Morrissey at The Observatory San Diego- 2nd Show Added

So, that little Morrissey show at the Observatory went on sale at 10 am today and sold out rather quickly, so we've got a 2nd show for you to try your luck again in case you didn't get your tickets to the first one. Tickets go on sale TODAY, Friday, July 17, at 2pm. Here's some inside news: West Coast Tavern will become a vegetarian restaurant while Moz is in town. Anyway, get your tickets because I can't help you.

MORRISSEY at The Observatory North Park

Friday August 21, 2015

All Ages

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm

Get your tickets here.

Just Announced: Morrissey at The Observatory North Park

If you pay attention to music in San Diego. this announcement shouldn't come as a surprise thanks to a BandsInTown and a Morrissey fansite leak, however, it is true that Morrissey is coming to The Observatory. The show is on August 20. It is all ages, tickets are $85 general admission standing, and they go on sale Friday at 10am. Make sure you have your Ticketweb account active when the clock ticks 10am and make your selections quickly. Remember, with a 4 ticket limit it only takes fewer than 300 ticket transactions to sell it out. There is no artist/fan presale, there are no ticket holds, and I don't have a special link for you to jump the line to get tickets or for comps or anything else of the sort. I will say that you should reread my post about shows selling out so you recognize the need to refresh again and again whenever you get that "no tickets available at this time" message.  

Morrissey at The Observatory North Park

August 20

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm

All Ages

TICKETS $85

Morrissey To Perform Birthday Show at Valley View Casino Center

After a sold out show at the Escondido Center for the Performing Arts in November, six months later (to the day) on May 22, Morrissey will return to San Diego to play at the Valley View Casino Center. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, April 6 at 10 am via Ticketmaster, but you can use the same link for presale tickets available on Thursday from 10am-10pm with the promo code: AEG2012

Morrissey Ticket Presale This Thursday

Last week Morrissey announced tourdates, including November 22 at California Center For the Arts, Escondido. Tickets go onsale this Friday at 10am, but you can catch the presale here starting on Thursday at 10am. Password is AEG2011. Tickets are $55 + $11.85 in fees.

Nov. 10 Chicago, IL - Congress Theater
Nov. 14 San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre
Nov. 15 Austin, TX - Bass Hall
Nov. 17 Dallas, TX - McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
Nov. 19 Santa Fe, NM - Santa Fe Center
Nov. 20 Phoenix, AZ - Orpheum Theatre
Nov. 22 Escondido, CA - Center for the Arts
Nov. 25 Las Vegas, NV - The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Nov. 26 Los Angeles, CA - Shrine Auditorium
Nov. 28 Pomona, CA - Fox Theater
Dec. 1 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater

YouTube: Morrissey "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris"

It's a little funny to me to get a press release about Morrissey because, well, he's Morrissey. But I got one and I decided it was worth posting because I really like the new song. His ninth solo album is being released next Tuesday via Staunch/Lost Highway. Morrissey is hitting the road, but unfortunately the closest he'll be getting to San Diego will be his Coachella performance, but we know he likes to keep his fans south of the border happy, so perhaps he'll hit the San Diego or Tijuana region later this year. He'll be on the cover of the latest issue of Filter Magazine so make sure to pick one up. Judging by the song titles, I am going to LOVE this album. Too bad it won't be out before Valentine's Day.

Morrissey "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris"




Track list of Years of Refusal:

1. Something Is Squeezing My Skull
2. Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed
3. Black Cloud
4. I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
5. All You Need Is Me
6. When Last I Spoke to Carol
7. That’s How People Grow Up
8. One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell
9. It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore
10. You Were Good In Your Time
11. Sorry Doesn’t Help
12. I’m OK By Myself

Morrissey In LA- Canceled Shows

I just got word that the Morrissey show tonight and Thursday at the Hollywood Palladium have been canceled. The cause was a broken water pipe in the venue. I believe tickets will be refundable at point of purchase but I imagine they can be exchanged for shows later in the week when they resume. I'll dig around for info, but I'm just putting the word out as I just heard it from Morrissey's manager.

Presale-Morrissey At Viejas Concerts at Bayside!

