News Archive : Sep. 12-28, 1997
-Maladjusted Tour begins
-Brief appearance on Bolan documentary


Sep 28 97 - Sunday

Minneapolis - cancelled

From Rob Barnett:

I got a call from the Guthrie theater (the Minneapolis venue), they said the MOZ show on the 29th, has been canceled. Ticket holders need to send their tickets into the Guthrie theater, by October 13th.

From Patrick Guarasci:

According to the Guthrie Theatre, Morrissey canceled his Minneapolis show, scheduled for Monday the 29 of October, because his "voice gave out this weekend at another show."

This is terrible. I hope the Moz is gets better. Who knows maybe he’ll make it back to the Twin Cities to do a make up show?

From Jess Cox:

COME BACK MORRISSEY! please! I’ve been waiting for years to see him in concert... and never thought I would... and then 24 hours before the scheduled concert, it is cancelled! Morrissey: please reschedule!!!

Hopefully the 4 day rest before the next scheduled concert, Vancouver on Oct. 2 will be enough...


The "Chicago flu"

Aragon Ballroom - Day 1


From Garrison Poppe:

Friday nights show took place at the Aragon ballroom, atop a nearly 8 foot high stage. It would have been impossible to scale such a height and Morrissey could not even get close enough to shake hands with the crowd. Morrissey announced that he was suffering from a case of the "Chicago flu, but I’m a big boy, and life goes on." The set list was about the same, and Morrissey was his typical genius... we expect as much from him but it is still amazing to see him come through.


Riviera Theatre - Day 2

I have started the full summary page. Thanks to Rick, Monte Householter, Justin North, Alison Olcott, and Garrison Poppe for sending the excellent info.

Here's a brief summary of what happened, from Garrison:

Saturday was a different story. The crowd was packed in tight at the Riviera Theatre, and limp bodies were constantly being passed to security over the railing. Moz was close enough to touch, but no brave ones made it to the stage. He stopped the band in the middle of what I think was the 7th song, "Satan Rejected My Soul," after musical mistakes and skipped straight to "Maladjusted." After that it was "Now My Heart is Full" and he was gone. 25 minutes, no Smiths, no encore. The crowd stood dazed as the house lights came on and his personnel dismantled the stage. There was repeated booing—at thunderous volumes, a chant of "Bullshit," and several "Morrissey sucks" yelled from an increasingly angry crowd. The crowd also began throwing plastic beer cups and garbage at the roadies on stage. The one dollar per minute ticket price deserved an explanation of why he left, and no one seemed to have any answers. Well, he had been fighting the flu...?


Claremont

Thanks to Jose Gomez for the info from an ad in today's LA Times, Calendar section: "Morrissey - Sunday, October 26 - on sale Saturday, October 4th @ noon - Bridges Auditorium - at the Claremont colleges - information: 909.621.8032". Claremont is somewhere around Los Angeles.

* Capacity of the venue is 2500 and it is assigned seating, info from Mike ZeMans.


Denver

First at spotting the Denver, CO info on Ticketmaster's website is Jason: "Macky Auditorium - Sun Nov 2, 1997 8:00PM".


That "Brit Girls" documentary - postponed or...?

According to Naomi, the "Brit Girls" documentary that was to begin airing on UK television on the 27th ".. seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth, for now at least. The fact that The Spice Girls appear on it means that it probably will get aired eventually."


"Roy's Keen" reviewed

From Stefan Krix:

There´s a three line review of the "Roy´s Keen" single at http://www.dotmusic.com/MWreviews.html, getting only two dots for the "ode to a window cleaner"...


Sep 26 97 - Friday

Albuquerque

From Robert: "He is playing at the Hiland Theatre in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Oct 24th...... I got this info from the Ticketmaster weekly on sale.... tickets go on sale 9/29..."


JAMtv broadcast - Elcka, tonight

From an anonymous e-mailer:

Elcka live in Chicago will be webcast on JAMtv (www.jamtv.com) this Friday evening. No definite word on Morrissey himself at this time.


