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I've got a current passport and zero interest. It's Morrissey or nothin' for this guy!Ah, you're just jealous because you're all the way over there and you can't partake
Couldn't have put it any planer....good touch there I totally agreeThere is no The Smiths without Morrissey...period! There are some singers that are so iconic that any attempt to replace them is completely fruitless. Moz is irreplaceable as far as The Smiths goes. Journey found a singer that could match the vocal talent of Steve Perry, but that is no match for the charisma and presence that Morrissey exudes simply by walking on the stage. Same with INXS. The Smiths was incredibly larger that the sum of the parts.
I know there are The Cure haters here, but Robert Smith is the face and heart of The Cure. I remember seeing them in concert and mesmerized by his performance. There are just a few, very few lead vocalists that elevate a band beyond the sum of its parts. Oasis is an example that showed that either brother can carry the show. The Smiths will always be Morrissey and Marr and any watered down version of that is passable at best.
Sinead is not well. But she still has a fantastic voice. She sang at Shane Macgowan's huge 60th birthday concert in Dublin last week. Still amazing.
Couldn't have put it any planer....good touch there I totally agree
What is truly wonderful about this thread is that absolutely nobody has the slightest f***ing clue WHAT it is, yet here everybody is, blurbling on at the proverbial mouth. Wouldn't it be wonderful if it turned out to be something like a one month special event where they do music lessons for disadvantaged youths at the Salisbury steak boys club?
"Oh yeahr, What I meant to say is what a bunch of top blokes, giving back to the kids and that."
Maybe they are going to open a new tap dancing academy, it is impossible to discard it.
However the chances of some sort of weird "Smiths without M&Ms reunion" sounds like the most reasonable outcome of this announcement.
No idea what they have planned but if its music and Smiths related, they could go under the banner of The Sound Of The Smiths. Hope it is musical, they would draw a good crowd in Manchester as Mike (with his radio show and DJ sets) and Andy are still seen regularly and well liked around these parts.
'they could go under the banner of The Sound Of The Smiths.'
That would be false advertising.
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if i see someone I worked with a long time ago I avoid them like the plague because you know both parties would just be doing the polite thing and the conversation would be awkward and boring.dont see the point of a reunion and I wouldn't be going,it would be a cash grab and nothing else.
That'd be a bit difficult - especially since Stuart Sutcliffe died in 1962.
I've got a current passport and zero interest. It's Morrissey or nothin' for this guy!
I have chosen to assume that this is the announcement of a world tour
Nor would I expect him to. I have the rough hands of a commoner and I smell like the sweat of my labors. Besides. Damon has dainty paws, and they probably smell of lilacs.Don't quote me but I don't think Morrissey will be lining up to get a handjob from you.
I hear they're giving out handjobs at the train station bathroom to fund their retirement. It's gonna be a tough hill to climb, seeing as how they're only charging 5 squid a squirt.
They will be touring under the name "Lawnmower".
What?
The Muppets without Kermit?