Following The Mozziah

Our Mozzer made an unexpected return to Twitter last night at 10.19pm (very shortly after Morrissey's Lausanne concert had finished) under the new guise of BRSChairman, with Lypsinka as his profile picture.

This obviously means that poor Loughton Lil has lost the position that he was elected to in June 2014 at the BRS AGM; although to be honest, Lil has been a shit Chairman, and has never been anywhere near a blue rose! Actually, Chuck may have become Chairman of the BRS back in August, when I suggested that she take over the running of the BRS. Either way, Our Mozzer has now taken over, so it is irrelevant. Here are his first offerings from yesterday:

Reviews of Dorian Gray assassinate the character of Wilde. Reviews of List of the Lost assassinate the character of Morrissey. #artisart

List of the Lost is a work of unbearable genius. Genius is rarely understood at the time. List of the Lost is for future generations.

Of course if Cheryl Ferrari-Kitchensink had released List of the Lost then it would receive universal acclaim. Such is life.

However Cheryl Arseache-Milktooth only knows three words and one of them is just a rumour. @CherylOfficial

I have the vocabulary of a young Oscar Wilde whereas Cheryl?

Cheryl can no longer spell her own last name. Cole was so easy. Divorce doesn't seem so smart now.

Please spare a thought for poor Cheryl who can't comprehend her new cooker instructions

She can't understand worry either unless £10 has gone missing from her bank account.

Cheryl only opens her mouth to count her teeth.

Driving is the one true freedom left. To leave one place and arrive in another not known must be a fantastic feeling.

So all ends have new starts. Art remains Art despite the uncultured and their attempts to dismantle it. Music remains the soother of souls.

Six followers in under a hour. Will I have 100 by the end of the week? That's how many REAL people bought Dread Sheeran's album.

For Sale - One 'Royal' Family. Last useful in 10BC. Incest and racism come as standard.

Prince Charles has hired help to remind him to breathe. If only I applied for that job..

The next generation will hopefully see through the media and those that control it and will seek the truth, no matter how ugly.

Retirement will bring me time to pursue my passions. Apparently my passion is Twitter. Where did my stamp collection go?

The tweeting session ended with the new BRS Chairman having 12 followers.

OM returned again to Twitter today at 1.30pm and left at 4.30. Here are the highlights:

Life has a horrible way of repeating itself. Tour, depression, tour.

The Germans lack humour, the British lack seriousness. The French lack nothing except self-awareness.

It's no fun playing scrabble on your own you know. Each victory tastes like defeat.

My next album with be a Frank Sinatra cover album in the form of Rap. Don't believe me? Well that's hardly my problem.

The grass is greyer on the other side.

A good reputation is as useful as a bad one. Create havoc wherever you step.

People grow old and we are supposed to feel sad. Age does not mean empathy. I'm 56 but a child I remain.

Alas they have no clue who I am. The Smiths? Didn't they release one album and then fade away?

ME: Fade away? Joyce & Rouke have had a fantastic last 25 years... talking about the Smiths!
OM: and taking to court the other ex-Smiths. Joyce has a garage big enough for two cars. #Youarewelcome

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JOYCE - DOUBLE GARAGE OWNER

Thatcher had no sexuality. Blair had no clue. I mix both. I have no clue about sexuality.

David Cameron looks like the wax of a cheap candle smeared over a rock.

Pop stars are meant to be original and yet they all sound the same and have the same opinions. Factory made.

I open the drinks cabinet and forget my own existence.

Has anyone checked if Richard and Judy are still alive? I'd love to outlive those boring alcoholics. At least I'm an interesting drunk.

The great problem of socialism is that it thinks people want to be equal. Some people just want to be different.

There is a lot of spare time these days to tend to my allotment. Those parsnips refuse to grow on their own.

No time for anything else today. More tomorrow, including a look at Hilaire Belloc and his novel, The Four Men.

Having taken a break from Twitter for a few hours yesterday evening, the BRSChairman (aka Our Mozzer) returned again at around 7.30pm, to converse with the Orange Mecanique. When asked by the orange why he had chosen to return to Twitter, Our Mozzer replied, "boredom mostly but a keen nose for mischief."

Here are the rest of the highlights:

There has been a conspiracy underway in Britain for the past ten years. They will try to convince you Art does not matter. It does, it does!

They did get the Importance of You Are The Quarry...

Art should not be repressed.

Stick with your convictions! I did and I gave you Years of Refusal...

Well for what it's worth today I invented a new word. It's called 'Joyced' and means the loss of money unfairly.

The reviewers didn't read the book, just other reviews. They all said the same things like an ugly boyband.

With no record deal in sight I will need directions to the nearest dole office. Is it still called that or has it had a makeover?

I cannot be trained and I had no skills to begin with. Life is cruel.

Has anyone found a use for Elton John yet? I need a plunger so could you tell him to apply?

Alex Turner has made a career out of one good album and sounding slightly northern. Although a secret - he's actually posh.

The first one (Arctic Monkey's album) is passable as music. The rest of their albums sound like a long yawn.

That last tweet came at 8.54pm, and then he was gone. Follower numbers at 48.

He returned again today at 8.42am, and tweeted throughout the day. Here are the highlights:

There are things more exciting than death but I for one cannot think of any

51 (followers) now. I am not worthy. I'll have 10,000 by the end of the week otherwise there will be no new (live) album.

That (Johnny Marr's live LP) will sell well. I bet Dread Beerrun won't compete with that. The industry is against me.

Johnny Marr: Adrenalin Baby - Johnny Marr Live: Numbered Pink Vinyl

Johnny Marr: Adrenalin Baby - Johnny Marr Live: Numbered Pink Vinyl

Justin Bieber exists to remind us that intelligence is not everything.

We are all searching for that someone who makes us feel better about ourselves. Little do we know we can do that on our own.

In any other time David Cameron would be a political afterthought. In the 21st Century he is Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson is to politics what Simon Cowell is to music. That's the greatest insult I've ever composed.

Boris cannot carry himself. He is a tub of lard poured into a bin bag.

I could never form a Government because I need to ask the Queen. I wonder what Jeremy will do..

He's (Jeremy Corbyn) being lauded as the change we need yet he will end up like the rest. Spin doctor will be hired next.

He (Corbyn) will never abolish the Monarchy. He may limit their powers/wealth but they would remain. Unfortunately.

Once the ideal is compromised it is no longer the real deal.

Most political blogs are run by dyslexic dunces.

@BlueRoseSociety Oh please stop fawning. NO actually continue. It's so rare I hear praise these days.

@BlueRoseSociety So far you are doing a better job (of promoting) than Harvest. Plus I haven't needed to demean myself with spoken word videos. Poor Nancy.

In response to former Smiths drummer, Mike Joyce tweeting to someone on September 24th that he would be "buying Mozzer's book": @mikejoycedrums @c_col Please don't call me Mozzer, you glorified benefit scrounger.

"BENEFIT SCROUNGER"

@BoyGeorge The only gift I have is self-loathing. Can I inspire people to self-loathe? Some would say I've been doing it for years.

Boy George: Rubbish. You write awesome lyrics and look at love from the underbelly. It's inspiring but in a positive sense!

@BoyGeorge Is there any other way to look at love? Answers on a postcard.

@Limahl_Official How does one contact Limahl? He never responded to my pleas of a duet. My 'career' has hit a snag and only he can revive it

The Guardian ‏@guardian Oct 4: List of the Lost by Morrissey review – the publishers should be ashamed of themselves http://trib.al/6XLNtjU

@guardian Not as ashamed as I am for once touching your paper. Stop eating quinoa and shopping in Oxfam. F*ckwits. I've switched to the Mail

Oscar Power ‏@oscarpower: Nearly finished with the List of the Lost review I started last week but didn't get to finish due to ilness. For 'review' read 'mauling.'

@oscarpower Try writing it with illness. Also maul your face off with a chainsaw. Thank you and kind regards.

(List of the Lost) Work of high art if you ask me. Read with an open mind and closed fists.

The drummer has blocked me. I have no idea if I should be elated or not. Never blocks those bank payments does he?

Joyce may as well become a tax man. He can't 'thud thud' like he used to.

If I was a MP my expenses would bore everyone into death. £1.45 for broken biscuits. £100 for ten copies of World Peace.

My cupboards are bursting with gin and carrots

To me sex is just something that happened to other people. To Nick Grimshaw fashion is something that happened to other people.

Something will happen soon. I can feel it in my Alka-Seltzer

If Kenneth Williams was born today he would have been bullied into suicide by age 17. There is no acceptance of difference.

If I was alive in the nineteenth century I would have been the only male victim of Jack the Ripper.

Britain is bust. Be nomadic.

Foot note: Tweeting finished at 1am - followers 80.

Our Mozzer - aka BRSChairman - once again returned to The Twit Arms today, tweeting on and off from 9am to 4pm. Here are the highlights:

All typos are due to Admin Bods and their ridiculously fat fingers.

@TheRatsBack It is incomprehensible to me that you have 90 followers whilst I languish on 83.

Yawning in someone's company is so disrespectful. That's why I always do it.

In response to Boy George tweeting that he had recorded Celebrity Gogglebox: Where was my invite? Lord knows I need the exposure.

I see signed Vinyl on eBay. What a way to make a quick pound. Do they care how much it took out of me to sign each copy? Do they even care?

Rejection sticks in the throat. In these modern times there are many ways to be rejected. I can't possibly cope.

Please stop watching YouTube videos of me. I receive no royalties. It's a bloody outrage.

ME: @BRSChairman You aught to re-invent yourself as a bedroom YouTube artist - the new Dread Beerrun.
@TheRatsBack I would be shut down in a week. 56 year old men are not allowed on YouTube you know. It's full of boys with youth but no beauty
ME: @BRSChairman I wonder what the response actually WOULD be? Is your bedroom tidy?
@TheRatsBack I don't actually have a bedroom. One falls asleep where one stands these days. It's a struggle to stay awake during 'Paris'
ME: @BRSChairman You have just made me lol - I am being stared at. I do agree that Paris has, er..... been around quite a long time now *coughs*
@TheRatsBack it's arrondissements keep me sane. God bless Napoleon III.

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England is full of overcast skies, overcast people, overcast minds. Grey is the national anthem.

What on earth am I even doing on here? I have a laconic show to 'prepare' for. How do I prepare? Scrabble and steam. Scrabble and steam.
ME: @BRSChairman Scrabble & steam? Somehow, I believe you!
@TheRatsBack Boz is no competition at scrabble and he somehow managed to bring me falafel unfit for consumption. Time to disband the band.
ME: @BRSChairman You could always hire a portable scrabble player!
@TheRatsBack Need to keep the expenses down. You don't think the band buy their own outfits do you? From my pocket once again.

