Latin American 2018
Hold On To Morrissey
5° time in Chile
It will always be a great honor to dedicate some of my personal time to undoubtedly, the motor of life for many, the music. Every time we think of Morrissey, we remember those special moments, the good ones and also the bad ones, because finally their songs are part of the soundtrack of many emotions, joys, cries, loneliness, friendships, pain, sorrow and resignation.. We will forever be tied to these songs, hence that great euphoria when Morrissey sings that special song live, we scream it and sometimes we cry. In each of Morrissey’s visits to Chile we have experienced emotions and on this occasion, we have placed the microphone in you to share with us those emotions. Bon voyage. Atte-Christian O./ Comunidad Morrissey Smiths Chile ® 2018
Constanza Carrera - Ask Jose Díaz - Very Best Of.. Camila Buvinic - Honey You Know Where To Find Me Natalia Cadenas - This Charming Man Rodrigo Mardones - Back On The Chain Gang Daniela Piña - November Spawned a Monster Catherine Romero - Alma Matters Arlette Pino - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved M Mario Pino Aravena - The Boy Racer Sofia Segura Gonzalez - The Headmaster Ritual Alejandra Gonzalez - Dial-A-Cliclé Sergio Arredondo Toro - Now My Heart Is Full Rodolfo Panteón - One Of Our Own Claudia Andrades - The Theachers are afraid to the pup David Alejandro G Leyton - Meat Is Murder Carla Giacomazzi - Let me Kiss You Miguel Aravena - William, It Was Really Nothing Valentina Mendez - Jack the Ripper
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Ask We participated years ago in a glass contest to see Morrissey but he canceled the concert. With my boyfriend we have been together for 6 years, and last year he was very sick of cancer and we set out to enjoy life as much as we could until we knew what was going to happen with his illness, in those sad days I saw an event on Facebook of the morrissey smiths chile community, which invited to the Attic bar those who commented on a post and I signed up with my boyfriend to get him out of the sadness we had. They gave me the chance to have a By : Constanza Carrera great time, we got there the atmosphere was very pleasant and we lis24 years old, my mom always litened to the music we love most ked Morrissey but she never went with him. My boyfriend so far is fine to a concert or anything, just liswith his illness, when I found out tened to it from t ime to time. that Morrissey was coming to Chile At the age of 17 I met the one who is this year I said this time we won’t currently my boyfriend and within our lose her and I bought the tickets the first conversations, they called me on same day they started selling them. the phone and my ringtone was ask from the smiths and he told me ooh I waited since June with great anxiethat song is from Morrissey to which ty last Saturday, I had like a knot in I replied that it was from the smiths my stomach because I gathered a and since then we both knew that Molot of emotions that day, I danced, rrissey was our favorite artist in comI laughed and I cried. I never thoumon, we have given ourselves records ght I’d see our idol with the love from the smiths and Morrissey solo. of my life for the sake of Health.
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Very Best Of By : Jose Díaz
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y name is José and I wanted to tell you about my experience with the boss on his last visit to our country. I had the luck to be one of the first to receive and greet him before he could get out of the airport. I saw him when he was just finishing one of the access controls; he was accompanied by two huge security guards. He saw my T-shirt, smiled and made a gesture for me to come over. I had practiced a lot of things to tell him (obviously in English), but I was so excited that I simply told him: “Welcome back Morrissey, it’s such an honor to have you here again”. I asked him to sign some things and he kindly accepted. When he finished signing I asked him for a photo and he also accepted. Finally, before leaving he said: “Enjoy the show”. Once I entered the duty-free sector, my happiness was inexplicable. I got out of the airport and I saw him again. There were 4 or 5 fans, he was taking pictures with them and signing some pieces of vinyl and the arm of a girl, it was all very exciting. Minutes later Boz Boorer and Gustavo Manzur came out, they were both very kind, always willing to sign things and take pictures with the fans.
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Do not ask me how I did it, it’s not relevant, but you will understand the research that is done when it comes to the boss. Before I entered the airport I saw the car that was going to drive Morrissey, a beautiful Mercedes-Benz. The man in the car was not very happy to be Morrissey’s driver. He told me that the car had to be specially modified, for example, the seats were changed for some eco-leather ones. When I asked him why he was upset about driving Morrissey he told me that his bosses forbid him to smoke during the 5-6 days of Morrissey’s stay. I could not go to Casino Monticello but I went to Movistar Arena, everyone who was there knows it was a magical night. It was very emotional, we were surprised by “Let me kiss you” which I think was a goodbye tour gift. My experience in Morrissey’s last visit was fantastic, something that I will always remember.
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When he finished signing I asked him for a photo and he also accepted. Finally, before leaving he said: “Enjoy the show”.
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Honey You Know Where to find me By : Camila Buvinic
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y name is Camila and I am 30 years old. I’ve listened to Morrissey since I was 18, after going through different music styles such as punk, grunge, metal, and others. The truth is that I have a weakness for male voices and I found that Morrissey’s voice is lovely to listen to. I get goosebumps every time I listen to it which is something that never happened to me before. I slowly got into Morrissey’s world, listening more to his music, downloading his albums and concerts. I even convinced my boyfriend, who is also the father of my daughter, to listen to him. Now he listens to him every day on his way to work. I missed the last concerts due to different situations like lack of money and that my daughter was too young to travel from Punta Arenas. This time I felt that I HAD TO DO IT, after all, it was one of the things on my bucket list. My boyfriend and I bought the concert tickets for Movistar Arena as soon as we could (at the end of June). We patiently wait for the day of the concert; we traveled four hours on a plane from Punta Arenas and we put out with the heat of Santiago (we are used to the Magellanic cold). On Saturday afternoon we got lost on the subway but luckily we had some extra time. We arrived at Movistar Arena; it was very exciting to see that there were so many people who enjoyed Morrissey’s music and the souvenirs people were selling, the environment was very cool. Minutes before the concert started, I had butterflies on my stomach, which is something that rarely happens. When I saw him coming out to the stage I burst out on emotion. I lost my voice for singing so much and my feet still hurt after all I jumped that day. Those who were on the low south section probably saw me dancing hehe. The only two bad things were that I wanted to sing more and I learned that I need to buy a pit ticket so I can see him closer. The good thing is that the feeling remains till today and my smile after seeing Morrissey is forever.
