Johnny Marr has confirmed Morrissey's previously reported revelation that the former members of The Smiths were offered a great deal of money to reform for last year's Coachella, but has intimated that the band have been offered even sillier amounts of money to reform elsewhere.
Morrissey, of course, claimed that the group was offered $5m to play at the Californian festival. Marr has now written on his official website: "I don't really want to get into figures, but yes, I was made an offer for the Smiths to reform at Coachella. I was also offered twice as much for us to play in New York, Hyde Park and God knows where else."
It's never going to happen, obviously. In that previously reported interview with Uncut magazine, Morrissey said, rather bitterly: "It has been 18 years since it ended; I don't know them, they don't know me, they know nothing about me, I know nothing about them. Anything I know about them is unpleasant, so why on earth do we want to be on stage together making music? I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian."
What could possibly be so unpleasant about that lovely Johnny Marr? Hmm?