Reminder: The Importance Of Being Morrissey

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"Fascinating documentary offering exclusive access to one of the most controversial, elusive and enigmatic pop stars of the last 20 years. Morrissey - the man who formed and fronted the Smiths, and a solo artist for the last 15 years - has always guarded his privacy, but for six months he allowed Channel 4 cameras to follow him on tour, on nights out and even into his home in the Hollywood Hills." (© New! Issue 15)

It’s all happening tonight at 11.15pm on Channel 4.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

living in America suX0r

― Aaron A., Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Lara, nearly forgot.

― Cathy, Sunday, 8 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

''but for six months he allowed Channel 4 cameras to follow him on tour''

I feel sorry for the them.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 8 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

As opposed to a them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 June 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ned: i wouldn't have expected such a cheap shot from you.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 8 June 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I've done it before! I am Evil Typo Snob.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 June 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was going to be a Mary thread.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 8 June 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I'll get lucky and some crazy fule will upload it to slsk.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 8 June 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

my college friends and i used to (half-jokingly) speculate that morrissey's schtick was strictly on-camera, that off-camera he was not unlike the gallagher bros. (i.e., a chick-groping beer-swilling loutish brit rock star). part of me wants to see this thing to see if that's in any way true.

in any event, this documentary might rank up there with the moment when KISS removed their face-paint!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 8 June 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

having no TV SuXoR.

I recommended this to my sister, but I'm not sure if she registered this, and she may now be a Morrissey apostate. ah well.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 8 June 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The A-Team followed Morrissey around for six months?

― hstencil, Sunday, 8 June 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I pity the fool.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 June 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

First, Boy George.. now this!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 9 June 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's so fun!

I'm actually listening to this collection of stuff Arthur put together (?) that's pure Moz inspiration music. Hell, the original version of "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" is on it, I now realize!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 June 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

:-(

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 9 June 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Check yer e-mail.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 June 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been having a Morrissey week, actually! I had a sudden and unexpected need to listen to Viva Hate, and then I had Bona Drag in my car for a few days and and ... yesterday I tried matching up some hip-hop beats and Morrissey samples to make a track called "Braidhead."

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 June 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the tatu and sugar ray covers are both realvent to this discussion.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 9 June 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Morrissey was quite wonderful, exactly as you'd expect him to be really, and as a happy het he looks fan-bloody-tastic.

Best bit's, ooh too many to mention, scanning round his house and seeing a giant sized poster of himself. JK Rowling (yes that one)coming over like a schoolgirl fan, Kathy Burke coming over all young man. Ron and Russell Mael discussing his faxes. Knowing that he knows Alan Bennett and that he discusses obscure 1950's northern comedians with him.

It's no mystery why grown men want to rush on stage to hug him, he's so motherly. Wise, loving and indulgent. Based on this programme it's difficult to see how he could be judged devious and truculent, but then I'm not a high court judge.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 9 June 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a feeling the witness stand probably doesn't suit him, because unlike an interview situation, you *have* to answer the questions put to you. When I was 18, I met him coming out of soundcheck in Chicago and he was nice, if slightly fazed. He seems a lot less malajusted now!

Loved the bit where they asked him if he liked football, and he replied it would be a hell of a lot more interesting if the players were kicking politicians around the pitch.

According to the interview about to be published in Edgy Style Mag, lots more of his waspishness etc. ended up cast out in the edit suite. Unfortunate.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 9 June 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked his choice of barbers

― robster (robster), Monday, 9 June 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I know why my friend Mark, who ran the Smithz fanzine back in the day, had such a jones for Trumper's.

And no Hair Club for Men here! Take note Albarn!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 9 June 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

And no Hair Club for Men here! Take note Albarn!

It's too late for him! I'm sure he's having funky yellow dreadlocks surgically implanted into his scalp as I write this.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

*According to the interview about to be published in Edgy Style Mag, lots more of his waspishness etc. ended up cast out in the edit suite. Unfortunate. *

Your interview? I have this on tape for tonight.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Monday, 9 June 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Any chance I could have a copy of that Arthur mix, Ned?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 9 June 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Any more details you guys can spare? I'm fruitlessly seeking out the dang thing on S0u7s33k.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I might be able to make arrangements, Ms. Mary. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim, the office new kid did it as a Q/A, but he is not the devil, he just works for her. Apparently there's Smiths references all over the recent menswear collections, dahling (seriously, they said so). However, mail me ex-directory (I am trying to kill M$N with spam and never look there) and I'll sort you out with an uncut version (may need copy of v-tape due to buggered video if I can't get C4 to send me one).

You are going to LOVE the programme. He may moan about the stuff on the cutting room floor but that's the way. Cannot wait to meet him again (because I want the interview) just to tell him in passing that the guy who built his Hollywood house wanted to, erm, initiate my granny (and my ears are very small as a result of her ability to say no).

Also in case you don't know the six degrees involving the pundits, Linder lives with Michael Bracewell. /insider

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 9 June 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I would, Suzy, but I don't have a working address for you - the one named after the book bounces. Can you mail me your new one? to root@eaton-terry.com, cos I'm flash these days...

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

If only Morrissey had died in 1988.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Pete, that sounds too much like following the rules...

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, maybe he should have slipped into a comma.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, maybe he should have slipped into a comma.

much less painful than slipping into a semi-colon

― DG (D_To_The_G), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, maybe he should have slipped into a comma.

Best typo ever.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ilx seems to have staged remarkably little discussion of this programme. Or have I missed it?

I thought the programme mostly disappointing, generic and more harmful than helpful.

Among those who came out of it well was Linder. They should have allowed her to speak for much longer at a time.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

it was rubbish (but i said so on the other thread).

''I thought the programme mostly disappointing, generic and more harmful than helpful.''

Harmful to whom?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

What other thread?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry: there was another thread abt this programme but there aren't many ans there.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Pinefox, here is the link.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Just found this unexpectedly for rent at the Kim's on Avenue A. What was Morrissey doing on a Vespa? The shots of him driving his convertible(s) around LA are very Bruce Weber/Chet Baker/Let's Get Lost. I didn't know that Fitzgerald was connected with that house also. I see now why Will Self is the maligned creature he is in the U.K. That haircut place looked really cool. Michael Daddino should get his hair cut there in October. I liked the shots of Morrissey with his dog, looking over the Hollywood Hills.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 3 August 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Will Self better than I like Morrissey!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 3 August 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

OUT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 August 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

Anyway, thanks to friend Mel, I did finally get a copy of this documentary burned on disc. Very spiffy it was.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

That's nice.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you still need it? I was trying to see if I could burn a copy on my computer but it wasn't working, though I could try alternate approaches.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

try from behind.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

But the sun is there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

son

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

*ponders duly*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 February 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

reminder - not everyone lives in your fucked up cuntry

― Queen G of the morning after, Sunday, 22 February 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

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