Morrissey Gran Arena Monticello December 14th, 2018
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Setlist: Alma Matters / Is It Really So Strange? / Hairdresser On Fire / I Wish You Lonely / How Soon Is Now? / Back On The Chain Gang / I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris / The Bullfighter Dies / Dial-a-Cliché / If You Don’t Like Me, Don’t Look At Me / Munich Air Disaster 1958 / Jack The Ripper / Break Up The Family / Life Is A Pigsty / Sunny / Hold On To Your Friends / Spent The Day In Bed / William, It Was Really Nothing / Something Is Squeezing My Skull // Everyday Is Like Sunday / First Of The Gang To Die
This Charming Man
Por: Natalia Cadenas
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n 1994, and I was 13, one day at night listening to Rock and Pop radiostation. Suddenly, the Smiths special, “Theres a light that never goes out” and “How soon is now?”and blew my head off. That same weekend I went to “Persa Bio Bio” and bought the Queen is Dead and Meat is Murder. It was like a super weird feeling, like every song was better than the last one, and lyrics to say, Morrissey was talking to me, about what was happening to me, about how I felt, I ended up buying all the discography. As the years passed, the Smiths and Morrissey became the soundtrack of my life. I had a cabal that was listening to this Charming man before the school tests and when I gave the PAA (university test), so it would go well and give me luck, and it did. Year 2000, my first year of college, and instead of buying me notebooks to start college, I bought the ticket to Morrissey for Victor Jara Stadium, obviously, since I wasn’t going to be there. I remember as emotion in the line that there were people with flowers, some guys from Peru who were already crying and told us what they had done to be there. The first time I saw that there were people like me (who felt isolated from the world), who felt the same devotion, was spectacular.
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The year 2002 in a chat I put on the nick “Natty Smiths”. A guy talked to me and it turned out that I was studying at my own college, and he asks me, “ The Smiths is for The Smiths? I love them!!”I couldn’t believe it!, we got together, exchanged music, became best friends. Today we’ve been together for 15 years, married and with 3 children. When we got married, I tattooed “There is a light that never goes out “ on my back. I’ve been to every Morrissey concert in Chile. The one I remember fondly is the 2004 SUE, when it says “Santiago, Ive come to bless you”! I hear the intro to the “Who put the M in Manchester?”and it pains me to remember, and the worst feeling (apart from keeping all the tickets for the cancelled tour, including tickets and hotel for Concepción and Puerto Montt), The Viña del Mar Festival, fighting with the people in the box that wouldn’t let me listen or talk while he sang, horrible, I came out angry and almost crying from the “Quinta Vergara”, I didn’t understand how tremendous artist had been mocked. This 2018 obviously I went to the 2 concerts, together with my husband, who has accompanied me in all. In both concerts it was something special, the setlist one of the best, lights, the images, the kindness of the musicians before the concert. But my biggest memory is that I was finally able to shake his hand in “First of a gang to die” in Monticello. So many times I almost couldn’t reach it, now I could shake his hand, touch it, I almost died in the end, when he threw down the black shirt, he passed through my husband’s hands (because I was ahead) and could not catch a piece (troubles was formed even with bites in between). Destiny had a surprise in store for me, At the end of the show, while a couple of girls were wearing a piece of shirt, the guard approached with a scissors, the part and gave me a piece, I couldn’t believe it.
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I had a cabal that was listening to this Charming man before the school tests
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Back On The Chain Gang
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His face on favorite songs is priceless, there was Morrissey, the one who had only heard or seen in a video, his innocence reflected in a question: “Dad, Is he for real?”
By: Rodrigo Mardones
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n 1994, a friend handed me a bootleg cassette, by the way, to listen on a journey I had to make from Concepción to Linares, he did it only with the intention that I had something to listen to, and by the way he gave me the name of that voice that I would hear, Morrissey. On the walkman I started hearing it and that’s where it all started!, immediately the melodies and the voice were impregnated, I must have heard it about 3 or 4 times on that journey, there it all began. With another friend who still listened to that cassette, we became fanatical, thinking that maybe we would never see it live, that it was a utopia, but if one day it came, we would go as it were, if necessary, “sell the House.”And that dream was fulfilled in 2000 (at that time my first daughter was 5 years old) in a Victor Jara Stadium that had little honor towards such an expected visit, there we were at the edge of the stage and with this I thought “I can die in peace”.
