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Artist News
Morrissey hospitalised as Joyce talks Smiths reunion interest
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 28 January 2013
Morrissey was hospitalised in Detroit on Friday with a suspected bladder infection, causing a number of shows on the singer’s US tour to be cancelled. A Thursday night show had already been pulled, seemingly because of illness in his band, and a Friday night gig in Minneapolis and Saturday show in Chicago were also pulled once Morrissey himself had been diagnosed with the bladder condition. It’s not yet clear when the singer will be able to resume with his American tour.
Though while he’s in his hospital bed, Mozza will be able to contemplate recent comments from his former bandmate Mike Joyce who apparently told The Sun he’d be rather up for a Smiths reunion. As previously reported, following the customary Smiths reunion rumours that circulated last year, heightened by the return of fellow Mancunian reunion hold outs The Stone Roses, both Morrissey and Johnny Marr denied they had any interest to revisit their old band.
But Joyce told The Sun: “It would sound great. I’m a better player than I was. Morrissey’s voice is still incredible, Johnny is playing great. With the equipment and PA systems 30 years on, if we got up on stage and played, it would sound incredible. A promoter asked me, ‘Why don’t you just do it? It would make millions of people happy’. I said, ‘You’re asking the wrong man’. I don’t think about it every day. But if they asked me, I’d probably say yes. If you put everyone in the same room, it’s amazing how things can turn around”.
Hmm, we might have to take Joyce’s name off The Smiths’ recent CMU Artists Of The Year trophy.
