Ever read reviews about UK gigs or looked at album covers and wonder what the venues look like? Stick them into Google City View and have a look! Here's a few to get you started.....Salford Lads Club; http://tinyurl.com/cl4ykc . Abbey Road; http://tinyurl.com/cfyery . Barrowlands; http://tinyurl.com/dgpjuv . King Tuts; http://tinyurl.com/cc5gn2 . Battersea Power Station; http://...
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.Reports say band are close to reunion dealOct 24, 2008.Speculation has renewed that The Smiths may be on the verge of reforming. . According to a report in The Sun today (October 24), the four original members are close to signing a deal that would see them performing at the Coachella festival in California next year. It is suggested that Morrissey's new manager - former MCA records boss Ir...
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LE ROYALE ( i stole this from NY Mag's website....shhhhhhhhhhhhh)at a place called Le Royale owned by my buddy Terry Casey (a true music afficionado)...So of course 300 Smith fans were curious what how he would play.....It was funny bc Mr Rourke ain't an I-Pod DJ. He takes the craft seriously.Since Le Royale is a kind of cubbyhole of a club- and the upper club room was as dark and dim as Lehman...
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"Inside The Smiths", a documentary film about the legendary Manchester pop-rockers The Smiths is prepared to make its July 16 debut, according to NME.Andy Rourke and Mick Joyce will front a very special screening at Fopp on Tottenham Court Road on July 18, marking the only London screening for the film.From 6pm, the store will host a Q&A and the pair will be signing DVDs."Inside The Smiths" off...
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Johnny Marr has said that The Smiths may reform. "Stranger things have happened so, you know, who knows?," Marr said to BBC Five Live's Victoria Derbyshire.In previous years, different member of the band, including Marr have ruled out a reunion. Most recently Morrissey revealed that he turned down a near $75 million offer to tour again. The offer called for Morrissey to do a minimum of 50 shows...
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From the Daily Mail Having long felt slightly embarrassed about my misspent rock chick youth, no one was more surprised than I by a recent poll among today's teenagers declaring the Eighties to be the coolest musical decade ever. Surely some mistake, I thought, as I rifled through a motley collection of vinyl encompassing everything from Depeche Mode, the Human League, Eurythmics and Simple Min...
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It seems mighty ironic that on the day Radio 1 breakfast host Chris Moyles celebrates the record as longest serving early morning "DJ" on the national station, his glory is overshadowed by the announcement that Radio 2 breakfast host Terry Wogan is stepping down at the age of 71 at the end of this year. Methinks some latent skulduggery from the old timer and a slap round the chops for the young...
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Former guitarist from The Smiths, Johnny Marr has been honored by two universities in as many weeks. Marr's first accolade came at a ceremony at Trinity College in Dublin where, after speaking onstage, he was made an Honorary Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society. The current guitarist in Modest Mouse, Marr's award in Dublin places him with the likes of Samuel Beckett, Bram Stoker...
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Reunion rumors surrounding The Smiths pop up at least a few times per year, but one rumor that the band were offered, according to “a published report,” $75 million to play 50 shows has refused to die out with the others. In an interview with Xfm...
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In a recent interview with former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, Eye Weekly's Chandler Levack asked about a rumored story involving Rourke's 1986 dismissal from the band, in which Morrissey allegedly left a post-it note on his windshield reading: "Andy...
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Each song on The Queen is Dead is such a perfect alt-pop gem, listening to the whole album is almost too much. But Morrissey is not about to throw in some filler just to let the listener catch a breath. The indie movement has been trying to replicate this album for the past twenty years. They have yet to succeed.The Ukrainians - The Queen Is DeadTechnically, this is not “The Queen Is Dead,”
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Our One Week Only feature at Pitchfork.tv is an entry in the A Classic Under Review series of documentaries, this one for The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead, one of the very best albums of the 1980s. Just hearing the audio from the opening bit of the album, a rendition of "Take Me Back to Dear Old "Blighty" taken from the film The L-Shaped Room, is enough to send a chill down your spine. Watch as th...
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At this point, Smiths reunion and eight figure one-off concert rumors have become just as integral to the iconic band’s legacy as their undeniably great collection of singles. And based on the few recent interviews with Morrissey and Johnny Marr...
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Ever thought of a bird as a Handsome Devil? Or better yet, ever think of nature and The Smiths in the same head space? Most likely not, unless you've been watching BBC's nature program Springwatch. Host Chris Packham has a habit of name dropping titles of songs by The Smiths in as much of his hosting conversation as possible. He's actually quite clever and witty, usually cracking up co-ho
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MUSIC NEWS - Oh well, we hoped for as long as we could, considering the tradition of the Coachella Festival reuniting bands. It worked with Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Pixies, Bauhaus, Gang of Four, Rage Against the Machine, The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. So, when reports from a British newspaper indicated that sources close ...
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