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2004 I couldn’t go, for money and work was impossible but I always knew there would be a new opportunity and this came 2012, an almost inexplicable presentation in Viña marked a new milestone in my life, this time my daughter, 17 years old, accompanied me, yes, there was already a new fan who enjoyed that beautiful day with me. Then, 2 days later, in the Movistar accompanied me my girlfriend (today my wife) who also became a fan (thanks to my influence I think je je je) and this added another page to my story. 2013 was the embarrassment of the tour that did not go, where we had 3 dates to go (one of them when Movistar (yes, for the first time earned me something) but well we knew that a next one would come, AND SO IT WAS!. In 2015 we went with my eldest daughter, with my wife but this time someone stayed at home, Colomba was already born, which by then was steeped over the year of life, I dreamed at that time that when I grew up I could enjoy with me the boss. This 2018 was the moment, the visit announced at the beginning of the year gave light of what could happen, in the intertanto Colomba already became a fan, and enjoyed the music of the boss “ Spend the day in bed” “Back on the chain gang” accompanied us on every trip in the car. And the time came, we were in the Movistar this time my eldest daughter (now 23 years old),my wife, plus we were joined by Marco, his 16-year-old son ...and this time Colomba, my 4-year-old daughter!!! yeah, only 4 years old!. It was amazing to see how he enjoyed the show and his favorite songs,it was an indelible memory that marks a before and an after as a fan. His face on favorite songs is priceless, there was Morrissey, the one who had only heard or seen in a video, his innocence reflected in a question: “Dad, Is he for real?” It has been 25 years of following Morrissey, and the history of his passage through Chile is also adding to the history of my life since that far-off March 28, 2000...maybe on the next visit my little girl will have more memories, and the older one will be about 30, but there’s something that will always bring us together, the boss...and well, once I’m out of this world, my daughters will be able to remember their father every time they hear a Moz theme..and when they merge into a hug, I’ll be there to hug them too.
November Spawned a Monster
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By: Daniela Piña saw and heard my beloved Moz last Saturday at the movistar arena, after 15 years of waiting. 15 years dreaming of seeing him live because on previous occasions I couldn’t go see him for money and then because my brother was very sick with a fucking cancer. Then I was without a silver again until the opportunity came to be able to buy my ticket and so it was with as part of my settlement, and I was the third person to buy my desired entry field vip (because I dreamed of taking the hand, but could not be) and at 11:16 minutes I got my christmas gift early. I’m not going to lie to you. on the day of the concert, I thought I was going to pass out of emotion.I was shivering my legs just like I do when I see my ex-boy. I screamed like crazy, and I also cried with emotion, It was a magical, total night. I keep the best images and the excitement I relive every time I remember his voice.
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Alma Matters
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By: Catherine Romero Ogalde ince I was a child, always listen to Moz my dad influenced my style of music I like and good Moz to state in important occasions, and the same song sounded in the background “Alma Matters”, the first time I was a teenager and with some health complications that I didn’t think were important but they got complicated and everything collapsed I didn’t want anything even I didn’t care because I didn’t feel any more I had been told that at 15 years my life would end in less than two years and when it all started to make no sense it sounded far away on my radio “Alma Matters” and I thought that if it still matters my life what I can do with it you can still move on. Things took a positive turn and my health improved , life continued and when I was 25 years old they proposed to me but things didn’t go well and one day I analyzed everything, since I didn’t feel very well in the relationship and the decision was important and there sounded again “Alma Matters” and I listened to the song in my bed looking at the ceiling and I said Yes very true and I thought of each of the moments when I didn’t feel good in that relationship in the lyrics of the song and well I opened my eyes and didn’t accept to marry things go well there have been low blows and happy moments but in those that were hard Morrissey rejoices and with his velvet voice opened my eyes with his poetic letters that vecen beat down at exact moments that are experienced in life, he is special in his way of being but I cannot not want him or stop listening to his songs that brighten my day.!
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Last Night I l Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
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By: Arlette Pino n Moz for years, (I think since I use reason) but I definitely became fans of him a little over 6 years ago. In 2013 I went through a very difficult time, it gave me depression and I felt very lonely. I needed someone to listen to me or understand me in that moment of solitude, until san Morrissey appeared and his song “ there is a light that never goes out”. I began to pay more attention to the lyrics and their voice, and it captivated me (so shocking). I started to get more interested in her life, started reading books, and feeling accompanied... I felt good about myself again and overcome depression (I will always be grateful to him for saving my life). I set out to see him live one day... and in 2015 the opportunity presented itself... I was very excited and I just wanted to be as close to him as I could (I remember buying vip court at that time). The day came, I had to put up with punches, hair pulling and being thrown at me, but I didn’t care, I saw him and he was amazing, his flat, his silver hair and those intense blue eyes that I still have etched in my mind. At the end of the show she threw a flag (which had been passed all over her body), some girls grabbed her and started fighting because they both wanted to take her away. My boyfriend at that time (who is my husband today) was walking with some keys and with that started to distribute pieces of the flag (he gave me the biggest piece and I was immensely happy). This 2018 I saw him again and I was very excited, although I was further away than the previous time, I felt that the wait was worth it because everything was perfect and as I imagined it. Morrissey is and will always be my capeless hero who pulled me out of the hole, one of the most important people in my life and my regular companion on my travels and downtime (so much so that I got a tattoo in honor of him).
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I will always be grateful to him for saving my life
The Boy Racer
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By: Mario Pino Aravena 015 when Morrissey came to Chile was the first time I was able to attend one of his concerts, before I could not because of work and cancellation of the tour due to health problems and I had a chance to see him from “platea baja”. At that time I managed to appreciate it from a distance, but I was impressed with the audience on the court and I began to wonder why I wasn’t there to live it more closely, when I cried with the theme “Alma Matters” I confirmed it: “the next time I come to Chile I will be there, as close as possible.”
