Palpable: Morrissey to address hordes tomorrow as manager slags Jonze
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Hush descends on the Empire: Morrissey will speak for the first time tomorrow since the immigration furore sparked by his interview in last week’s NME.
The singer is expected to talk about the lawsuit he is filing against the music paper tomorrow morning (4 Dec), revealed a ‘blog posting by manager Merck Mercuriadis on fan site true-to-you.net.
The bulk of the post, though, is given over to Mercuriadis’s slagging of NME writer Tim Jonze, who stood by the magazine’s decision to run the feature this week, explaining that he had only asked for his name to be detached from the words because editor Conor McNicholas wanted to tone them down.
“It would be easy to feel sorry for Tim Jonze,” started Mercuriadis. “He is clearly out of his depth and has panicked to the point of admitting in writing that he will say anything to anybody if it gets him what he wants. Clearly integrity - journalistic or otherwise - means nothing to him and he has just spelled it out for every reader, publicist, band, editor and potential employer to know.
“It is arguable that he has just been a pawn in Conor McNicholas' zeal to make a name for himself at Morrissey's expense but on the other hand the level of collusion between the two of them would appear to be thicker than blood. We won't know until we get to court and start picking them apart.
“What we do know as evidenced by his posts is that Tim is prepared to say and do anything. Keep that in mind when reading his work and particularly this week's NME cover story.”
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mercuriadis really comes across like a dick.
So does Jonze
In this email he sent the day after he was so offended by Morrissey's racism.
http://www.morrissey-solo.com/article.pl?sid=07/12/01/1610212
It's not there any more
Just says:
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
you need to cut and paste
the whole link
It's also here to...
http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_071201_02
No-one's coming out of this well...
link didn't work - you have to paste the whole lot
Basically it's Jonze gushing about how great Morrissey was in the interview and trying to blag free tickets for that nights show for all his mates.
Precisely what I was gonna say.
Depending on who you believe it appears the NME either whitewash things to make popstars look good when they make offensive comments or do hatchet jobs to make them look bad.
Tim Jonze appeas to either be an outright liar now or a complete hypocrite who still sucked up to Morrissey and his manager whilst planning to critiicise him in print.
If Tim Jonze's version is true Conor McNicholas or whatevcer his name is appears to have simultaneously tried to tone down the piece and sensationalise it on the front page.
If Tim Jonze's version is false then Conor McNicholas rewrites his staff interviews to make them sound more senationalist.
Morrissey's manager sounds like a twat who protests too much.
Morrissey basically sounds like an out of touch old guy. Quite crucially, though, I still don't think what he's said can feasibly construed as racist. Right-wing, sure, but that's not the same as being racist.
My views perfectly put...
Also, I found the Love Music Hate Racism issue at a friend's house yesterday and, having read the article, it appears that there was some painting of Morrissey as a racist as early as October.
I can't remember it wholly, but basically Carl Barat was wearing a Union Jack as a belt, something which the NME described as something along the lines of 'a bit Morrissey'.
That quote in particular was a lot more worrying than anything either parties said in the offending article.
My theory
Morrissey said everything that's been reported. None of it is racist just out of touch and a bit dodgy Daily Mail-ish. Jonze didn't really think much of it at the time and carried on gushing and asking for freebies.
When he gets back to London, Conor sees it and realises they've got a chance for another NME/Moz/Racist scoop. They organise another interview to try and get Morrissey to say something worse. He doesn't really, but now he's said everything twice so it means they can use it twice.
Jonze hopes to keep out of it because Conor rewrites it for him. Jonze sends an email to Merck to pretend it's got nothing to do with him and he's taken his name off the piece. That way he gets paid but still keeps in with Morrissey.
What screws Jonze is Merck publicly releasing his email where he says his work has been changed and he can't understand it. Conor threatens no more work if he doesn't stand by him.
Whatever happened, it's great soap opera!
What worries me about it all is that, as you say, everything he' said is Daily Mail-ish.
