tobias only wrote one track on WMTWD leaving the rest up to Manzur and Whyte.

Zoom Zoom The Little Boy is also written by Tobias

 

[Thewlis]

When is it not played?

Twice this year.

 

[marred]

Zoom Zoom The Little Boy is also written by Tobias

Ah yes two tracks. You're right.

 

[Malc]

He has lost a lot of serious, long-term fans. I should know. I can separate the (increasingly moribund) art from the artist but others struggle to do that and I completely understand why.
Such a shame, we all saw the epic reception Rick Astley and The Blossoms singing songs by The Smiths at Glastonbury received.

I too was a serious long-term fan. Queued up overnight on tours as recently as 2017. Bought every variant of every release. Then his For Britain support started, and my decision to cease any financial support for him has been vindicated in the years since as each new controversy arises.

 

[Thewlis]

Yet still you cling.

 

[BookishBoy]

It's all kicking off in Tel Aviv today - very much hope Morrissey and the band/crew are OK and that the show is able to go on.

 

[Surface]

Yet still you cling.

If you are responding to Malc, he doesn’t he stated he’s not been to a gig since 17

 

[Surface]

It's all kicking off in Tel Aviv today - very much hope Morrissey and the band/crew are OK and that the show is able to go on.

Yes just seen that on the news, hope they’ve stepped up security.

 

[Thewlis]

Hope they are all well, indeed.

 

[dneuer]

Well let’s hope it hasn’t sailed.
Wonder what those “changes” would be. Donny out? Would that be at all likely?

It is remarkably highly unlikely. There is only one person that can answer the question as to why.

 

[Johan de Witt]

Not every day is like Sunday when Morrissey’s in town - review

Besides the few comments on Israel, Morrissey also started off some of his songs with cryptic videos and animations, and remarks on the Paris Riots.

www.jpost.com

Considering his almost too-many-to-count “bigmouth” shenanigans, including extremist ramblings and infamous concert cancelations, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Morrissey had lost much of his rabid fanbase.


But the roughly 1,500 people who showed up at the gorgeous Zappa Shuni Amphitheater for the former Smiths vocalist’s first show in Israel since 2016 displayed an uproarious outpouring of love for the singer who once held an intangible status as a beacon for misfits and outsiders.


“I’m very happy to be here in God’s country, the center of the world,” said Morrissey at the onset, Israel being one of the very few things in this world the man has actually shown support for. And then he put on a show to be remembered.

His strong setlist from both his solo career, and a bunch of Smiths songs, ranged from hits like “Suedehead,” “Alma Matters,”and “Stop Me if You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” all the way to recent bops like “Knockabout World,” “Jim Jim Falls,” and “My Hurling Days Are Done.”

Bringing the energy most people his age don't have​

He displayed the energy that most 64-year-olds would only wish they had. Fiddling with the cross pendant on his necklace, kneeling down heroically to take breathers, comically hiding a whiff from a nasal spray, doing his classic chainsmoker schtick when a fan threw a cigarette to the stage on command as he sang “Give me a cigarette” on the song “Our Frank”, Moz’s flamboyant antics and interactions with the crowd keep things fresh.

MORRISSEY in performance Sunday night at the Zappa Shuni Amphitheater. (credit: ARIEL EFRON)

Besides the few comments on Israel, Morrissey also started off some of his songs with cryptic videos and animations, and remarks on the Paris Riots (leading into “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” and “Notre Dame”), rhetorically asking “Who will save Paris? Who will save France? Who do you think?”

He also mentioned his violent distaste for media and journalism, often being on the receiving end of portrayals of an iconoclastic artist in decline from the so called “Loony Left.” He said “Today your local newspaper called me annoying, which means that tomorrow I’m gonna have to burn it down, which will really annoy them.”

He finished the concert off with Smiths’ classic “Please Let Me Get What I Want” and, appearing for the encore dressed in a Morrissey x Israel shirt, performed another Smiths gem, “Sweet and Tender Hooligan,” that resulted in a standing ovation.

For the good and for the bad, that’s who Steven Patrick Morrissey is, has been, and always will be. And we’re all just mute witnesses to him.

Morrissey performs on Tuesday, July 4 at the Expo Tel Aviv.

 

[Zoom Zoom The Little Boy]

If we looked into the political view As ( I am Egyptian ) there were 4 wars with Israel in 48 , 56 , 67 and the last one was in 73 regardless the final result of the war ( each one claims the victory ) but for me it's a win - win situation ( We ended the war by the political negotiations ) And we lived in the peace for many - many years .. As far as I know In 1977 president Mohammed Anwar El - Sadat went to Israel for the peace so I read in Shlomo Gazit's book about that visit and I found out that there was general called Avraham Orly who submitted recommendations for the permanent peace alongside Sadat's peace initiative .. But the Palestinians rejected it ....

 

[Hugh]

Who will save Jenin?

 

[Anonymous]

He displayed the energy that most 64-year-olds would only wish they had...kneeling down heroically to take breathers

My grandad has to do this as well when he climbs a steep set of stairs. Not sure I'd describe it as 'heroic'.

 

[Mozzer1980]

Tel Aviv , you are too hot

Nine injured in Tel Aviv ramming and stabbing attack

Palestinian man who drove truck into pedestrians before stabbing one of his victims was shot dead by passerby

www.theguardian.com

 

[Anna anna]

I too was a serious long-term fan. Queued up overnight on tours as recently as 2017. Bought every variant of every release. Then his For Britain support started, and my decision to cease any financial support for him has been vindicated in the years since as each new controversy arises.

Love is not love which alters when alterations find

 

[Thewlis]

Nice review here, plus some quotes from between songs:

Morrissey may not be sending flowers to Haaretz after this review

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www.haaretz.com

 

[Surface]

My grandad has to do this as well when he climbs a steep set of stairs. Not sure I'd describe it as 'heroic'.

Me neither, Peter Hook's 67 and doesn't have any stamina issues, however he goes to the gym a lot when not touring.

 

[Mozzer1980]

Too bad Morrissey didn't use the famous Frank Drebin meme/gif during Notre Dame song .
Before invesitations they said : There's Nothing to see here

Btw I like the new song , of course lyrics is poor , but music is quite catchy