Morrissey pre-sale tickets go onsale at 10 am Thursday, March 29. (on TicketBastard)

The password for all shows is "GreatestHits" (according to Brooklyn Vegan).

Monday Newsy Bits

Finally, some information about the Morrissey on-sale:
Morrissey With special guest Kristeen Young
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Viejas Concerts at Bayside
On sale Saturday, March 31 at 10am

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Who knew? NME reports that Victor Willis, the "police officer" from The Village People was arrested this weekend in San Diego for choking his girlfriend and threatening her with a knife. Really when I read this I was just puzzled. Girlfriend? I thought the whole thing with the Village People was that they were gay. Guess not.
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Tony Lovato, singer of pop punk band Mest, has been arrested. He allegedly stabbed and killed his ex-girlfirend's new boyfriend. His bail has been set at a million dollars. An old friend of mine was the manager of Mest a long time ago and a couple times they'd come to San Diego (usually with Goldfinger) and I hung out with them. Not really enough to make a judgment, but seemed like a cool enough kid. Any way you look at this news really, its just tragic.
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Thursday Newsy Bits

According to True To You, a Morrissey Zine, all tickets for Morrissey's forthcoming US tour will be onsale on 31st March.
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I love blogs. I love blogging. I love when I write about a band's performance, and then that band turns around and writes about the show. Case in point, a couple weeks ago I wrote a band called Modern State that played at Scolari's that I liked. A lot. Well, here's what Modern State has to say about that night:

march 13, san diego, california @ scolari’s office

still in the den of
evil that is all of southern califirnia, san diego has at least a few redeeming
qualities. notably, burritos and the many nice folks who live there. truly, what
separates many a shit-hole from another lies entirely in the mentality of a
place. whatever it is, i have experienced san diegans to be consistently good
folks over the years.

scowling behind the bar when we arrived, ritchie
(or the easier to remember t-bone, if you prefer) became a free-beer slingin’
superstar once he realized we were the out-of-towners on the bill. praise be. i
was a little worried about the show at first, no other bands having been asked
to play it at about 3 weeks to go, so i sent out some emails to the few san
diego rockers i know. and it worked out. big thanks to rafter and andrew for the
good words...

Not bad considering his disdain for SoCal (typical of Portland). You should see what he says about LA.
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I don't really go outta my way to write about what I think you should listen to, but there are a few bands that I really think you should at least listen to on MySpace and at least consider attending their shows.

The first is Pop Noir. An unsigned band from LA, the band has been called the band to watch in The Rockit Magazine, a tastemaker mag in LA. Have a listen to their songs on MySpace. They've got some good indie/electro songs and will be perfect for Morgan's birthday before we are wowed by Silverbird.

On Sunday, I'm actually skipping out on my boys in Swim Party to head to Brick by Brick for The Small Hours. I have a weakness for Brits (even though only have the band is British), what can I say? I also really like Brick By Brick as a venue and want to show up in a small way to encourage more of the indie rock bookings and less of the cover band and metal stuff. Plus, it's only $5. Words you never thought you'd see me type, right?
I'm taking a 3 day weekend so I hope to see everyone out. I'll be posting between all the fun so check back in.

Morrissey At Viejas Concerts at Bayside!

Add Morrissey to the artists playing Viejas Concerts at Bayside at the Embarcadero. The show will be June 3, 2007. Kristeen Young will open all shows. No word on pre-sale dates, but when they go on sale BUY THEM FAST because everyone knows the BIGGEST Morrissey fans live south of the border and those tickets will be gone quickly.

Random Tidbits/Anti Monday Recap

1. Morrissey has scheduled three solo dates in Pasadena. The shows will be Feb 1-3 and tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10 a.m.

2. Contrary to the SignOnSanDiego teaser about Lady Sovereign, she is not "back at the House of Blues for the second time in three months". Her other show here was cancelled because she brokedown. Maybe she'll breakdown again when she finds out that even when the same tickets had 3 more months to sell, they were still offered for 2 for Tuesdays on the HoB site, whick means you could buy 2 Lady Sov tickets for the low price of $13 (plus $999 in rip-off HoB service charges). I've mentioned that I had a nightmare with "Love Me Or Hate Me" as the soundtrack, so there is no question that I will NOT be at the show tonight. That's what I get for repeatedly watching The Bad Girls Club on the Oh! Network. But how can I resist? It's only like the best reality show EVER!

