Tag: Morrissey

Oh look, it’s Morrissey cancelling shows again! Who’d have ever thought? This time, though, he apparently has a good excuse:

Morrissey has cancelled two shows in the US over a “credible threat on his life”, according to his official Facebook page.
The former Smiths singer, 66, was due to appear at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, on Friday night, and at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday.
But a statement posted on his Facebook account on Friday evening said: “In recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey’s life. Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and audience, tonight’s engagement at Foxwoods has been cancelled. We appreciate your understanding.”
A second post said both the shows had been cancelled due to “recent events and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and band”. […]
Earlier this week a 26-year-old man from Ottawa, Canada, was released on bail after allegedly threatening to kill Morrissey at his performance in the city.
The man is accused of issuing a threat against Morrissey on Bluesky on 4 September, the Ottawa Citizen reported, citing court documents.
According to the news outlet, a post on the social media platform read: “Steven Patrick Morrissey when you perform at TD Place here in Ottawa next week on the evening of September 12th, 2025 at about 9pm, I will be present at the venue in the audience and I will attempt to shoot you many times and kill you with a very large gun that I own illegally.”

I’m not sure what difference the legality of the very large gun makes here, and I just find that a very odd statement. But, as the article also notes, the Ottawa show went ahead as normal, unlike these other two shows he’s pulled out of. Is Moz just full of shit, or was the American threat more credible than the Canadian one? Admittedly I feel like he’s more likely to be the quarry (sorry) in the US than in Canada, because, let’s face it, America, but still… Anyway, I think if someone really wanted to hurt SPM, they’d do it by going up to him and rubbing a steak in his face…

Morrissey’s latest hissy fit in his never-ending battle against Johnny Marr took a kind of hilarious twist in the last few days… following Marr’s recent “statement” about the possibility of a Smiths reunion (said statement, you may recall, having been a photo of Nigel Farage in response to someone speculating on Twitter), Morrissey couldn’t resist escalating things by claiming Marr had more or less nicked the Smiths’ band name trademark:

On Sunday night, a statement written on Morrissey’s behalf titled “THE PLOT THICKENS” was posted to his website claiming Marr has “successfully applied for 100% trademark rights / Intellectual Property ownership of The Smiths name.”
“His application has been accepted on whatever oaths or proclamations he has put forward,” it continues. “This action was done without any consultation to Morrissey, and without allowing Morrissey the standard opportunity of ‘objection.’ Amongst many other things, this means that Marr can now tour as The Smiths using the vocalist of his choice, and it also prohibits Morrissey from using the name whilst also denying Morrissey considerable financial livelihood. Morrissey alone created the musical unit name ‘The Smiths’ in May 1982.”

All of which is interesting, obviously, but Marr responded with receipts to the contrary. According to him and the paperwork he provided, Marr discovered that no one in the band actually owned the trademark—apparently some unnamed third party had tried to make a claim for it, which was how he found out—so he contacted Steven Patrick about it; when the latter failed to respond, Marr acquired the trademark to make sure the aforementioned third party didn’t… on top of which Marr agreed to sign some document back at the start of this year that would actually give Morrissey joint ownership, but for reasons best known to himself (probably because he doesn’t want to share) the latter hasn’t signed on the dotted line yet. As for Marr touring as The Smiths with a new vocalist… I think that if he were going to do that, he would already have done it, given that he’s evidently had the trademark since 2018. And frankly I suspect Morrissey would be more likely to tour under that name with a bunch of ringers…

Anyway, the latest development is that now Morrissey has fired his management for reasons not yet stated, but presumably because it’s their fault he’s such a thunderchud and they had no idea how to stop him from behaving like his own stupid self. They had a client and then they were looking for a client, and heaven knows they’re probably glad to be shot of him now…