There are towns in England where people would defend their Argos catalogue or Tesco clubcard with more vigour than defending their children

Consider this my Greatest Hits Twitter album. Don't despair. We all know how many Greatest Hits albums I've had.

I'm off to earn my crust. No bread allowed though. You will be searched.

And off he went. Follower numbers at 91.

There was no sign of the BRS Chairman on twitter this morning, so at 9.30 I rattled his cage by tweeting him details of his and my twitter follower numbers, and I got a response.

ME: @BRSChairman 96-91. You're in the lead.
@TheRatsBack 97 old boy. Now stop tweeting me as I'm trying to sleep. Although my lawyers keep calling me. Must be Joyce again.

Our Mozzer then proceeded to pop in and out of The Arms throughout the day, before disappearing at 4.40pm, presumably to get ready for tonight's concert in Cesena. Here are the highlights:

Police only protect the interests of the rich. If you're poor then to jail you will go.

@GranadaReports: Manchester music legend @Johnny_Marr prepares for second sell-out gig in his home city
@GranadaReports Is he playing in Mike Joyce's garage?
ME: @BRSChairman What is it with you & that garage? Has he recently had one built or something?
@TheRatsBack I obsess over everything he does. I'm paying for everything. Shame I didn't pay for his parents contraception. (Ed - this made me howl with laughter)

There is a certain romance to violence. There is none in barbarity.

I think I still have an unpaid library fine from 1979. They won't be getting that 72p from me. Or the copy of Das Kapital back.

They follow me through streets and airports so why not follow me on Twitter?

Hugh Grant is a jacket potato microwaved for too long.

The Smiths are lauded as being better than The Beatles. Yet Morrissey is lauded less than John and Paul. Murder or a hair piece required.

Marianne(@sadglamour): @BRSChairman Funny you should mention this, I have to go to a Ringo concert tomorrow...not by choice, exactly
@sadglamour Not even Ringo is there by choice. There's a cash-register ringing....

If only Joyce didn't sue. I could afford to buy more followers. Alas I will be stuck on 98 forever. How many does Joyce have? My money helps
Marianne: @BRSChairman Sadly he will try to take 25% of your followers at any given time :/... Really only deserves 10% though at best
@sadglamour The f*cker

Do you have any idea how hard it is to be me? I left my tea unattended for 10 minutes and on returning it was lukewarm. Why did I get up?

@WorkersSpatula: SWP Releases Statement Calling for Morrisey's Death http://wp.me/p6BdTP-3c
@WorkersSpatula @oscarpower They aren't the first (Joyce) and won't be the last (Joyce)

Austerity is a tool designed for the rich to control the poor. Amazingly austerity politics won an election

Over 80% of the British electorate voted for parties with austerity politics, heavy or light.

ME: @BRSChairman Signed copy of Certain People failed to sell on eBay at £24.99 & has been relisted at 15 quid. One has to smile.
@TheRatsBack I wouldn't pay £10 for it (Ed - this is HILARIOUS!)

Manufactured pop stars are of no use to society. The proliferation of their work causes harm to real works of art.
ME: @BRSChairman Talent shows have been around for years & look at bands like The Monkees. Is there not room for a bit of manufacture?
@TheRatsBack Joe Pasquale, Lenny Henry, The Chuckle Brothers
‏@HoldenMorrissey: @BRSChairman even Bieber?
@HoldenMorrissey Well he doesn't acknowledge my existence so yes @justinbieber

I've lost a follower. I'm crying into my luxury cushions.

The day finished with the Chairman's follower numbers at 102.

Astra also appeared briefly in The Arms, both last night (after the Naples concert) and again today. Here are her highlights:

Stretch out and wait. Stretched out in silence. Now swimming in eyes like galaxies, that'll make hell feel like home.

Give me your sadness. I'm the only one who knows how to hold it.

These really are VERY exciting times, but I'm sure that it won't last long - it never does!

At 11.17pm yesterday evening, with Morrissey's concert in Cesena over, the Chairman of the BRS strolled into the Twitterdilly Arms and announced:

@Johnny_Marr Your guitarist looks like he is 12. You need manly guitarists like Boz.

JOHNNY MARR ON STAGE IN MANCHESTER YESTERDAY, WITH 12 YEAR OLD GUITARIST BEHIND

Although it was late, and I was just about to go to sleep, I couldn't resist joining Our Mozzer in The Arms, as did Orangey Chuck, Marcus the Greek, Victoria the not so Greek (Mrs Marcus), Harrison and Astra(!). The evening ended at 1am when OM & Astra left. Here are OM's highlights:

It doesn't look like that 12 year old has eaten for weeks. NSPCC should be informed.
ME: @BRSChairman @Johnny_Marr The same certainly couldn't be said of Boz - does he still have his Greggs loyalty card?

@TheRatsBack @Johnny_Marr I think he's running one now. Gave me a discount. I've never stepped foot in a Greggs. Insult.
ME: @BRSChairman @Johnny_Marr Musical Director, Pole Cat, Second-hand record shop owner,wine producer, pastry seller...where do his talents end?

@TheRatsBack @Johnny_Marr Reading, scrabble, monopoly, and tic-tac-toe.
ASTRA: DOMINOES.
@FadingGoldLeaf @TheRatsBack @Johnny_Marr He's bloody useless at that. Mainly because i ply him with alcohol and gherkins.
ME: @BRSChairman @Johnny_Marr You play Tic-Tac-Toe on tour?
@TheRatsBack @Johnny_Marr Well we try but Boz never brings pens.
ME: @BRSChairman @Johnny_Marr You could use nail varnish.Should we untag J.Marr or are you wanting him to see you have lost none of your humour?

@TheRatsBack @Johnny_Marr He'll probably untag himself just like he untagged himself from the best songwriting partnership ever in 1987.

UNTAGGED - THE BEST SONGWRITING PARTNERSHIP EVER

There are things more important than good legs but can anyone think of any?

ME: @BRSChairman Ignored again by your 102 followers! (You had 103 when you left earlier.... not that I'm obsessive you understand.)
@TheRatsBack Well it is late. I assume they are all posting on so-low about how terse and moody I was on stage. It's not easy being me.

HARRISON: @BRSChairman How are you feeling about The Smiths being nominated again for the R&R Hall of Fame?
@OdysseyNumber5 It should have just been me. Joyce should not be in a hall of fame for music.

We are all embers drifting through the universe hoping not to extinguish before our purpose is revealed.

MARCUS: @TheRatsBack @BRSChairman I'm still here in a hotel room in Zurich. Nothing on telly

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MARCUS IN HIS HOTEL ROOM (WITH LIME-TOED SOCKS!)

@PapaSonsFilm @TheRatsBack In what world did you think I needed to see your socks?

MRS MARCUS: @PapaSonsFilm @BRSChairman @TheRatsBack I wanted a hashtag and that was all I could think of.... #bustedforbeinguncreative

@VictoriaMarkou @PapaSonsFilm @TheRatsBack Thank god Twitter wasn't around between 1997-2004

ME: @BRSChairman @VictoriaMarkou @PapaSonsFilm Er, you wrote the whole of You Are the Quarry during that period! #PrettyCreative #BestLPEver
@TheRatsBack @VictoriaMarkou @PapaSonsFilm it was written in 1996
ME: @BRSChairman @VictoriaMarkou @PapaSonsFilm Even All the Lazy Dykes? #Hadn'tHeardOfPalmsIn1996LyingToad
@TheRatsBack @VictoriaMarkou @PapaSonsFilm I lie a lot.

I'm too interesting to have a drug problem
MARCUS: @BRSChairman You are drugs.

@PapaSonsFilm Are you implying I can be sold on the streets? The last time that happened... Well that's enough of that story.

As Astra and OM left, Astra asked: Ahem. Can any one of the #Beliebers that follow me, please send me a DM of the #BoraBora #moneyshot. Merci! Et bonne unit.

THE MONEY SHOT

OM and Astra returned to The Arms again this morning. They both interacted with various members of the BRS throughout the day. Astra started the day by tweeting, Love songs for the lonely. Love for the beleaguered. Ecstasy if you know how to listen, and then posted four songs; Et Pourtant (Live at L'Oympia 1963) Charles Aznavour, Mourir D'aimer - Charles Aznavour, Ah Dites Dites - Marie Laforet and La nuit est sur la ville - Françoise Hardy

I asked what it was that Aznavour was singing about, to which Astra replied, "eternal heartbreak", before OM added, "Lust of the Lost."

I looked up the lyrics to Et Pourtant (And Yet):

I know I’ll wake up one beautiful morning
A day different from all the others
And my heart will finally be set free from our love
And yet... and yet...

I’ll leave without regrets or guilt
Without any hope of returning, far away from me
Far away from those eyes and that heart
I will forever forget
Your body, your arms and your voice
My love

And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...

I’ll withdraw without a tear, without crying
The secretive ties that tear apart my skin
Set me free from you so I can find rest
And yet... and yet

I’d walk towards other skies, towards foreign lands
To forget your cruel indifference
I’ll offer my hands full of love
To happiness
And to the days, the nights, the life
Of my heart

And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...

Although I’ll have to rediscover my purpose
My nonchalance and moments of joy
That I left forever in order to escape you
And yet... and yet...

When I’m in another’s arms and have only forgotten your name
When I can reassess the future
You’ll become a hazy
Recollection for me
When my troubles, my fears, my tears
Have finished

And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...
Yet... yet I only love you
Yet... yet I only love you
And yet...
Yet I only love you
And yet...

With all the talk that there had been the previous night about Johnny Marr, the lyrics did make me wonder.

Astra also posted a lovely picture of Brigitte Bardot laying in the St Tropez sun of 1975, and also tweeted, "Praxis beats practice. Questions for the prophets. Answers in my fingertips."

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Here are OM's highlights:

Love distracts us from the true beauty in the world.

LIZZY: @BRSChairman
You are much wittier and funnier than Stephen Fry. I don't like him, but I DO like you.
@LizzyCatMoz But he's a 'national treasure' whereas I? National distreasure

Each eBay sale of my signature sends a dagger through the heart of art.
LIZZY: @BRSChairman
I bet some of them are fake too. Although you have a very distinctive hand.
@LizzyCatMoz you should see my distinctive feet and defined legs.
ME: Who'll give me a fiver for this pair of fresh Morrissey signatures?

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@TheRatsBack Nice try

Would it be egotism of the highest order if I demanded Twitter make it possible to retweet your own tweets?
KERRY: @BRSChairman I can type them out again, you given the admin bods their marching orders again?
@Boozelette Tiresome beyond belief. I caught one with his hands in my wallet and a book under his arm called "How to steal" by Joyce.

Society is 99.5% stupidity and 0.5% genius. I fit naturally into both.

