1 in the Live Tour Journal where Moz reviews Justin Bieber's live DVD Never Say Never ironically labelling it brilliant satire, Morrissey says he's realised stripping is fashionable again for pop stars and says "lessons learned from Justin's film? Well, it seems stripping to the waist is in again... and I've been saying for weeks now that I need to strip off a bit more when playing live. With my body, it's a shame not to show it off. Especially when some skinny geek is confident enough to do so... fans, stripping off is back, by popular demand."
". I promise I'll strip for you all at the Palladium - where, incidentally, there are still a few tickets available from all good online stockists. Go on, treat your grandmother."
At the time of writing Moz had NOT stripped off all tour. When he came to London, he stripped to the waist for the first time and fulfilled his pledge to strip to the waist at the Palladium. Kitty Empire of the Observer wrote of this in her live review linked further down.
2 After first taking his shirt off in London, Morrissey bemoaned that still 'nobody believes I am me.' He promised a further clue in addition to taking his shirt off at the palladium: Even when I pledge to strip to the waist for the first time, and then I do strip to the waist, nobody believes I am me. What more do I have to do? he adds "we shall see"
AT the London Palladium he begins his show with the words "Welcome To My World.' As observer/BBC writer Kitty Empire notes, these are the very words Justin Bieber begins his live shows with on the My World Tour reviewed on the blog just a handful of days before. Alternatively the words serve as a coy reference to 'My World' ie, 'Morrissey's World' - the blog. Kitty Empire wrote about this in her Palladium review. Based on these two coincidences alone and the writing style which she called 'A highly amusing parody of Morrissey' - she posed the question "is it him (Morrissey)? Is it superfan Russell Brand?" as the bloger seemed to have advance knowledge of what morrissey's plans were for his London and Palladium shows. Many of the reviews of those attending the Palladium focused on the authorship of the blog and this new 'proof' rather than the show itself at Morrissey Solo. You can see for yourself.
One reviewer states "
Most amazingly Morrissey conclusively proved he is either the author of the http://www.morrisseysworld.blogspot.com/ website or is in on an in-joke and does know the author. How? Two things. Firstly the blog pledged he would strip for the first time this tour and then he did at the next show, which nobody would have predicted (Morrissey's habits are usually pretty constant in a tour)
But even more hilariously, Morrissey began his concert with the precise words Justin Bieber used on his only world tour. Both Bieber and Morrissey began their gigs with the words 'Welcome to my World' (the name of Bieber's album is 'My World')
---This when the most recent tour diary on the blog focuses almost exclusively on Morrissey's enjoyment of Bieber's live DVD covering music off the 'My World' album.
I'm now convinced and I find it hilarious that he's mocking himself so humorously with that blog. I wonder how many more unsubtle clues he'll have to give before the people on this website realise he's playing a game?
Does anyone seriously believe this choice of words is a coincidence?"
Another states:
"I now believe either the blog is Morrissey's or that he reads it and wants us to think it might be his, or he knows the author and is doing a bit of an in-joke. Who knows? Maybe Russell brand and Morrissey hatched this plan up together, Brand does the blog and it will feature in a future comedy segment on a TV show or something? I don't know but you can't argue with the facts"
Another states:
I have always been skeptical of the http://www.morrisseysworld.blogspot.com/ site. I just thought it was nothing whatever to do with morrissey, even if it was frequently funny and quite an interesting read. It's basically a very slick parody site, like Alan Clark's diaries that used to be in one of the british newspapers.
Having looked at all of the evidence on the forum that Morrissey is involved with the blog, I'm now actually in agreement and I never thought I'd say this. I don't think he writes the blog per se but you can't credibly claim all those things are coincidences either. At the very least morrissey is an avid reader of the blog and likes it, or more likely actually knows the author of the blog.
3 Morrissey made his first official denial of authorship of the MorrisseysWorld site on 14.5.2011. This was reported here http://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/174-Morrisseysworld.blogspot-true-to-you.net
What was strange at the time was that the site was linked almost nowhere and was getting just a handful of viewers each week according to reports and the blog itself. As someone typed on Morrissey-solo "What really is a mystery is how Morrissey ever heard of the site?? I don't think it was even linked anywhere except on a few recent posts on here, was it?" As Morrissey claims not to 'read these sites' and it wasn't linked anywhere it's strange how it came to his attention and strange that he should give it free publicity when it had so few readers.