Now, much as I dislike the Daily Mail, it is not (and nor should it be) an illegal publication and most people in Brtian wouldn't even see it as being an extreme publication. I feel that, by crticising someone for views that the NME may not share but which aren't particularly extreme sets a very dangerous precedent.
Here it is and if this is genuine
then Jonze is the biggest cunt of all time:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Tim Jonze
Date: October 26, 2007 6:57:55 AM PDT
To: Merck Mercuriadis
Subject: Moz shows
Hi Merck,
Was great to meet you yesterday. Interview was really good, I was
surprised how open and charming and humble Moz was. I'm sure you could
tell I was quite nervous, I'm a big fan. Anyway, you said that you
might have some guest list spare for tonight. So I was wondering if I
could get these on to the list for Friday (tonight), in order of
importance...
Guy Eppel
Alex Cisneros
Fiona Byrne
Guy shoots for NME and wondered if he could take pictures. I said I
had no idea but I would ask you if there was any chance of getting him
a photo pass. No worries if not. Fiona might be writing a news story
on the night for NME.com but if there's no spare tickets I can cover
that. If there's lots of spare tickets and you don't know what to do
with them, they'd all like plus ones but this might be stretching my
luck! Anyway, let me know what the deal is.
Tim x
»
tim jonze
is about the only thing the NME's still worth reading for.. maybe not counting this morrissey thing.
I agree
Jonze has characterized it as "the language of the BNP". That's why he was so shocked he said.
I don't know much about the BNP but are they now notorious for softening down their language to appeal to the everyman. If we are going to start censoring ourselves to make sure we don't sound like them, it's going to be a very tricky path ahead.
It's a bit like not being able to use the flag because they do.
It is genuine
Jonze has admitted as much. He said it was essential for him to finish the story.
I don't know why he bothers
Surely the best way to deal with the NME is just to not give them ammunition by putting up a fight? Not only is he shit, but foolish too.
Morrissey is foolish
That's a given. Which is why he discussed immigration with the NME in the first place.
Given their history with him, was it one of the dumbest things any pop star has ever done?
Hmmm
The NME - let me think, did they throw accusations at Noel Gallagher for playing a Union Jack guitar during the height of Britpop?
as much as i love Mozzer
it's sad, and probably not a coincidence that this has to happen in the week he announces a new deal and album.
'Devious and truculent'
ha ha! He doesnt come across as very nice, but at least as spectacularly Morrissey: 'a boy who hid behind his hands', 'incite the bloodthirsty'.
You pleaded and squealed And you think you've won- But sorrow will come to you in the end. Indeed.
Maladjusted.
No
They called him "King of the World", although that article was dropped before publication.
"I do not mean to be rude to Tim Jonze,
but when I first caught sight of him I assumed that someone had brought their child along to the interview. The runny nose told the whole story."
Pwned!
Jonzes' 2 cents
Worth a look, especially for the pro-Morrissey comments below.
my personal favourite:
"How can you possibly criticize him for claiming a 'stitch-up' when you don't know what the article says? And why, amid all your huffing and puffing about how you have everything on tape, do you say nothing at all about his complaints of
*selective quotations*
and
*quotations taken out of context*?
Lastly,
"Is Morrissey...actually a "racist"? It's a murky area"
Is Tim Jonze a racist? It's a murky area. Is Tim Jonze a Nazi paedophile cat-strangler? It's a murky area."
From Wikipedia entry on Moz...
"Morrissey was born in Park Hospital, now known as Trafford General Hospital in Davyhulme, on 22 May 1959 to Irish Catholic immigrants."
i.e. if it wasn't for ethnic diversity in the UK, he might not even exist, let alone be in a position where he can whinge about it.
Eejit. Not racist, just an eejit.
It was really nothing.
Jonze is a stupid hype writer, and an asshole who knows next to nothing about music. Conor Mcnicholas has made the NME what it is today, does anything more need to be said?
Morrissey has done shit all wrong and I hope he metaphoricaly beats the crap out of these douches in court. If his manager is being a prick, good. The NME is trying to create scandal where there is none as usual, this is justice at last for every shitty opinion, genre and band they've launched in the past five years.
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