Our Mozzer's final offering before taking his leave at 3.45pm, was to respond to Rylan Clark posting this photo and tweet suggesting that he should be the new Milk Tray man:

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Rylan: Just sayin.. @CadburyUK @itvthismorning plus girls wouldn't be threatened if I climbed through their bedroom window

@Rylan @CadburyUK @itvthismorning Well I'm terrified. Irresponsible of cadburys to use someone whose mouth is bigger than his face.

With a follower count of just 108, I KNOW that it won't be long before old Mozzer once again becomes disillusioned by the fact that his wit is going unrewarded, and he will disappear.... AGAIN.
I will continue to enjoy these moments while they last - I haven't laughed so much in ages. I don't think many of those 108 realise just how lucky we are to be part of this. The Oscar Wilde of the 21st century is tweeting.

The European tour is now entering it's final week, with just four dates left to go. The next concert is tomorrow in Slovenia, and then on Monday, the band go to Budapest in Hungary, where Kerry the Cocktail and her man slave, Dave, will be waiting with blue roses. The BRS has had a number of ups and downs with its members over the years, but at the moment things are very harmonious - I have not only made up with Chuck and Marcus, but have now even buried the hatchet with Lizzy and GOB. All it needs now, is for Broken to return, and stir things up again.

Just before midnight last night, both the BRS Chairman and Astra strolled into The Twitterdilly Arms and stayed until 1am. Here are the highlights:

ASTRA:
Everyone have their sunglasses on?

I've come to flash my ankles. Midnight frissons for the willing and wanting.

Smoke made of blue roses. Midnight mass for the holy. Beautiful travesty for communion. Lingering.

Tailspin. Headspin. Luring you in.

All You Need Is Me (In response to this tweet, the BRS Chairman tweeted, "@FadingGoldLeaf but after years of refusal? What then?")

Words for the wicked. Legs for the wise. Misbehavior for the knowing.

Nothing on earth beats one of my languorous glances, apart form maybe JB’s abs ... which are definitely in the running to give me a run for my sideways swindle.

And nobody on Twitter has SWAG like us @justinbieber. Follow me up and down and to the bottom of the world DADDY. And then all around again

Leaving my heart here tonight. No tears if you find it. I always come back for it.

BRS CHAIRMAN:

Good times for a change.

@FadingGoldLeaf You were not made for the Victorian age. Starch and pomposity kill your sexual stance.

Being born in 1855 I will always blush at the sight of an ankle. A tie is as erotic as I can go.

Today I had several massages and relaxed in a jacuzzi. I assume you were at work?

My iconic body longs to be touched but I refuse to pay.

Once I reach 200 followers I will conduct a Twitter Q&A. All questions must be submitted in advance and not mention The Smiths.
@BRSChairman At the rate you've been amassing followers, we could be waiting quite a while.
@heathercat222 precisely the point. I have better things to do other than conduct a Q&A. Such as my stamp collection and garage spying.
@BRSChairman @heathercat222 That garage has really gotten to you, hasn't it.
@TheRatsBack @heathercat222 It has. I assume it's where he keeps my money. Kisses it every night.

I never advocated celibacy as a life choice. However in the case of Katie Hopkins celibacy should have been enshrined in law.

I spend my life flirting with dignity and despair.

Happiness goes hand in hand with self-loathing

America is the truly the land of progress. They tried a black president and next they will try a transvestite. #Hillarywearsthetrousers

I'm Morrissey trying to be Russell Brand

At 11.30 this morning, Broken waltzed into The Arms. He posted photos of his favourite topless celebrities, including: footballer Alan Smith, Chris Eubank jr, Jeramine Jenas, Biebs, Cristiano Ronaldo, Alexis Sanchez, Austin Robert, Sergio Ramos, Austin Butler and Neymar. Here are his highlights:

Life is like a game show. Only the prize is death. And there's no beautiful assistant encouraging you.

Dark thoughts come from within. Happy thoughts come from without. Evil thoughts come from Eamon Holmes.

The novel ... oh the novel... oh

The novel was... a mistake. However the next one will make it irrelevant.

One cannot be a singer forever.

Media Brand Britain PLC: purchase, purchase, purchase. Smile fondly at the royals. Swallow your antidepressants. Eat, drink and purchase.

The difference between the royals and benefits fraudsters? The royals spend their benefits money on castles, while the poor get investigated if they turn up to the Job Centre + in a car <8 years old.

Elegance is just a passing fantasy

When I feel life can't get any more meaningless, Vine comes along to show me how it can.

Jordan proves that it is possible to have a career under capitalism, even without anything to sell.

How did you all vote in May? For UKIP I hope?

Are Tony Blair and David Cameron the same person?

ThatcherMajorBlairBrownCameron #fucklabourandtories #spitonthenameolivercromwell

Two years ago Cameron's government wanted to arm the rebels. Now they want to bomb them. At this rate we'll be bombing ourselves by 2018.

Labour are the party of benefits (chavs/royals). Tories the party of working class snobs. Lib Dems the patronising middle class. #UKIP4all

The suave are always a step ahead of the bland and a step behind the desperate.

Loneliness is what we do when the tea runs out.

What connects Rio Ferdinand, The Pet Shop Boys, Twin Peaks and UKIP? #MorrisseysWorld

I'm the Oscar Wilde of Twitter, responsible for perhaps as many insightful witticisms each year as Oscar managed in his career. Yet ..nowt

Ignored, deserted, broken.

Be careful to drink enough alcohol that you lose your inhibitions, but not so much that others gain theirs.

As vile as Thatcher was politically, she was stronger than the current breed of career politician.

Broken then posted three Thatcher videos from Youtube, before disappearing.

The BRS Chairman & Astra also paid visits to The Arms. The only tweet from the Chairman was, "Colour me blue."

Astra posted songs:

Se Telefonando - Mina

Sono come tu mi vuoi - Mina

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11TH

The BRS Chairman (BC) popped into The Twit Arms at 5pm yesterday (Saturday), just to say, "If each man kills the thing he loves then Elton John must be closer to suicide than previously imagined."

BC then returned (after the Slovenia concert had finished) at 11.50pm, and had a very brief chat with one of his 109 followers, @jun_the_swan. I don't know what was said, as Jun's twitter account is locked, but BC told swan, "love is the absence of imagination."

All was quiet this morning in The Arms, but then just after lunchtime, Boy George suddenly tweeted, ".@BRSChairman is deffo Miss Morrissey!" George then tweeted, "@BRSChairman I'm currently in the studio with @Wearebrando recording 'last night I Dreamt!' I hope it pleases thee!" There was no immediate response, but an hour later BC replied, "@BoyGeorge @Wearebrando You have Miley Cyrus to contend with. She is an icon you know."

Boy George also tweeted, "@BRSChairman I hear you've retired? It's a bit extreme!", to which BC replied, "@BoyGeorge Not as extreme as no record label signing me."

Boy George's input had the desired effect, and BC's follower numbers immediately started to climb. One of the new followers, @HelenAnnParker asked, "Are you Morrissey in disguise????", to which BC replied, "No. I'm Kenneth Williams in drag."

BRS observer, Max (@MadAlix14) tweeted, "@BRSChairman 129! @BoyGeorge really has some clout", to which BC replied, "When I reach 10,000 he can look backwards to a duet."

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BOY GEORGE - CURRENTLY RECORDING LAST NIGHT I DREAMT THAT SOMEBODY LOVED ME, AND PROMISED A DUET WITH MOZ WHEN 10,000 TWIT FOLLOWERS ARE MET

In response to BC's tweet about Elton John, I sent him the photo at the top of the page, with a tweet stating, "Sire, I bring thee the head of Elton John. Do I get a reward?" To this, Moz replied, "@TheRatsBack I've just spat out my falafel. You get an icy stare. Elton looks like he's been stopped at the airport again."
ME: "I wonder if Sir Elton gets the groping treatment at airports?
BC: "He barely gropes himself. Nobody wants to touch a bin of lard with a wig on."

Our Mozzer then left The Arms, but returned at 6pm and stayed until 9. Here are the highlights:

Most of my notifications are related to Boy George.
ME: "@BRSChairman At least most of your family aren't related to him... are they???"
BC: "@TheRatsBack One doesn't have the time to trace the family tree. The parsnips won't tend to themselves."

@tonywood: "@BoyGeorge @BRSChairman I'm not convinced but shall follow anyway as it doesn't hurt to hedge your bets x"
BC: "@tonydavidwood @BoyGeorge Hedge your bets if you must. You'll end up a winner or a loser. I'm somewhere between both."

I was shocked recently to find that Ainsley Harriott has children. A bigger shock is that they've not died due to embarrassment.

It is truly amazing how many crosswords you can finish when your day consists of jacuzzis and massages

Death is certain so why waste time?

Our Mozzer appeared back in The Twitterdilly Arms at 1am this morning, staying for half an hour. I wasn't there to witness it, but here are his offerings:

As long as the ineffectual faux intellectuals have control of culture then Britain will forever be soulless and therefore doomed.

Boy George replied to OM's tweet of yesterday evening, 'most of my notifications are related to Boy George', by tweeting, "Tish!"
@BoyGeorge it wasn't a complaint dear boy. You've nearly doubled my follower count. Could you double my album sales?
GEORGE: "Only idiots would refuse to purchase anything and everything you create!"
@BoyGeorge You need to be my PR man. How much would you cost?

PR MAN

JesseNothing (@MozFiend): @BRSChairman How's it going?
@MozFiend a struggle of course. But should we expect anything else from life?
JesseNothing: @BRSChairman I wouldn't expect anything less than pure misery.
Struggle would be alright I guess if I were allowed to win once every so often. Unfortunately, this has never been the case.
@MozFiend Sounds like every court case I've ever experienced.

As I write this at 4pm, The BRS Chairman hasn't tweeted today, other than to retweet someone who posted a horrible photo of a skinned animal (I can't even tell what animal it is!) and the wording "Sick people only wear FUR! These poor animals have hurt no one & deserve to live."

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Thanks to the interactions with Boy George, The Chairman's follower numbers currently stand at 181.
Astra paid a flying visit to The Arms just after 1pm, posting pictures of Françoise and Italian actress, Virni Lisi. Astra also retweeted the above tweet and photo plus, "There is visceral pain. And then there is the unquantifiable, muted agony of the soul, which screams louder in its anguished silence than the bellow of my entire, roaring life. Watching animals suffer torture and the former should induce the latter in anyone who is human."

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VIRNI LISI

In other news, GWO has discovered that there is a new backdrop photo displayed during What She Said, and she has identified the photo as being French striptease artiste, Rita Renoir.

I must also make note that my Spirit of Nico (Dotty) has also returned to Twitter after a very long absence, and today pointed me to the fact that a snippet of I Won't Share You was sung a cappella just before the encore in Slovenia and the long piano intro was used prior to Everyday is Like Sunday, which hadn't been done before - I had missed both of these things. Dotty has also posted a couple of songs by a 70s/80s Polish band called Maanam. The lead singer, Kora, reminds me a bit of Jehn Beth from Savages.

