During an imperial career from 1983 until 1987, The Smiths reigned supreme as the most revered British band since The Beatles. The cultural impact of the Mancunian-Irish quartet was remarkable. In 1985, their second album, Meat Is Murder, knocked Born in the USA off the number-one slot in the UK at the peak of Bruce … Read more
Make-Up Is a Lie Artist: Morrissey Label: Sire When Morrissey played Dublin in the summer of 2023 he brought with him a chip on his shoulder even more prominent than his famous quiff. “I can’t release music any more because I’m an individual, and that isn’t allowed,” he told a … Read more
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 … Read more