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 That has been replaced by a deepening, resourcefully amusing solipsism."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...

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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."

Re: Wolverhampton Once Again!! Free Entry To "Morrissey 25" with T-shirt

Tickets obviously selling like hot cakes in Hotlanta.

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Morrissey 25: Live, review - The Telegraph
After enduring Morrissey 25: Live, Robbie Collin reached for a KFC Boneless Banquet.

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Morrissey 25: Live – review by Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
Morrissey cuts an elegant figure in this 'intimate' concert documentary

Dave Grohl in "Morrissey" shirt



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Have never seen this pic of Johnny before...



One of the best JM interviews I have ever read. Worth a look.

Love this...


Atmosphere is how I always described it as well. There is a mood that Strangeways captures. It is my fave Smiths album precisely because of this.