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On this 2018 tour I wanted to go to the 2 concerts, but my options were diluted for reasons of my work,but there was a light and was to attend the Movistar Arena on Saturday the 15th. I’ve been looking forward to those seven months since I acquired the entrance and obstacles started to appear again. All I had to do was fall back on Saturday 15: marriage talk (I couldn’t go), Christmas party with my daughter for my work (I couldn’t go either) and the flight back from Chiloé to Santiago (for work) that they set for 4:15 pm. I was already distressed by the timing and Latam surprised me with a message that the flight had been rescheduled for 5:20. I began to wonder why I didn’t take the entrance with me (I didn’t want to take it because I could get lost). I started to contact my brother to wait for me in the boarding area of Santiago airport so that I could quickly go to my home (Buin) to find the entrance, the car and change my clothes. The good thing is that I came with bags of hand (I passed one to my partner and the other I brought) and so I avoided wasting time waiting for the luggage. Once arriving to Santiago, take the car to my brother and we headed to Buin in search of the things (19:20 hrs) and thanks to him manage to reach in my car at Movistar at 20:50, even though it already came nonetheless coming to terms with not being able to locate me where I wanted to (vip). At the time of entering I noticed that I was all the width of the busy stage almost reaching the general court, when in a moment of patience for all the hustle and bustle I observed that in the same line of amplification (left side of the stage) I was quite empty and advanced there, I didn’t mind seeing it diagonal, what I wanted was to be close and be able to observe it. For obvious reasons at the time Morrissey appeared on stage, people started moving towards the center and obviously Me Too and I managed to stay within the width of the stage (after the amplification), the emotion and joy invaded me and when he started singing “Alma Matters” slowly he began to charge towards the side where I was, I could not contain the emotion and cry. I felt paid for everything that happened. Comunidad Morrissey Smiths Chile® 2018
The Headmaster Ritual
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By: Sofia Segura Gonzalez listened to the smiths since i was born, my dad follows them for years, I learned from their music since I was little to me personally he is a very admirable person. Thanks to him I was able to meet Morrissey a person who for the time in which he emerged may have been rebellious and innovative in relation to his thinking compared to the time , however at 22 I am grateful to have had the possibility to value the music and how significant it became for me Morrissey and The Smiths. From a child listening to these topics until finally being able to witness them and appreciate what they want to make known. EThis time my parents were unable to attend the concert I was able to attend, for my dad, I know you follow them when no one on the radio knew them and listened to them. I feel lucky to be able to witness these moments.
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Dial A Cliché
By: Alejandra Gonzalez - Comunidad Morrissey Smiths Chile
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as 1991 and a friend lent me a casette of Morrissey “Viva Hate” and started looking for more music from him, I fell in love with his music, his lyrics, he was and I consider him my friend of years who has accompanied me in my saddest moments and still does. This year, going out to Monticello, I woke up at 6 am I asked my best friend who passed away last year, to give me luck and what will happen I would appreciate it anyway, after 12 hours of waiting, I stayed in the front row, there was a moment when I shouted with all my strength “Morrissey” he came gently took my book and signed it, after that, he started playing “Dial a Cliché” the song for which I met him and that he didn’t play 30 years ago, it was my song, Nothing could be coincidence, I couldn’t hold on my tears as I looked up at the sky I thanked my friend and thought all these years were not in vain, thanks to all for their hugs, to my friends of life and to the great mozzera family that held me back. Comunidad Morrissey Smiths Chile® 2018
Now My Heart Is Full
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By: Sergio Arredondo Toro y history begins this way: as a young cadet of the Naval School, Living the month of March 2012 I had the joy of knowing thanks to a friend this “charming man”, listening for the first time this song I noticed from the beginning a charm, a feeling of being trapped, completely excited by what I heard being born the absolute need to listen more, to investigate, to read, to impregnate myself with these sounds. Many at the time will be counting and noticing that unfortunately it was after the festival, so the anguish of not having heard a couple of months before was not miniscule and what I most longed for was a new coming, which time brought with it and not just for one chance, seven concerts announced in the press!, my joy could no more, every day since this tremendous news I visited pages to know details, dates, places, my condition as a cadet made it difficult to manage time on my own by living in a boarding school regime within the school-with availability only on weekends - and to be able to attend the maximum number of recitals but it didn’t matter, Morrissey came and had to exhaust the means, ask for as much permission as necessary, do as much as possible to be there, fulfill a dream.
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As always, the support started from my family, receiving from my mom as an early birthday gift tickets for the concerts of Viña, The Dome and Monticello, and as soon as the trivia Cristal started and the weekly draws I made to attend to how much family and friends I had to win with so many options how not to have one of those tickets?. The weeks passed and nothing, if I remember correctly in the penultimate, if it was not the last delivery of results, I won and was all ready, we had to wait for the date and of course, the permit. I think it’s not going to be the case to relive that experience and delve into details, but the events are known and the whole tour was cancelled, I was in a reverse situation now, I had my tickets, I had the permission, I had aligned everything to be able to go, but there were no more concerts, leaf zero and again to wait for new news, a new tour, a reprogramming, an iota of hope to reiterate displacement to Chilean lands. I graduated from school and with more time in my favor and increased my chances of being able to attend the expected concert I made my journey of instruction on the ship Escuela Esmeralda, 6 months that would connect me with the Old Continent that under my opinion favored to coincide with some recital, however, great was my surprise, and perhaps even unfortunate, when I see that contrary to what Morrissey thought I would return to Chile to offer presentations, it was 2015, another without realizing that illusion, without being able to be near the show I longed for, of that show that I was sure would fill with emotions all that faithful pubic and this follower I had to wait for again. I have always thought that what one wants ends up acting in one way or another, let’s call it God, my tata, perhaps for many a light –that will never be turned off-, energy or other entities, but in fact it grants an attraction that determines the achievement of goals, goals, dreams that are fulfilled, it was so that mine was dated December 14 and 15, 2018 but began to gestate much earlier. As soon as I heard the rumors of the American tour I thought and maintained that it was “the” opportunity, my condition as a student again, now taking my specialty gave me greater chances to go so I waited for the official information and there I was on the internet portal, waiting for the time to free the tickets, it was not option to go only to a concert, I had to be in both, in court to be as close as possible, after so much waiting at last the time arrived and could not be diminished. POf course I didn’t get the discount on the page because the Webpay system was affected but it didn’t really matter, it was an investment, it wasn’t an expense, I never saw it like that, so I bought my tickets and was already listed as present for Monticello on the court and moving Arena vip court. Tickets: ok; Permit: ok?; Naval guard?: I don’t know; Exams?: I I exempt!
