Dublin - Vicar Street (July 15, 2023) post-show

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Setlist:

How Soon Is Now? / Suedehead / Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before / Irish Blood, English Heart / Girlfriend In A Coma / I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Notre-Dame / I Wish You Lonely / Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings / The Night Pop Dropped / My Hurling Days Are Done / Half A Person / Everyday Is Like Sunday / Knockabout World / The Loop / Our Frank / Bonfire Of Teenagers / Jack The Ripper // Sweet And Tender Hooligan

Setlist courtesy of @ACTON

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• Morrissey in Dublin review: Bruised and unbowed – yet somehow small and sad too by Ed Power (4 of 5 stars, 1 photo) - The Irish Times. Link posted by Phranc & Open. Transcript posted by RaisedToWait. Link to article without subscriber gate posted by Famous when dead.
  
• Photo from @my_mono_log / Instagram. Link posted by Famous when dead.
  
• Photo: @buzzerbuckley. Link posted by Mozzer1980
  

 

[theprivilegeismine]

Just to let everyone know whos going to The Troxy on saturday, theres another effin train strike, last trains leaving London will be at 10pm ffs. Im off to book an Uber now, sorry to piss on everyone's chips, but just check, good luck

Same on Thursday after Liverpool. It's shite to have to go on the train and come back on the bus, but can't do anything about it.

 

[ACTON]

 

[ACTON]

 

[DagenhamDan]

Fantastic picture

 

[ACTON]

 

[SweetnTenderYorkshireman]

Irish Times (4/5)

There’s a surprise towards the end of Morrissey’s cathartically cranky Vicar Street concert when pop’s most sarcastic iconoclast sets aside the dark wit and speaks from the heart. “I can’t release music any more because I’m an individual, and that isn’t allowed,” he says. “Everybody must be the same. Sing the same songs, do the same things, like the same people.”

He gets a roar from the boisterous crowd, many of whom see the former Smiths singer not as a problematic relic from the 1980s but as the eternal godfather of heartfelt indie pop. He inhabits both incarnations in the first of two-sold out performances in Dublin, opening with a tremulous rush of hits from 40 years ago: a thunderous tilt at The Smiths’ How Soon Is Now? leads into a revved-up Suedehead, his dashing dissection of self-loathing from his debut solo album, Viva Hate.

But the 64-year-old is no longer merely the Oscar Wilde-worshipping outsider who, with showboating vulnerability, reinvented what it was to be a rock star. That is still part of who he is. But controversial comments about, among other things, the British royals and meat-eaters, and an appearance on American television wearing a badge of the right-wing For Britain party, have muddied the marmalade.

He points out that no record company will take a punt on his latest material. Some of his newer songs are wonderful: My Hurling Days Are Done, for instance, from 2020, is a nod to his Irish roots – he’s the son of two Dubliners – while Sure Enough, the Telephone Rings recycles the laconic playfulness that was a Smiths hallmark

Sometimes, though, an incandescent grumpiness gets the better of him. Bonfire of Teenagers, the title track from one of the two LPs no label will go near, brings out a vindictive streak late in the evening.

It’s his response to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, after which Oasis’s Don’t Look Back in Anger became a rallying point: an anthem that pleaded for healing and solidarity rather than rage. Moz isn’t having it. “The morons sing and sway, don’t look back in anger,” he croons. “I can assure you I will look back in anger til the day I die.”

Amid the trolling ire are flashes of the old drollness. Morrissey appears to have been keeping up to date on the payments controversy sweeping RTÉ. “Do you know, I have never, ever been invited on Irish television,” he says. “All I can say is, thank God.”

It ends magnificently. Everyday Is Like Sunday is a pummelling and backhanded love letter to lonely coastal towns – we can all think of a few Irish ones that fit the bill – elevated by his guitarists Jesse Tobias and Carmen Vandenberg.

The encore is even more thrilling and tumultuous. As the band plunge into The Smiths’ Sweet and Tender Hooligan, Morrissey, framed by dry ice and squalling red lights, whips off his yellow T-shirt, flinging it into the audience. He’s bruised and unbowed – yet somehow small and sad too. The diehards love it. The problem for Morrissey is that, nowadays, only the diehards seem to care.

Morrissey plays Vicar Street, Dublin 8, again tonight

that’s a decent review, well balanced I’d say

 

[Famous when dead]

Irish Times review link:

https://archive.is/qGC29

(Subscriber gate removed).
FWD.

 

[Iamhatedforloving]

that’s a decent review, well balanced I’d say

Agree except it was 5/5

 

[ACTON]

Me before the concert in Brewdog

 

[Deleted member 29227]

Me before the concert in Brewdog

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And thanks for all your efforts providing the set-list for last night, Acton.
Great job

 

[JOE DOLAN'S COUSIN]

Last night in Vicar St, Moz said he had never been invited on to RTE TV. The Smiths did perform
on RTE. Here's the clip from MEGAMIX.

The Smiths On Megamix

Manchester band The Smiths perform 'Shoplifters of the World Unite' at Dublin's Cathedral Club.

www.rte.ie

 

[Anonymous]

I wonder what the white fabric on the right side of his neck in some clips was.

Morrissey came on stage with a very large plaster (or band aid if you are American) stuck to the side of his neck. I was slightly concerned that maybe something had happened to him, even some medical procedure related to that throat cancer scare he had a few years back. However, with the heat and sweat it peeled off after a few songs and I didn't see any signs of injury, so it was likely just a bizarre fashion choice, same as he went through that period of wearing plasters on his fingers all the time.

 

[Surface]

Me before the concert in Brewdog

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Bit of a John Robb look going on there Acton

 

[gordyboy9]

Me before the concert in Brewdog

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just the eight acton,you lightweight.good to put a face to the name.

 

[gashonthenail]

A bit of a hatchet job in The Sunday Times...

Morrissey’s big mouth is a thorn in the side of his admirers

This charming man? Morrissey is back in town but his apparent hard-right political leanings have some Irish fans wondering if they can separate art from the a

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[Miss Ann Thorpe]

Me before the concert in Brewdog

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My, you're a handsome fella. My 83 year old mother thinks so too Hope you're feeling ok today

 

[castro]

Jane Birkin just died!
Got it in before central. R.I.P

 

[Mozzer1980]

Is it Sam filming on the left ?

 

[Mozzer1980]

Bonfire

Very nice outro by Camila

 

[NealCassidy]

Is it Sam filming on the left ?

Yes