6 June 2007
Riverside (CA), Municipal Auditorium

The Queen Is Dead
The Last Of The Famous International Playboys
Ganglord
The National Front Disco
Let Me Kiss You
Lucky Lisp
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Irish Blood, English Heart
All You Need Is Me
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
You Have Killed Me
In The Future When All's Well
That's How People Grow Up
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
Disappointed
I Will See You In Far Off Places
Life Is A Pigsty
How Soon Is Now?
/You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side
This was a good show, with a good performance by Morrissey and his band. Morrissey looked particularly happy and playful, but he was slightly less talkative than usual. The crowd was appreciative and energetic, although a bit violent as is typical in Southern California. Security was very tight so nobody made it on stage.

There was very little change in the setlist. "I've Changed My Plea To Guilty" was replaced with another song from Morrissey's solo back catalogue, "Lucky Lisp".

When Morrissey entered stage he greeted the audience with the line "It's cheap, it's loud, it's live music!". After powerful set opener "The Queen Is Dead" he exclaimed "It won't be pleasant!" He slightly changed a few lines in "Ganglord" to "wanting me to break their silly laws" and "Don't worry, just remember, the police can always be bribed". After the latter number he teased the rowdy audience by saying "Now, if you come any closer I'm gonna bite you... I promise!" After "Lucky Lisp" he jokingly said "Now, I know some of you haven't recognised me, well... I'm your father! Don't you forget me!" As an introduction to "All You Need Is Me" he started to say "EVerybody has their dream and my dream is..." but never finished.

Over the last notes of "All You Need Is Me" Morrissey shouted something that sounded like "Columbia!", followed with the song's title. Over the opening bars of "Everyday Is Like Sunday" he asked "Is anybody listening?" He extended a few lines in the latter number to "Come Armageddon come, please, now!" and "on your face, your scrawny face". Following "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" he had his traditional chat with fans in the front rows. To his favourite fan he asked "You look a bit squashed Julia... Would you like to say anything? No? Like to speak? No? (Morrissey hands microphone to someone else who shouts 'I love you Morrissey!') I knew you'd say that!" After "You Have Killed Me" he said "So tomorrow you go back to the school, to work, wherever hell you go... and you enter the twilight zone, 'cause this is reality, that's not reality..."

New composition "That's How People Grow Up" was introduced with the words "So if you can rip your teeth and look the other way while we do a new song called 'That's How People Grow Up'..." After the song he told the crowd "It will grow on you... In about 10 years time you'll look back and you'll say, that was a lovely song..." The song "Disappointed" was very well received and Morrissey told the appreciative crowd "We live to give, we aim to please, that's all we can do..." He was distracted by something or someone during the first half of "I Will See You In Far Off Places" and missed or simply hummed some lines.

Following the line "so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry and you want to die" in "How Soon Is Now?" Morrissey gestured the act of masturbation. When he returned to the stage for the encore, before going into "You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side", his parting words to the audience were "To die in Riverside is such a heavenly place to die", sung to the melody of "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out". Over this final song's outro he shouted "That's what you get when you leave your home... your safe, safe home... ciao!"

 


A good audience recording of the complete set is circulated on audio bootlegs (recorder: JG). There is a second audience recording out there, but this one is not being shared at this point in time (recorder: Julian).

 

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