And finally for today, my Youtube surfing has led me to Klaus Nomi's 1978 debut at the New Wave Vaudeville, where he sang Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix. I have never really paid much attention to Nomi before, but I can see Morrissey's fascination.

Tonight is Budapest. Will either EARS or Kerry the Cocktail get their rose to Moz? Somehow, I doubt it, but you never know.

*Goes off singing* Life tends to come and go, as long as you know, life tends to come and go, as long as you know know no no no

The BRS Chairman has made a return to The Arms today, just after 9.30am, with the first tweet being in response to Kerry the Cocktail posting a photo of a piece of Morrissey's shirt from the previous night's concert in Budapest. The Chairman tweeted, "If I see that on eBay I will sue."

Here are the rest of the highlights:

Mirrors are still misleading

How do you think I feel after years of lies? One cannot bare to switch off the light incase another lie invades the Internet during sleep.
ME: @BRSChairman Sorry to hear this. Is it Joyce again? Perhaps it is best to either leave the light on or never get out of bed.
@TheRatsBack it's always Joyce in one way or another. It's him that's stopping the labels from signing me. I just know it.
ME: @BRSChairman There can be no other explanation. Perhaps Joyce is holding secret meetings with the execs in his DOUBLE garage.
@TheRatsBack I had just forgotten all about the double garage. Immeasurable sadness elopes me.

Six more followers needed. I'll be in the jacuzzi if anyone needs me. Not that anyone ever needs me until they feel lonely or sad.

@PapaSonsFilm It is inconceivable that you have over 4,000 followers whilst I languish beneath 200. Have you not heard of share the wealth?
MARCUS: @BRSChairman Do you think a series of hard hitting warts and all interviews with celebs in a bathtub/ jacuzzi could work?
@PapaSonsFilm I conduct one with myself every night. Most enthralling.

In reply to @stephenfry tweeting: Sent an email to the chairman of a trust. Just noticed that it begins “Dear Charmian…” — should’ve stuck to the simpler “Chair”. #twazzock
@stephenfry I didn't receive this letter. Is the 'Royal' mail as lazy as the Royal males?

Stephen Fry is one mental breakdown away from a knighthood. That's all he wants.

MAX (@MadAlix14): @BRSChairman why don't you open up the 'official' account again, for a little entertainment? Or did Harvest confiscate it?
@MadAlix14 The only thing Harvest confiscated was my dignity. And 'career'
MAX: @BRSChairman dignity is overrated
@MadAlix14 So is life yet here we are

And at just after midday, he was gone.

Astra arrived just after 2.30pm and posted the following in a whirlwind 3 minutes:

I am no longer a free show. Lock on my Twitter. Lock on my heart. I now exist for private eyes only. (Ed - Astra has locked her twitter account)

This Twitter weather’s been far too mild lately.

Who’s in the mood for a little bit of my ASTRA? Or should I say, a little bit of my HURRICANE?

COME TO ME NOW, COME TO ME AS YOU ARE.

Heading into the eye of my beautiful, swirling storm. Walk straight into me. NOW

Are you ready?

Never be the first to look away.

Streets paved with everyone’s hopes. Diamonds in my head, where instead I should have eyes. Come and walk beside me.

Make Art. Make Love. Be Art. Be what you’re looking for. Be what you need. Be whatever you want to be. Do not search outside yourself.

All eyes on me. Looking to wrap me around and around. My star is on fire.

But you’ll never see my core. Mist and seduction and music are all I have to give. The rest? For no one else’s eyes. Only in my heart alone.

Your drama, dilating my pupils. Lips parted once, but that was before.

My nights are music, and everythings, and nobody’s nothing, and all the beauty that will never be again.

When I was, where I was, and when nobody could hear me, I sang yesterday’s soul. Birds swam out of my mouth. My eyes lit the sky.

And time flew back into the palm of my hand

Miaow me this. Miaow me quietly. Don’t look now. This is my sweet, coddling, baby blue heart. Beating. Beating. Beating fast. BEATING HARDER

Like this. This is how it’s supposed to go. Blink and I’m gone. Did you miss me again?

Do you ever miss me at all?

Come to me for all of your broken dreams. Half price Tuesdays ‘tip December

I am fragments of everything. With the beat of your heart in my blood. The siren of always, who calls to me. Your voice in my veins.

The murmuring voice of toujours. And too much love for this spinning world, that we’ve always painted together.

A cyclone without fear. I am without end. And the pleasure, the privilege was - MINE

In response to Astra's initial tweet about being for private eyes only, I replied, "It's like Soho of the good old days", which brought a reply not from Astra, but from The BRS Chairman. I wonder if he tweeted from the wrong account by mistake?:

@TheRatsBack @FadingGoldLeaf @heathercat222 You know nothing of the Soho of the good old days. Nor the bad.
@BRSChairman Admittedly my trips to Soho weren't in it's 60s heyday, but it was still seedy in the early 80s when I went for a peep!
@TheRatsBack All you could do was peep? That is a criminal lack of imagination.
@BRSChairman It satisfied my curiosity. 50p a peek. I was 17 and in an alien world.
@TheRatsBack 17 in the 1980s? Don't try and fool me.
@BRSChairman We weren't all born in the 50s you know! Had the war even finished when you were born?
@TheRatsBack You are very lucky I'm not in too bad a mood

I think I may have got the better of him! It's never happened before, and it has made my day, which is just as well, because the blanket of despair has been smothering me lately. Sometimes you just wonder where the hell you are heading, but who ever said we are heading anywhere, except the exit?

I knew where I was heading in late October 1983, to a peep show in Soho!

Meanwhile, The Dotty character that I mentioned yesterday, and who I first wrote about a few years ago, last night tweeted to me whilst Morrissey was on stage in Budapest, which puts paid to it being a pessoa! And what is more, I have today read back through some old FTM's and Day 184 has reminded me that Banjaxer had something to do with the Dotty account. It is all so confusing.

As for the Budapest concert, well neither EARS nor Kerry the Cocktail; or indeed her man servant Dave, managed to pass a blue rose to Moz, which means that once again, NO ONE has given Moz a blue rose on a European tour. USA 4 Europe 0.

Kezza has tweeted to say that she threw her blue rose onto the stage during Action is My Middle Name, which incidentally was thrown into last night's set having not been played before on this tour!
Rather interestingly, Kerry's twitter name was originally Kerry 'Action' Richards (which I changed to 'NO ACTION' after her failure to take a rose previously), so to have the song played last night was a HUGE coincidence. We must add it to the list.

MAN SERVANT

ACTION

Kerry 'Action' Cocktail has informed me that her rose was picked up from the stage by one of the security, and The Chairman has this morning confirmed to her that it is now in his possession!

Both Kerry and Dave's blue rose pictures have been added to the BRS tumblr site.

There are now just two concerts to go on the European tour, but I don't believe that any BRS members are going to either Romania or Macedonia, so it would seem that, for now at least, the BRS will go into hibernation.
Next month our eyes (and ears) will turn to South America, with Morrissey's tour starting on November 7th in Ecuador, but are we likely to see any blue roses in South America? It seems unlikely. So, what next?

The BRS Chairman once again paid a visit to The Twitterdilly Arms yesterday evening, arriving at 9.15pm and leaving just before 10.30. I wasn't around at the time, but saw the tweets just before I went to bed. Most were interactions with random twitter users. I guess he must have searched 'Morrissey'! Here are the highlights:

I'm holding conversations in the toilet. Those who are in the know can find me.

In response to @LemonbeatsCHNL tweeting a picture of Morrissey and Franz Ferdinand
@LemonbeatsCHNL The three at the back just stumbled through on their way to their Saturday job at Tesco.

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In response to @bbceastenders tweeting a picture of Roxy
@bbceastenders She looks like her Botox operation has gone wrong.

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I think my life would have been different if I discovered sex at my teenage years instead of back bedroom despair.
FRANK (@EnoughSari): Would it be better?
@EnoughSari There is no possible way of knowing. I could have ended up like a macho man from mudchester.
FRANK: True. I prefer you the way you are now.
@EnoughSari But I AM a macho man from mudchester.

MACHO MAN FROM MUDCHESTER

@strictlymagsy: What's wrong with back bedroom?
@strictlymagsy Where does one begin?

So my 201 followers allow me to introduce myself. I am Jason Donovan and this is my new show. It's on for 6 hours and the doors are locked.
@veryvary: I am Brenda Gold. I have nothing to show and my doors are locked forever.
@veryvary Finally someone that understands my adolescence
@MadAlix14: @BRSChairman Q&A, Jason?
@MadAlix14 No questions about Kylie or Neighbours (Ed - another pant-wetting beauty from OM!)

JASON - WITH KYLIE IN NEIGHBOURS

MORRISSEY - WITH MARR IN SMITHS

@RetroClicksVint: Hello, my name is Nikki. Are you an actor? Love your Glam shot! (Ed - the picture of Lypsinka)
@RetroClicksVint I once played a very thin man on a British spin off show. Watched by a grand total of four people. One of them died during
@Retro: You are funny, are you in America?
@RetroClicksVint One is touring Eastern Europe with my successful band. Although shortly I shall retire. I will have spare time.
@Retro: What kind of music do you play? I just discovered Steve Strange & Blitz, this is all very new for me.
@RetroClicksVint Jobriath cover band.

JOBRIATH COVER BAND

@TJosida: Sex is part of life
@TJosida It's never part of mine.
@TJosida: Why? It's not important?
@TJosida Nobody ever responded to my postcards

@AndyWaind: You can buy World Peace for a fiver on eBay
@AndyWaind People no longer value art.

The thin man tweet had me in stitches, and reminded me of Morrissey's bit part in South, a Brookside spin-off in 1988. I was a massive Brookside fan, and was gutted when the programme was axed; although it had certainly lost a certain something after Anna Friel left.

ANNA FRIEL - I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A SUCKER FOR ANYONE WITH A CHIN DESIGNED FOR SNOOKER

This morning I looked to see if I could find the video of Morrissey in South, and my internet searching led me to a piece written earlier this year by the actress Justine Kerrigan, who played Tracy Corkhill in the programme, and appeared in Morrissey's very short scene. In Justine's piece she writes, "Another highlight was meeting Morrissey when filming a soap bubble for Thames called South. I had already met Morrissey at a Brookside party as he was a genuine fan. He sat me on his knee and bought me twenty Benson and Hedges from the ciggie machine. He is a fabulous man, quite shy and a gentleman with a lovely soul."

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My research this morning also led me to a report that the actor Sean McKee, who played Jamie Henderson in Brookside/South), died this summer.

