14 March 2006
Bricktown Events Center, Oklahoma City, OK

First Of The Gang To Die
Still Ill
You Have Killed Me
The Youngest Was The Most Loved
Reader Meet Author
I Have Forgiven Jesus
I Will See You In Far Off Places
My Life Is A Succession Of People Saying Goodbye
Girlfriend In A Coma
Let Me Kiss You
Life Is A Pigsty
Trouble Loves Me
How Soon Is Now?
Suedehead
At Last I Am Born
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
Irish Blood, English Heart
/Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
The second warm-up date for the upcoming Tour Of The Tormentors MMVI went as well as the first one, despite the venue being only half-filled. Morrissey was still very talkative and delivered every line with a passion. The fans were very responsive. Most of them were not familiar with the soon-to-be-released new album, but they sang aloud to the songs they knew such as "Girlfriend In A Coma", "Trouble Loves Me" and "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before". The setlist was very similar to the previous one in Tulsa but it was significantly scrambled and "In The Future When All's Well" was dropped.

Morrissey came out on stage with a walking cane, which he used to point and gesture with during opening song "First Of The Gang To Die". He greeted the audience after this with the words "Welcome to our music show!" After "You Have Killed Me" he introduced the song he had just performed as well as the one he was about to do: "Thank you that was 'You Have Killed Me' which is our new single in the civilized world and... 'The Youngest Was The Most Loved'." During the outro of the latter number Morrissey picked up a pair of maracas and shook them wildly as he ad-libbed the final lines. After that he announced "Can we send our love and respect and our thanks to (names person)".

After "Reader Meet Author", Morrissey said "Thank you to those of you who traveled from Japan... (crowd cheers) and thank you to those of you who traveled from Wichita Falls... (crowd cheers again) which takes more guts... what do I know?" He then went on to introduce "I Have Forgiven Jesus" with the words "This song was written by the legendary Hank Snow". He wasn't satisfied with his performance of the latter, but still managed to poke fun at himself in an elegant way by saying "I think you'll agree, I sing off key beautifully..." He then introduced the following song on the setlist, "I Will See You In Far Off Places". In that one Morrissey changed a line to "It's so easy for us to be here together / But it's so hard for our flesh to combine". After the song, to someone who was shouting at him, he asked "What do you have to say? (person answers) That's creepy!"

After "Girlfriend In A Coma" which got an incredible response out of the audience, Morrissey introduced his band, and himself: "Would you please put your feet together for the beloved Boz Boorer... and once again for the beloved Gary Day... and our new boy Matt Walker... the belovely Jesse Tobias... and the outstanding Michael Farrell... and that's it really... my name's Bob Hope." After "Let Me Kiss You" which was also very well received, Morrissey tried to calm the audience down with the words "No please, gratitude swells the head". Then "Life Is A Pigsty" was introduced with "I wrote these words to this song when I was three years old... it's called 'Life Is A Pigsty'." After that song he self-depreciatingly announced "'Ringleader Of The Tormentors' is the name of our new album, which will be buyable - or not, you decide - in two weeks and Walgreens' has ordered 4 copies... this is the big one!"

"Trouble Loves Me" was again played with an old-style piano, this time the official song and anthem of the State of Oklahoma, composed and written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. "How Soon Is Now?" was introduced with the words "Of course it's astonishing... how the years, how the decades just melt away" and was of course followed by an explosion of cheers when the fans recognised the song's opening vibrato. Before the final song of the main set, "Irish Blood, English Heart", Morrissey announced "One more song and you are free!", which obviously got a reaction out of the audience. After this performance Morrissey threw his shirt into the audience, and left stage followed by his band.

When everyone returned under a thunder of cheers, they lined up on stage, Morrissey in the middle of his musicians, bowed and then went to their respective place. Morrissey shouted "Thank you, you've been very nice" and then the band launched into encore "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before". At the beginning of the second verse, Morrissey was tackled to the floor in a melée between security and a stage crasher. He soon got up again and resumed the song.

 


A fair audio recording of the complete concert, as well as two songs in video, "Trouble Loves Me" and "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" are circulated on the internet. The source for these is the same. The footage was considered not good enough by the bootlegger for distribution, bar the two songs put up in circulation. The audio portion of the full concert was still ripped and distributed for the enjoyment of fans.

 

Were you there? Do you have a recording of this concert? If yes please information and be credited.