There were many factors, but I think that the one we didn’t handle the most was the one that raised all the alarms with the cancellation of the show in Paraguay and that left us in that terrible uncertainty that yearns to hope for the best preparing for the worst. The relaxation of that state was carried out by the show in Buenos Aires, it was the precise moment that I knew was reality, that it was concrete, tangible, that this story was almost about to be written. I remember that I lived those days even more impatient, I saw concerts and without exaggerating the weeping eyes were uncontrollable to imagine being there, to witness that entrance to the scene, that greeting, that since there is no deadline that is not fulfilled nor debt that is not paid arrived to stay on Friday December 14, exceptionally I left at noon from work/classes in Concón and took the first bus to Santiago to make the connection to a bus bound to Rancagua and get off on the road. After the trip I arrived at the casino almost four hours in advance of the show, there were many fans already and the atmosphere of the neighborhoods of the Great Arena Monticello were absolutely “Morrisseanas”, official sale of T-shirts, jopos everywhere, happy people, people experienced already in concerts, first perhaps like me, people who convoked what Call of salvation attended this meeting en masse. It is unforgettable when I enter the arena as soon as the opening of doors starts, after a no-less row, and I see myself occupying the third row from the stage, the time seemed to pass slower than normal, alone, without battery almost on the excellent cell company resulted the videos that promptly at 21:30 started, but I did not feel alone, I was never alone, I was with more people like me that experts or novices did not hide their anxieties and their faces gave away that no matter how hard the week could have been, the bad moments lived,14th was the first day of Morrissey and nothing else mattered. Comunidad Morrissey Smiths Chile® 2018
The curtain rises and there he was, the very one, opening his concert and unleashing a colossal euphoria, what he lived in that arena was more than a concert, it was a communication, a connection with a Moz, and his band, that happy, sincere, kind, gave himself completely to his beloved Chilean audience, for me, was the first triumph of that which it costs to happen, the emotion of being there, of singing, dancing, jumping, remembering, in short, a mixture of sensations, feelings, that only he who presents a concert of his favorite artist can understand. A show full of synergy that transformed what happened in that place into an incredible memory, I almost didn’t record, I enjoyed and I soaked up every word, every gesture, the chords, the nuances and details that are not captured by videos. That is how the first concert ended, euphoric for all that happened I returned to Santiago knowing that fortunately there was another day left. For the next day I did not get there early enough so I had a slightly more backward location, the wait with the same music and videos was only different from the previous day only in that I knew approximately the order of the videos, the anxieties were the same, perhaps a little pressed to remember and capture even more because today was the last, I did not expect another concert tomorrow. Curtain up and there he was again, now, if they opened with the song that had been opening on the tour –a, if it is not my favorite of the Smiths - and emotions to the surface again, Movistar Arena has a magic that combines the cry of the pubic with effects most noticeable of light, smoke, audio, they did that on several songs the tears to fall, immortal, is the image of Moz singing “Jack the ripper” under a smother of red color, an image so powerful, and according to the song that surprises the viewer that is. That concert for me was the stamp that culminated in forging a passion that until then manifested itself in audiovisual form on screen, but now after so many attempts I could say “I was there”, after that elusive becoming I had sometimes done, the dreams are to fulfill them and had fulfilled one of mine. In writing these lines I can only ReLive, as they have been every day since, those beautiful moments, I type and maintain that in persistence there is Triumph, do not falter in the search and always understand that not everything is within reach of our hands, not everything we can handle, but how we take it and more importantly, what we will do if it is.
One Of Our Own
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By: Rodolfo Panteón ear Moz, like every fan eager to draw your attention, I will begin by telling you how I first met you. It was in an article I read about your lyrics in an arts magazine that lasted just one issue, and that quite likely sold just one copy, mine. I desperately sought to find your records after that, but this was the mid eighties in Northern Chile and I lived in a mining town oystered between the desert and the sea. It wasn’t until Viva Hate exploded onto the mainstream a couple of years later that I pried myself out of my rusty little town using your songs as a crowbar. But this is not what I wanted to tell you.
