France has been outrageously the missing link of the European Tour. The French disciples have missed Momo a lot as much as Morrissey have missed us, I suppose.

Sadly the concert which was due to be played in Rennes in 94 has been cancelled because Morrissey has never been OK for it. Then, the Bowie tour, which was hitting Rennes, Paris, Lyons and few others arrived in France without Moz.
And now, we have heard (according to the weekly "Inrockuptibles") that Morrissey's plan to play a november's festival (co-organized by the very same Inrockuptibles) had been rejected. The reason is clear : the sum of money wanted by the artist was too high.

Incredible, isn't it ? Les Inrockuptibles have supported Morrissey for many years. They even got the chance (a real luck they had) to interview the singer any time they had someting to ask.

It's like a divorce now. Remember the explicit headline used by the chief-editor of the french mag Jean-Daniel Beauvallet "The importance of being ernest" to describe Maladjusted in the LP's reviews section.

I was happy to see Morrisey in very good shape, happy to sing, and best of all things, fighting fit for a huge tour like his. He has been as far as I noticed in the interviews never far from French culture. I was listening to "I know it's gonna happen" in the car two hours ago. And I was surprised to notice that on the Long Waves sequence the intro of the song was dealing with, there was a french bit of a cultural programme in a French public broadcasting waves. If you do remember well, two of the most beautiful covers of the Smiths sleeves were actually pictures of Jean Marais, who died one year ago, and Alain Delon ("This charming man", and "The Queen is dead") taken from french masterpieces of film history.

I will be pleased to hear Morrissey about his relationship with french people. For the moment we have our eyes to cry and our Railway vouchers to go and dance at the Smiths in Lyons. See you there, French, Italian, Swiss people.

David