Maladjustedx writes:

Morrissey's amazing homecoming concert at Manchester's MEN Arena will be broadcast on music TV station VH2 on Friday 3rd December at 7pm and again at Midnight. It will also be shown on MTV2 at 9pm on Sunday 5th December.

www.youarethequarry.net

Guillaume Métayer writes:

Don't know if you have seen that YOUARETHEQUARRY.NET has been updated !!
Here the latest NEWS !!
 
"MORRISSEY NEWS

MEN Concert To Be Aired On VH2:
Morrissey's amazing homecoming concert at Manchester's MEN Arena will be broadcast on music TV station VH2 on Friday 3rd December at 7pm and again at Midnight. It will also be shown on MTV2 at 9pm on Sunday 5th December.

I Have Forgiven Jesus On TV:
The video is currently being shown on MTV2 and VH2 and will have its terrestrial debut on T4 on Sunday 5th December. Morrissey will also appear on T4 to perfom the single the following Sunday (12th December).

Frank Skinner Show:
Morrissey will be appearing on the Frank Skinner Show on Thursday 9th December. The show is broadcast on ITV1."
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"I Have Forgiven Jesus" b-side clips are also available on the site.

An anonymous person writes:

The Radio Times confirms Morrissey to appear on The Frank Skinner Show Thursday 9th December 2004 ITV1 -10pm -10.30pm then after the news 11pm -11.30pm
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Sir Alf also writes:

I was scanning through the new Radio Times last night and noticed that Morrissey is listed as a guest on the Frank Skinner Show for Thursday 9 December! He will be rubbing shoulders with Tony Bennett and the utterly brainless nobody Jodie Marsh. Anyone know if Mozzer is to be interviewed by the pompous egotist that is Frank Skinner?

[email protected] writes:

Morrissey is doing a new session and interview for Janice Long's Radio 2 Show on December 9th. to be broadcast the following week. Your questions are invited. Obviously can't do all of them but will do our best. Please email before 7th December to [email protected]. Thanks.

Guillaume Métayer writes:

Hi,

New pictures have been updated in the famous cemetery in Paris, « Le Père Lachaise » on Morrissey music.com.

Moz has been taken in front of the French’s grave writer Colette, and in front of Oscar Wilde’s grave.

Damned, I waited for a long time on Sunday !! I think Moz came in the morning!! I saw the cat but not him !

Guillaume Métayer
Paris – France
(For the French people here our forum : http://morrissey.forumactif.com/)

Blem writes:

I've been offered this band called DEMON SUMMER and found this on their website. Do you know of this?

www.demonsummer.com

The bands tracks have just been picked to feature on a Morrissey documentary for an American prime time TV broadcast going out to massive amount of viewers across the states. There will also be a DVD of the documentary, which will be going out for DVD resale across Europe later this year.

Featured tracks are:

Mary Celeste (Title Music), Founder, Burn & No Feelings No Pain.

Distribution company: Chrome Dreams

Cooka writes:

Blender magazine just released their top albums of the year list and nesttled among some good and some not so good artist sits the man's "You are the Quarry" at number 6.
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Abrahán Garza also writes:

From December 2004 issue of Blender Magazine:

50 GREATEST CDS OF 2004:

#32 Nancy Sinatra - Nancy Sinatra (Sanctuary)
Pop's sexiest sexagenarian returns, with U2 and Morrissey polishing her boots.

#6 Morrissey - You Are the Quarry (Sanctuary)
After seven years, Moz and his perfect coif return. Since his last album, most of his fans had given up on him. The 45 year old had exiled himself to L.A., seemingly content to spend his days with Nancy Sinatra sipping tea. But, as Franz Ferdinand and the Killers acknowledged their debt to his band, the Smiths, Morrissey reemerged with a new album as good as his solo work. Here, his voice is melliflous his song titles are hilarious, his mood is defiant and his timing's impeccable.

100 BEST SONGS OF 2004:
#62 Morrissey - First of the Gang to Die (Attack/Sanctuary)
Stunning wordplay and street-crime imagery from the master of miserabalism.

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They also reviewed Jobriath's Lonely Planet Boy (Attack/Sanctuary)

THEY GAVE THE CD A ONE STAR REVIEW.

-Tragically fabulous '70s glam casualty turns out to be just tragic.

