Morrissey has announced that he will be performing two shows in Las Vegas next month.
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The solo icon and former Smiths frontman is set to perform a two-night run at the House Of Blues inside Mandalay Bay on July 26 and 27. A ticket pre-sale will be available for fans who use the code CHORD on June 6 at 10am local time. General ticket sales will commence on June 7 at 10am local time, Visit here to purchase tickets.
Speaking about the two shows on the Vegas strip in his most recent Instagram post, Morrissey said: “Despite recent fiascoes, I will indeed be fully present in blood-soaked flesh at the House of Blues in Las Vegas on July 26 (Friday) and 27 (Saturday). Having hung upside down for several months, I am now in good health – like an arrow fully drawn and waiting to be fired: please fling me.”
The news of his good health comes after “receiving medical supervision for physical exhaustion” and having to cancel a string of show in Los Angeles earlier this year.
His shows also come a few weeks after the ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ singer announced details of a new live album reissue, and teased that he plans to announce two “special event concerts”.
“On Friday 26 July, Warner Records will re-issue Morrissey’s 1993 live in Paris album, ‘Beethoven Was Deaf’,” the brief post on his Morrissey Central blog stated. “The release is global, and the album will be available on CD, black vinyl, and orange vinyl.”
“The album originally reached #13 in England, but was not released in the U.S. The venue is the Zenith in Paris,” it continued, also sharing an image of the album artwork which shows the singer mid-performance.
“Two special event concerts are planned to launch the July release,” it added at the end, encouraging fans to keep an eye on the site for further details, which are expected to be shared soon.
Elsewhere, Morrissey recently shared that he has bought back the rights to two of his albums, after a long-running dispute with his label Capitol Records.
He has been locked in battle with Capitol for a number of years, after his album ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ went unreleased, despite being completed in 2021.
The album had been announced for a 2023 release on Capitol, but Morrissey later said he had “voluntarily withdrawn from any association with Capitol Records”. He also revealed that Miley Cyrus, who recorded backing vocals for the track ‘I Am Veronica’ in 2020, had asked to have her vocals removed from the song.
In a post on his website Morrissey Central, titled ‘A Rush And A Push And The Music Is Ours’, in reference to a 1987 Smiths song, he has said that he has bought the rights to release that album.
“Morrissey has paid the exit fee to Capitol Records in order to return both WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS and BONFIRE OF TEENAGERS albums back to him,” the post reads.
“It’s been a long, hard, bloody war. Few would make it out alive, and … I’m no exception. Morrissey remains unsigned.”
Morrissey performs on the main Pyramid Stage during the 2004 Glastonbury Festival being held at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’ was Moz’s 10th solo album, released in 2014 via Capitol and Harvest.
‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’, meanwhile, is thought to feature guest spots from Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Flea, as well as Iggy Pop. Speaking last year about the album’s turbulent path to being released, he said: “It’s been quite traumatic and quite sad because when you record something, you want it to be available immediately and it was very much of the time. For me, it was a very personal thing and the fact that it hasn’t been released has been torture.”
In other Morrissey news, in January – via a blog entitled ‘CANCEL CULTURE BEGINS AT HOME’ – the artist claimed that he was being deleted from being the “central essence” of The Smiths and hit out at former bandmates and associates. Quoting their debut single ‘Hand In Glove’, he concluded: “Hand in glove, I stake my claim! I’ll fight to the last breath!”
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