Re-Release Bona Drag with Bonus Tracks, Morrissey

Morrissey has announced plans to re release Bona Drag with extra material, Morrissey celebrate the album's 20th anniversary. The original, 1990 LP compiled the best of the former Smiths frontman’s early solo work, much of which was unavailable on album. The release helped make him a solo star in the United States. Morrissey will re release a remastered version of Bona Drag, with six bonus, rare tracks. The singer has overseen the updated version of the album and directed the artwork. This will be the first release on the reinvigorated Major Minor Records, which has not put out an album since 1970.

Bona Drag re release track list

“Piccadilly Palare”

“Interesting Drug”

“November Spawned a Monster”

“Will Never Marry”

“Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference”

“The Last of the Famous International Playboys”

“Ouija Board, Ouija Board”

“Hairdresser on Fire”

“Everyday is Like Sunday”

“He Knows I’d Love to See Him”

“Yes, I am Blind”

“Lucky Lisp”

“Suedehead”

“Disappointed”

Bonus tracks:

“Happy Lovers at Last United”

“Lifeguard on Duty”

“Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness”

"Oh Phoney”

“The Bed Took Fire”

“Let the Right One Slip In”

In Statehouse Morrissey vies for 8th term

The Legislature has unfinished work, according to Bennington state Rep. Mary Morrissey, which is why she is seeking an eighth term in the Vermont House.
Morrissey, a Republican in the Bennington 2-2 district, said the past session presented considerable budget challenges because of the recession. Next session will feature similarly difficult budget woes. Yet, Morrissey said she is hoping to see the recovery through in an eighth term.
"I think there’s quite a bit of business that has been left undone," Morrissey said. "Each election cycle I seriously take the time to ... reassess where I am in my life and if my constituency would like me to return back. Quite honestly, this year, after coming off what was a relatively difficult session, I think I considered more kind of the good, the bad and the ugly of the session. I put my hat back in the ring to hopefully finish some of the work that needs to be done."
Morrissey said the economic downturn has led to a "real chance here to peel back the layers that government has put on" and determine how to move forward and "carve out how we’re going to serve our people, how we’re going to look at job creation and come out of what has been a very painful recession."
Lawmakers, in examining what services to provide, must also ensure that they serve Vermonters well, Morrissey said.
"I know my constituents strive to be able to really talk to someone. I know those are resources that we continue to look to cut back on and everyone will say, ‘Well, all states have.’ That’s why there needed to be an original plan. How do we see this getting done? What are the resources we need on the ground to actually serve our folks?"
Morrissey said she has concerns with Challenges for Change, an effort used by Republican Gov. James Douglas and the Legislature to make government more efficient.
Morrissey said agency commissioners and department heads should have been seeking efficiencies all along.
She said, "Efficiency and good government should be an everyday policy".
Morrissey said she would like to look the Legislature narrow the focus of legislation it passes. Lawmakers have taken to writing laws too broadly and in a way "that can be determined almost any which way you want it to be." She said constituents want to be assured that lawmakers have "done their homework" and have resources in place to pay for initiatives and laws they pass.
Helping connect constituents with people in state government who can help solve their problems has been the best part of the job, Morrissey said. "For me that’s a good day, when you’re able to make those connections or you’re able to work with someone hand in hand on issues you never, ever thought you were going to be dealing with," she said.
If re-elected, Morrissey said her constituents will continue to be her focus.
"The people are the government and I think we sometimes lose track of that. That’s what it should be about," she said. "The constituents are who I respond to. It’s not about a party. It shouldn’t be about a party."

Morrissey dispute with Managment.

Morrissey has issued a statement saying he has ceased working with his current management team.

The statement, posted on True-to-you.net distanced the singer from Front Line Management.

"Following consultation with my lawyers, I wish it to be known that I have terminated with immediate effect my association with Front Line Management (Irving Azoff, Andy Gould and Lil Gary), who no longer have any rights to issue any statements on my behalf," he declared. "I would also like to stress that I have no association with accountants appointed by Front Line, namely London & Co."