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Cue to March 4, 2013, Mondavi Center, Davis, California. Isabel, my wife, was visiting her sister Loreto, then finishing a PhD with a study about hummingbirds. Isabel helped with Loreto’s little daughters mostly, except that night when they attended your concert there. That was the last thing they did together as sisters. Loreto died in a car crash fourteen weeks later along with her parents in-law near Modesto, CA. Her husband and her daughters, then 4 years and 8 months old, returned to Chile later after recovering from their injuries, and as we helped with the girls for the next few years, we spun for them tales of magical hummingbird kings and queens whose royal dances were the Ask willow ballet, the Irish Blood, English Heart living room slam, and the Kiss Me a Lot flamenco stand off. I asked Isabel a day ago what it meant for her to see you when you came to Chile in 2015. ‘Closure, perhaps?’ ‘Not exactly. An opening. I don’t know how to say it. He is one of the few people who are part of this new world as much as they were part of the old one.’ We then kept listening to your songs together while doing house chores, except when we would sit down to just listen. We sincerely wish you know this by the time any of your concerts begin this weekend in Santiago. Not that we are asking for a nod, as much as it would be a great story to tell the girls one day. We simply want you to know. Because, you see, like humming birds, you are part of our family forever. With much love and gratitude, Isabel Godoy & Rodolfo Panteón
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The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils
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In the University give me date of exam of repetition for the December 14 to 18 hours... my world collapsed
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By: Claudia Andrades pproximately June of this year my mom tells me Morrisey is coming to Chile and asks me if I want to accompany her. I began listening to Morrissey as a very young girl, for her; the melodies of The Smiths and Morrissey have been in my head for ever; before I didn’t know for sure who she was, but her themes motivated something in me, something nostalgic, something emotional, something sensitive, something I couldn’t describe. I met him even bigger, and like my mother, I loved him. Then I was supposed to come to Chile, to Concepción mi ciudad, but the unfortunate event occurred in Peru when it was intoxicated, and I looked forward to seeing it live. A year ago I was lucky enough to travel to England to study English, my plans were to be able to see Morrissey (..and Tim Burton); according to me I would be lucky to cross them in the streets, that the coincidences of life would lead me to one of them, but obviously no such thing happened. The day and time came to buy tickets and there we were waiting on the PC, both desperate because the page collapsed, until we bought our court tickets on Friday the 14th in Monticello...it was a mixture of happiness, relief, anxiety, etc.
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Then on the page we see that he cancelled a date in Europe, and in my guata they were already more than a couple of nudos..no..no the same can be repeated historia..no you can cancel!! and then we see that the tour continued. Then he cancels again for poisoning a musician..NOOOO...but resumes again...phew..relief. But as always something happens, even if you plan everything correctly ... mmm ... or is it definitely me that happens to me? I don´t know. In the University give me date of exam of repetition for the December 14 to 18 hours...my world collapsed...the songs the saddest Morrissey come to my mind...I saw all black...I saw the despair and more, and I began to recriminarme..why didn’t I avoid it, why didn’t I study more and prepare myself better in the exam and wouldn’t have exposed myself to be now on the verge of having to take a repeat exam on the worst date of all. I started trying to find solutions, a medical certificate, it doesn’t work,I won’t be able to give it another day, or talk to the teacher to give me some work or help me, but what argument do I use: that I want to see my idol?..that I can’t stand it without ever seeing Morrissey Live? I don’t know if he’ll come again? may not have another chance?, Well I went to see the professor, explained that I had to make an important trip for myself, I didn’t want to make my trip transparent to him, because he is a bit strict, and perhaps because I wanted to give myself a teaching of responsibility, the reason for my trip could play against me. I asked him for a job option...and nothing, he argued to me that it would be unfair since the same opportunity should all have it ... mmm true, but ... “ my case is different I wanted to yell at him”, like making him understand my feeling, like making him understand that it’S seeing MORRISSEY!. In the end, given my insistence, he summoned me for Friday morning to review the previous exams together in case I had any point. I left with little hope and much sorrow, resigning myself to my destiny, to which I myself took.There was less than a week left, my mom would finally go alone, because I didn’t want to influence her either, and that she would stop doing what she wants to do, it would be a bad thing for me, so I tried to pretend a little “it doesn’t matter mom, we’ll see it again”, but inside snif, grrr, mmm. On Friday the 14th, I wake up early and go to the professor’s office. I checked with him my previous exams in case there were any dots to rescue ... and ohhh... al to review a practical exam, I notice that in a question I have not corrected anything, and the teacher realizes that, I overlook a question that I had answered to the back of the sheet, and that for my greatest happiness was correct , I uploaded the note to a 6.2, so automatically...I passed, and I should not give the 18 HRS exam!!. It was such a joy that I hugged him, ran away, called my mom, jumped from happiness alone through the streets. At home my mom waited for me and we left for Monticello!!!! 10: 20 aprox I was happy, Morrissey appeared behind the falling curtain and my emotion is indescribable, I know that only you can understand me what happens. Many emotions, happiness, blends of feelings that I didn’t even know, and that to this day endure in me ... Thank You Morrissey
Meat Is Murder
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I dressed as a Chef because I had to leave my labors to run for my big trophy, the guards settled in to let Moz pass, went out the back door and only exploded with a hesitant voice “Morrissey please”
By: David Alejandro G Leyton
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here are so many stories behind musical groups, soloists or just songs that hide a special meaning for many, situations that move us to common places, where there were good friends and memories of past loves, that youth full of nights of dances and experiences that made us grow or fall to move on. Music always accompanied me in everything until today; records that are heard over and over again as if it were a kind of ritual to walk more elegantly in this jungle called Santiago. And in the middle of the Capital a giant sign from Morrissey ventured us as the great debut of the velvet voice, many expected that first arrival and I have many memories of that day as well as its return from 2004. PBut nothing was as special as in 2012 and that curious confirmation on the Vine festival Grill, which I signed up to be there among the devoted listeners of the former The Smiths. Shortly before I left for Valparaíso where my stay was, I had to manage at work to have a few days, so I worked without buts to be able to go and enjoy the sun of the beautiful coast and that presentation that was already coming with some small controversy about their requests.
