There are a long line of owners whose interest in the press is about their influence on people in power and so will happily bend a knee in response for their other interests being favoured.
For example...?
I would cancel him for the awful Smiths drivel. Other opinions exist.
Awful then. And hasn't aged well, awful now.
That he doesn't like bacon just doubles down on him being a bell end.
I suppose the only downside is having to hear Iron Maiden every day.
Earlier in the thread I was trying to figure out if I even knew a Morrisey song... yeah, turns out Dagenham Dave was him.
Now i'm trying to work out if I know any Iron Maiden songs. Nope. I know there's a beer with their name on... is their music as bland as that?
the between-songs narrative is a classic tour-de-Moz. He stumbles from self-hype to castigating “jealous bitches” and his customary bete noire, the cancel culture that has so thoroughly deplatformed him that he has no choice but to stand on a big platform and tell 20,000 fans all about it.
Good review. Didn't know he had written a Notre Dame truther song.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/01/morrissey-review-classic-smiths-songs-gb-news-o2-arena
Didn't know he had written a Notre Dame truther song.
It’s much better than the makeup is a lie song… until you pay close attention to the words. He does love a bit of anti-Islam conspiracy theory these days.
“concerned about the safety of all communities, but the one that’s at risk now is my own”
I guess he means people living in hotels in countries they weren’t born in?
So a review of Morrissey but not realy a review of the performance. Who would have thought the Guardian😃
Helped by some of the previous comments I can guess people don't get cancelled if enough people like how a song sounds. I guess mainly free child free individuals though.
The crowd looked like a Green party/STW convention and all appeared to be finding it easy to get past the “Racism” and enjoy the music.
Now i'm trying to work out if I know any Iron Maiden songs. Nope. I know there's a beer with their name on... is their music as bland as that?
I wouldn’t say bland, it’s a perfectly good beer, but my music tastes started in the 60’s, early 70’s, with Beatles, Stones, Simon & Garfuncle, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and by the time of the new wave of British Heavy Metal rolled around, I was already thinking they were just trying a bit too hard, like all the American hair metal acts. Mudhoney, Faith No More, and Soundgarden, with some Metallica thrown in are much more to my tastes. YMMD 🤷🏼♂️
At the risk of tangenting,
I like Maiden but they're kinda the opposite of "greater than the sum of their parts" and you'd never think "wow, I wish this album was longer." As much as I enjoy Steve Harris I think on balance I'd rather be listening to his daughter.
@alexandersupertramp did you miss this?
The Smiths songs seem beamed in from another timeline altogether. The night’s first, A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours, takes on a psychedelic grandeur, while the elegiac I Know It’s Over is accompanied by images of his late mother. But the moment is lost in the flat live arrangement, his mighty croon single-handedly dragging the band up the ballad’s emotional peaks.
So a review of The Guardian but not really a review of the article.
Nope, I have to admit to not reading that far. So indeed I’m the ****.
But the bold text headline text sort of showed where it was going and not much chance of an unbiased opinion.
Possibly similar to an anti Brexit journalist reviewing an Iron Maiden gig😃
Always vote Green or Labour, voted to remain and I’m not English in case anyone thought I was nudged towards voting Reform.
Nope, I have to admit to not reading that far.
You've let us down, you've let yourself down, but most of all you've let Morrissey down.
Nice review of Mozz’s new album I’ve just read; nothing there that I disagree with…
“Make-Up Is a Lie” underscores perfectly the widening gulf between being a fan of Morrissey and rooting for the man himself. It is a collection of tracks that underachieves in every category other than self-obsessed bellyaching. A Paste review pulls no punches: “Morrissey really has outdone himself with this one, shattering all preconceived notions of his modern mediocrity. We expected something anodyne and forgettable, but what we received was far worse: an actively terrible album. Do not listen to it.”
Just heard Notre-Dame on Spotify Release Radar and liked it. Then saw it was by Morrissey. Should I be ashamed?
Dunno. It’s a good tune. The words are nonsense though, which is fine, many great songs have nonsense words… and that it is promoting a conspiracy about Muslims might be seen as provocative role playing… if it wasn’t for his open support for people and parties promoting hatred of Muslims.
Anyway, this sums up the cancelled angle well for me…
Nice review of Mozz’s new album I’ve just read; nothing there that I disagree with…
Have you listened to the album...?
First cancelled gig of the tour (he doesn’t want you to use the world cancelled though). Will it be the last (I’m not taking bets)?
"indescribable hell. It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement".
Sounds like there’s more than one gig that will be “rendered impossible.”
Sounds like there’s more than one gig that will be “rendered impossible.”
just a continuing trend - has cancelled half of his previous 100 gigs apparently
‘the show must go on!’ As they say in showbiz
"indescribable hell. It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement".
Give that man a newborn baby to snap him back to reality 😅
"indescribable hell. It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement".
Was this a press statement? or his trip advisor review?
To be fair - Milan to Valencia is a very long drive and a bad night's sleep on top of that will leave you shattered. Playing a gig is an intense physical activity esp if you're not a young man any more...
He cancels himself so much that there is a website that tracks how many gigs he has failed to show up for:
Every date that Morrissey has ever cancelled - WeHeartMusic
33% cancelled so far in 2026.
To be fair - Milan to Valencia is a very long drive and a bad night's sleep on top of that will leave you shattered.
Milan - Monday March 9th
Valencia - Thursday March 12th.
Milan to Valencia is 1319km, over 3 working days really.
Maybe he is a reader of this site and taken your question to heart - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp32kd13w34o