The True To You website - has just announced the new single release date for In The Future When All's Well, the third single off the album Ringleader of the Tormentors.

"Sanctuary release In The Future When All's Well on August 20th."

I was strolling through the youtube avenues again, and I found a bunch of videos from Morrissey while he was at Serbia. These videos were posted nearly twenty days ago and got only very few views. Apparently, not very many people (including me) knew of them. Just go to youtube.com (obviously) and type Morrissey, live at Exit Festival (Serbia) and Shazam! If you haven't become a youtube maniac, please do so ASAP. Or these repetitive youtube stories of mine are going to start producing yawns here. :O

Under-pressure UK music group Sanctuary has received a takeover approach from smaller rival MAMA.

Sanctuary said the "unsolicited approach from MAMA may or may not lead to an offer for the company".

Full story:

MAMA eyes up Sanctuary takeover - BBC News

Terry Christian bigged up Morrissey's attack on Richard Madeley on his BBC Manchester Music Show on Saturday night. He then played Shoplifters of the World for Richard & Judy. It's about 1 hr 50 mins in to the show. You can listen again here.

7/20/06

Johnny Marr Joined Pearl Jam at a Portland Gig on thursday. Pearl Jam fans where kind of shocked, which I find strange cause they should know its not the first time. He did Fortunate Son with them at the Australian Tour 2003.

2nd Encore:
All Along the Watchtower (with Johnny Marr), Rockin' in the Free World (with Sleater-Kinney and Johnny Marr)

The Parlor Scouts new single "MASH" is available for download now:

The lyrics mention both Morrissey and James Dean.

Here are the complete lyrics to sing along :

MASH

Said I’d be
A perfume chemist
And live happily
In a shack
With James Dean
In Switzerland
With a pet luna moth
What else is there to want
& I’d ride a bicycle all around
MASH was so right
About the bicycle ride

If you don’t love your life
Just follow the light
Trust
Twin sisters
Fate & Faith
And play another game

MASH said I’d be
A singer
And live immaculately
In a mansion with Morrissey
In Berlin
In 1920
With a pet giraffe
What a laugh
& I’d walk all around town
MASH was so right
About walking around

If you don’t love your life
Just follow the light
Trust
Twin sisters
Fate & Faith
Try again

The Times sure stuck to its style guide pretty firmly with this report...

Yet certain young fans who saw that performance on British television were more impressed. They included Mick Jones (of the Clash) and Stephen Morrissey (of the Smiths), two of many musicians who cite the Dolls as a primary influence. “I grew my hair like Johnny Thunders’s,” said Mr. Jones, recalling the shock-wig crop of the Dolls guitarist. The Clash, he admitted, “took a lot from the New York Dolls. A lot.”

Mr. Morrissey, a huge Dolls fan since he was 13, can be credited with the band’s reunion. He was given carte blanche to curate the 2004 Meltdown festival at Royal Festival Hall in London, and naturally a Dolls reunion was at the top of his list. So he called Mr. Johansen. But he wasn’t optimistic.

“I had met David previously,” Mr. Morrissey said in an interview after the festival, “and I’d known that historically he would always just pull the shutters down at the mention of the Dolls. I expected him to laugh at me and put the phone down.”

Mr. Johansen, sipping Irish breakfast tea with his pinky outstretched, recalled: “I hemmed and hawed. I remember saying, ‘Would you do it?’ ” referring to Mr. Morrissey’s famous unwillingness to reunite the Smiths. That British singer’s reply, which Mr. Johansen repeated in a mock English accent, was “absolutely not.” He laughed, then continued: “But I had this, like, mantra, that I decided to try to not be so dismissive of things, you know? I said I’d think about it. And I figured it’d be fun.”

Full story here...

Return of the New York Dolls, What's Left of Them