We had seen the pictures of man walking around Lisbon the day before, so we were fairly quiet. It was almost certain that, unlike 2012, when canceled the concert scheduled for Portugal, Morrissey would not fail. Last June, lung problems require interruption of part of his American tour. Four months later, in October 6, Morrissey was right in the Coliseum in Lisbon, to give start to the European presentation of recent World Peace Is None Of Your Business .
This album checkered history (Harvest publisher dropped him three weeks after editing and Morrissey, spiteful, was not: “Fuck Harvest” was read the t-shirts of the musicians who accompanied him in Lisbon) was of course, the basis for a concert with history (even came Morrissey, Morrissey continues with a commanding voice, Morrissey played four songs of the Smiths), but with some truly memorable (is commendable, not related to the past and wants to prove relevance of their present, but, finally, with the warm songs that met considerable part of the alignment, adorned with acoustic guitars and keyboards environmental dangerous soporific content, are the intentions and arguments fall).
It started before we see him on stage. Instead of the music played over the sound system, an audiovisual experience: videos of Charles Aznavour; images of the Ramones; the New York Dolls, inspiration ever in action on German television; or The bullfighter dies , which would consist song after alignment, accompanied by pictures of bullfighting in which, yes, the bull came out the winner (have heard the first applause of the audience and the show has not even started).
Morrissey, their references and their battles. Morrissey, the egocentric, the singer who has raised depression and the emotional devastation the greatest art, the activist without brake, in the spotlight, center stage: the Queen of England appearing on screens in little actual pose (two raised to piretes crowd that filled three quarters of the Colosseum) and the pop icon to appear after her
The first words. “believe we live in a world of unprecedented violence.” It follows the classic The Queen Is Dead . The sound is too low and the voice stands out more in the mix than is desirable, but for now, none of that matters. The man arrived. The man who wears white pants, also alb shirt, and wears a green pendant on his chest means discovered, is singing The Smiths.
would not take much. It would even be easy enough (too much, we would say) make such a festive concert as necessarily nostalgic celebration. Suffice to interpret songs Smiths Smiths songs behind, sprinkled with insightful passages for solo career, and Morrissey would have the room to its feet. Doing so, however, would detract from its own nature. Speak, after all, the singer for about a year when it was requested a list of the best albums in which he participated, placed in the top positions who edited the last three solo (not included in it a single of the Smiths). Morrissey is now the same now (no, not heard How soon is now )
We traveled by V Vauxhall & amp.; I , one of the most celebrated solo albums, with Speedway , we hear Certain people I now Your Arsenal , and beautiful and applauded and sung very I’m throwing my arms around Paris – the irresistible drama blasé that voice singing these verses: “In the absence of your love / And in the absence of human touch / I have DECIDED I’m throwing my arms around Paris / Because only stone and steel accept my love. “
Among them, the anti-manifesto bullfight The bullfighter dies , with energy pop moments of the first solo, and a breath mariachi to introduce Kiss me alot . Then the charge decided in World peace is none of your business . What is not a problem at all, when you hear the title song of the album, played with grace and Motown tone “Scott Walkeriano” preserved on disk. What becomes a problem when songs appear as Neal Cassady drops dead , gently undermined by uninspired arrangements arraçada flamenco guitar, or Kick the bride down the aisle , pop song anonymous in that no recordaríamos were not projected on the screens photo showing Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, under the caption “United King-Dumb.”
No great conversations, as is usual rest in him (a “forced” a pair of “gracias”), Morrissey was leading a warm concert with the authority of his voice and the charisma of their presence. Until you hear Hand in glove , the song that started it all, the Smiths, in the distant year of 1983, and rise from mobile phones to record the moment. Until you hear, after her, to speak truly Morrissey. What should be done “here in your beautiful city,” he says, take it in spray cans and apply it across the McDonalds advertising we encounter. Nothing savagery, simply tagging – suggests words for intervention: “No no no” or “Shit shit shit”. What followed was the declaration Meat is Murder , Smiths third song of the night and one that will leave the most lasting impression on the public mind.
The monitor terror of apocalyptic ballad (“this beautiful creature must die “) , the terror of the images: the cruelty of the treatment given by the food industry the calves, turkeys, pigs or chicks exposed terribly graphic form – the vegetarian Morrissey with his back to the audience, hands on head, watching the horrible passing on the screen to not see the punch in the stomach struck in public.
After that, it was hard to think about smiling or usually dance like a rock concert. But Morrissey has not stopped. Fired up with the lively beat of One day will be farewell when not recuperáramos than we had seen, then yes, he left the stage. The encore brought the Smiths ( Asleep ) and the most celebrated song of the night, First of the gang to die . This útima extracted from You Are The Quarry , the album Revival in 2004, appeared in serenada version, acoustic base, and nearly naked pop vitality that earned him a decade ago in the classic status discography of its author -. what, in a way, serves as illustration of what the concert was a considerable part of his life
Morrissey sang flower in hand, Morrissey dropped If the mouth of the stage to achieve their greedy hands touch and fired up shirtless, after throwing his shirt to the public as an offering. Morrissey was here and celebrated the moment. Moderately without the aura of the great events. In 2012, when canceled on the day the concert scheduled for the Cascais Music Festival, we had no right to anything. Two years later, we saw it and even heard his voice. Remains significant as few. Should be sufficient.
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