someraincoatedlovers writes:
Important Isle of Wight Announcement
Morrissey will regrettably not be appearing at the Isle Of Wight Festival on the 11th of June as scheduled. The pressure of preparing the new album and losing his drummer earlier this month has made it impossible to do the gig without massively compromising both the gig and the album. Apologies to all the fans, the organisers and the people of the Isle Of Wight.
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• See Morrissey's reply to this statement: Morrissey statement on IOW and Sanctuary from True-To-You.net - May 28, 2005

girl least likely 2 writes:

charles byron sends the link:

Morrissey - Who Put the ‘M’ in Manchester? - Straight.com
By Sarah Rowland
Publish Date: 26-May-2005

If you weren’t a die-hard Morrissey fan before popping Who Put the ‘M’ in Manchester? into your DVD player, then you certainly won’t be after watching four different versions of “First of the Gang to Die”, as well as three separate renderings of both “Irish Blood, English Heart” and “I Have Forgiven Jesus”. Depending on your mood, you can tune in to the former Smiths frontman push his 2004 comeback release You are the Quarry outdoors at last year’s Move Festival in Manchester; see him do the same indoors at Manchester Evening News Arena, where cameras captured his homecoming/birthday extravaganza; or skip to the video section to check out the clips you never saw on MuchMusic outside of The Wedge.

Behind-the-scenes tidbits and interviews with the main attraction are pretty much nil here. We get one measly streeter with a devotee who describes what the ’80s gay icon has meant to him. There is, however, an unexpected PETA-sanctioned documentary tacked on to the end. Narrated by Alec Baldwin, Meet Your Meat is a montage of undercover camerawork. Here we see chickens getting their ultra-sensitive beaks clipped off, pigs getting their brains smashed against concrete floors, and diseased cows getting their pus-filled tits milked. Funny, this little slaughterhouse bonus doesn’t seem to be listed anywhere on the DVD cover. While the highly polished two-hour concert footage of Morrissey sprinkling his earlier solo hits with way too much newer material may preach only to the converted, this short is powerful enough to make card-carrying carnivores switch to soybeans.

An anonymous person sends the link:

Hollywood Privacy Watch (May 26) - SOURCE: www.defamer.com

Saw the one and only Morrissey yesterday late afternoon around 5:30 p.m. at Cat and Fiddle on Sunset. He looked gorgeous. Perfectly dressed, and perfect hair! He was sipping pints with two women and a man I now refer to as “Mini-Morrissey.” — A young latino looking Morrissey I see with the Moz quite often. Could this be a romance?

Belligerent Ghoul writes:
Excerpt:

Former Take That star Williams beat legends like Bowie into second place, followed by Morrissey, Presley, Elton John and Jimi Hendrix.

Paul Weller came seventh, beating Madonna (8th), Michael Jackson (9th) and Bob Dylan (10th).

...The survey of 5,000 people nationwide was Commissioned by Carling to celebrate Britain's live music scene.

Carling spokesman Martin Coyle said: "Rock clearly wins out in the Best Live Band of All-Time category which is mostly made up of great British bands like Queen, Radiohead and Coldplay."

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