4 Having effectively publicised the site with his FIRST denial, Morrissey made an unprecendented SECOND denial of authorship of the site on
19 August 2011
MESSAGE
Morrissey has no connection with the site called Morrisseysworld.blogspot. Whoever is on this site/page claiming to be Morrissey is certainly NOT Morrissey. Please be warned. Thank you.
Ten US dates for Morrissey will be announced this coming Monday. All dates will take place in November. Morrissey is now represented in the US by William Morris Agency.
Predictably this unneccessary second denial caused the number of daily hits to go from hundreds to thousands.
5 Just a few days prior to the official announcement of a US tour on 19.8.2011, the Morrisseysworld blog stated on 13.8.2011 "I have a US tour to plan." What was impressive was not just the accuracy of the prediction of a US tour - but the timing. A few days later on the 17.8 Morrissey outlined the evidence he was the author and moaned, "having proven conclusively I am me, what more can I do?" On the same day, a tongue-in-cheek 'Daily Mozzer' article appeared about the possibility of the US tour being cancelled due to the cost of pain au raisin!!
On the morning of 19.8 several hours before TTY officially released news that a US tour would soon be announced, MorrisseysWorld talked of Morrissey's "ironic t-shirt tour." A few hours later, it was revealed on TTY that the US tour would be announced the following Monday. This shows obvious inside knowledge of Morrissey's tour schedule and planning.
6 The second episode of 'Aunty Mozzer' joked about Justin Bieber choosing The Wanted over Morrissey for his South American tour because his 'mom said we'd have to have an 18+ rule if we brought a male stripper (morrissey) along and that would rule out most of my fans."
Morrissey's official site true-to-you's only visual image for the tour was a poster for Santa Fe taken from the same series as a picture on the MorrisseysWorld front page for the 'Paris' shoot. The poster states, "all ages! 21+ for the bar." The presence of the exclamation makr appears to be an in-joke referring to the article about requiring an 18+ rule for his live strip show. This is a small thing but all adds to the overall sense of too many coincidences.
7 Although Morrissey appeared with a lot of flowers in the early days it was usually gladioli or other flowers. I don't remember seeing him with roses often or ever in fact. MorrisseysWorld announced there was a plan for fans to wear a single red rose or white rose for the US tour and further said Morrissey "will appear with a rose before Christmas." It also stated a t-shirt of a manufactured artist will adorn his breast though gave no timescale for this. The site urged fans to "keep their eyes and ears peeled" for more clues/coincidences. This was on 2.9.11 and had also been stated earlier.
In later Septmber an interview appeared with Linder Sterling - Morrissey's close friend - in Juke magazine in which comments about Morrissey appeared and a flower resmbling a white rose was pictured by the side of the article! Again this is quite a coincidence - of all the things a flower, of all the flowers a rose, and of all the roses a white rose. Just days after he announced he would APPEAR with a white or red ROSE. The Morrisseysworld site noted yet another coincidence but promised Morrissey himself would appear more literally with a rose in the near future (promised before Christmas)
Nobody has noted all of the above coincidences exscept regular followers of the blog. Most Morrissey fans refuse to visit it because of Morrissey's denials he is the author!
8 Blogpredicted Morrissey would 'continue to deny authorship of the blog in word but prove it in deed' - Morrissey denied authorship for third time on 14.9.2011 at the same time he made another blog prediction come true by criticising the release of Smiths boxset, also predicted in blog and again here . in the first seciton is states, "PPPS I think I'll wait a few weeks before requesting you do not purchase that Smiths box set at a ridiculously inflated price of over £200. On the other hand, as much as I'm against charging the proles inflated rates for luxury goods, don't let me stop you if you can afford it in the meantime. I'm not a judgemental type. Of course your money might be better spent on fighting death and disease in the third world. But ultimately it's your choice and don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. So, as I say, I will issue that 'do not purchase' request via TTY.net, but not just at the mo, if it's all the same to you..." - this prediction was fulfilled by the statement on 14.9 which came along with his 3rd denial he is the author. His second denial also made the prediction of a US tour come true - he seems to make a blog prediction come true each time he denies he owns the blog! This fits in with the words at the top saying "I'll deny it in word but prove it in deed."
