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on Saturday September 04 2004, @03:00PM
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Blackpool, England - Empress Ballroom (Sep. 4, 2004) post-show
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Blackpool Rock (Score:0)
ctid
Just Got Back ! (Score:2, Interesting)
Sunset was gorgeous over the sea !
Venue good but too HOT !
No surprises setlist wise.
Moz stood in some gum on stage - not happy !
Julia got a mention - "up there operating the lights".
"So you want (Handsome Devil) do you ?" (I think it was) so here it is then ... before November.
November was a disappointment "better on the recorded version" Moz said, and "a few screws snapped, if anyone's bothered".
To chants of MORRISSEY-MORRISSEY, Moz listened, put his head in his hands and pretended to cry.
To requests for NF Disco, Moz said "it's a nice song, but so is happy birthday (I think it was) and we're not playing that either"
Good crowd, noisy but not violent.
Bit of surfing, but no one got on stage.
Fairly quiet for Munich & Daddy's Voice.
Moz's vocals & performance were spot on. He didn't get too involved with the front of the crowd during the vocal parts.
Music a bit boomy, and LOUD !
Outside - no Tshirts, only Smiths ones ... ?
Roll on Preston ...
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Winter gardens (Score:1)
In There is a Light he sang "and in darkened underpants I thought Oh God my chance has come at last"
Throws shirt into audience - "Mind that shirt, the material is very cheap - I bought it in Blackpool earlier".
Excellent show, Moz still in good form.
The opening "How Soon is Now" is very powerful and better than I'd expected. He sings There is a Light properly now with a many repeats of the last line.
I think I saw Julia up in the gallery. Just in front of her some brave soul went tight-rope walking along the rail of the balcony. He was dragged down before he could drunkenly plunge to his death.
Excellent evening. Venue hot as hell - a 4 shirts night for Moz.
(User #1418 Info)
i preferred men! (Score:1)
Looking forward to Preston.
(User #9964 Info)
Great stuff (Score:1)
Only quibbles I had were with the heat (if I'd told you that I'd gone for a quick swim in the sea after the show, you would have believed me) and the fact that the mic was a little boomy, but they made little difference.
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blackpool brill (Score:1)
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"Anyone Bootleg it?" (Score:1)
And DAMNIT, LEAVE JULIA ALONE, you jealous slugs!! She's very nice, very sweet. (Julia shall we dance again or have tea?)
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Julia (Score:0)
Irish Blood
The Rock? (Score:1)
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Julia (Score:1)
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The lads T-shirts? (Score:1)
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Blackpool/Julia/Alain (Score:2, Informative)
'How soon is now' sounded absolutely awesome, as did, surprisingly, 'I know it couldn't last'which i haven't really liked until last night's gig. 'such a little thing....' is the only song that falls flat for me.
He referred to Julia up in a balcony, she was there with other faces I semi-recognise; his nephew and sister (Sam and Julie?), Damian Morgan (?), and a few others
Some one shouted 'where's Alain ', which he ignored.
On the subject of Alain Whyte, i think Morrissey is showing a certain contempt for his audience in not being frank about Alain's future. i reckon after this tour, and after the danger of people getting angry at any replacement guitarists has died down, Sanctuary will announce that Alain has been sacked from the band. why no mention from Boz on his website? why no quips or comments from Morrissey? Alain co-wrote most of the songs for christ's sake!
we need to be told.....because the lack of information is damaging.
What's this about matching shirts? $15 (Score:2, Funny)
Whatever the lads had on their shirts, I will make some more. Wanna see a picture?!
Sincerely,
April Juggs
(User #720 Info | http://www.jimrome.com/)
Re:What's this about matching shirts? $15 (Score:2, Funny)
Why is this American taking our t-shirt making jobs away?
signed,
kathie lee's kids
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flat cap mozz (Score:1)
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This Julia bird.......... (Score:0)
Talk about the music....not this no-hoper!!!!
