Jakarta and Jardigans

While I clumsily drop toast plates and talk to ducks in the park, I've been keeping my eye on updates from Morrissey's Asian tour. I'm so pleased for some of my Twitter friends who have been waiting with such anticipation to see him on Indonesian soil, as Morrissey just landed in Jakarta yesterday. I'm also getting a bit of a giggle out of the fact that some people are staying in a hotel called the Morrissey Hotel - where even the shower caps have 'Morrissey' written on them (surely this is nearly heaven?).

Morrissey Hotel in Jakarta

This morning I was treated to photos and videos of Morrissey arriving at the airport behind Boz, who was pushing a massive cardboard box on a luggage trolly.  Morrissey's nephew Sam was also there, snapping photos in a Jesse Tobias t-shirt. I've never seen anyone look as dashing as Morrissey does at the airport! I usually look like a stale, frazzled, dazzled, confused disaster - more often than not walking in the wrong direction (I am spatially inept). Some very lucky people got photographs and autographs - which is why I try to carry a sharpie with me when I travel on a Morrissey tour, because you just never know. Sadly, the only famous person I've ever seen at an airport is pornographer Ron Jeremy looking terrifically unwashed; no... I didn't recognize him from his films... and no... I didn't go say hello. 

Signing autographs (SER representing TOBIAS) (photo via deny_dean)

Meeting fans (photo via dewadeasywalda on Instagram)

I've also just finally started diving into the Uncut magazine I bought in Manchester in August. I'm particularly delighted by the two-page spread of Morrissey's letters to music mags from the 70's and early 80's. It's nice to have a lot of them in one place (see also here for archives: http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/magazines-presmiths.htm ) It takes me back to an image of him writing in his bedroom at the house on Kings Road. If you're wondering, the wit has always been there, and so has his enviable arsenal of adjectives, and of course, a cheeky blazing bite. He does have a way with words.  

Uncut Magazine and my cat-print pants

Here are some of my favourite excerpts:

On the Sex Pistols:

"The bumptiuos Pistols in jumble sale attire had those few that attended dancing in the aisles despite their discordant music and barely audible lyrics... I'd love to see the Pistols make it. Maybe then they will be able to afford some clothes which don't look as though they've been slept in." (to NME, 1976)

On the Buzzcocks:

"Buzzcocks differ in only one way from their contemporaries! - they possess a spark of originality (that was important once, remember?), and their music gives you the impression they spent longer than the customary ten minutes clutching the quill in preparation to write...

...Both this letter and Buzzcocks themselves will probably be filed and forgotten.

But for now, they are only the best kick-ass rock band in the country. Go and see them first and then you  may have the audacity to contradict me, you stupid sluts."  (to NME, 1977)

and what a way to sign a letter... 

" P.S. I work for the Inland Revenue - am I still allowed to be a punk?" (NME, 1977)

Still allowed to be a punk?

In other news, I also made a breathtaking discovery while drinking the most bitter Malbec imaginable and perusing Instagram the other night.  It appears that a few years ago, Moz was spotted wearing - oooh the palpable excitement as I type this - a jacket-type-cardigan thing. Since it was not my birthday anymore, this was like a late birthday present!  Some of you (I know there are others so fixated on luscious layering items) may remember earlier in the year Morrissey appeared at LAX carrying a dazzling sweater-y number over his arm and the stir it created on Twitter as I made a poll trying to discern if this item was in fact a jacket, cardigan, or 'jardigan' (a seemingly original phrase I thought I had coined, but woefully did not). Lamentably, jardigan did not win, and nor did cardigan. 

Below is the LAX photo from this May:

Well, never fear because jardigan strikes again - albeit from the past - and I knew I had to grab the chance to create a second poll with this newly discovered photo:

Oh my goodness... SO, thanks to a few retweets, this poll ended up amassing over 200 votes. and... Jardigan won quite handily with 51% of the votes:

Goosebumps and gloriousness! Well it's not too long until Morrissey's concert in Jakarta. I might update this with a few photos and the setlist later.

*UPDATE w/ setlist:

"My heart... my heart... my heart... Jakarta"*

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Moz: "Do you like Donald Trump?"

Audience: "NOOO"

Moz: "Did you know that world peace is none of your business?"*

*(concert quotes from @madesarimame & @rapplerID)

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SETLIST:
(October 12th, Jakarta)


1. Suedehead
2. Alma Matters
3. Everyday Is Like Sunday
4. Kiss me A Lot
5. Speedway
6. Ouija Board, Ouija Board
7. Let Me Kiss You
8. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
9. I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
10. You're The One For Me, Fatty
11. Judy Is A Punk
12. Jack The Ripper
13. Ganglord
14. First Of The Gang To Die
15. The Bullfighter Dies
16. The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
17. How Soon Is Now?
18. You Have Killed Me
19. Meat Is Murder

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