The BRS Chairman has made a couple of VERY brief appearances in The Arms today, initially at lunchtime, and then again at 4pm. At lunchtime he tweeted, "So I see the producers of QI have replaced one annoying fat man with another."
This tweet was in response to today's news that Stephen Fry has stepped down as QI presenter and been replaced by Sandy Toksvig!!!

TOGSVIG - SOMETHING MUCH BIGGER AND BETTER THAN, A MAN

I replied to the QI tweet by posting, "@BRSChairman Another winner! You should take up tweeting full-time. I'd pay for this entertainment... although not £65 for an hour & a half."
When BC returned at 4pm, he replied, "@TheRatsBack That's the going rate. I'm not Paul Daniels you know."

PAUL DANIELS - MAGIC!

All the recent activity in The Arms from OM/BC has been a delight, and for him to STILL only have 211 followers is criminal - especially as the aforementioned Paul Daniels has over 54,000!

Fifi hasn't been around much lately, although yesterday she left a photo in the Twit Arms toilets, with a note saying, "Françoise on stage."

It would appear to be a copy of Françoise Hardy's EP, La Maison ou j'ai grandi, although I have no idea as to which concert the photo is from. I initially thought it might be from Budapest, when Moz was given a record/cd at the end of FOTG, but Matt Walker is wearing a different coloured shirt, so it isn't from Bucharest. A mystery.

It has been reported that Gregory Andrews of the Australian government, has written to both Morrissey and Brigitte Bardot regarding their opposition to the Aussie governments decision to kill 2 million cats. Mr Andrews has apparently written, “I would like to commend you for your commitment to, and advocacy for, animals and their welfare, however, feral cats are an invasive species responsible for the extinction of at least 27 Australian mammals, such as the lesser bilby, desert bandicoot and large-eared hopping-mouse. We don’t want to lose any more species like these."

I would imagine that Morrissey's reply will include something like this, "human beings are an invasive species responsible for the extinction of at least 322 animals, such as the Tasmanian Tiger, the dwarf emu and the white throated pigeon, which were under the Australian watch. When does the culling of the human killers begin?"

THE TASMANIAN TIGER - HUNTED TO EXTINCTION

And finally, I reported on Sunday (Day 1491), that The BRS Chairman's last tweet of the day was, "Death is certain so why waste time?"

I presumed that the Chairman was just reflecting on the uselessness of it all, as he often does, but Kerry the Cocktail has realised that it was a sign. A HUGE sign. In the song Action is My Middle Name, the lyrics are, "I can't waste time any more, everybody has a date with an undertaker" - On Monday, Morrissey sang Action is My Middle Name for the first time on this tour! A coincidence, of course!

*Goes off singing* Tongue against tongue and we've only just begun.

FOOT NOTE: Having watched various pieces of Youtube footage, I have discovered that the Françoise record is from Monday night's concert in Slovenia. It must have been handed over during Reader Meets Author, although there is no footage of the handover. The record was not on stage during You Have Killed Me, but is evident during Oboe Concerto.

The BRS Chairman made a very brief return to the Twitterdilly Arms yesterday morning, and responded to three tweets from followers:

@BlueRoseSociety: Boy George & Morrissey exchanged tweets AGAIN earlier this week, but did anyone notice?
@BlueRoseSociety It's like 1997 all over again. The forgotten man of Twitter. I feel as significant as Katie Price on Eggheads.

@tabootlb: @BRSChairman Do a selfie, then see your followers grow.
@tabootlb Such things would destroy the mystique. Plus my hair is all askew.

@TheRatsBack: A classic FTM parody piece from 2012, when OM had 5,000 followers & @Boz_Boorer had 363. http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/following-mozziah-day-171-saturday-3rd.html
@TheRatsBack @Boz_Boorer Not like the old days anymore

There was also a very brief evening visit from BC, just after 8pm:

This was never about money or fame. It was art. Art and nothing more.
ME: Are you referring to your songs, book or twitter account?
@TheRatsBack Not Twitter since you're paying £65. Luckily Joyce has blocked me so he won't see how much I earn from this.

One of Morrissey's road crew, Joseph Joannides, tweeted a picture yesterday evening of a Moz banner flying high above Skopje.

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And finally, following on from yesterday's blog entry that mentioned Saruta, Astra has left the following comment:

Astraea has left a new comment on your post "Day 1495 - Saruta this! A MorrisseysWorld classic":

But of course I'm an anagram of a kiss.

It's the only thing I could have ever been. And the only thing I could ever be.

Posted by Astraea to Following The Mozziah at 16 October 2015 at 01:05

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17TH

Morrissey's European tour has concluded. And as he sang on Friday night in Skopje, 'R' took to the comments section of FTM to post the following:

Morrissey has left a new comment on your post "Day 1496b - The Q&A session proper":

A new parody is imminent...

'R'

Posted by Morrissey to Following The Mozziah at 16 October 2015 at 21:57

I'll believe it when I see it, although as I am going away tomorrow, it's irrelevant if it's imminent or not, because it won't get published, not on FTM at any rate. Maybe it will be published on The World of Moz, whose latest publication is a piece by Orangey Chuck; who once again accuses me of being involved with MorrisseysWorld, and even accuses me of tweeting as OM, Broken and Astra! I do feel rather sorry for Chuck; the whole mystery of MorrisseysWorld has obviously just become too much for her to take. If she were to re-read FTM from the very beginning, I believe she would see that it is blatantly obvious that my discovery of MorrisseysWorld was no different to that of anyone else - I nearly stopped blogging after my 4th entry, as I really didn't believe that it could be Moz, and that certainly wasn't the last time I questioned if he was really involved.

Oh well, I can't tell people what to believe or not to believe - if Chuck thinks I'm involved, then that is her look out. No one has tricked her. No one has played games with her. She has come to this conclusion on her own - and similarly, I still believe that Kevin 'Walter Ego''Banjaxer' Mar(r)inan was involved with MorrisseysWorld, but I guess I may well have got that wrong. I also thought Romina was a pessoa, and accused GWO of being Boz Boorer. This journey really does have the ability to play hideous tricks on the brain..... but I for one wouldn't swap it for the world.

There was no sign of BC in The Arms yesterday; he was no doubt having yet another pre-concert massage, steam and jacuzzi session, but we did get an afternoon visit from Astra. Astra posted a couple of songs; Lo ti darò di più by Ornella Vanoni and Mina's version of Bang Bang, retweeted a couple of Anaïs Nin quotes, and posted some photos of Roberto Bolle and Brigitte Bardot.

I thanked Astra for her postings, and particularly the Ornella song, to which she replied, "My pleasure. Two minutes of aural ecstasy is my speciality. Ahem."

In other news, I have discovered a new band: Slaves. Well, I haven't actually discovered them as such; they have been around for a couple of years, but I had never heard of them until I saw them on TFI Friday last night. I have spent today listening to as much of their stuff as I can, and I love 'em! My favourite song at the moment is Sockets.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 18th

All has been fairly quiet in The Arms. Broken showed up yesterday at around tea time, posted a couple of Bieber pics and an 'Arabs on-line' picture, and then left. No one attempted to speak to him.
Astra appeared just before midnight, and tweeted to GOB and GWO to,"Think of me often. Think of me always."Astra also tweeted, "I moonlight on backlit backdrops sometimes. Back alleys the rest."

STOP PRESS: As I write, The Chairman has just appeared in The Arms, with an opening gambit of, "I was never a virgin in the intellectual sense. Thoughts penetrated my mind from day 1."

It is now time for me to go away. I am going to be internet free for a while, so will have no idea what is going on in The Arms. I wonder what I will come back to? As I leave, Our Mozzer has 231 followers.

Whilst I was away without my laptop, I was unable to write a blog, but am now able to offer the following:

DAY 1499 - MONDAY OCTOBER 19TH

Our Mozzer paid a visit to The Twitterdilly Arms as @BRSChairman just after 11am and responded to a tweeter called Bonnie Estridge (@Scribetta); who had stated that OM's tweet of October 11th about Ainsley Harriott was a "horrible thing to say", by telling her, "Not as horrible as having Ainsley as your father I imagine."This response really riled Bonnie, who replied, "wow you really are a nasty piece of work (whoever you are) and I don't say these things lightly", to which M retorted, "I've never worked in my life let alone become work. I would rather produce art than become art as someone once mused."

OUR MUSER

OM's only other contribution to twitter on Monday morning was to state, "my allotment has closed."He reappeared briefly at midnight to tweet, "It's an addiction. It's an addiction. It's an addiction."Well, we all know that!

Astra also put in a couple of appearances, firstly joining in with the Ainsley Harriott conversation, by tweeting old Bonnie to say, "Not that I ws part of this conversation, but you make fun of Take That's dad dancing. I don't take THAT lightly. Next you'll be tweeting that you don't like Shania Twain's leather chaps. Or her music."

Astra later posted BB pics (Bardot not Boorer!)
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When Marcus the Greek asked Astra where she found all her BB pics, she replied, "They're thrown at me. I always request that my tips at the go-go dancing bar be given to me in the form of Brigitte."

The conversation continued:
MARCUS: It's a beautiful but tragic image. Can you be saved from the Go Go Bar? The men there are not long term prospects.
ASTRA: Can anyone be saved from that which doesn't exist? Probably. And from that which does? Probably not quite as easily.
MARCUS: Consider yourself saved from the loveless Go Go Bar...
ASTRA: Sometimes saved. Sometimes saviour. And the rhythm of life goes round. Also very apt. It should be called The Loveless.
MARCUS: We need @TheRatsBack to officially announce the opening of Twitter's Go Go Bar... "The Loveless"

Joining Astra in The Arms (or The Loveless), was Mademoiselle Fifi, who tweeted, "Whoever sent me Veuve Clicquot traveller set... merci."

A True-To-You statement was issued today inviting any worldwide publishers interested in translating List of the Lost, to get in touch. What is coincidental about this statement, is that it was posted less than 24 hours after Orangey Chuck had written on her World of Morrissey blog, "I really wished there'd be a translated version one day". Another to add to that list.... coincidence list that is, not the lost list!

People Reading 'List Of The Lost'

In other news, today I bought tickets to see Slaves in concert next month, and ordered their album, Are You Satisfied, on vinyl.

DAY 1500 - TUESDAY OCTOBER 20TH

Astra once again paid a visit to 'The Loveless', and took up the conversation about the new Go-Go bar: "With my name in lights. My eyes caressing the lonely. My heart in shadows. And my soul on fire. I can see it now."

Marcus replied, "Ah! Let's write that play together - with songs. Not a musical. "Last Show at the Go Go Bar"". Astra responded with, "Oh but cheri, I already am the last show. Last show, last stop, last lust."

Astra also played, La Javanaise by Gainsbourg.

