Cristian Garcia December 14th, 2024 - 6:15 PM
Over the summer, Smiths frontman Morrissey has stated his agreement to a “lucrative” 2025 Smiths reunion tour, but alleged that guitarist Johnny Marr “ignored” the offer.
In a recent article from NME, Morrissey went to call his ex-bandmate “insecure and fearful” over his snub of the reunion tour. Morrissey has explained why we wanted The Smiths to reunite for a live tour, claiming that I wasn’t to do with “any emotional attachment” he has to his former bandmate.
In the same article, it was reported in a new rare interview with Medium, Morrissey was asked if he was “really keen on sharing a stage” with Marr again, given the pair’s feud.
Morrissey went on to state:
I agreed because it felt like the last time such a thing would be possible. We’ve all begun to grow old. I thought the tour that was offered would be a good way of saying thank you for those who have listened for suddenly feels like a lifetime. It wasn’t because I had any emotional attachment to Mar. I have absolutely none. He seems to me to be just as insecure and fearful as he was during the 1980s. But he gains more press adoration by pretending to be The Smiths gatekeeper and custodian in isolation and as long as he is sitting in a corner complaining about me he has a pedestal which would disappear in the event of a reunion.
In the same interview, Morrissey reflected on his lengthy solo career while looking ahead to a future without a Smiths comeback.
The solo recordings are my ultimate pride and joy. I can’t ask for anything more from life than those songs. Smiths songs are powerful, but they are rooted in youth, whereas the solo songs address a world beyond Manchester. It had to be that way, somehow. A lot of people, I know, wanted me to remain as a spindle-shanked boy twirling around Manchester… but that would be ridiculous at my age.
Previously Marr has sent a press release over Morrissey’s previous comments regarding the failed reunion tour.
— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) September 17, 2024
Though as of now, no further comments were made on Marr’s behalf.
