The Smiths

Johnny Marr thinks about reuniting The Smiths

Music Gossip

12 Apr 2012

Johnny Marr thinks about "how great it would be" to reunite The Smiths. The 'Panic' band split in 1987, shortly after guitarist Johnny left the group, and while relations between himself and singer Morrissey have never been repaired, he knows how…

Phil Collins: The World Won’t Listen

30 Apr 2009

REVIEW INSTALLATION PHIL COLLINS: THE WORLD WON’T LISTEN This is one of those rare exhibitions where a verbal articulation cannot do justice to the work on display. The three-part video installation ‘The World Won’t Listen’, filmed in Colombia, Turkey…

Johnny Marr glad he left The Smiths

Music Gossip

7 Oct 2011

Johnny Marr is glad he left The Smiths. The 'This Charming Man' band's legendary guitarist is proud of what they achieved, but also glad he left in 1987 - causing the end of the group at the height of their popularity - because it means people…

Johnny Marr's vegetarian pride

Music Gossip

23 Jul 2010

Johnny Marr is "proud" The Smiths inspired people to go vegetarian. The iconic group's guitarist believes their seminal 1985 LP 'Meat Is Murder' changed the life of many of their fans, and admits it is one of his greatest achievements. He said: "I…

Peter Wild (Ed): Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction Inspired by The Smiths

14 May 2009

These short story collections of Peter Wild’s are certainly well designed for grabbing fans’ imaginations. He gets a fistful of contemporary writers to extrapolate from the songs of a particularly iconic band with The Fall and Sonic Youth having…

Phil Collins: Cover versions

16 Apr 2009

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but few bands have inspired such hopeless devotion in their fans as The Smiths. When Morrissey, Marr and co appeared in 1983, the pure emotional rawness of Morrissey’s lyrical confessionals tapped into an…

Johnny Marr's reform refusal

Celebrity Gossip

16 Dec 2008

The Smiths are not reforming. The iconic British band's former guitarist Johnny Marr has insisted there are no plans for the 80s group to reunite, despite recent reports. Johnny - who is currently a member of indie group The Cribs - told NME.com…

Trade secrets

27 Nov 2008

Five months before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide 1979 victory, and with Britain’s city streets still retaining the air of a depressed bombsite, highbrow arts programme The South Bank Show appeared to have been hi-jacked by a cell of musical terrorists.

Smiths fans get on their bikes for charity

27 Sep 2007

An Edinburgh man is among a gaggle of music fans taking on a charity bike trek in Manchester to raise funds for a local youth club. As an avid fan of The Smiths, Gary Betts will join 50 other enthusiasts to raise cash for the Salford Lad’s Club…

Smiths reunion rumours laid to rest by Morrissey

24 Aug 2007

Morrissey has reportedly turned down an offer of around £40 million to tour with The Smiths, and has said upcoming shows in LA and New York will be his last “for the foreseeable future”. The latest revelation has put paid to rumours about the band…