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Days before all this excitement for the performance, Morrissey and his band rehearsed in the Capital, the stay was as always at the Ritz Hotel and because of those things of life my place of work was always as an itinerary to go with their boys to eat, it was an eternal day of nerves and looks among my companions to have the scoop and thus see it for the first time off the stage. I was informed that there was a reservation in his name so I prepared myself with a pencil and a record (Years of Refusal), the challenge was to wait for him one afternoon at the exit of the restaurant, I dressed as a Chef because I had to leave my labors to run for my big trophy, the guards settled in to let Moz pass, went out the back door and only exploded with a hesitant voice “Morrissey please” leaving in his hands his last musical work, which; he signed letting me touch his shoulder and very friendly looked at me leaving among journalists and fans at that point, I couldn’t even feel my feet.I went up to the dressing rooms with my biggest musical trophy and burst into tears, which I shared on the phone with my dear mother. Some good years have already passed, but I always wanted more, in 2015 he returned to Chile and to the restaurant where I work 11 years ago, but this time I could only see him eat a pizza that I prepared for him, again I wrote down to see him live, my companion to the recital would be my mother, who already had a sense of her great music, we had an incredible time between shouts and applause from fervent fans, but it was more distant to touch his shoulder again. Already resigned and with the feeling of never seeing him again, 2018 came with a new Latin American tour and a musical trophy, but this time it would not be the boss’s as his musicians affectionately call him.
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I have many memories that I have collected from my school period until now, becoming small fragments of my life, as well as the meeting on that day Thursday December 13 before his expected debut at the Monticello. I went out like every day to my break type 16: 15 but when I turned outside the restaurant I met the Great Martin James Boorer (Boz) who was walking very quiet in the neighborhood with a big suitcase, I could not believe such a meeting, I called him by his pseudonym to which he immediately responded “who are you”, I very nervous answered “Morrissey fans” and his very cheerful face answered “hello” there I shook his hand very strong at the same time taking my cell phone to immortalize the encounter. The next day I met an old friend of mine from my golden years of parties in honor of The Smiths and Morrissey, it was actually more than 12 years that we did not share a conversation and a drink since we both studied and made our lives on different paths, but it is never too late to relive stories set around the figure of Moz, I told her everything that had happened to me and she very happy could not believe it, because she was talking about really special encounters for me. The next day it was the concert at Movistar Arena with my favorite companion, my mother, faithful witness to all my fanaticism. Could enter into a thousand details, and anecdotes related to all the visits of Morrissey but hey, I try that everything I sense is a fence coming apart gradually. Today I am a satisfied fan having autographed album, photos and a video of that encounter with Morrissey in 2012 that was secretly filmed by a colleague while signing the album. If one day I were to make a musical wish, it would be to go through again these same feelings of nerves and emotions that filled my heart in that stage that I know very well; the kitchen of my work where I look many times at the idol of my adolescence.
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Let Me Kiss You
By: Carla Giacomazzi
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y I history is flooded by the music of morrissey since I was 15 years old who for the first time heard his lyrics I found a reason for my existence somewhat strange in this absurd middle society where the” weirdos “ are stripped or pointed out. Today that I am 33 years old I can point out that listening to morrissey Live and for the first time it was sublime, exciting, we enjoyed it a thousand we were with my girlfriend back on the court we wanted to be calm and enjoy every second of her concert we sang each of her songs with a basic English but that it matters if it was our moment and the teacher, it was moving to hear “let me kiss You” is a song that we fell deeply in love before starting our relationship that in 2019 we turned a decade and where mozz and his music was present in each of our history does not spend any moment in where his melody floods our home, he has fallen in love with his particular voice that relaxes, that makes you stop this life that at times becomes so unkind. Thank you morrissey for conveying your joy, your vibration, elegance and your great struggles, we adore you.
Morrissey Movistar Arena December 15th, 2018
Setlist: William, It Was Really Nothing / Alma Matters / I Wish You Lonely / Hairdres On Fire / I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris / Is It Really So Strange? / Ba On The Chain Gang / Dial-a-Cliché / Jack The Ripper / If You Don’t Like Me, Don’t Look At Me / Munich Air Disaster 1958 / Break Up The Family / Spen The Day In Bed / How Soon Is Now? / The Bullfighter Dies / Life Is A Pigsty Who Will Protect Us From The Police? / Hold On To Your Friends / Let Me K You // Everyday Is Like Sunday / First Of The Gang To Die
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William, It was really Nothing
Por: Miguel Aravena - Comunidad Morrissey Smiths Chile
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in fact, Morrissey will be playing in Latin America this 2018, as announced by the Morrissey Smiths Chile Community, joy and emotion was once again part of our life. Personally, this started in Buenos Aires, where when arriving at DirecTV Arena, Yukiko Nakagawa was with her two Japanese friends, between my basic English and Yukiko’s little English, we managed to share some experiences about Morrissey ... the hours were still running while waiting for the line, when Ale Kapacevich and Jorge Smiths appeared where the good vibes of our brothers from Argentina who brought my compatriots Vale and Leo could be felt.
