Re: Julie Hamill interview with director James Russell, "Morrissey 25: Live" review - juliehamill.co

Thank you, another good interview in her series.
Regards,
FWD

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Morrissey unbowed by Alan Jenkins - The Times Literary Supplement blog

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Also:

REVIEW: Morrissey 25 by Dickie Felton

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Johnny Marr says people who want The Smiths to reform 'need to get a hobby' - NME.com
'The records, photographs and memories are all plenty to be getting along with,' says guitarist

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MORRIZSEY also posted the link:

Palma Violets react to Johnny Marr dedicating a song to them at Reading Festival 2013 - NME.com
The Smiths icon dedicated ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ to the London band on Saturday

Yes i went and only about 10 people there to see it.

Its ok i guess, wish the fan comments had been cut.

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Interview of James Russell Director of Morrissey 25: Live on BBC Radio Ulster by Alan Simpson, 26/08/2013

Interview of James Russell, Director of Morrissey 25: Live on BBC Radio Ulster (about 1h10min in)

Morrissey 25:Live : live DVD : review - Louder Than War
Posted on August 27, 2013 by Fergal Kinney

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Superb review. Balanced, nuanced, but with some seriously hard-hitting blows:

"Still insisting on the sort of 1990s record deal which would have subsidised that South American jaunt, but no longer exists in an imploding music industry, he has been without a label for some time. "

"Morrissey's talent has stayed circumscribed by its interest in the witty description of his own despair and loneliness, and regressed from the similar subject of The Smiths by losing their songs' healing, communal connection to an adolescent generation. That has been replaced by a deepening, resourcefully amusing solipsism."

" insensitive solipsism, most infamously when, immediately after Anders Breivik's mass killing in Norway, he said on stage that the 77 dead were "nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried shit every day".

"His role as a sort of rock Prince...

2-J said:

http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/morrissey-25-live--film-review-8780635.html

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Many members of The Audience have long tired of the inane co-dependent babblefest between Morrissey and his front row fan-atics. If he's really interested in probing all this, he could do a pre-concert Q&A or do a lecture tour for his autobiography. However, he's no Hitchens or Dawkins and his 'on the fly' debating skills are not exactly Stephen Fry level, never mind Oscar Wilde. Nowt wrong with that, but he can unintentionally send the wrong signal by not challenging inanities like "thank you for living". The correct response would be "Wake up before you drop dead: I'm here to sing a few songs. Nothing else."