Anyone going? I'm buzzing me like!!!

Most people keep their brains between their legs!

I'll be there

gah!

I laughed at that outburst. Very funny indeed!

Quality gig btw.

to be fair it sounded like he was doing the exact same song that he was doing at 9pm when we walked out at 10pm.

He asked if he could have a game but refreshingly we had 10.

elvis you must be very important - get offered a ticket at 6-45 for morrissey and turned it down!! the biggest act to play hartlepool in 10 years and you turned it down!!!

to be fair i did not see any tv crews there, which is why i take you you where not intrested



p.s the gig was quality, Morrisey, what a legend to play Hartlepool for a guy to sell that many albums to come to a 2 bob bit town like hartlepool, i really can't fault hm

walkies

think that might be the reason he turned it down

I think you've got that the wrong way around. Hartlepool is important to most of us on here, Morrissey is certainly not.

billingham......so how many 'sucessful' artist have play hartlepool in the last 10 years? chaz and dave, the selector???? any more???


you should be over the moon he is willing to play hartlepool




walkies

Sorry but Morrissey means nothing to me, if it wasn't for musical threads on here I wouldn't have the faintest idea of who he used to be.

little old hartlepool eh, we all should just thank our lucky stars morrissey has even mentioned our name in one of his glorious breaths.

so by your argument we should all go and watch an artist because because they are succesful and are playing in hartlepool wether we like them or not just because they have came to play here

That is definitely going down in my book of all time favourite Bunker replies.

I went and it was absolutely brilliant.

Aye as Ken Barlow in Coronation Street and the other in every episode of Last Of The Summer wine.

the version he did of this charming man on Wossy was a chugalong cringefest, still I love the smiths and would have went if I'd got a freebie and wasn't playing cricket [2-21 and on a hat trick again OO!].....

good point

are you going???????!!!!!

You are missing the point that the only reason he would was because of the love of money not of the town, oh lets all worship at his feet for being bothered to turn up to collect a pay day. I will mention this to my boss when I walk into work tomorrow that I should be thanked for turning up.

I'm going to see Cyndi Lauper on Saturday,

I'm going to see The Week That Was Friday night at a free gig.
1-nil to me

So why did he chose smaller venues and no bigger ones? He played smaller venues because he thought it would be more "intimate".

Are you sure that's the reason, and not 'I might not sell out a big venue, and end up looking a complete tosser'

I've had her.

Well, she wanted to have fun.

na, he sold out his arena tour - added extra dates in fact

sold out madison square gardens in about 20 seconds or summat

It was a great gig and it was sold out.

Those who went seem to agree

Those who didn't either don't like him (unusual for people to slate stuff on this board) or where gutted they couldn't go.

The man is more famous than anyone who posts on this board and has played a large part in English musical history.

You don't like him but you love him. Either way you're wrong. You're gonna miss him when he's gone.

spot on salty!!!

we have some total numpty's on his board

the aliens are a good band or should i say the beta band are a very good band but don't make a twat of your self by saying "it isnt even the most musically significant event taking place in hartlepool this week, given the aliens are playing at the studio "

another comment was he only come here for a pay day!!! WTF they was only 1000 people there, this was by far the smallest gig he was playing in the full tour.

i don't see many other artists/bands who are signed to a major label busting a bollock to play the town-fair play to him for playing here, even if the brough hall did not make a penny the local pubs/taxi companies/restaurants will of all had a increase in business that night, more money for our local economy, which i'm sure local business would be pleased of

we have a great venue there which should be used more to get signed acts playing there


no doubt we'll still have negitive comments on here as per usaul, getting more like the rivals board on here everyday,


walkies

Which headland based restaurants will have benefited?

The headland doesnt have any!

laugh away chip... but you know i'm right.

the beta band were a excellent band but don't try to make out in any way that the aliens are bigger than Morrissey, his world tour is sold out!!! world tour!!! the aliens will struggle to get 100 tonight, but i'll be one of them


walkies

They're Morrissey lyrics mate. But you in your infinite wisdom would know that wouldn't you?!?
You are entitled to your opinion, but why try to make others look small when people have posted that they've had a good time? You don't do it to your chums from the Clique when they've been so see Hugh Cornwell (legend btw) or other gigs.

