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Not sure if this was already posted, but ClashMusic has this today:
Mike Joyce Clarifies Morrissey Remarks: "Personal opinion I suppose!" by Robin Murray Fri, 01/07/2011
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Mike Joyce Clarifies Morrissey Remarks: "Personal opinion I suppose!" by Robin Murray Fri, 01/07/2011
Chatting to ClashMusic about his upcoming projects, Mike Joyce decided to clarify his opinions on the Glastonbury set - without a character limit, of course.
"Well I thought Morrissey sounded amazing" he stated. "I was surprised – I know that sounds a bit like a disparaging remark – but I thought he really sounded incredible."
"His voice sounded great right the way through and I enjoyed it but for The Smiths songs. I wasn’t too sure about the renditions. Personal opinion I suppose! Some people are going to go down there and think ‘that’s the best I’ve ever heard!’ But for me, it just didn’t work and I got a bit narked, really because I just don’t think they should be like that."
"Again it’s their interpretation and it’s personal opinion. It obviously upset some people that’s for shit sure! It wasn’t the idea. I could do a lot worse than that, trust me if I wanted to upset people. I didn’t think it would wind people up but it did."
Continuing, Mike Joyce insisted that he only wanted to open up the debate. "The pride from some Morrissey fans and the protective quality of him that they have is very endearing to a degree, but it’s incredible how vociferous some people can be about someone they don’t even know. I just find it hard to look at the analogy with another artist. I just don’t think those people are around for other artists, for Sting or Bono or whoever. I don’t see those people standing up and saying: to get to him you’ll have to go through me. I don’t see that elsewhere. There’s something to commend in that I suppose."
"It’s an interesting debate, just to [throw] it out and see what comes back. It wasn’t a slight on him as I thought his voice sounded brilliant and his singing was brilliant. I wasn’t thinking anything other than that about his singing: it was really, really good. His control was fantastic for the songs, but those versions – not for me, really."
ClashMusic will be posting a full Mike Joyce interview soon.
This is all regarding: Mike Joyce tweets on Glastonbury performance and "cover versions"