Morrissey
3Arena
★★★★★
“This is not an hallucination,” Morrissey tells us, in case we were wondering, and yet tonight does seem strangely chimeric.
In modern music, Morrissey remains something of an anomaly, perhaps because he remains so firmly himself; “in my own strange way, I’ve always been true to you” he sings on the brilliant Speedway, backed by a band comprising Juan Galeano, Jesse Tobias, Camila Grey, Matthew Walker and Carmen Vandenberg.
While Morrissey doesn’t completely refuse the past (he folds in four Smiths songs), he is more interested in using it for inspiration and amplification, including visuals that survey some of his perennial obsessions:…