Ann Arbor - some info

I will hopefully have time to compile info on all the concerts this weekend, but for now, thanks to Sunil Sawani for this summary:

The Ann Arbor show was excellent.. Elka opened and I caught half of their act, and after about half an hour, the sampled drum intro from The Operation played, and Morrissey and the band came out... Morrissey greeted the audience "Hello Manchester!" and went into Maladjusted.. The setlist was about the same as most of the show you went to, with exceptions such as Now My Heart is Full, and he didn’t play Sunny. Later in the show, he said "Thank you Manchester." and even later he said "I know this isn’t Manchester... and I’m glad." to audience uproar...

For the encore, he came out in a Michigan Swimming shirt (as this is the University of Michigan campus.... yay Michigan!!! Where I’m currently attending!)... that got quite a crowd response, and of course, the encore was Shoplifters...

In total I think 6 people made in onto stage and got escorted off...

I HAD A GREAT TIME!


Suedehead: Best Of - #31 in 2nd week on charts (UK)

Thanks to Stephane Daigle for the info that it dropped from 26 to 31 in its second week on the charts. Not bad considering it is a compilation without any new tracks.


Slugweb - tour info

Thanks to Angela for letting me know she's got some tour experiences on her website, Slugweb. Included are stories from Boston, Philadelphia and NY, with photos and even some sound files from the concert in Boston. From her story of meeting Boz at a Philadelphia steakhouse, apparently the Philadelphia show was Morrissey's favorite, up to that point.


Sep 24 97 - Wednesday

Time To Update

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photo: David Tseng


Above is a pic of the all-access Maladjusted Tour laminate, sorry -- it's a bit out of focus. The funny picture is of two men in a swimming pool, smiling (suggestive, perhaps?). I heard that one of the men is actor Robert Wagner. I did not take many other photos -- none at the actual concert. I did take a few outside the venues and will eventually post them up when I do the summaries for each show -- perhaps by this weekend.

So far I have not received very many photos from others -- if you have any please try to help out and send them!  JPEGed attachments through e-mail is usually the best way. However, I have received several written accounts from each concert, please do keep them coming. Don't be shy!


Marc Bolan Documentary

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Thanks to Stephen.B for the "...glimpse of Moz on the UK ch. 4 documentary on Marc Bolan (Sept. 16). He only had a couple of seconds paying credit to Marc."

Also, from Naomi, "...Morrissey - speaking from his car! - said about four things, but I can't really remember what because I'm still reeling from the sight of Johnny Rogan's beard."


"Roy's Keen" Single (UK) - Oct. 6

From Stefan Sahlander, "According to the Island record news the release date for 'Morrisey' (misspelled again!), 'Roy's Keen' - Oct. 6."

Some details of the UK promo from Naomi
:

The sleeve is one of the loveliest for some time, a shot I assume from some British film or other - two lads in the foreground, one throwing a football and another holding a bicycle aloft. "roy's keen" is written in lower case in the same colour as the inlay - a very attractive shade of maroon. It's all very nice indeed really, it could have easily been a Smiths sleeve.

As its a radio promo, there's only one track on it...


"That's Entertainment" - postponed or cancelled?

From Naomi: "...it's been quietly dropped from the EMI release schedules. My guess is that Morrissey found out about it :)"

Michael from London adds:

I just spoke to someone at Parlophone, "That’s Entertainment" has been postponed for a couple of weeks because of b-side problems (whatever that means!!) but it will be released sometime in the next few weeks.

And a possible explanation from Stefan Krix:

Sad news from the UK: The Ltd. Edition of "Suedehead: Best Of" is finally dead and will never see the light of day again. According to EMI it was cancelled because the tracks of the second CD should appear of the B-Side of "That's Entertainment".

But the UK faces chaos due to Elton John's "Candle In The Wind '97". All CD pressing plants are overworked, so all mayor record companies postponed new releases for 1 or 2 weeks. EMI postponed dates until Mid-October!

