Morrissey's Comedy Chums
Thanks heavens for a) youtube b) comedians with big egos and wonderful musical taste. Morrissey's Friday night gig at the Roundhouse last week came to an abrupt halt four songs into proceedings when the singer retired due to a serious frog in his throat. That wasn't the end of the matter though. Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand and David Walliams were at the gig and somehow – though I don't imagine they took much persuading – they ended up onstage trying to placate a packed house of disgruntled Mozza fans. Brand, whose cat is, fact fans, named Morrissey, did his best to silence the unruly mob but he was fighting a losing battle from the start. It wasn't as if he was hijacking the gig for his own rampant self-publicising mic-hogging reasons, oh no, he was simply trying to explain the situation.
Jonathan Ross then chipped in to tell people to keep their tickets to claim refunds but instead of being the voice of reason only made the situation worse by suggesting that David Walliams would compensate the audience by doing "20 minutes of I'm A Lady." In the end the trio scarpered and who can blame them? I haven't seen anyone on the sharp end of so many boos since Ceausescu attempted to silence an angry mob from his balcony in the dying days of his Romanian regime.
Of course, rather than keep quiet about the whole embarrassing affair, Jonathan Ross turned it into a very good anecdote on his Radio 2 morning show on Saturday and then Russell Brand offered his version of events on his radio show in the evening. And thanks to the power of cameraphones and the interweb, you can see for yourself what happened here.
Wow. Talk about adding insult to injury.
Posted by: Swineshead | 29/01/2008 at 04:25 PM
This reminds me of the Boston show in which he had the same problem. He sang for about a half hour, then left the stage. It was announced that he would not return, it was almost a 100 degree day during a heatwave we were having, I was in the front row, dead center and had to be around 115 at this outdoor venue on the Harbor. As you can expect, the crowd became disgruntled, but was told to hold our stub's and would be informed on what to do. The show reschedule a few weeks later on a much more pleasant night, he was in fine form and very gracious. So instead of having 90 min. show, we were treated to over 2hrs. between the 2 shows. I had enough of the front row from the previous show, and decided to sit 20 rows back and allowed more fans from the farther rows back the opportunity to get close up for pictures with my stub. I was lucky in two aspects that night, to see the show and more importanly the smiles on the faces of those who went to the front, in which one girl came back with part of his shirt.
She gave one of the biggest hugs I ever felt. {:~)
Posted by: Countmontabonn | 01/02/2008 at 02:52 AM