In December, Morrissey revealed that he is still without a record label at present, having parted company with Universal.

Morrissey Takes Aim at Damien Hirst Over Dead Animal Art

Morrissey has taken aim at controversial artist DAMIEN HIRST for using dead animals in his exhibitions. Hirst, who is famous for his rotting bull and a dead tiger shark set in formaldehyde, has appalled the staunch vegetarian singer/songwriter with his art for years and now Morrissey is speaking out.

In a new article in Interview magazine, the former The Smiths star suggests Hirst should have his head "kept in a bag" for the way he uses dead animals. He says, "I dislike the 'use' of animals in art, such as in the work of Damien Hirst... Dead butterflies, cows, horses, humans, sheep and sharks - it reads like the inventory of a funerary Noah. How many halved calves suspended in formaldehyde does the world need? To my way of thinking, none."

Faber editor bids to woo Morrissey to 'the House of Eliot'

A Faber editor has written an open letter to Morrissey pleading with the singer to bring his "much-rumoured memoir to the House of Eliot".

Lee Brackstone, editorial director at Faber, wrote that it would be "the fulfilment of my most pressing and persistent publishing dream" if Morrissey were to pick Faber as the publisher of his autobiography. The singer and former frontman of the Smiths revealed in late 2008 that he would be writing his memoirs in order to "[set] the record straight", and in November an essay from his forthcoming autobiography was published in The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, entitled "The Bleak Moor Lies".

Posting the open letter on Faber's company blog, Brackstone wrote that "forlorn as this hope may be, I can only fantasise that at least you might read my letter through and consider the pleasures and prestige of being an author at Faber, the last great family-owned independent publishing house in the western hemisphere".

"We love the perverse and the contrary at Faber," he continued. "And we also like to think we are the custodians of 20th-century Modernist poetry. In fact we are. Our shelves groan and bulge and spill over under the weight of Ezra, Larkin, Hughes and Heaney. And that's just the surface; deep as it may seem. We feel very strongly that you belong in this company."
Brackstone said this morning that he corresponded with Morrissey via fax around five years ago, "and he was definitely interested". "A year ago a few publishers here offered big money [for the singer's memoirs], there's been correspondence all over the place, and I'm pretty sure he's well away with it," Brackstone said. The letter, he added, was "a bit of fun, but at the same time we'd be desperately happy if it happened … It's worth a crack."

Some Morrissey fans responded positively to the post – "What a way to woo the talent, Lee, baby! You go, boy," wrote one; others described it as "a load of bum-snogging grovelling". Brackstone said he had intentionally written in "inflated, pretentious" language in an attempt to appeal to Morrissey's "more playful nature", but admitted that "there's a risk that it may just irritate him - that is if he even sees it".

After two songs Morrissey quits

Just two song MORRISSEY stormed off stage into his set last night after being struck by a plastic beaker of beer.
The final date the singer was playing of his UK tour in Liverpool when a fan threw the missile at him.
He was kneeling down at the front of the stage shaking hands with audience members when he was hit.
After standing up and wiping his face, Morrissey said "Goodbye" and quickly walked offstage, followed by his band.
The audience at the city's Echo Arena, who will be offered a full refund, were told 15 minutes later that the singer would not be finishing the show.
Last month the former SMITHS frontman pulled out of two shows after collapsing during a gig in Swindon.
He's due in Holland on Monday to begin the European leg of his tour.

Morrissey's gig in Brentwood for us

Morrissey Iconic British singer plays the Brentwood centre tonight and if you're going to see him we want to hear what you think of the gig.
The former Smiths frontman plays the Essex venue before dates in London and LIverpool and then heading off to Europe.
Morrissey collapsed at a gig in Swindon last month and had to cancel another date at Bournemouth the following night but looks set to resume his tour as planned this evening.
Tickets are still available on the door to see Morrissey who has just released a B sides collection, Swords, following up his Years of Refusal album earlier this year.
Send your thoughts on Morrissey's gig in Brentwood to go@essexchronicle.co.uk