DAY 1501 - WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21ST

Just after 2pm, The BRS Chairman entered the newly named, 'The Loveless', and stated, "I am the apogee of high art."

When asked by Harrison (@OdysseyNumber5) what was the addiction he had previously tweeted about, BC replied, "Life my child. I've become quite used to living."

BC then tweeted, "Joy is never understood. Just as well because to be joyous is to be a madman."and, "Music is as necessary to life as bread is to a sandwich. However I am Hovis and Dread Beerrun is Sainsbury's own."

And finally, in response to GOB and Kerry the Cocktail wondering what Our Mozzer thought of their discovery that Johnny Marr kept mentioning things in threes: "Smiths reunion incoming".

In other news, The Savages announced that their new album would be out in January, and released the first single from it, The Answer, onto Youtube. It is SUPERB!

DAY 1502 - THURSDAY OCTOBER 22ND

BC popped into The Loveless at 11am to respond to GOB posting a picture of a rescued donkey named Morrissey by saying, "This donkey is an icon of our age."

Astra & BC then both put in an appearance in the evening, with Astra posting pictures of Nico and playing Janitor of Lunacy on the jukebox, whilst BC rather strangely tweeted Kerry & Astra to say, "Please stop this madness. I've no interest in legs."No one had mentioned legs!

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And then, both Astra and BC suddenly disappeared, with both their accounts shut down!

DAY 1503 - FRIDAY OCTOBER 23RD

The sudden disappearance of both Astra and the BRS Chairman may well be explained by an early morning statement made by Johnny Marr, in which he announced the death of the very first Smiths manager, Joe Moss. I wonder if Johnny had called Morrissey the previous evening to tell him?

MORRISSEY & MOSS

DAY 1506 - MONDAY OCTOBER 26TH

The BRS Chairman reopened his twatter account and stated, "You do not need an invitation to a funeral yet Joyce is not welcome at mine."

And on the subject of funerals, I wonder if Morrissey will attend Joe Moss's - and what if Joyce is there? If Morrissey can't bear the thought of sharing a room with Joyce even when dead, then he certainly won't want to whilst still alive!

Astra also reopened her twatter account just after midnight, tweeting, or rather shouting, "JE SUIS ARRIVÉE", before adding, "Purveyor of good taste, terrible influence, incorrigible behaviour, and illicit manoeuvres of the ONLY kind that anyone will ever need"and "Miss me? Kiss me?"

DAY 1507 - TUESDAY OCTOBER 27TH

Today I returned to twitter, and officially renamed The Twitterdilly Arms, 'The Loveless', our very own Go-Go bar, starring Mademoiselle Astra.

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Go Go Bar, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

There has been no sign of either BC or Astra today, but Mademoiselle Fifi favourited a few of the Bardot and Delon photos that I posted, so I know she was lurking, and we also had a brief chat in the recently refurbished toilet of The Loveless.

The BRS Chairman currently has 240 followers, with the latest one being none other than Warhol Superstar, Joe Dallesandro (@DallesandroJoe), YES, THEJOE DALLESANDRO!!!

In the early hours of this morning, Joe tagged on to a conversation between Boy George and the BRS Chairman from October 12th regarding album sales, and tweeted,"@BRSChairman @BoyGeorge Try using another image of me on the cover that might work."

Joe then tweeted, "How film images become art. @BRSChairman"and posted a picture of The Smiths LP cover next to the original still of him from Flesh.

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I tweeted Joe to ask how he had found out who @BRSChairman was, and he replied, "I'm a smart guy." Little Joe never once gave it away! I'm sure that it is nothing more than a coincidence that Astra posts Nico and Gainsbourg pics/vids, and then a couple of days later Joe Dallesandro turns up. My guess is that Boy George gave him the wink, but who knows.

Although it would appear that Joe's twitter account has been around for a couple of years, he has only very recently started using it regularly, and has been posting some great pictures of himself from over the years.

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In other, rather insignificant news next to Joe D arriving on the scene, my Slaves LP has arrived! I am most satisfied!

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And as for the "imminent" parody that we were promised by 'R' on October 16th, well......

All has remained fairly quiet in The Loveless Go-Go bar, but I guess it is November, so trade is bound to slacken off. Astra paid a very brief visit yesterday, but only to say a few hellos to the diehard regulars.

With things all quiet on the Moz front, I have taken advantage of the fact that Joe Dallesandro has joined twitter, and is seemingly being ignored by the masses. Twitter may have it's many faults, but what it does give, is access to people that you would never previously have had access to, with Morrissey being the very obvious example of this.

I have to confess, that despite Morrissey placing a picture of Joe Dallesandro on that debut Smiths LP 30+ years ago, I know virtually nothing about him; other than that he is one of the Warhol Superstars, so I have started reading-up on him, and have started to watch his films.What I have discovered so far, is that Joe Dallesandro isn't just a pretty face.... and perfect body, he is fascinating.

At the weekend, Joe posted a Youtube link to his Warhol/Paul Morrissey film, Blood for Dracula, so I decided to give it a watch, and I am so glad that I did - I love it - with both Joe and Udo Kier both giving captivating performances.

For some reason, Blood for Dracula has made me think of Morrissey's List of the Lost; not because they have any similarities, but because both the film, and Morrissey's book, are just so out of the norm, and that is what reveals the genius's behind them. Andy Warhol had the mind of a genius. Morrissey has the mind of a genius.

Joe Dallesandro may not be a genius, but he is fascinating none the less. I loved the role he played in Dracula, and I am looking forward to watching Flesh for Frankenstein; although from what I have read so far about Joe, he prefers some of his other films, and there were many!

I asked Joe yesterday to recommend one of his films to me, and he replied, "I just watched 'Blade Runner' again. Can't miss with that." I had no idea that Joe was even in Blade Runner, but it must only be a small role. I want to get stuck into his major roles, so asked him which of his films was he most proud of. He replied, "'Je t'aime... moi non plus' Serge Gainsbourg". I asked if he was still in touch with Jane Birkin, his co-star from the film, and he replied, "Yes well until my phone lost it's information."

My mention of Jane obviously reminded Joe that he had lost her number, as he then sent a tweet to Jane's daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg (@cgainsbourg) asking her to get her mum to email him. For some reason, he later deleted the tweet, and the tweet to me about losing her number.

I'm sure that Joe will soon tire of me asking him questions, and has so far ignored my question as to how he landed the role in Je t'aime... moi non plus, but to have the opportunity to ask questions of a legend like Joe, and yes, he is a legend, which I guess is the next rung down from genius.... and you can't become a genius, you are either born one or you aren't, whereas we all have the opportunity to become a legend within a certain field, although I haven't yet discovered a field to house me.... where was I?.... oh yes, to have the opportunity to ask questions to a legend like Joe is just too good an opportunity to miss. I guess if he applied for one of those official blue ticks, his follower numbers would increase ten fold - he currently has 913. Viva those without a blue tick.

And on the subject of those without a blue tick, I stumbled upon Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) on twitter, with just 88 followers, so I decided to ask him to name his three favourite Morrissey songs. He replied,"Oh, just like a Smash Hits interview (showing my age), although I'm going to extend that to songs by Morrissey and Johnny Marr. This Charming Man, How Soon is Now and Cemetery (sic-not sic) Gates. Cemetery (sic-not sic again) Gates - Anyone who can reference, W.B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde in a song is good in my book."

As Feargal seemed more interested in the lyrics than the music, I'm not sure of the relevance of mentioning Johnny Marr, but as he has, this is an apt place for me to mention that Johnny Marr recently favourited a tweet posted by the NME, linking to their nasty review of Morrissey's Hammersmith concert. I have no more to add on the subject.

And finally, an instagram account has opened in the name Morrissey59, claiming to be "the official account, updated and managed by Morrissey". Most of the Solowers, along with our old friend Rosy Mires, have instantly labelled the account a hoax; which instantly makes me believe that it isn't a hoax, as none of them seem to have an intuitional bone between them. What is more, the instagram account has made the bold statement of: "List of the Lost, audiobook to be released 12th November. Note of advice, keep your eyes peeled, who's the reader I wonder?", which gives me further reason to believe that is IS run by Morrissey. I don't quite understand why people are so sceptical, but then again, we've been here before!

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PHOTO NICKED FROM KIM JONG-UN, AS I DON'T HAVE INSTAGRAM

I am now wondering if Astra's tweet of October 28th, in which she said, "Well, that was the end of that. And the other", was a reference to Morrissey finishing the recording of the audio for List of the Lost. How wonderful would that be!

THE LOVELESS CHART:

1. IT'S YOU I NEED - BILLY FURY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqvBlV8JT3o

2. JANITOR OF LUNACY - NICO (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM6qZXfwfHc

3. I KNOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN SOMEDAY (LIVE IN SAN JOSE 2014) & (MANCHESTER 2004) (DOUBLE 'A' SIDE) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZiWpXRPTt4 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C3LfTrVcjY&feature=youtu.be

4. LA JAVANAISE - SERGE GAINSBOURG (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzusP8AeEyc

5. THE ANSWER - SAVAGES (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvvhHT0B5ck

6. SOCKETS - SLAVES (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9JDwCCimA

7. JE T'AIME... MOI NON PLUS (INSTRUMENTAL WITH FILM CLIPS) - SERGE GAINSBOURG & JANE BIRKIN (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhXFbbnGogc

8. IN THE FLESH (DALLESANDRO CLIPS) - BLONDIE (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTJKe85dsNU

9. LO TI DARÒ DI PIÙ - ORNELLA VANONI (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qum2KxCHxE

10. BANG BANG - MINA (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7-5XXYP-68

Morrissey has issued a statement on True-To-You denying that the Morrissey59 instagram account is him, but as he has used the words "no connection", and even used italics to emphasise the words, I am now convinced that it IS him!

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The reason that I am now so convinced that this instagram account is the work of Morrissey, is because the words "no connection" were used when Morrissey denied that the MorrisseysWorld blog was anything to do with him back on 14th May 2011, and the words "no connection" were also used to deny that the MW twitter account was anything to do with him on 14th September 2011. As we all know; or at least as the deluded dozen know, whilst the rest of the world continue to keep their heads stuffed either in the sand (a la Rosy Mires) or up their arse holes (a la Uncle Skinny & the So-low numpties), those previous denials were lies. As someone once said, "I lie a lot - it's really useful".

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The words "no connection" were also used by Morrissey in May of this year, to deny that the 'official'Facebook account was anything to do with him, and yet yesterday, the Facebook account announced FIRST, that the Rio concert scheduled for November 25th had been moved forward to the 24th.

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If someone opens a social media account in your name, it is VERY easy to have it closed down. I myself had to do it before, when someone decided that it would be amusing to impersonate me online. If these accounts really had no connection to Morrissey, they WOULD be closed down.

We now await that audio book... or maybe not! That is the beauty of Moz.