Absolutely CRACKING show (Score:1)
'After the gig, no doubt you'll all be throwing up on the Pleasure Beach. I wish I could join you.'
'Try not to kill anyone on your way home - just try, I know it's hard.'
(introducing How Can Anyone Possibly....) 'This song was played on Constipation Street'
A superb show, I'm just glad the drunk chap on the balcony didn't complete his death-defying jump.
Does anyone have any sound recordings/pictures/video clips??? Is so, please let me know.
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What's with all the hooplah? (Score:2, Troll)
Then again, when has a Moz concert, convention, or club night not also been a fashion show for little greaser boys and their 'Betty's'? (Boop or Page, you decide). This is part of the reason some of us dislike each other and label 'Morrissey fan' as an arrogant asshole. Despite our singer's lyrics, we're not all that insecure are we?
LEAVE JULIA RILEY ALONE ALREADY! YOU ALL WANT TO BE HER, you can admit it now. Hell, if I could quit my gig, not have to work, and follow Morrissey around on tour, I would too. Some of you make it sound like she is following Morrissey's bus around the country, ready to collect the waste it dumps into local rivers and lakes ala the Dave Matthews Tour Bus! She is probably like most of us that like to sight-see as well as be at the latest Moz stop. I would love to travel to places like Scotland and England. Even more so if Moz is going to perform there. It's not as though she is making shirts one size too small in his likeness, selling them for $10 dollars more than they're worth, and parading herself on a website called 'emotion lotion'. She is 'Daddy's' favorite and it sounds to me like you children are jealous.
As for Morrissey's supposed 'Meat on Feet': Who cares? We all come to this site to vent our opinions and appreciation for Moz (allegedly), so what if you find out who someone is? They, just like you, come here at the convenience of the internet so just leave them alone. Although we all have some degree of anonymity, it's the 'anonymous' posters who are the source of this b.s. A feature, which, we probably would rather do without. I don't run this site, however, I highly respect the person who does. It's one thing to get a screen name and be held accountable for your comments, and it's another to not even have the courage to do that.
Point is, Morrissey is the reason we came here in the first place. If you take things a little less seriously and take a break from the PORN errr computer screen, maybe you won't stress yourself with other fans minding their own business.
OUT
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Blackpool last night (Score:1)
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The lies that Marr this site (Score:0)
Great Show (Score:0)
Highlights
How Soon is now
FOTGTD
November
and the absolutely storming I know I couldnt last. That song was awesome.
Moz on top form again. Crowd were wild at the front and packed out. Touts couldnt sell their tickets though so if you want to go to a show and dont have a ticket just turn up and you'll prob get one for £15 tops.
Setlist was in the best order I can remember
How soon is now?/FOTGTD/Daddys Voice/How could anybody Know how I feel/Jack the Ripper/Munich air disaster 1958/Shakespeares Sister/I like you/ Everyday is like Sunday/Such a little thing/Let me kiss you/Rubber Ring/Now my heart is full/November/I know I couldnt last/IBEH/TALTNGO
blackpool (Score:1)
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My opinion of last night. (Score:0)
How Soon is Now? well it's not a song to get a set going really. I like Moz to come out and smack me in the face (so to speak). This song doesn't do that (it didn't when I saw The Smiths perform it). I have always thought of it as one of the weaker Smiths songs. But I know that everyone seems to be salivating over it on these pages - but just imagine if he came on and belted out The Queen is Dead, or The Boy with the Thorn in his Side ? That would be something!
The venue has changed since the played in 1995, they seemed to have blocked off parts. I have never seen such a long queue for the Gents toilets in my life. The show was very loud and the crowd in good spirits.
I thought Morrissey was looking a bit bored compared to other shows. Like fatigue was setting in! Which is not suprising. I only hope for the US fans sake that the little break he has planned invigorates him.
I managed to get home without killing anyone, I hope you all did.
