Johnny Marr , Don’t Give Up The Day Job!

Watching Johnny Marr performing ‘How Soon Is Now’ on ‘Later...with Jools Holland’ last week was more disturbing than the opening episode of French ‘back-from-the-dead’ supernatural thriller ‘The Returned’

Not particularly because Johnny, like the focus character from the enigmatic set-up episode, looked like he may have spent the last four years dragging himself from the wreckage of a rather nasty bus crash, no, it was more the deafening, unholy sound of The Smiths near perfect legacy spinning in it’s grave.

I have no problem with the singers from, now defunct, bands performing their erstwhile outfits greatest hits – i never really understood Paul McCartney taking nearly fifteen years to embrace his Beatles past in his live sets – but for the same reasons that i wouldn’t want to see Morrissey ‘wielding his axe’ on the ‘Guitar Moods of The Smiths’ live tour, Benny & Bjorn singing ‘The Winner Takes It All’, or the drummer from Genesis pitching up to the centre stage &...oh, wait a minute, that one’s not such a bad idea after all...anyway,  Johnny Marr is an amazing guitarist & if he was aiming for  the Pierce Brosnan in ‘Mama Mia’ vibe, it was a huge success, otherwise he should stick to performing tracks from his debut solo album, ‘No-one Should Have To Listen To This’, or whatever it’s called.  Criminally vulgar indeed...

Originally written 10/06/13