9 MorrisseysWorld always criticises the Guardian - most weeks, and maybe 20-30 times in total. It also criticises guardian writers like kitty empire, alexis petridis and kath viner. Morrissey had NEVER specifically criticised the Guardian. And MorrisseysWorld NEVER criticised any other newspaper except the guardian.
MorrisseysWorld promised another clue was imminent and then suddenly Morrissey does a real interview in which he attacks the Guardian newspaper! Unbelievable but TRUE!
here
10 As well as all the coincidences which can't all be coincidences and at least show Morrissey is involved with the blog or is a regular reader of the blog at the very very least and is playing a game to make it look like his, there is also the writing. How many people could mimic Morrissey's prose style like this or writing witticisms like this on twitter? Or send himself up this dryly?
Please look at the above - you can't really conclude it's not him but you might conclude it is him.
"The joy of music is that it allows one to dream, which in turn allows one to find that grain of hope. Hope is not a moral; it is a life-force. A good song is as abstract as a dream or nightmare, tethered to reality by frayed threads, liable to snap at any given moment. The song drags one out of bed, it pushes one back into bed and it fills the short period in between. The song – to the true lover of music – is birth, death, and that other part we bravely call ‘life.’ Most people cannot live. They are immobilized: by the fear of rejection, by the self-loathing they endure, by a slim conviction that they are unable to love another; and more than anything else by a crippling sense of devaluation imposed by this world on all of us, unless we fit the idealized notion of what a human being should – these days, must - be. These poor souls shuffle, mumble and crumble through the years like shadows. I knew very, very early on that I was one of those souls.
Well, what could I do? I could spend my life with the shadows, pretending to live: a man with a life-sentence to serve, which never quite materializes. Or I could transform myself into a symbol and give up entirely on real life, as they call it. The song becomes the living; the singing becomes the life; the haircut becomes the material body – fading over the years but never quite leaving. And I began just then to write about life the way it really is. I began to write songs for those who cannot live – which is almost everybody. At least in England it is. While the rest of the world at least attempts to live life, we English apologise and queue politely. This – girls and boys – is why we’re so good at the old art thing. Art is nothing but a survival instinct for the English.
When one is desperate and cold, the hardest thing to feel is hope; and yet precisely – and only - when one is desperate and cold, hope is utterly life-transforming. To have absolutely nothing except hope was what sustained me through those nights. When you’re young, tears are precious. They seem to contain the very essence of life. As my tears landed on that newish pine desk, slipping into the cracks in the useless veneer, in that bland, desolate box room, the Manchester rain pattered on the windows and the roof tiles. The flowing motion of water, of rain, of tears is something that can be found in those early songs, as real to me as blood itself. And just as essential. "
Already blocked by numerous celebrities who don't realise who he really is, Morrissey has taken twitter by storm with his wit and elegantly wasted turn of phrase. People are frankly running scared. There's not a person who can match him out there.
A few highlights (editing out any of it is difficult)
On touring...
Golden rule of touring: if you don't care for your audience, no encore; if you like them, one encore; if you really hate them, two encores.
On Elton John...
Singers - simply consider me your Union Rep. I'll represent you all impartially and with gusto. Unless you're Elton John.
I truly hope Victoria Beckham outlives me; the prospect of a tearful Elton trotting out ‘Candle in the Wind’ for a third time is unbearable.
On his Blog/Twitter career...
It's Joaquin Phoenix all over again, minus the breakdown, the publicity, and the rap career. Possibly!
There's, like, a 1 in 7 squillion chance I'll get noticed by JB. I may as well stand on a golf course praying for lightning.
If only one could retweet one's own tweets; but WHO ELSE would try?
If you love me, retweet me.
I have four cards marked ‘blindly insightful,’ ‘brutally idealistic,’ ‘whimsically cynical’ and ‘uproariously melancholic.’ I pick a card at random and type something accordingly.
