And talking of Manchester types, Morrissey is expected to confirm a thirty date UK tour shortly, to coincide with the release of new album 'Ringleader Of The Tormentors' sometime in the Spring. A preceding single, 'You Have Killed Me', is slated for a March release.
According to one Morrissey website, the tour will include four homecoming gigs in different venues around Manchester. Other such websites have been rife with speculation that the singer might reunite with a couple of his old bandmates at that previously reported Manchester gig to raise money for cancer hospital Christie's, at which Johnny Marr and concert organiser Andy Rourke are planning to play together. Such rumours are, of course, unsubstantiated, and have been roundly denied.