Morrissey - April 17, 2009 - Indio, CA, USA (Full Concert) LIVE

Recorded Live at Coachella Music Festival, Indio, CA, USA, April 17, 2009. Tour of Refusal - American Leg. / mozutd Artwork & Information: Passionsjustlikemine.com
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Setlist:
This Charming Man
First Of The Gang To Die
Black Cloud
Girlfriend In A Coma
Irish Blood, English Heart
How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
When Last I Spoke To Carol
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
Seasick, Yet Still Docked
The Loop
Sorry Doesn't Help
Ask
Let Me Kiss You
How Soon Is Now?
Festival appearances are rarely the ideal setting for the Morrissey experience and Coachella 2009 was no exception. It looked like the whole set was a struggle for Morrissey: microphone or playback difficulties, the smell of meat being cooked nearby (read further), the 20-foot gap between stage and crowd making contact impossible, and the lack of interest of a crowd mostly there for Paul McCartney (scheduled to play after Morrissey). Despite all this Morrissey gave the best of himself and many fans were still happy with his performance.
This being a festival appearance, Morrissey was probably only allotted one hour. So the set was trimmed down to 15 song and the titles that got the axe were "Billy Budd", "Best Friend On The Payroll", "Something Is Squeezing My Skull", "I Keep Mine Hidden", "One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell" and "I'm OK By Myself".
As Morrissey walked on stage he greeted the audience with a shout of "Hola!" then the request "Can I serenade you? (crowd: yeah!)... I'll try..." For the first time since the opening date of this tour "First Of The Gang To Die" was not slotted as the encore. This meant that Morrissey wasn't distracted by the struggle between security and the fans trying to get on stage and managed to sing the lyrics properly. This didn't stop him from pulling back an old lyric change: "the first lod lad to go where else?, under the sod" Over the closing bars of the song he repeated the evening's greeting: "Can I serenade you? Yes? No? Yes-no-yes-no!...." Then after the song he teasingly asked the crowd "Are you standing uncomfortably? (crowd: yes!) Good!"
Starting with "Black Cloud" Morrissey was seen pulling faces and covering his ear, a sign that he was having difficulty hearing himself properly. After the song he said "Thank you, you're very gracious, thank you..." then introduced "Girlfriend In A Coma" with the words "Our chanson, our love song..." He ended the song with the slightly alternate "let me whisper my final goodbye, goodbye..." He then addressed the subject that was troubling him: "Is the sound ok?... It's rough up here... I'll try and imagine... I'm trying..." He playfully changed lines in "Irish Blood, English Heart" to "I've been dreaming of a time when when? when? when?" and "denounce this stupid royal line that still salute him and they will salute him for ever, what? what? what?"
Over the opening bars of "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?" Morrissey said "A friend, a friend..." He was even more playful with the latter number's lyrics, usually a sign that he was getting bored with it. He sang "they said they respect me, really!?", "they said they want to befriend me, befriend me!?", "the future is passing me by" and "I would never be you, officer". In "When Last I Spoke To Carol" he followed the line "I can't pretend it gets easier" with "it doesn't". At the very end of the song keyboardist Kristopher mistakenly played the "We told you!" sample usually heard in "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?".
After "When Last I Spoke To Carol", as the smell of barbequed meat from nearby food stands wafted through the air, Morrissey complained, "I can smell burning flesh and I hope to God it's human..." Over the opening bars of following number "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" he looked disgusted and made retching noises. His heart was not in the song at all. He ad-libbed "some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers, apparently" and struggled with the additional live-only verse, singing "on the shop floor, there's a calendar, and it's pointing... as if you didn't know..." Then at some point he decided he had had enough and left the stage while his band finished the song. There was a moment of panic in the crowd when fans were afraid Morrissey would not return. But the singer eventually did, and explained, "The smell of burning animals is making me sick... I can't bear it..."
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