...on www.passagen.se (Swedish site), there is a little article/interview about/with Electronic. There was this tiny interesting part. My translation:

In the 1980s <...>, they were in their separate Manchester bands, "fighting" each other,  in a struggle created by the British music press.

-"But for us, it wasn't like that", says Johnny. "I was a New Order fan, bought all the maxi-singles and went to the concerts. We even did concerts together."
-"Morrissey maybe thought it was some kind of rivalry", says Bernard.
-"Morrissey is in rivalry with everyone", comments Johnny.

In an interview for the Swedish newspaper EXPRESSEN, promoting the new Electronic album, Johnny Marr told us that never plays Smiths songs except for the Linda McC. concert.

-"I was very tempted to sing (in a very Morrissey-like way) Ohh I never, Ohh I never Ohhh, in the end of "Meat Is Murder", but I didn't want to steal the show from Linda."