Recorded Live at Palladium, London, England, UK, May 14, 2006. Tour of the Tormentors - British Leg. / mozutd Artwork & Information: Passionsjustlikemine.com
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Setlist:
You Have Killed Me
How Soon Is Now?
First Of The Gang To Die
I Will See You In Far Off Places
To Me You Are A Work Of Art
In The Future When All's Well
Girlfriend In A Coma
The Youngest Was The Most Loved
Let Me Kiss You
Life Is A Pigsty
On The Streets I Ran
Still Ill
Trouble Loves Me
Ganglord
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
At Last I Am Born
This gig started really well and Morrissey seemed relaxed, chatty, funny and on good form. The audience was not the most energetic, but this didn't seem to have an effect on Morrissey. About two thirds of the way in, he started pulling pained faces, sticking his finger in his ear and asking the audience if they could hear him. He was clearly unhappy about the sound quality. Meanwhile to the audience everything appeared to be fine. What Morrissey didn't know at that point was that one of the stage monitors had started malfunctioning (he did find out what the problem was, the next night in Cardiff he kissed the monitor as soon as he got on stage). Morrissey probably thought that the audience was hearing what he heard and this seemed to affect his confidence quite badly for a while, although he was getting nothing but good vibes from the crowd. He seemed to sag for some time, although he perked up again towards the end. He didn't storm off or seem angry at the end - he threw his shirt into the crowd - but he never came back to perform an encore.
The fan favourite "Trouble Loves Me" was reintroduced in the setlist replacing part timer "The Father Who Must Be Killed". "Irish Blood, English Heart" was scheduled to be played for the encore, but because of the technical difficulties mentioned above, Morrissey never returned to the stage to do it.
Morrissey came on stage with his shirt tied in a knot in front of his middle and, seeing the audience cheering him, exclaimed "Me!?" Then as the first notes to opener "You Have Killed Me" were heard, he asked "Why? Why?" He was feeling playful and changed lines in the song to "Piazza Cavour, what the hell's my body for?" and "There's no point saying this again... why not?" After the song came his real greeting in the form of "Here I am, home at last!"
After "First Of The Gang To Die", Morrissey announced "Well very surprisingly, or perhaps not, 20 years ago I stood on this stage, and... of course none of you were here then... You were all listening to Phil Collins... but I forgive you!" After "I Will See You In Far Off Places", he asked "Anything else to say?". Then after "To Me You Are A Work Of Art" he returned to the earlier subject and used it to introduce the next song on the setlist, "In The Future When All's Well": "And, the difference between that night 20 years ago and this night is that it's now in the future, and all's well!"
Before going into "Girlfriend In A Coma" Morrissey announced "Well Floyd Patterson is gone..." This didn't get any reaction from the audience who was probably unaware of who the man was (heavyweight boxing champion who made history multiple times in the sport of boxing) so Morrissey continued "...in complete silence like that". After the song he teased the audience: "You're not really supposed to like those kinds of songs... because they're very depressing... very etc etc... (crowd boos) ...and they don't deserve to be played on the radio, blah blah blah blah". He was interrupted by the siren that kicks off "The Youngest Was The Most Loved" and said "Oh I see... excuse me!"
After the latter song Morrissey announced "That's our new single, and the great news of the week is that we have heard that not only will Radio One not play the single but also Virgin Radio have said they will not play the single... (crowd boos loudly, Morrissey changes tone to one of frustration) What the fuck do you have to do to get played on the radio?" In "Let Me Kiss You" Morrissey changed a line to "I hear that you'll try anyone twice". After the song he felt he needed to apologise for swearing "I apologise, I shouldn't have said the F-word, that was horrible... and (for) silly things that don't matter. Agree? (crowd: no!) So you don't agree? (crowd sends mixed response) So what do you agree with then? So I should say the F-word all the time? (crowd cheers loudly) But this is the London Palladium! Billy Dainty stood here! Ken Dodd stood there! Danny La Rue stood there! Jimmy Krankie stood here!"
For the first time on this tour Morrissey didn't introduce the band.
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