Recent content by davdavon

Thanks Kewpie. Unfortunately it looks like the ride is going to be too expensive for me.

I'm going to be in London with my girlfriend between July 3rd-7th (travelling to see Pulp in the Wireless Festival) and with the recent concerts announced I was thinking of catching the Stoke gig. However, it's going to be our first time in the UK so I'd be grateful for some information...

Yes, I found this strange while translating the article. It doesn't make much sense in Hebrew as well. I think he wanted to say something like "unpretentious", but the Hebrew phrase he used is best translated as "lacking hypocrisy", and I wanted the translation to be as literal as possible, so...

Published August 1st 2008. Another subpar translation by davdavon. MICKEY ROURKE We were all excited about Morrissey's visit, but there's someone who thinks that he's just a little asshole. Andy Rourke, bass player for the Smiths, pours his heart out in a conversation with Einav Shif...

Found this on the Galatz forum: http://www.iiiiiiii.com/i/galatz/Morrissey-29.07.2008.wma

"Bored" would be more accurate. Glad that you enjoyed it.

Part five There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Time passes and I feel that I can pull the string a little more. "Do you think that you will sing more of your famous songs in Israel?". "I don't think so, I've sang them enough times, it bores me". I decide to be assertive. "But you have to...

Part four I Started Something I Couldn't Finish A Morrissey concert is an exciting event, especially if you love him, and it's quite reminiscent of the tracklist of the Greatest Hits album that he's released this year. Morrissey is still one of the greatest singers on Earth. Very few people can...

Part three This Joke Isn't Funny Anymore After twenty minutes, his manager started checking if he's tired of it and wants to leave. She made it with very obvious gestures, and from that moment on, even though he stayed with us for almost an hour, everything took place while in the background...

Part two I Want the One I Can't Have Jacky is a 45-years old German man. He has a small quiff and square, black-rimmed glasses. He wears jeans and a simple shirt with squares, and he looks like someone who once appeared in a Morrissey video. During the last month, it turns out, Morrissey...

Published last weekend in Time Out Tel Aviv. Like the Ashkenazi piece, this is more of a memoir than an interview. Translated by me. Notes in square brackets added by me. This is long. THIS CHARMING MAN Gal Uchovsky The door opens. Into the suite in the luxury hotel Mandarin Oriental Hyde...

Posted on YNet: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3569176,00.html Badly translated by davdavon: Morrissey demands a private car with a professional driver available to drive him at any time. The car must be black with dark windows: if a Mercedes S-500 is not available, then a Lexus...

Mm... probably not. Gal Uchovsky is a famous Israeli journalist, music critic and scriptwriter (he wrote the script for Moz's fave Walk on Water and the rest of the Eytan Fox films that they gave him). He's also a judge on Kochav Nolad (the Israeli version of American Idol) and one of the first...

Interview translation - part two [part two] FIFTY IS OLD We had two hours to walk around the town and get settled in the hotel, and then we left by foot to Hyde Park. Morrissey's concert was the main event of the second day of a giant festival called O2 Wireless. Because of the time...

Interview translation - part one Not much of an interview, more of Ashkenazi's memoirs from the interview. I'm not a professional translator so there could be some minor inaccuracies or strange grammar, but… I did my best: [mm... it tells me that the post is too long. Here's part one, then:]...