On self-help...
Blessed with the wit to ask myself all the wrong questions, I quickly realised that to look at oneself is to dislike oneself. After three lifetimes of soul-searching I have discovered the solution is simply to avoid all mirrors.
I’m fenced-in by self-doubt and fenced-out by self-loathing; the grass is always greyer on the other side.
On socialism...
An artist cannot truly be a socialist, for he would sooner live in destitute poverty than endure mediocrity.
On himself...
I'm a punk in a world of mods.
On his career...
If you express your opinions openly the risk of developing cancer is reduced: my entire career is just a very singular public health strategy
It's gratifying to note that I should sell at least 156 copies of my next album - in case any music execs are watching.
In conversation with...
Dalai Lama: Generate great compassion, and you become a friend to the world
Morrissey: You obviously buy your fortune cookies from the same shop as me
Jordan: I have 15 animals
Morrissey: Does that include your husbands?
Morrissey: Jordan's recent book made me question the very principle of state education.
On urinating in public spaces...
Want to know how it feels to be Buster the Jack Russell, stalking the estate in search of Alsatian-related bother and lamp posts to mark? Then simply throw on a dressing gown, put on ‘Cracked Actor’ by Ziggy, and turn up LOUD. “Forget I’m fifty 'cause you just got laid (sic)”
On sexual health...
I’d rather have syphilis than Morrissey-solow. At least syphilis goes away for about twenty years.
On Tony Blair...
If former dictator, war criminal and charmer Gaddafi is to evade the authorities he’ll need to ‘phone a friend’ who knows how – Tony Blair.
I can see Tony and Cherie ending up with their own chat show – Richard and Judy without the brains and the looks respectively
On growing older...
Childhood is spent wishing to be older. Adulthood is spent wishing to be younger. Old age is spent wishing one had wished a little less.
The more sex you have, the less it means. In the end you may as well have been Morrissey as Hugh Heffner.
Still not convinced? Hmm, I don't know what else to say. WHEN he apears with a rose AGAIN and wears a pop act t shirt maybe you'll finally get it... or maybe not. ALl the so-lowers said they'd believe it if he took his shirt off at the Palladium... many more coincidences later and they're still denying it!
MESSAGE
Morrissey has no connection with the site called Morrisseysworld.blogspot. Whoever is on this site/page claiming to be Morrissey is certainly NOT Morrissey. Please be warned. Thank you.
Ten US dates for Morrissey will be announced this coming Monday. All dates will take place in November. Morrissey is now represented in the US by William Morris Agency.
Predictably this unneccessary second denial caused the number of daily hits to go from hundreds to thousands.
5 Just a few days prior to the official announcement of a US tour on 19.8.2011, the Morrisseysworld blog stated on 13.8.2011 "I have a US tour to plan." What was impressive was not just the accuracy of the prediction of a US tour - but the timing. A few days later on the 17.8 Morrissey outlined the evidence he was the author and moaned, "having proven conclusively I am me, what more can I do?" On the same day, a tongue-in-cheek 'Daily Mozzer' article appeared about the possibility of the US tour being cancelled due to the cost of pain au raisin!!
On the morning of 19.8 several hours before TTY officially released news that a US tour would soon be announced, MorrisseysWorld talked of Morrissey's "ironic t-shirt tour." A few hours later, it was revealed on TTY that the US tour would be announced the following Monday. This shows obvious inside knowledge of Morrissey's tour schedule and planning.
6 The second episode of 'Aunty Mozzer' joked about Justin Bieber choosing The Wanted over Morrissey for his South American tour because his 'mom said we'd have to have an 18+ rule if we brought a male stripper (morrissey) along and that would rule out most of my fans."
Morrissey's official site true-to-you's only visual image for the tour was a poster for Santa Fe taken from the same series as a picture on the MorrisseysWorld front page for the 'Paris' shoot. The poster states, "all ages! 21+ for the bar." The presence of the exclamation makr appears to be an in-joke referring to the article about requiring an 18+ rule for his live strip show. This is a small thing but all adds to the overall sense of too many coincidences.
