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Icelandic venue denies refusing Morrissey’s meat-free menu demands
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 6 February 2015
Earlier this week, Morrissey announced that he had decided to cancel a show in Iceland, after the venue had refused to go meat-free on the day of his performance. However, the venue has now denied that claim, saying negotiations hadn’t reached anything like that stage.
As previously noted, the announcement was strange because no Iceland show featured on the singer’s tour itinerary at that point. But he said, via his True To You fansite: “I love Iceland and I have waited a long time to return, but I shall leave the Harpa Concert Hall to their cannibalistic flesh-eating bloodlust”.
A spokesperson for the Harpa in Reykjavík has now told CMU that it had never been asked to serve a vegetarian-only menu, or spoken directly with Morrissey’s people at all.
“There had only been some negotiations between Morrissey’s people and an Icelandic promoter (not Harpa, the venue), and they were aiming for the end of March”, said the spokesperson. “But it never got so far that we here in Harpa were asked to fulfil any demands. The answer is therefore that the concert had never been booked, confirmed or announced”.
Presumably next time Morrissey tours, he’ll just announce all the venues where he isn’t playing and leave us to work out the rest for ourselves.
