Binyamina-Giv'at Ada - Zappa Amphi Shuni (July 2, 2023) post-show

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Setlist:

Suedehead / Alma Matters / Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before / Irish Blood, English Heart / Our Frank / I Wish You Lonely / I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Knockabout World / Notre-Dame (live debut) / Jim Jim Falls / Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings / The Night Pop Dropped / My Hurling Days Are Done / Half A Person / Everyday Is Like Sunday / The Loop / Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want / Jack The Ripper // Sweet And Tender Hooligan

Setlist courtesy of Hagit Yaron FB.

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• Photo from @tomerabram / Instagram:
  
  
• Not every day is like Sunday when Morrissey’s in town - review by Liam Forberg (2 photos by Ariel Efron) - The Jerusalem Post. Link posted by goinghome (original post).
  
  
• Morrissey May Not Be Sending Flowers to Haaretz After This Review by Ben Shalev (5 photos) - Haaretz. Link posted by Thewlis (original post).
• Morrissey thrilled to be in ‘God’s country’ as he performs first of two shows by Jessica Steinberg - timesofisrael.com. Link posted by Famous when dead (original post).
  
  Excerpt:
  
  English singer Morrissey brought his crisp baritone and familiar, turmoil- filled lyrics to Amphi Shuni in the northern town of Binyamina Sunday night, and while all 1,350 seats of the restored Roman amphitheater were full to bursting with dedicated fans, Morrissey himself seemed a little, well, listless.
• Notre-Dame lyrics posted by This Charming Bowie.
  
  Link to video posted by federico (original post):
  
  

 

[Redacted]

 

[Surface]

I am not a lefty and I know he is alt right.

Same here, strange that bhops would make that assumption about people he has never met or read up on?

 

[bhops]

I am not a lefty and I know he is alt right.

He really isn’t. He’s your bog standard Conservative with a funny Twitter account.

 

[bhops]

Same here, strange that bhops would make that assumption about people he has never met or read up on?

I read about you on Wiki, so it must be true

 

[marred]

The venue looks amazing!

 

[Redacted]

He really isn’t. He’s your bog standard Conservative with a funny Twitter account.

No, he's not a standard conservative, we should probably prepare for our launch to off topic

 

[bhops]

No, he's not a standard conservative, we should probably prepare for our launch to off topic

Free speech, pro 2nd amendment, pro life and anti illegal immigration. Pretty standard.

 

[Born to Harangue]

I like the way Morrissey talks to buildings in his songs now. He spoke to the window of the building in 'Saint in a Stained Glass Window', and in 'Notre Dame' when he sings "Notre Dame, a cold hand just touched me", I think he's telling the Notre Dame cathedral about the time an airport security officer felt him up and put their finger down his rear cleavage

 

[Lucifer Sam]

Several listens in, Notre Dame is pretty good. The music really makes up for the lackluster lyrics. The comparisons made earlier to the Rolling Stones’ and Pink Floyd’s late 70s flirtations with disco and funk are apt. As with The Night Pop Dropped, which recalls the Eagles’ and Warren Zevon’s electro-funk excursions, I never thought I’d hear Morrissey mining that period, but somehow it sounds swell. Like the songs from Bonfire, the songs from Without Music are so far promising.

The lyrics unfortunately are terrible, but at least they finally confirm what’s long been suspected. Brandishing a crucifix before an Israeli audience is kind of odd, but I guess it works with the song. I have to speculate that Morrissey at this point might be something of a Douglas Murray: atheist/agnostic but sympathetic to Catholicism culturally and admiring of the “Judaeo-Christian patrimony of the West” and all that idiocy. Pobre Esteban.

 

[Surface]

I read about you on Wiki, so it must be true

If you found me on there, you would have plenty to post about me but you haven’t and probably never will.

 

[Anonymous]

The sparks wre Muslim

 

[bhops]

If you found me on there, you would have plenty to post about me but you haven’t and probably never will.

I’m devastated

 

[Daniel B]

Oh god…Notre Dame lyrics apparently…

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God... he lost his mind... so sad

 

[Surface]

I’m devastated

Don’t be, it’s only b9ring stuff about my business.

 

[Amy]

what happened is that he met Russell Brand.

Surely it is pointless and a bit desperate now to be blaming anybody else for this - whether it's Sam, Jesse, Donnie or whoever. The mess he has made is on Morrissey alone, he makes his own choices.

 

[bhops]

Don’t be, it’s only b9ring stuff about my business.

Still devastated

 

[Johnnie Ray]

It's easier to tolerate M's...spouting when the music is good. Going by Notre Dame, the songs aren't good anymore... it's actually bland rubbish

Exactly! When he looked like James Dean and the songs were The National Front Disco and Bengali In Platforms, it was much, much easier to let things slide. That ship has sailed.

 

[Hugh]

The cause of the Notre Dame fire was electricians.

 

[gordyboy9]

im off for two weeks,,,does nobody else on here work,people posting from morning till night.
this is a bit heavy for me and will definitely reach the 500 club,off out.

 

[Anonymous]

I have long since resigned myself to the fact that Morrissey is - if not actually racist, then certainly highly bigoted towards certain races/religions. What I find more galling is that by outing himself as a conspiracy theorist, he has revealed that he is actually pretty limited intellectually, and - let's face it - a bit of a thicko. Having dedicated multiple decades s of my life, and several thousand pounds worth of ticket purchases, to a dummkopf is slightly embarrassing. But such is life. More fool me, I guess.