The Balcony Fool was Me you Fool! (Score:0)
julia (Score:0)
For the attention of... (Score:0)
Thank you for looking after me.
It was the very best night of my life. You might have noticed that I was crying like a child throughout most of it - well I haven't actually stopped yet!
Hope you all had a safe journey home. Thanks again.
Roxanne xx
([email protected])
P.S - What did Morrissey's hand feel like, Linda??!
RE: 'Famous' Fans (Score:0)
and my highlight was.... (Score:1)
however - thumbs down to the girl who fell and grabbed onto me as I was nearing the front during "now my heart is full' - she grabbed my bely hook and managed to pull othmy jeans and shorts down to my knees - forcing a speedy retreat in an awkward shuffleing type manner to retrieve my dignity.
a big thumbs up to the bouncers who pulled a lot of very distressed looking young 'uns from the barrier - they did their job well!!
a word about the omnipresent Julia - i've never met the woman and have absolutly no gripes with her or what she does - good luck to her - but she did look a bit lonely up in that box on her own, although she was obviously enjoying the crown and atmosphere as much as the performance - and there is nothing wrong with that - so lets give her a break.
talking of break - was she on crutches ?
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Did anyone notice what clothes Julia was wearing? (Score:0)
What a night! (Score:0)
The venue was very nice to look at, but a bit of a nightmare, no bar staff and only 1 ladies and 1 gents toilets for a venue that size? And the heat, never been anywhere as hot, ever! But didn't let that spoil a very special night, finished off with a walk a long the illuminations and a couple of drinks in a pub with a drag act!
blackpool last night (Score:0)
Jamie
it looked liked I'd pished mi pants but i saw morrissey and i enjoyed it and i would definitely want to see him again
Shaun
Thank-yous (Score:0)
Good gig (Score:0)
Loved How soon is now...
Shocked at how many people left before the encore !!!!
But , moz in good form , Great vocals... Looking forward to brid now
In really late... (Score:1)
I was one of those who dithced TIALTNGO to rush around the stage door to see him come out (I'm 27) and he did appear about 15 minutes after the show finished. Beforehand I got talking to a member of security who had been in the pit for the gig, stopping the brave from mounting the stage. He's a nice bloke and said how he'd been a Morrissey fan for twenty years and seen The Smiths perform. I asked him what it's like to stop people touching him when he's also big fan and he admitted he'd considered turning around for a feel himself. So the security aren't all as we might imagine, infact the guy in charge of Moz security was a huge American who was exteemely affable. Bear that in mind the next time they throw you over a speaker stack.
Amazing gig. His comments on Blackpool "I drove around Blackpool today and saw... yes, lots of drug addicts. It's not what it was.." didn't go down all that well and I met a couple of locals afterwards who didn't appreciate it either. He was introducing EILS though, so...Any Amercians here get over for this one? What did you make of Blackpool?
Favourite Moz comment of the night was after How Soon Is Now, introducing First Of The Gang... "Welcome to a big fat slice of Saturday night!".
I don't like all this Julia-Solo rubbish.
Wanna know some Julia goss? I met with a very old friend at the Blackpool show who has Julia stay with her for a couple of months at her house in Walthamstow. She used to know her pretty well but eventually fell out. My friend says that Julia's not a bad person at all, and that her Mum's lovely, but did know the one incident that apparenty made Moz REALLY sit up and take notice.
Morrissey had made it known he'd been after a specific Oscar Wilde 1st Edition for ages but couldn't get hold of one. Julia found it somewhere and spent £30,000 on it as a present for him. Aparently it freaked Moz out a bit. Anyway, my source for this knew her very well and isn't the sort to mess about. So there you go.
Best Moz gig of the year, easy.
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Re:In really late... (Score:2, Funny)
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Soulseek or Bit Torrent (Score:1)
I know there are a lot of us around the world who don't really care about slagging Julia or broken---we're just dying to hear some of the new tunes in the setlist!