And on the subject of List of the Lost, Morrissey has defended it in a new Chilean interview saying, , "I strongly believe in freedom of expression and critics have to say what they have to say. But often the criticisms are an attack against me as a human being and have nothing to do with what they're reading. Neither can you give the moral high ground against a book just because you don't like it. It wasn't written for you. You cannot try to work out what you think the author should have written instead of what he actually wrote." List of the Lost is ART, not just a book.

*Goes off singing* I'm doing very well, I can block out the present and the past now

Astra made a number of appearances in The Loveless Go-Go bar yesterday, firstly at around 4pm, and finally just after 1am this morning. The visits were mainly to exchange a few pleasantries and nothingnesses with The Loveless regulars, and Astra also played some songs on the jukebox. Here are her highlights:

"I am only and ONLY ever, full of self-deprecation. However the self-deprecation... still comes with LEGS. So it could always still be alternatively worse."

"ALCHEMY AND METAPHOR"

"I'm all the go-go dancer that anyone around here could ever handle! My angles are TOUJOURS uncovered! And always all of yours @heathercat222".... "That was one of my finer garbled tweets. Again, one of many attributes. I thought I typed 'And toujours, I am all of yours'."

"(modesty) One of my many, many fine attributes. Very many! Many modest. Most very! Oui?OUI!"

"I know nothing... just the sound of my own vagabond heart. Beat beat beat beat BEATING"

Astra played four songs, one in the early evening: She Said by Eve Boswell, and then at 1.20am Astra returned and tweeted, "Beauty comes in threes. Don't forget to breathe. ODETTA", before then playing; Deep Blue Sea, If I had a Ribbon Bow, and my favourite of the three, All the Pretty Little Horses:

Needless to say, I had never heard of either Eve Boswell or Odetta before, but as the Eve Boswell clip featured the song on the Odeon record label, I tweeted back a clip of I Call Your Name by The Beatles on Odeon, which Astra subsequently retweeted.

The @Morrissey59 instagram account has removed it's 'official' tag, which has led to the sand & arse brigade - such as Rosy Mires and her homophobic friend, Fabian (the current MW blog owner, @HoldenMorrissey) - giving each other high fives for being so clever in seeing through the faker. Rosy tweeted, "@HoldenMorrissey Now look at it... like the fakery never happened... Probably got scared & deleted. Bizarre behaviour isn't it?!"

Rosy even took the time to tweet me to say, "It's a bit of a fail by Morrissey59 using the original Amazon date. Lol. MustTryHarder." This is a reference to the fact that M59 has stated that the audio version of List of the Lost will be coming out on November 12th, which was the original date given by Amazon; which Amazon has now been changed to June 30th 2016. Rosy and the Solowers choose to believe Amazon ahead of a Morrissey instagram account, purely on the basis that Amazon are a big corporate company. David Ca-moron, Mrs Battybird and Barrack O'Banana would be so proud of them - it's exactly how they want it to be.

Rosy and co have chosen to completely ignore the Morrissey-esque humour of M59, which when it posted a picture of the band, wrote, "Meet the List of the Found", before adding the band member names, concluding with, "& last and most certainly least, Boz Boorer."

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If the audio version were to come out on next Thursday, as stated by M59, then Rosy & her denial chums would have nowhere left to run, especially after such a vehement denial on TTY, although come to think of it, how did they continue to run following the vehement denial on TTY about the Facebook account being anything to do with Morrissey, when it so obviously is? Oh yes, I forgot, they aren't on the run, their heads are in the sand (Rosy) and up their arses (Holden, Skinny, and the So-lowers). No matter what happens, some people will NEVER believe, because they don't WANT to believe, they are sleeping.... in fact, they are comatose.

True-To-You yesterday posted a picture of A Wall In Ecuador, with the photo credited to Morrissey's tour manager, Donnie Knutson.

It is a beautiful and artistic photo on many levels; with it's mixture of crumbling buildings, green trees, and graffitied wall. The graffitied wall is the main focus of the photo, as it has three Morrissey tour posters on it, but the wall also has the 'all seeing eye', and the posters themselves have been graffitied with blue paint. Was someone attempting to draw a rose?

MORRISSEY'S TOUR MANAGER, DONNIE KNUTSON - HOLDING A BLUE ROSE - NYC JAN 2013

The photo does of course mean that Knutson is already in Ecuador ahead of Saturday's concert, and both crew member Jay Joannides, and band member Boz Boorer, tweeted yesterday to say they were on their way.

It is always exciting when Morrissey starts another tour, but following a recent interview with Chilean website La Tercera, I don't think we'll be seeing/hearing Smiler with Knife anytime soon. Morrissey stated in the interview, "a song like Smiler with knife is so meaningful to me that I cannot even sing." Smiler hasn't been in the set since the concert in Hull in September.

MORRISSEY SINGING SMILER WITH KNIFE IN BOURNEMOUTH - MARCH 2015

In the same Chilean interview, Morrissey also spoke about the record industry saying, "I feel that charts became ridiculous when downloading music was accepted. They should not be classified as sales, because people want to own a piece of art, such as a cd or vinyl. Major labels wanted to get rid of the physical to save money and space."

Morrissey's observation is so true, but hopefully the tide is turning back the other way, with even artists such as Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber now issuing their albums on vinyl; although very very few artists are releasing 7 inch singles, with Sam Smith's Writing on the Wall being the ONLY UK No.1 issued on vinyl in the whole of 2015. The only No.1 issued on vinyl in 2014 was Dread Beerrun's Thinking Out Loud.

BOND THEME - ONLY UK NO.1 SINGLE OF 2015 RELEASED AS A 7 INCH

There have also been very few chart songs released as cd singles in the past couple of years, and there would appear to be very little appetite from either artists or labels to resurrect the single in physical format, which is a crying shame.

I intended to write about my latest twitter exchanges with Joe Dallesandro today, but I have already written way too much, so will leave it for another time.

Astra made brief visits to The Loveless on both Thursday and Friday. On Thursday she appeared at just before 6pm (1pm Quito (Ecuador) time), and was in a Bieber mood, posting photos and adding, "Why has nobody taken the time to photoshop some better tattoos on him yet for our collective viewing pleasure? Because you can't improve on perfection, that's why. See his small, new 'Purpose' tattoo above his belly button. The terrible font was ironic. Nothing else ironic on that body."

I responded by saying that the tattoo actually appears to read, 'Purpase' or 'Puzpase', and pondered as to whether Scooter (his manger) had written it. I also noted that the 'e' on the 'Forgiv e' tattoo, was so far away from the rest of the word, that it was virtually on his leg.

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Astra returned at 8.30pm (3.30pm Quito time) and posted pictures of Cyd Charisse and Jayne Mansfield.

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Astra's 9am Friday morning visit (4am Quito) was to post PETA pictures of cows and pigs.

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Another Friday visit took place at 8pm Quito time (1am UK), with numerous BB pictures being posted, and Timi Yuro's, Only Love Me, which I had never heard before - another gem.

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The MorrisseyBand began their South American tour on Saturday in Quito, Ecuador, but there is no Youtube footage whatsoever, so God only knows what the concert was like. The set apparently included Earth is the Loneliest Planet, which coincidentally I played twice in The Loveless on Thursday. The song hasn't been in the set for a while.

A few little snippets of video and the odd photo have appeared on social media, with the most interesting photo being a photo of Gustavo Manzur holding a white rose back stage.

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GUSTAVO WITH ROSE, BENEATH A PLASTIC CHANDELIER & NEXT TO A PORTALOO

I'm not convinced that the rose has anything at all to do with the BRS, although there can be NO DOUBT that the band members are all aware of what goes on with Moz and his online antics - highlighted by the fact that Gustavo has previously published a photograph of him and Mando Lopez making an 'O' sign, and Boz Boorer calling me a c**t when I met him at Vinyl Boutique last year prior to the O2 concert.... unless of course Boz calls EVERY Moz fan he meets a c**t.... which maybe he does! The top and the bottom of it is, THEY KNOW!

MANDO & GUSTAVO - 'O'

I don't believe that drummer Matt Walker was 'in' on the whole MorrisseysWorld thing at the time of him leaving the band in 2012, but I'm pretty sure that upon his return, he was told all about it. Matt posted a rare tweet on Thursday, and when I replied to him, he favourited it. He knows!

Another person who KNOWS; although I'm not sure exactly what he knows, or indeed how he managed to find Morrissey on twitter, is Joe Dallesandro. Joe tweeted the other day that, "getting a blue check next to my name is not a big priority in my life". Joe comes across on twitter exactly as you would expect him to - the coolest guy on the planet. When someone asked him why he didn't mass produce his t-shirts, he replied, "because less is more. Limited edition. I'm not a Kardashian machine."

I responded to Joe's tweet about the 'official' twitter tick by tweeting, "don't ever get a tick, it will make it all less personal. Morrissey keeps denying he is on Twitter, but those who know, KNOW!", to which Joe replied, "Know what? Ha." Ha indeed! HOWdoes he know? I'm still guessing that Boy George told him.

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Joe's twitter feed is one of the most interesting I have come across, and the fact that he only has 1,018 followers somehow makes it even better. Joe doesn't seem to take himself too seriously, although he does seem quite annoyed that his image gets exploited a lot, recently tweeting, "Everybody owns my image but me it seems." Yesterday, Joe even posted a picture of Alain De-loin, to commemorate his 80th birthday.

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ALAIN DELON - TURNED 80 YESTERDAY

All has been very quiet on the MorrisseysWorld front, with there just being one solitary tweet from Astra just after midnight: "One day au devoir will be goodbye."

The tour party has now moved on to Chile (yes FTM has had Chilean hits following on from Ecuadorian hits) ahead of two concerts there on Thursday and Sunday. Fingers crossed for some Youtube footage this time.

There is STILL no Youtube footage of Saturday's Morrissey concert in Ecuador; unless you count a minute long blurred clip of How Soon is Now? with dreadful fan sing-a-long:

Photos of Morrissey in Ecuador have continued to appear on the internet, including lots of Moz signing things outside his hotel.

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FLYING THE FLAG

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ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS TO THE NEAREST RECORD SHOP

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DOLLS IN HAND

Astra paid a quick visit to The Loveless just before 1am this morning (10pm Chilean time), but only to swap pleasantries with a couple of the regulars. There has been no sign of Our Mozzer since October 26th.

Following on from me mentioning Joe Dallesandro in yesterday's blog entry, Joe not only 'liked' (it's no longer called favourite on twitter) my tweet mentioning the blog entry, but also went on to post a tweet of the cover of The Queen is Dead LP, and added @BRSChairman to the tweet! Hmm.

