26 April - Morrissey and Sons & Daughters @ Greenock Town Hall.

This tour was to promote Morrisseys latest album "Ringleaders of the Tormentors", which debuted at number 1 recently. I do like the new album, but it just seems like more of the same and there doesn't seem to be anything new, but its still growing on me and I am enjoying it. That said, a few years ago it seemed that we'd never have any new Morrissey material so we should be overjoyed by every new released and on the whole I'd say I am.

Sons and Daughters opened tonight and they were excellent. I'd seen the support Franz Ferdinand at the QMU before but they've come on leaps and bounds since then and I must admit that I could watch and listen to lead singer Adele Bethel all night. They played a few new songs, which also sounded great, although Johnny Cash was the highlight for me, what a top song.

This tour follows the last with s few dates in Town Halls. I like these quirky dates and rather than buy tickets for the Carling Academy in Glasgow decided to travel to Greenock Town Hall instead. These gigs seem to be more intimate and different than normal big venues and this was no exception.

The set list was exactly the same as that of the first night of the tour in Manchester and was;

'First Of The Gang To Die'
'Still Ill'
'You Have Killed Me'
'I Just Want To See The Boy Happy'
'The Youngest Was The Most Loved'
'My Life Is A Succession Of People Saying Goodbye'
'Reader Meet Author'
'Girlfriend In A Coma'
'To Me You Are A Work Of Art'
'I Will See You In Far Off Places'
'At Last I Am Born'
'Let Me Kiss You'
'Trouble Loves Me'
'A Song From Under The Floorboards'
'How Soon Is Now'
'Life Is A Pigsty'
'Irish Blood, English Heart'

It was a really good night but Mozza gigs are a bit predicatble now and aren't as special as they used to be, but I'm sure that won't stop me seeing him again this year at some point, of that I have no doubt.

Al