So who has great news about snagging a copy off the soundboard?
If anyone has these I'll be happy to sit on soulseek all day with the files available to share!
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the 2 fat bastards at the front (Score:0)
thanks the 4 foot tall one behind!
Tight Security to avoid recordings (Score:1, Informative)
The point of all this is this: What are they trying to achieve here ? There's the age-old argument that it's breach of copyright, blah blah blah. But everyone knows that the only people who bother listening to these things are those obsessive people who have already bought every official release under the sun. Being able to trade such recordings with fellow followers around the globe only helps to fuel the fervour. In the 7 year absence of a new album from Moz, it was such recordings that helped keep us keen, like the 2002 tour with the few new songs.
In my experience, traditionally security at venues are looking for bottles and knives, and don't mind too much about recorders. This, however, is a sinister new twist against the faithful, to specifically target Tapers.
So the questions are: Who is behind this ? And why ? I understand that they may want to act to the letter of the law, but if seems folly to target the faithful in this way.
Tapers of the World Unite !
a question about temperature (Score:0)
can anyone that went to the show let the rest of us know what the temperature was like inside the concert venue?
john
Blackpool, Come Come nuclear bomb (Score:0)
Great gig - How soon is now was perfect and Jack the ripper was the best I have ever heard it. Thought is was highly amusing when he sang "how could anybody know how i feel" and pointed to the facist bouncers with their uniforms.
Could of done without the guy at the front puking up before he had even come on.
Security guy (Score:0)
They took my stick of rock (Score:1)
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A word to the wise Mozzer (Score:0)
Patience is a virtue! I must bear with it as I travelled 200+ miles, so please bear with me!
Great gig, pity about Blackpool! Do people actually go to see the illuminations, cos they are rubbish!!! For those of you who may know it, Blackpool is like Barry Island multiplied tenfold. Yes its that tacky.
Anyway the gig itself…well highlights for me, were, in no particular order, Irish Blood, Munich, EILS (Especially after the intro.. ‘it’s not what it was!’), How Soon Is Now (obviously, having never seen it done live before), Rubber Ring, November (‘Handsome Devil’... Moz pulls a funny face…’err, ok Handsome Devil’) and Let Me Kiss You… my personal fav. (‘This is going to be our next single, so please buy it and get it into the charts’ or words to that effect. Some bright spark in the audience, not me, no, neverJ, shouted out, ‘At number 37’.
Moz: ‘I heard that!”)
I did feel some sympathy towards those at the front who had either never been to a Morrissey gig or were completely unaware of the surge that was about to occur just after Imperfect List, a great song to build up the anticipation by the bye, and lo and behold as far as I could se the first 10 rows were all men after 30 seconds of How Soon Is Now! Having read through some posts though it appears that some of the female contingent managed to survive intact.
As did Julia Riley. Ah Julia, gawd bless her. What has she ever done to you? I met her after the gig and in the euphoria decided to amuse myself by asking for her autograph, before anyone says stop encouraging her. (I may even put it up on E-Bay.) She seemed very pleasant and maybe because she has a walking stick is the reason why she goes to the front of the queue…. I dunno, I don’t care. I sympathised with her oversome of the more aggressive posters here and asked her, as she is in Morrissey’s inner sanctum (well more inner than me, anyroads) whether she could have a word with the Moz and get him to play in South Wales or South West England. Its been FIVE YEARS….THAT IS FIVE YEARS…you Northerners, Cockneys and Scots don’t know how lucky you’ve got it!
The other word to the wise is Morrissey can expect to get some flak from the local paper (and council) over the policy to ban meat from the venue. This is because my mate and I, whilst sitting in one of the shopping streets having a dubious cigarette beforehand, were accosted by two 60yo women (lucky us) who enquired whether we were going to see Morrissey. I replied in the affirmative. I quote word for word the following exchange.
