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Gigs & Festivals
Entire Morrissey South America tour is now off
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 22 July 2013
So Morrissey’s entire Latin American tour is off, though not because of that bout of food poisoning that forced initial dates to be axed.
As previously reported, when news broke earlier this month that the one time Smiths man had fallen ill after eating some dodgy pasta, the promoter of his shows in Peru said the entire Morrissey South America tour was off. But organisers of later dates on the tour quickly disputed that announcement, and it seemed like the venture would resume. Until the singer himself announced via the True To You website this weekend that all dates were now cancelled, the later gigs due to financial issues.
In typically melodramatic fashion, Morrissey writes: “I am informed today that the projected tour of South America is snuffed out, thus euthanized – due, I’m reliably advised, to lack of funding. It’s quite easy to sell tickets, yet impossible to transport band and crew from F to G”.
Noting his various illnesses earlier in the year and his food poisoning earlier in the month, which together have led to the cancellation of a lot of shows, the singer continues: “In a year when far too many disappointments have been buried this really is the last of many final straws, and I am not alone in feeling this. The future is suddenly absent, and my apologies are now so frequent as to be somewhat ridiculous, and it is I who apologise because no one else would bother. It is agonizing to be responsible for imparting such news – especially when it springs upon me unexpectedly and inexplicably”.
Seemingly unable to see any light at the end of the tunnel after recent woes, he goes on: “The collapse of South America rings the curtain down with a colossal thud, and the major problems remain as insoluble now as they were in 2009. The obvious conclusion stares back at me from the mirror, and the wheels are finally off the covered wagon. Cancellations and illness have sucked the life out of all of us, and the only sensible solution seems to be the art of doing nothing. As always I ask your pardon, and I offer pangs of overwhelming love and gratitude to the band and the crew, whose loyalty stretched above and beyond”.
Some are now suggesting that the reference to “the obvious conclusion” is a masked announcement that Morrissey is retiring. Or maybe he’s decided it’s time to reform The Smiths.