3. Cool Merch watch: Vena Cava has the best shirts ever. (after you click the link, scroll down for t-shirt demonstration)

4. My lovely amigo Troy Johnson has been blogging lately. Check it out here.

Last night brought the long awaited arrival of Tim Pyles' Anti-Monday League. I feel like I've been helping to promote the hell out of this show, so if people didn't show up, I was gonna take it personal. To my surprise, not only did people show, but it was pretty crowded. Definitely more people than I ever remember at Poprocks. I hadn't really even paid attention at the hodgepodge lineup until I was at the show. The Strikers are metal-cum-psychobilly and were pretty damn good and got the few of us who showed up early lubed for a night of good music. The bassist played a standup bass ("painted like the Batmobile" according to Jason) and as they played their version of Wooly Bully, he proceeded to hump his bass in that jackhammer way that is a nightmare to all women and resurrects bad flashbacks of college. Or maybe that's just me. Nonetheless, I thought they put on a good show and if the fast hard rock stuff is your cup of tea, you should check them out on Saturday at Dream Street.

By the time Fifty took the stage, more people had arrived though it really was a testament more to the fact that everyone loves Tim and wanted to support his endeavors more than anything else. Everyone who matters was at the show. That was a joke. Really. But it was cool to see all the people who turned up...Bart Mendoza, Troy Johnson, Edgartronic, O from Reeve Oliver, Irwin of Irwin's Conspiracy, ChickRawker, CatDirt & CDWife (after Timberlake, of course), the SDSC crew of Neil, Rodney, and Jason, Laura Jane (host of the upcoming Indie Music Fest), Mel, Nick and Adrian of Republic of Letters, MC Flow, and whoever that awesome guy was that bought me a drink at the end of the night. I didn't catch his name but he gets the gold star. I know there were a bunch of other local musicians represented but I don't know all of 'em.

Anyway, Fifty did their thing and the sound was loud but the vox still audible which to me, makes or breaks their shows. The crowd seemed genuinely into the music and you would've been hard pressed to find anyone there who wasn't enjoying themselves. FOTH brand of Pistols inspired punk is fun and energizing and it's always funny to see Junior try to work out a new place for him to climb while onstage.

I escaped to a pool table for a few games with Nick until Vinyl Radio started. I have no journalistic integrity because I love these guys so there definitely might be a conflict of interest, but I was a fan first and friend second so I can still say that I love Matt's onstage presence and the blues driven classic rock feel of their material. I mentioned that I've heard the new recordings and the forthcoming album is gonna be strong. Morgan Young filled in on drums (not the dude from Brian Jonestown Massacre as reported here) and I know that the band wishes he were a permanent fixture. Their quest to find a permanent drummer continues.

Following along? That is psychobilly to punk to rock. This had me concerned because I really liked what I'd heard of Peter and The Wolf, but didn't think the crowd would stick around for folkie indie music. And more or less, I was right. Maybe it was because it was Monday night, maybe people didn't want the change of pace, or maybe that the band isn't local made them easier to dismiss, but I am glad I stuck around for their performance.

I had heard tracks from Peter and the Wolf from a radio broadcast and was expecting a guy and a chick with a guitar and maybe a single snare or something. In no way was I prepared for 8 guys taking the stage, all with various improvised instruments. The singer fronted with a duct taped guitar. I didn't notice any other traditional instruments. One guy played a bicycle rim and the spokes with a drumstick. One guy played a six pack of empty beer bottles in their little cardboard carrier with a drumstick. There were pots and pans and lids and spatulas and shakers and all kinds of random stuff. I felt like I was watching the indie rock version of Stomp without the lame interpretive dance. Unfortunately the crowd thinned out and it seemed there were more people onstage than in the crowd, but those of us paying attention were stoked by what we saw. The band would've benefitted from a more indie billing, I think, like with Kite Flying Society or similar, but for their first show in SD, I hope they felt the trip was worthwhile.

That's all I've got for now. New calendar to be posted later.