Tag: The Smiths

Morrissey to debut 3 new songs in live session on Janice Long’s BBC2 show next week

Fans will get a chance to hear three new Morrissey songs — ‘Action is My Middle Name,’ ‘The Kid’s a Looker’ and ‘People are the Same Everywhere’ — next week on the BBC.

Stream: Johnny Marr, ‘The Big Bang Dig’ — from score to new Antonio Banderas film

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr is following up his performance on Hans Zimmer’s Oscar-nominated score for ‘Inception’ with his own debut as a film composer, having scored the new straight-to-video Antonio Banderas thriller ‘The Big Bang.’

Milestones: Morrissey is 52 today; watch a complete 'Kill Uncle' concert from 1991

Milestones: Morrissey is 52 today; watch a complete ‘Kill Uncle’ concert from 1991

It’s Morrissey’s birthday today — he’s 52 — and to celebrate, here’s a full, 20-song ‘Kill Uncle’-era concert filmed at London’s Hammersmith Odeon on Oct. 4, 1991, and later broadcast on Japanese TV — hence the subtitles.

Morrissey fleshes out summer tour with seven new U.K., Scandinavian concerts

Morrissey fleshes out summer tour with seven new U.K., Scandinavian concerts

As promised, Morrissey is adding dates to his previously announced summer tour — and not just the four Scandinavian concerts he touted in a recent and somewhat surly open letter to his fans, but he’s now tacked on three additional shows in his native U.K. as well.

Andy Rourke to appear at Smiths/Morrissey Convention in Los Angeles this weekend

For fans who’ll be in the Los Angeles area this weekend, this year’s installment of the Smiths/Morrissey Convention — set for Sunday at The Music Box in Hollywood — features an added attraction: an actual member of The Smiths.

New releases: Morrissey, The Waterboys, The Fall, INXS, Durutti Column, Psychedelic Furs

New releases: Morrissey, The Waterboys, The Fall, INXS, Durutti Column, Psychedelic Furs

This week’s new releases include a new Morrissey best-of, Mike Scott’s piano demos for The Waterboys’ ‘This Is the Sea,’ a vintage INXS live album, and reissues of The Fall’s 1999 album ‘The Marshall Suite,’ The Durutti Column’s 1989 record ‘Vini Reilly’ and a new audiophile vinyl pressing of The Psychedelic Furs’ ‘Talk Talk Talk.’