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The opening of the Access in DirecTV Arena started and we would run to the fence of the enclosure to see in front row Morrissey, if the same being that missed since 2015 in the Movistar Arena, the curtain falls and you hear “I Love You” and after a few minutes it sounded “William, it was really Nothing” , the show was magical to see Morrissey well with energy it was a joy, during the show I was lucky to touch his hand again on two occasions and to receive the CD “Vauxhall and I” autographed of the hand de Moz with an “I love u” said goodbye to Morrissey from his Buenos Aires audience. Happy as I never felt at the end of the show, happy to have seen a strong and energetic Morrissey on stage and grateful to have met beautiful people while waiting for the show, with my feet a little closer to the earth, I dedicated myself to looking in the crowd for the Friends of Japan, and there we were hugged and happy when an American fan appeared and gave a piece of the shirt to Yukiko, who had the generosity to divide it and give me a small piece of the shirt that Morrissey wore in Buenos Aires.
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was lucky to touch his hand again on two occasions and to receive the CD “Vauxhall and I” autographed of the hand de Moz
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5 a.m. towards Rancagua to begin a new story, the morrizian friends of argentina and Chileans begin to arrive, among them Jorge Smiths who tells me: “today Moz signs your record” ... the day advanced and the nervousness and the anxiety made itself felt, when there were movements of the security team, we would run to see if we were lucky to see Morrissey’s entry into the Monticello but nothing ... with an atmosphere aromatised with the perfume of Morrissey the two rows begin to assemble to enter the court of Monticello, where some of the members of the band, Mando Lopez, Matt Walker and Gustavo Manzur appear in surprise to greet the mozarmy. The access doors open and the run to the fence begins !, once settled, enter our dear Morrissey and with a Hello and Alma Matter starts one of the best concerts I have been able to enjoy Morrissey with a privileged position to enjoy that man who has accompanied us and helped us with his words, lyrics and music in our lives!. During the show Morrissey takes the time to sign some public objects, books and records, the first feathers failed, but the down that I had bought in Buenos Aires and that day I put in my pocket in the hope that Morrissey could sign my record, it was fulfilled, he received the down and the vinyl and he was able to make the signature of every element that he had in his hands, continued the show with a complete setlist and with a fanaticada and magical energy!. Movistar Arena, the last date of Morrissey’s 2018 Tour, hoping for some surprise and gift from Morrissey. Already installed were Mariana and Estefanía, fans of Peru and began to arrive the people who were in the front row at the concert of 2015, starts the opening of doors and the race to be the closest to Morrissey, already inside the Movistar Arena and again feeling the aroma of Morrissey before the show, the curtain falls and we have again Morrissey on stage with an incredible light and energy and enjoying his own show!. It was the last date, where we had to shout every letter that has accompanied us during our lives!. Were shows unforgettable!, where I was able to meet new people and friends from Chile and Argentina and I am left with a beautiful memory that Morrissey is fine and with an incredible light and with a faith that we will see him again here in our lands ...
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Jack The Ripper
By : Valentina Mendez - Aférrate a Morrissey
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usic is lived, felt, shared and helped to generate bonds with others. Others who vibrate with the same melodies that once accompanied their hours of solitude, reflection and introspection on the vortex of life. Music that only one has been able to concretize, so that thousands of people today pay tribute to him and feel that with every measure and with every sentence his life has been saved. I’m talking about the musical career of Morrissey, who with more than 35 years of career has passed the soul of generations around the world.
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y con la ayuda, desinteresada, de amigos y amigas cuyo punto de unión fue la pasión por el mancuniano, este sueño comenzó a tomar forma.
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This year, 2018, a new tour of South America was announced in the promotion of his last album ‘Low in High School’, for me, was a shocking news that, from the beginning, marked the beginning of my desire to realize my dream of going out to see Morrissey out of Chile for the first time. I began, immediately, to coordinate dates, schedules and budgets in order to be able to travel to Buenos Aires and with the help, disinterested, of friends and friends whose point of union was the passion for the Mancunian, this dream began to take shape. The first week of December 2018 was approaching and I began to prepare, physically and mentally, to see Morrissey on the Direct TV Arena. Anxiety and emotion resurfaced like that time, in 2012, when for the first time I had the opportunity to meet Morrissey. This whole adventure, completely new to me, was feeling as if this first time ever happened again. I arrived in the neighboring country one day before the show, the cancellation in Asunción, the previous day, and the uncertainty of Morrissey’s arrival in Buenos Aires had me with a high level of stress and anguish, but already installed in the House of my friends in Buenos Aires, we learned that by 21:30 pm our idol had already arrived in the city of fury to perform the long awaited concert. On December 7th, under a recalcitrant sun, from the morning, the adventure finally began. We were early waiting outside the Direct TV Sand to see from the first row to the voice of Everyday is Like Sunday Let Me Kiss You, Jack The Ripper and so many others. At 12:30 the day started to listen to the first chords of How Soon is Now? on the sound check. The excitement gripped the fans, who knew that in a couple of hours we would be living an unforgettable moment. To see Morrissey in Argentina, was to discover, once again, that music knows no borders, was to reaffirm that the soundtrack that I decided to accompany my life, is an indestructible pillar that has shaped my deepest ideals and convictions and, above all, that Morrissey’s songs are and will always be synonymous with containment, understanding and companionship in the real and human reflection of the friendships that have been born of every lyric and chord. In this story, I only wanted to focus on what it was like to see Morrissey in the neighboring country, but this adventure continued to be full of emotions in my country. The concerts of Monticello and Movistar Arena were the perfect closure of the realization of a dream that had been growing in me for years. I greatly thank all and all the people who walked with me on the journey in the search to extend our hands and feel for a moment to be clinging to Morrissey. Comunidad Morrissey Smiths Chile® 2018