An early example of catastrophic hype, Jobriath was a Hair cast member hastily rebrabded for early '70s glitter-rock. Elektra Records made extravagant claims that they had found the new Bowie. But while the former Bruce Wayne Campbell had such attributes as homosexuality, a cockney whine - "I'm an elegant ma-yun!" - and mock-operatic arrangements, he was only a K-Mart Ziggy. His death from AIDS in 1983 ensured that Jobriath became a romantic touchstone to the likes of Morrissey, who compiled the album, but Lonley Planet Boy just disinters a lot of fifth-hand Bowie-isms so trite they resemble an unfunny parody of the polysexual '70s. Vlanging harpsichords, strangulated Jagger vocals, musical theatre piano pieces, "earthlings" and "space clowns" - it's all here, and none of it works.

DOWNLOAD THIS: None.

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Why can't they even recommend one song?

Belligerent Ghoul sends the link:

Auf Der Maur: Making waves - Las Vegas Mercury, Nov. 24, 2004

...Though she is signed to Capitol Records, Auf Der Maur did not exploit her music business connections to make her album. In fact, she concertedly took the do-it-yourself route, financing the project herself, asking only her friends (with the exception of Morrissey, who declined) to participate in the studio and not worrying about what label was going to release whatever the end result would be. The organic nature of her freedom has served her well.

Belligerent Ghoul sends the link:

The 50 best things to do this Christmas

2 Morrissey/PJ Harvey

There is definitely a hint of panto about Morrissey's splendid live shows: camp melodrama, audience participation, a singalong finale, and, of course, Widow Twankey himself, complete with costume changes and barbed repartee, booing and hissing for all he's worth. Birmingham NIA (0870 909 41440), on December 14.

Missing Link writes:

Morrissey's fondness of using sound effects from his BBC sound effects records and from film is well documented. I have found one of the sources used by Morrissey, which up until now, would appear to have escaped detection (?)

During Morrissey's 1995 concert tour he covered "Moonriver". The song is preceded by a woman’s harrowing screams. The screams are those of Diana Lewis (played by Peggy Evans), a naive young girl who gets caught up with two small-time "petty thieves", in the post-war British film - The Blue Lamp.

Published by the J Arthur Rank Organisation in 1950 and shot at Ealing Studios, this film is a classic moral tale with a strong cast (including Dirk Bogarde) and great acting. The film went on to spawn a long-running and much loved British Police drama TV series "Dixon of Dock Green". Jack Warner starred in both the film and TV series.

The actual scream sequence occurs 59m05sec into the film (Chapter 15 on the DVD as released by Warner Bros).

Other notable items of interest for Morrissey fans...

- The song "The long and the short and the tall" is sung during the film by a drunk being processed by the Desk Sergeant at the Police Station. This song was sung by British music hall entertainer and film star, George Formby.

- The film also stars actor Patrick Doonan, as named in "Now My Heart Is Full”

Belligerent Ghoul sends:

Instead, after returning from a holiday in America, the band were spotted by Morrissey, who promptly asked them to open for him on his Mexican and US tour. Yet still without a contract, and being hounded by their parents to get 'proper jobs', The Thrills had to decline the offer due to a lack of funds. A Mercury Music Prize nomination and Q Award for Best Band later, and having commandeered the approval of everyone from Bono to Noel Gallagher, the group finally did open for the former Smiths singer at his Albert Hall gigs, to rave reviews. Support slots for Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and The Pixies soon followed.

"Yeah, we've been pretty lucky," admits Ben, grinning nonchalantly. "Particularly as they're all bands that we're huge fans of. Especially the Rolling Stones; usually you can't get within half a mile of them." So what was it like getting to know their heroes then? Were they disappointed in any way? "Actually, we only met them before they were about to go on stage - they walked past us, we had a photograph taken and that was about it. The picture didn't even come out properly," says Ben smiling ruefully.

"To be honest, it's surprising when acts that big do manage to catch up with you. These people are so huge they can't even walk down the street without being mobbed - they tend to stay in their dressing rooms, perform and then leave. It's something you get used to."

The band, however, developed a slightly more personal relationship with Morrissey. "He's great - really nice, and very funny and not at all what people make him out to be. And he's kept in touch. He doesn't answer his phone all the time, but someone gave me his fax number the other day, because he prefers to communicate by fax. He said that he'd love to get a fax from us so I'm definitely going to send him one soon."