The Morrissey Farce: Warsaw Stodoła 17th November 2014

So where do we start with the farce from last night?

Well, after a mildly entertaining 30-minute documentary-type show featuring the New York Dolls; Electric Chairs; and (surprise, surprise) a blood-horned bull, the crowd at Warsaw Stodoła were 'treated' to a 25-30 minute/6-song set starting with The Smiths classic:  'The Queen Is Dead':

During this half an hour, Morrissey looked quite energetic and, dare I say it, cheerful:

My favourite tune from the shortest set I've ever seen by a headline act anywhere?  That would have to be 'World Peace Is None of Your Business'. But, of course, in the rational world, none of this compensates for the nonsense that was to come.

Reading a bit between the lines here: Morrissey tries to give some kind of speech, a guy shouts something seemingly innocuous/inaudible out, and Morrissey, with a pained-looking expression on his face, retreats from his speech, goes through with a tune, but exits the stage left before the end of it, leaving his bandmates to finish the tune off (with them then looking equally as perplexed as the audience afterwards):

Then the band members went off stage for a while, then came back on demanding that the person responsible for upsetting Morrissey had to leave the building or the show wouldn't continue.  My friend Pete comically observed that all of this was done through an 'odious American voice'.

But the 'fun and laughter' was far from over.  After a guy had voluntarily left for allegedly offending Morrissey, the latter still didn't appear, and a daft-looking conference ensued at the front of the stage:

Then, even the daft-looking conference disappeared from the stage, and the poor souls in the crowd were left solely with a backdrop for 'entertainment':

Soon after this, it became apparent that the show wouldn't go on, and the crowd retreated to the bar, some feeling cheated, others trying to make excuses for a (hyper-) sensitive genius.  Guess I would be in the former camp.

And the farce continues:  today, I've heard that all of us from last night have been offered a free ticket for the Kraków show tomorrow night.  All what I can say here is that they just seem to think that we're all idiots.