It seems that they all fear to drown beneath the Diana Tribute.


Kalamazoo - some info

Thanks to John for the info, so far the only info I've gotten on this show:

Moz gave a stellar performance tonight (9-23) in Kalamazoo. the crowd was a little slow in getting riled up, but in the end, the stage rush during Shoplifters was a pleasing sight. Moz announced during the show, "Thank you Kalamazoo... you are very sssssexy."


Suedehead: Best Of charts at #26

From Holly, the compilation debuts at #26 on the UK album charts for week 37 (15 Sept 97).


Cleveland review

Thanks to Andy for the link to a review in the Akron Beacon Journal.


* Site-related - I know there has been a problem with the realaudio files on the site -- I hope to have time to work on a fix hopefully within a week.


Sep 22 97 - Monday

Just Returned

I survived my week and a half trip to the east coast and after catching my breath I see that I have loads of updating to do. Thanks to everyone who sent info and pictures during this time, I will try to get to it all during the week.

As for the trip I enjoyed most meeting friends I had not seen since the last tour and also new friends I have made since beginning this site. It was also great to get away for a while -- a week feels like about 3 weeks with the hectic travel schedule. The shows were of course enjoyable but I will confirm what others have been posting on the discussion board, he does seem decidedly distant from the audience.

For now here is some info from last night's Cleveland show and a few new tour dates.


Cleveland - info

Thanks to Andrew Shiue for the info:

I just got back from the Cleveland concert. It started with the drum solo sampled from "The Operation" Morrissey and band came out in the strobe lights, and he said "Goodbye, Cleveland..." and they broke into "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" Very energetic concert. No merchandise. The concert ended abruptly with "Satan Rejected My Soul" unfinished. Morrissey was towards the center of the stage. He didn’t reach out, he was just looking at an area. Anyway, he sang like "...rejected my soul....face around...heaven doesn’t seem..." Then, he just walked off, and took Boz with him. Boz took Bridgwood and Spencer subsquently left. Alain was exiting stage right as well and shouted towards the area Morrissey was looking at "You just ruined the gig" and gave the finger on both hands. Although, I was in the very front up against the barricade (which incidentally seemed really far away from the stage), I could see what was going on maybe 15 people over from me. Some guy in that area ran out supposedly, and security took some guy wearing a Smiths shirt over the barricade and escorted him out. I’m surprised the crowd didn’t kill him.

Anyway, rumour had it that the guy had a sign that said "Mike Joyce:1, Morrissey:0" The band came back to play to play "Shoplifters..."


Phoenix

From J. Russel Reid: "Morrissey is playing at the AZ state fairgrounds Weds. Oct 22 for seven dollars plus fair admisssion. Tickets have been on sale since Wednesday but the anouncement did not come until yesterday (9-18)."


Petaluma

From The Comtesse DeSpair: "Morrissey has added a show at the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma on October 6th." Petaluma is in northern California, I'm told by Shirley Palma.


Manchester

From Naomi: "Manchester (venue unknown as of yet) on my birthday, January 5th. It's listed at NME.com if you doubt me... as if you would :)"


Sep 12 97 - Friday

The Tour Is On

I am now on the road, I'm planning to see the first 7 shows. Morrissey arrived in Toronto yesterday (Sept. 11) and everything looks like a go. Even though I am on the road, I will still try to update the website whenever I can find the resources, energy and time. To make it a bit easier, I will just update in text format, check the table below and also the discussion boards for the latest.

Please continue to send any info, pictures or stories from the tour and elsewhere, as I will still be relying mainly on all of you for the info. Thanks. By the way, even 'the sanest days are mad' during the tour so I probably will not be able to e-mail anyone back during the next week.

Tour Updates
Toronto Sept. 12
Montreal Sept. 13
Boston Sept. 14
Providence Sept. 16
New York Sept. 17
Philadelphia Sept. 19
Washington DC Sept. 20


Elcka is the opening act, as confirmed in the Montreal Mirror. Thanks to S.A.M. for the info.


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