Music
Morrissey fans searched for "outside meat" before show last Friday
by Tyler Munro
July 13, 2011
There are vegetarians, there are vegans and then there’s Morrissey, the former Smiths singer who’s taken eccentric belligerence to startling heights after insisting concert-goers get searched before his show last Friday.
Sounds pedestrian and harmless, right? Well, what if I told you fans were searched—not for weapons, not for drugs—but for meat.
As one fan tells the Daily Mirror, “[Y]ou were funnelled through to the top of some steps where they were carrying out searches […] they were checking to make sure that I was not carrying any meat products inside.”
This is nothing new for Morrissey, who stormed off the stage at Coachella back in 2009 when his superhuman sniffer caught a whiff of meat. Next month’s 10-day festival Lokerse Feesten will have a “meatless” day after Morrissey bullied Belgian organizers into demanding that all vendors serve exclusively vegetarian meals the entire day he’s on site.
An irrational suggestion by any standard, unless of course it’s made by Morrissey. To play up an obvious cliché: bigmouth strikes again.
In other news, Morrissey was bitten by a dog the other day.
He fractured his right index finger, but don’t worry, hot dog vendors, you’ll still have the day off when Morrissey continues his tyrannical crusade against your livelihood later this month—he says no shows will be cancelled.
