Many submitted the news of a record deal with Sanctuary posted on MorrisseyTour.com (now updated). Word from a reliable source close to Morrissey is that nothing has been signed.

Jamie writes:


As abhorrent as the notion of logging on to the NME's site may be, they've posted a review of Morrissey's Santa Barbara show and--shock, horror!--it's very positive.

Here's the link:

Morrissey : Santa Barbara Bowl - NME.com

An anonymous person writes:

I was at the 2 RAH shows...

I asked one of the several camera-men at the 2nd RAH show what they were filming for, and was told that the Paris show is to be filmed for a DVD release, and the RAH stuff will be used to fill it up.
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According to Morrisseytour.com, the DVD is being put out by Sanctuary.

Old Fossil writes:

A link that I received in the Rolling Stone Weekly Newsletter with 13 recent exclusive photos.

Viva Morrissey! - The reclusive crooner sighted in California

Bart sends:

A long-lasting love affair rekindled
(The Telegraph, Filed: 19/09/2002)

David Cheal reviews Morrissey at the Albert Hall

An anonymous person writes:

Morrissey is reviewed (alongside Richard Ashcroft)in Britain's best-selling newspaper The Sun.

LIVE
Morrissey
The Royal Albert Hall

MISERY guts MORRISSEY played to a packed Royal Albert Hall — and few of his adoring male fans had a full head of hair.

His new, young fans were nowhere to be seen but the former SMITHS frontman — amazingly still without a record deal — thrived in the face of a 30 and 40-something audience.

The fans in turn swung their arms and writhed again to the soundtrack of their teenage angst.

He played Smiths classics Meat Is Murder, Hairdresser On Fire and my favourite There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.

His new material got a great reception from the crowd, which included JONATHAN ROSS, DAVID BOWIE, SEAN HUGHES and VIC REEVES.

It looks like Mozzer could be on his way back.

Jason Farrow writes:

Another postive review. Transcribed from Teletext Reviews, page 454 on Channel 4 Teletext:

MORRISSEY – London Royal Albert Hall by John Earls

It’s rumoured that, when a record label recently asked Moz to hear some demos, he replied: “Go to Tower Records. I believe they have 14 of them.”

He could equally have pointed them to tonight, where four of the five new songs should have had A & R men offering him a lifetime of gladioli to sign him.

I Like You (about “me, me, me and me”) and Irish Blood gave an adrenaline rush that made you demand to hear their studio versions now, now, now and now.

Knowing that he had splendid new songs, this was an infinitely more invigorating Morrissey than the weary milquetoast who last ventured on stage in 1999.

Of course, nostalgia had to be faced and was done so with never-better romps of Suedehead and Speedway. Displaying a well-honed physique, his languid drama hasn’t worn off just yet, as he lay bereft on stage for Meat Is Murder.

To paraphrase the encore, in Moz there is a fight that never goes out.

8 out of 10.