7 Although Morrissey appeared with a lot of flowers in the early days it was usually gladioli or other flowers. I don't remember seeing him with roses often or ever in fact. MorrisseysWorld announced there was a plan for fans to wear a single red rose or white rose for the US tour and further said Morrissey "will appear with a rose before Christmas." It also stated a t-shirt of a manufactured artist will adorn his breast though gave no timescale for this. The site urged fans to "keep their eyes and ears peeled" for more clues/coincidences. This was on 2.9.11 and had also been stated earlier.
In later Septmber an interview appeared with Linder Sterling - Morrissey's close friend - in Juke magazine in which comments about Morrissey appeared and a flower resmbling a white rose was pictured by the side of the article! Again this is quite a coincidence - of all the things a flower, of all the flowers a rose, and of all the roses a white rose. Just days after he announced he would APPEAR with a white or red ROSE. The Morrisseysworld site noted yet another coincidence but promised Morrissey himself would appear more literally with a rose in the near future (promised before Christmas)
Nobody has noted all of the above coincidences exscept regular followers of the blog. Most Morrissey fans refuse to visit it because of Morrissey's denials he is the author!
8 Blogpredicted Morrissey would 'continue to deny authorship of the blog in word but prove it in deed' - Morrissey denied authorship for third time on 14.9.2011 at the same time he made another blog prediction come true by criticising the release of Smiths boxset, also predicted in blog and again here . in the first seciton is states, "PPPS I think I'll wait a few weeks before requesting you do not purchase that Smiths box set at a ridiculously inflated price of over £200. On the other hand, as much as I'm against charging the proles inflated rates for luxury goods, don't let me stop you if you can afford it in the meantime. I'm not a judgemental type. Of course your money might be better spent on fighting death and disease in the third world. But ultimately it's your choice and don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. So, as I say, I will issue that 'do not purchase' request via TTY.net, but not just at the mo, if it's all the same to you..." - this prediction was fulfilled by the statement on 14.9 which came along with his 3rd denial he is the author. His second denial also made the prediction of a US tour come true - he seems to make a blog prediction come true each time he denies he owns the blog! This fits in with the words at the top saying "I'll deny it in word but prove it in deed."
9 MorrisseysWorld always criticises the Guardian - most weeks, and maybe 20-30 times in total. It also criticises guardian writers like kitty empire, alexis petridis and kath viner. Morrissey had NEVER specifically criticised the Guardian. And MorrisseysWorld NEVER criticised any other newspaper except the guardian.
MorrisseysWorld promised another clue was imminent and then suddenly Morrissey does a real interview in which he attacks the Guardian newspaper! Unbelievable but TRUE!
here
10 As well as all the coincidences which can't all be coincidences and at least show Morrissey is involved with the blog or is a regular reader of the blog at the very very least and is playing a game to make it look like his, there is also the writing. How many people could mimic Morrissey's prose style like this or writing witticisms like this on twitter? Or send himself up this dryly?
Please look at the above - you can't really conclude it's not him but you might conclude it is him.
"The joy of music is that it allows one to dream, which in turn allows one to find that grain of hope. Hope is not a moral; it is a life-force. A good song is as abstract as a dream or nightmare, tethered to reality by frayed threads, liable to snap at any given moment. The song drags one out of bed, it pushes one back into bed and it fills the short period in between. The song – to the true lover of music – is birth, death, and that other part we bravely call ‘life.’ Most people cannot live. They are immobilized: by the fear of rejection, by the self-loathing they endure, by a slim conviction that they are unable to love another; and more than anything else by a crippling sense of devaluation imposed by this world on all of us, unless we fit the idealized notion of what a human being should – these days, must - be. These poor souls shuffle, mumble and crumble through the years like shadows. I knew very, very early on that I was one of those souls.
Well, what could I do? I could spend my life with the shadows, pretending to live: a man with a life-sentence to serve, which never quite materializes. Or I could transform myself into a symbol and give up entirely on real life, as they call it. The song becomes the living; the singing becomes the life; the haircut becomes the material body – fading over the years but never quite leaving. And I began just then to write about life the way it really is. I began to write songs for those who cannot live – which is almost everybody. At least in England it is. While the rest of the world at least attempts to live life, we English apologise and queue politely. This – girls and boys – is why we’re so good at the old art thing. Art is nothing but a survival instinct for the English.