As I don't have anything else to write about, I thought I would mention the current MorrisseysBand football squad. When I last mentioned the squad in February 2014, it looked like this:

1. Matt Walker (Goalkeeper/Drummer)
2. Boz Boorer (Clogging Right Back/Musical Director/Head of Catering/Guitar/Clarinet/Cross Dresser)
3. Gustavo Manzur (Left Back/Keyboards/Translator)
4. Liam Nammock (Holding Midfielder (usually around the neck)/Personal Bodyguard to the Moz/Hard Bastard/Driver/Licensed Thug)
5. Solomon Walker (Centre Back/Bass Guitar/Dumb Waiter/Singer of Backing Vocals on Maladjusted)
6. Jesse Tobias (Centre Back who likes to show flair by pushing forward. A modern day Bobby Moore/Guitars/Looks)
7. Donnie Knutson (Midfielder/Tour Manager/Rider Provider/Rose Supplier)
8. Jay Joannides (Midfielder... likes to get stuck in alongside Nammock/Roadie/Security)
9. Damon 'Kevin Phillips' Anacreonte (Centre Forward...the only genuine footballer in the side/Hairdresser... have you been on your holidays this year?/Encourager)
10. George 'Morrissey' Best (Attack!/Playmaker/Genius/Singer/Defender of the defenseless)
11. Arturo Hernandez (Nifty Winger(?)/Security/Man Mountain)
12. Kristeen Young (Playmaker/Singer/Professional Wailer)

Nammock has gone out on loan, and so Damon 'Kevin Phillips' Anacreonte has dropped into the holding position. He has impressed with his light touch and his caress of the ball is simply beautiful. Central defender Solomon Walker has been replaced by the left footed, no nonsense, Mando 'Loopy' Lopez, whilst Hernandez and Young have been transferred out. With no financial backer at the moment, the latter two haven't been replaced, and so sponge man Dave 'Milky' Millward has been drafted in to try and engineer some umph.

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MOZ & FAN WAFTER/BAG CARRIER/HAIRDRESSER/MAN SERVANT/HOLDING MIDFIELDER, DAMON ANACREONTE - OUTSIDE THE HOTEL IN QUITO

I haven't mentioned List of the Lost recently, and it is a book that keeps on giving, so I shall mention it again today. Marianne tweeted a great line this morning, "Only so much despair can be survived before the mind finally caves in."HOW powerful is that! We await to see if that audio book appears on Thursday.

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And finally for today, whilst looking for Quito footage on Youtube, I cam across this. It is a song by a band called Hot Dad, entitled, What's Wrong Now, Morrissey? It made me smile... but only slightly!

THE LOVELESS CHART (Counted down in The Loveless today at 12.45pm by @UpThePier aka Fluff (Deceased).)

1. REEL AROUND THE FOUNTAIN (LIVE IN MANCHESTER 1983) - THE SMITHS (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rdV7p3Qudc

2. EARTH IS THE LONELIEST PLANET - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-VWLUY_GHw

3. TROUBLE LOVES ME (LIVE IN SPAIN 2006) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7n2BBKc0iQ&feature=youtu.be

4. ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES - ODETTA (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7QXidR_Aks

5. I WISH IT WERE ME - FRANÇOISE HARDY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=471VAsTZlhY

6. HEAVEN KNOWS I'M MISSING HIM NOW - SANDIE SHAW (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiYEpm_1lI8

7. ONLY LOVE ME - TIMI YURO (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWtJJLAKpkg

8. SHE SAID - EVE BOSWELL (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZuZrPwEOVI

9. YOU WERE GOOD IN YOUR TIME - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlCutGGguLo&feature=youtu.be

10. ONE OF OUR OWN (LIVE IN SEATTLE 2015) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLeR7IKF5XA

11. SMILER WITH KNIFE (LIVE IN HULL 2015) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trjByaAF3Jo

12. ALL I NEED IS YOU - TIMI YURO (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqjC2feQ0kw

MY MOST RECENT VINYL PURCHASE

13. BALLADE DE MELODY NELSON - SERGE GAINSBOURG (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIDuE4U_fZg

14. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD - ODETTA (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXg9UFUXFXU

15. I'VE CHANGED MY PLEA TO GUILTY (LIVE ON THE JONATHAN ROSS SHOW 1990) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRh_vgS2dFE

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16. ARE YOU SATISFIED? - SLAVES (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Eovib6BCk

17. I CALL YOUR NAME - THE BEATLES (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5zei3ES0Hc&feature=youtu.be

18. GET OFF THE STAGE - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FCRd4xQPDA

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19. THE ANSWER - SAVAGES (DOWN 14): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvvhHT0B5ck

20. JANE B. - JANE BIRKIN (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNimEUTmQy8

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20. MAYBE YOU'LL BE THERE - TIMI YURO (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDI7lyHwPGw

21. MY FOOLISH HEART - TIMI YURO (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdRT-q40Tr8

22. THAT'S NOT ME - SKEPTA (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyONbqggasY

23. QUEEN'S SPEECH EP 4 - LADY LESHURR (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyodeHtVvkA

24. THIS CHARMING MAN (LIVE IN GREAT YARMOUTH 2009) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEX11INgMn0

25. I HAVE FORGIVEN JESUS - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ASok9tBWc

26. LIVE IN PARIS 1973 (WALK ON THE WILD SIDE/HEROIN/WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT) - LOU REED (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jmZNrCPnM

27. 69 ANNEE EROTIQUE - JANE BIRKIN & SERGE GAINSBOURG (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tFRgK9ubzc

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28. SKIN STORM - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byw5YkUp8OI&feature=youtu.be

29. IF I HAD A RIBBON BOW - ODETTA (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xQdzN4Vykk

30. DEEP BLUE SEA - ODETTA (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG-yUOVdYk

31. DI DOO DAA - JANE BIRKIN (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmkH6ng_wY#t=10

32. LA DECADANSE - JANE BIRKIN & SERGE GAINSBOURG (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxj8hNamb0#t=12

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FOOT NOTE: The photo of Gustavo and the white rose featured on yesterday's FTM blog entry, has been added to the BRS tumblr.

As longtime readers of my blog will know, my record collection includes a physical copy of every UK Number 1 single dating back to the inception of the chart in November 1952, but keeping the collection going over the past few years has been extremely challenging, although even in this digital age, it is still currently possible to own a physical copy of every No.1 single. For the past seven years I have been expecting this to change, and it has come close, but I now have a theory that a certain song by The Smiths might be the one to bring my collection to an end.

The selling of downloads began in 2004, with Apple launching it's virtual iTunes store in June of that year. The UK Singles Chart started including download sales in April 2005, although digital sales were only included towards a song's chart placing if there was also a physical copy of the single available to purchase as well. This ruling was in place so that the chart reflected the top-selling "current" releases, but on January 1st 2007 the ruling was scrapped, thus allowing any song to enter the UK Singles chart, whether it was current release or not. This effectively turned the chart into a Song Chart and not a Singles Chart; although for some reason the music industry still refer to it as a singles chart.

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On December 7th 2008; nearly two years after the chart ruling changed, and with shops such as Woolworths no longer stocking CD singles, Leona Lewis hit the top of the UK Chart with a cover of Snow Patrol's Run as a download only release. I presumed this would put an end to my collection; it was certainly the end of Woolworths, who closed their doors for good, but despite Simon Cowell and Leona Lewis's best attempts, my collection didn't end in December 2008, thanks to a combination of the needs of national radio stations and the Germans!

It transpired that the record stations still required a promo CD for each new single, and Germany, along with a couple of other European countries, were not yet quite ready to give up on the CD Single format, so they continued to be produced for the European market.

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Seven years on, and promo CD Singles and CD singles for the Germans are still being produced; although nowadays in much smaller quantities, and so my collection limps on. With vinyl also making a comeback - with three Number 1s this year having been issued in this format - I am confident that my collection of No.1 singles will carry on for the time being, but what could still kill off the collection, is if a 'song' and not a 'single' makes it to No.1.

A Facebook campaign by an anti-X Factor group in December 2009 resulted in Rage Against the Machine's 1992 song, Killing in the Name, selling over 500,000 download copies in a week, and thus race to Number 1, but as it had previously been released as a single in 1992, it was still possible to own a physical copy.

The closest we have come to a 'non-single' song topping the UK chart, is when Thatcher died in 2013, and a campaign began to get the Wizard of Oz album track, Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead to Number 1. It very nearly succeeded, but climaxed at No.2.

And so to my theory. When Elizabeth Battybird dies, the UK will go into collective mourning, but there will be a lot of those opposed to the Royal regime, who will want to mark The Queen's death in a different way. Could it be that The Smiths album track, The Queen is Dead, is downloaded by thousands of people across the UK, sending it soaring to the top of the hit parade, and ending my collection in the process?

Now I come to think about it, what will actually happen, is that Sir Elton, Sir Paul, Sir Cliff, Sir Tom et al will be wheeled out by the establishment and told to record a song of sorrow. It won't just be a download either; every shop in the land will be selling the 'Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative CD single'. It will be Number 1 for months, and The Queen is Dead will languish at Number 2. It's the story of Morrissey's life!

Oh well, at least my collection will continue for another day.

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THE 2015 UK NUMBER 1'S

Meanwhile, back in MorrisseysWorld, Astra popped into The Loveless yesterday at 4.30pm Chilean time, and posted an array of Bardot and Hardy pictures. She didn't stop to chat.

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And in Morrissey's world, True-To-You have announced that Morrissey and the band will be playing three songs on Chilean TV tomorrow. Alongside the announcement, is a completely unrelated Morrissey/Marilyn Monroe montage credited to Morrissey's nephew Sam Esty Rayner, which shows M and MM with their tongues out.
Morrissey-Marilyn Monroe Montage By Sam Esty Rayner

Morrissey-Marilyn Monroe Montage By Sam Esty Rayner

The publication of the montage has gotten BRS member, comrade harps excited, as he recently posted a montage on The World of Moz blog, of Morrissey pulling faces. Just a coincidence, of course.

Day 1485 - Chairman Moz - Our Mozzer Returns to Twitter

Day 1486a - Love from the Underbelly - Boy George Promotes

Day 1487a - Scrabble & Steam - Greatest Hits

Day 1488 - The f*cker!

Day 1489 - Untag Marr Heart

Day 1490a - Broken back

Day 1491 - Hey there Georgy Boy

Day 1492 - Life tends to come and go

Day 1493 - Action is her middle name

Day 1494 - A very thin man

Day 1496a - 1997 all over again

Day 1497 & 1498 - Hideous tricks on the brain

Day 1499 to Day 1507 - Little Joe never once gave it away

Day 1514 - We've been here before

Day 1515 - No Connection, No Connection, No Connection, No Connection

Day 1516 - And most certainly least

Day 1518 - No purpose

Day 1520 - Portaloo rose

Day 1521 - Only so much despair

Day 1522 - Could The Smiths end my Number 1s collection?