Hi i just read on the excellent Lloyd Cole web site that Stephen Street has a new web site.

Here is what Lloyd wrote:

My friend Stephen Street, the producer (Morrissey, Blur, Love Story, the Negatives) has a new website. Our mutual friend Andy Strickland who has helped me more often than I can remember with this type of thing has written the promotional copy - here it is

Producer Stephen Street launches interactive website

www.Stephenstreet.net launches with Viva Hate exclusive and exclusive Blur studio footage.

Award-winning producer, Stephen Street, known for his ground breaking studio work with the Smiths, Morrissey, Blur, the Cranberries, Kaiser Chiefs and Pete Doherty among a host of other artists, has launched his own interactive website.

www.Stephenstreet.net features exclusive photos from Street’s own archives and never before seen footage of Blur in the studio during the band’s Parklife sessions.

Morrissey fans get the chance to see the original Viva Hate songbook, complete with scribbled chords and production notes. Street co-wrote the album with the former Smiths singer. There’s even a hand-written letter from Morrissey in which the singer plots his solo career with Street – fascinating stuff.

An audio record deck also provides some classic, and less known, Street produced moments from 25 years as one of Britain’s most successful record producers.

On NME.com there is a list of "45 Reasons 2009 Will Rock". #19 is about Morrissey and is as follows:

"Morrissey was forced to delay the release of his new album 'Years Of Refusal' from 2008 until early 2009 (February 16 to be exact) after record label problems, but it will be with us soon. The record is raw and ragged, having been mostly recorded live. The star will be coming to the UK in May for live dates, including a show in Manchester on his 50th birthday, May 22."

I just endured the presale ordeal on Ticketmaster for the MPLS show. What a joke. Several attempts yielded "no tix available" message. Then 2 tix on the floor, Row S came up. I passed...several more "no tix", then Loge R, Row B came up. I passed...several more "no tix", and then I found two tix on the floor I could live with (marginally better than Row S). And THEN, I tried several more times just to see where the wheel of misery stopped, and I couldn't get a single ticket to pop up.

BTW...I am at work on a very high-speed system and have never had a problem before.

Anyone else having this much fun?

Mozzers ex-drummer Andrew Paresi is in this weird BBC comedy playing a catholic priest opposite comedian Phil Cornwell of Stella Street and Gorillaz fame.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8HhOR3yvI