I like The Aliens like. Not going tonight as I have other commitments but a proper good band.

Incidentally, why on earth is the Borough Hall not used for more gigs. It's one of the best venues i've ever been in and the only major artist i've seen in there is Morrissey (twice). I've actualy played there the same amount of times in 2 different bands!

what bands jish?

Just covers bands for charity functions. Sounds impressive though doesn't it?

Yeah fair play to Andy for trying to get good bands playing the town, but to be fair the fence collective have been playing hartlepool for the past 5 years and it's always the same faces who go to the gigs, Hartlepool as a town should be getting big acts i'm sick of having to go to Newcastle and boro if i want to see a band on tour, the brough hall/town hall and the studio are great venues which should be used better than what they are at present

and i went for something to eat before the Morrissey gig and seen around like alot of people who went to the gig eating in that bar in the grand hotel

walkies

just wondering if our paths had crossed, thats all - oh and would've had a listen an all....

my best mate on this board was at the morrissey gig, my daughter had tickets for it, as did her mother. my brother has seen him and the smiths a boatload of times, as have most of the people i have associated with at varying points in my life.

i have one smiths single and one album. i have no morrissey solo records. i'm very unlikely to recognise any of his lyrics.

i dont recall posting anything suggesting people would be smaller as a result of attending.

you started a musical thread about an artist on a message board and are now getting upset that people dont like him. i think the new conor oberst album is great but im not gonna lose sleep if other people on here think its a pile of shiit.

all i can say is that its a good job you dont like queen, the clash, radiohead, pink floyd or the white negroes.[/quote]

I like all of them bands

What i am trying to say is i cant understand the mentality of someone slating an event that they never even went to. Oh, you heard a bit outside. You must be right.

It might be the way of the message board to be deliberately antagonistic or maybe it's a cry for attention on your behalf. I honestly dont know.

You bang on about plenty of bands and I like most of them that you mention. Some of them, I don't (Oberst being one). I have never slated them and never would. Don't think anyone else has either.

Enjoy your tea!

Of his set list he does about 4 Smiths songs, the rest are solo works.

I went to see him at Manchester Apollo tonight and he was really good and I really enjoyed myself and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

It would seem that his music of 20 years ago is no longer relevant but his opinions from the same era are.

How strange......

Mr Gaunt did he have any special guest on stage with him last night?

I've got tickets for the fa cup net week, so going to go over to brixton on either friday or saturday night see if i can get a ticket outside,




walkies

He had no special guest with him on stage.

He had a very bizarre support act called Doll and The Kicks, the famale lead singer looked like Freddie Mercury from the neck down. And she had a giant bow on her head.

What were performers before performers started being iconic?

"good"

Everyone comes to footy on a wednesday wanting to be you... FACT!

What, wanting to be 29 years old again?

But inside we all know we can't BE him, don't we.

Having watched about 2 minutes of James Brown on BBC4 tonight I completely accept that some (probably most) ageing or aged stars should just forget it and go gardening. It was utter, utter rubbish. Let me just add that when his stuff was current, I thought it was great.

But not all artists suffer from the "same again" (properly called the Jagger) syndrome. Some do remain valid. For example I will not admit for a second that David Bowie has nothing new to offer. He has reinvented himself more times than probably any other artist in history. Why then should I think that now, suddenly, he is irrelevant when there are so many "young" pretenders who are totally popular but overwhelmingly irrelevant (did someone say Coldplay?).

Now, from a completely different point of view, take someone like Frank Sinatra. He didn't need to be relevant. The mere idea of his being relevant is irrelevant. He just *had* it, and it was unique. No one else alive could serve the same dish. Giving it up would have been tantamount to treason.

So there.

Who did?

Right!, see I've never heard of either Einsturzende Neubaten or showaddywaddy.

Changing tack a bit, did anyone go to Evolution yesterday? The bairn went and can't seem to decide to come home. I keep getting these phone calls....'I'm getting the 10 o'clock train'.....'I'm getting the 2 o'clock train'....'No, wait, it's the 3 o'clock train now.'

There wasn't any, as far as I know.
No doubt something turned up.