“He’s out of order ‘cos he has banned meat from the Winter Gardens and I can’t have my chicken or y turkey and I’m a diabetic.”
“Well you can go elsewhere srely, its not like there is a lack of dining establishments here.”
“That’s not the point, my father didn’t fight the Jerries to have some so-called singer dictate what and where I can eat.”
I laughed, loudly, a lot.
A big hello to John and Sarah and their friend whose name escapes me this moring/ afternoon (apologies if I got your names wrong) from the Cardiff Maniax. One day we may meet and I will be the height of sobriety. Doubtful admittedly, but you never know. I believe you may go to the Star and Garter in December, if so I should see you there!
Also a big shout out to Gripper Stepson and the lad from Nottingham who kept buying me drinks in the club afterwards!
And a big hello to all you lucky Northerners who are seeing the remainder of this leg of the tour. I honestly believe that people from the North understand the essence of Morrissey, or more specifically his songwriting, than the rest of us mere mortals. I suppose its to do with the commonality of being Northern. (I’ve just read this and apologies if it sounds patronising/ a bit like that song, “Life In A Northern Town!” It wasn’t meant to, just I’m tired.)
BLUEBIRDS… COME BACK TO CARDIFF MOZ!
The Vomiting Incident (Score:1)
The best bit thought was at the end of 'How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?' this joker shouts to MOZ, "I know how you feel!" Ha ha, of course you do, of course you do.
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Hello! (Score:1)
By the way, did anyone else think that The Dead 60s sounded exactly like the entire 2-Tone back catalogue ripped off?
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Las Vegas of the North (Score:1)
Help, anyone? Please.
Rob
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The gigs are full of crashing bores (Score:0)
Also, i dont think its fair that he's stipulating that his band have to wear that ludicrous t-shirt and kilt get up. How would he like it if they turned round to him and said that they think it would be more 'rocknroll' if he wore an axl rose bandana?
Poor old Boz, I couldnt look at him without him reminding me of super scary god-botherer 'Cameron' out of big brother. Maybe it was the scottish connection.
You're a long time dead... (Score:1)
I never saw the Smiths. Until Saturday, I had never seen Morrissey. It was hot, it was packed, the bar (as always at the Winter Gardens) was overpriced and understaffed, there were a few 'dobbers' who you would have sworn had wandered in from some other event just to piss everybody off, the security was random, the 'no meat' policy was bizarre, Blackpool in general is a shitehole.
But, all things considered, it was still a cracking night. Unless you were buggered in the toilets by a Lithuanian dressed as Batman which is probably the only thing not mentioned here as having happened on Saturday.
Shit happens, but great things happen as well. That's life.
Remember, you can't have too many good times.
Rob
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Blackpool Rocked (Score:1)
for a while I got incredibly close to the stage, but thought Id better move out a bit as I was dangerously close to spontaniously combusting...
Mr M sounded incredible (and looked delicious may I add) and the crowd were great..no shoving (it was lovely not to get squished for once)just lots of noise, heat and a very bouncy floor!
I had a shirt made for me which stated' Morrisey is God'...and to be honest I thought I might get some stick(that, or a good kicking...lol)for wearing it in town, so blazenley, all day..
Im delighted however to report, that I was amazed at the number of people who passed comment and agreed with me..
I was grateful also for the comments and observations of my mammary glands,er...Thankyou?!
AND!!!
Even though it took for bloody EVER to get back to sunny Wolves (Cheers to the silly buggers who moved the diversion signs for the M6 S/B?!?)
Im not complaining at all..
Besides,Wigan is very pretty at night, Yah..
(after driving in, around and through it like, 3 times...lol)
A spiritual experience during TIALTNGO, goosebumps all round methinks.
Morrissey, THANKYOU!
See you in London x
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There is a light... (Score:0)
Blackpool Gig Photograph (Score:1)
Rob
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Denim Jacket Winter Gardens pub/bar (Score:1)
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