When one is desperate and cold, the hardest thing to feel is hope; and yet precisely – and only - when one is desperate and cold, hope is utterly life-transforming. To have absolutely nothing except hope was what sustained me through those nights. When you’re young, tears are precious. They seem to contain the very essence of life. As my tears landed on that newish pine desk, slipping into the cracks in the useless veneer, in that bland, desolate box room, the Manchester rain pattered on the windows and the roof tiles. The flowing motion of water, of rain, of tears is something that can be found in those early songs, as real to me as blood itself. And just as essential. "
Already blocked by numerous celebrities who don't realise who he really is, Morrissey has taken twitter by storm with his wit and elegantly wasted turn of phrase. People are frankly running scared. There's not a person who can match him out there.
A few highlights (editing out any of it is difficult)
On touring...
Golden rule of touring: if you don't care for your audience, no encore; if you like them, one encore; if you really hate them, two encores.
On Elton John...
Singers - simply consider me your Union Rep. I'll represent you all impartially and with gusto. Unless you're Elton John.
I truly hope Victoria Beckham outlives me; the prospect of a tearful Elton trotting out ‘Candle in the Wind’ for a third time is unbearable.
On his Blog/Twitter career...
It's Joaquin Phoenix all over again, minus the breakdown, the publicity, and the rap career. Possibly!
There's, like, a 1 in 7 squillion chance I'll get noticed by JB. I may as well stand on a golf course praying for lightning.
If only one could retweet one's own tweets; but WHO ELSE would try?
If you love me, retweet me.
I have four cards marked ‘blindly insightful,’ ‘brutally idealistic,’ ‘whimsically cynical’ and ‘uproariously melancholic.’ I pick a card at random and type something accordingly.
On self-help...
Blessed with the wit to ask myself all the wrong questions, I quickly realised that to look at oneself is to dislike oneself. After three lifetimes of soul-searching I have discovered the solution is simply to avoid all mirrors.
I’m fenced-in by self-doubt and fenced-out by self-loathing; the grass is always greyer on the other side.
On socialism...
An artist cannot truly be a socialist, for he would sooner live in destitute poverty than endure mediocrity.
On himself...
I'm a punk in a world of mods.
On his career...
If you express your opinions openly the risk of developing cancer is reduced: my entire career is just a very singular public health strategy
It's gratifying to note that I should sell at least 156 copies of my next album - in case any music execs are watching.
In conversation with...
Dalai Lama: Generate great compassion, and you become a friend to the world
Morrissey: You obviously buy your fortune cookies from the same shop as me
Jordan: I have 15 animals
Morrissey: Does that include your husbands?
Morrissey: Jordan's recent book made me question the very principle of state education.
On urinating in public spaces...
Want to know how it feels to be Buster the Jack Russell, stalking the estate in search of Alsatian-related bother and lamp posts to mark? Then simply throw on a dressing gown, put on ‘Cracked Actor’ by Ziggy, and turn up LOUD. “Forget I’m fifty 'cause you just got laid (sic)”
On sexual health...
I’d rather have syphilis than Morrissey-solow. At least syphilis goes away for about twenty years.
On Tony Blair...
If former dictator, war criminal and charmer Gaddafi is to evade the authorities he’ll need to ‘phone a friend’ who knows how – Tony Blair.
I can see Tony and Cherie ending up with their own chat show – Richard and Judy without the brains and the looks respectively
On growing older...
Childhood is spent wishing to be older. Adulthood is spent wishing to be younger. Old age is spent wishing one had wished a little less.
The more sex you have, the less it means. In the end you may as well have been Morrissey as Hugh Heffner.
Still not convinced? Hmm, I don't know what else to say. WHEN he apears with a rose AGAIN and wears a pop act t shirt maybe you'll finally get it... or maybe not. ALl the so-lowers said they'd believe it if he took his shirt off at the Palladium... many more coincidences later and they're still denying it!
