{"id":510849,"date":"2026-01-12T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:57:50","slug":"morrissey-finally-showed-up-in-san-antonio-offering-long-awaited-answer-to-its-undying-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510849\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey finally showed up in San Antonio, offering long-awaited answer to its undying love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night at a sold out show at San Antonio\u2019s Boeing Center at Tech Port, Morrissey did something unexpected: he actually showed up.<\/p>\n

He also took the opportunity on stage to direct a few snide remarks at the Current<\/a>, specifically the paper\u2019s speculation, which started nearly a year ago<\/a>, as to whether the former Smiths frontman was going to appear.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny suggestion of canceling this show \u2014 the very suggestion was cancelled,\u201d the crooner said at the end of the set, after performing the exotic \u201cI Will See You in Far-off Places.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact,\u201d he sniffed, \u201cI don\u2019t know what you mean by \u2018still.\u201d <\/p>\n

Morrissey was referring to the very first suggestion when you Google \u201cMorrissey San Antonio,\u201d which, after the Boeing Center event listing itself, is the Current article titled \u201cLive Nation and venue confirm Morrissey\u2019s San Antonio show is still on \u2026 for now.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

Seeming to be particularly bothered by my choice of the word \u201cstill,\u201d he also changed the words of \u201cHow soon is now?\u201d singing \u201d I am STILL the son, STILL the son and heir,\u201d interjecting \u201creally? really?\u201d after viciously belting out \u201cyou shut your mouth how can you say, I go about things the wrong way?\u201d<\/p>\n

To be sure, the Current wasn\u2019t alone in wondering \u201cwill he or won\u2019t he?\u201d Indeed, many Alamo City fans seemed to be asking the same question. The singer has canceled on us four times in a row, after all.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t convinced he was actually going to play, even up until he took the stage. <\/p>\n

Ahead of the night\u2019s show, Current staff speculated on the odds. \u201cHope he doesn\u2019t cancel at the last minute. Cedar pollen is high!\u201d a coworker texted me. \u201cVibes are off! A butterfly flapped its wings in Phuket!\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n

When Morrissey took the stage and began belting out classics such as \u201cThere is a Light that Never Goes Out\u201d and \u201cSuedehead,\u201d my incredulity was mirrored in the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe actually made it, man!\u201d a concert goer behind me exclaimed to a friend.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t blame Moz for being salty about the speculation, though it was a little jarring to realize he\u2019s aware of my writing at all. Since the initial May concert<\/a> was scheduled in February 2025 and then rescheduled<\/a> for January, 2026, I have covered this question<\/a> a lot. And I mean, very many times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To quote the bard\u2019s words back to him, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the British icon hasn\u2019t exactly instilled San Antonio with confidence. Not only has Morrissey canceled on the city four times in a row over the past six years \u2014 he is notorious for a high rate of cancelations and postponements throughout the world.<\/p>\n

There are even online trackers<\/a> dedicated to Morrissey\u2019s cancelation rate. Last year, it averaged 50%. By the numbers, when people asked \u201cWhat\u2019s the over\/under on Morrissey canceling?\u201d I told them to flip a coin.<\/p>\n

Morrissey also canceled the entire South American leg of his tour at the end of 2025 due to \u201cextreme exhaustion<\/a>.\u201d But his 2026 cancelation rate has thus far been even worse. Both California dates leading up to San Antonio\u2019s show were also postponed due to an \u201cadverse reaction<\/a>\u201d to medication.<\/p>\n

It might be hard for Morrissey \u2014 he hates being called Moz and says it \u201csounds like something you\u2019d squirt on the kitchen floor\u201d \u2014 to see that the Current\u2019s ribbing was precisely because this city loves him so much. Unequivocally and eternally. This city has longed for him with a yearning only he can understand and put into words.<\/p>\n

As the days and hours inched closer to Saturday\u2019s show, thousands of San Antonians were thinking, \u201cPlease, please, please, let me get what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Morrissey finally gave it to them.<\/p>\n

The crooner delivered with a set of tracks from an illustrious career spanning half a century, his baritone falsetto preserved in amber, frozen in time. Like an inverse Dorian Gray, the singer has aged (gracefully), but the art has not aged at all.<\/p>\n

At one point, The Portrait of Dorian Gray author Oscar Wilde \u2014\u00a0one of the singer\u2019s major influences \u2014 featured on the screen behind him. Jack Kerouac appeared during \u201cLife is a Pigsty,\u201d Joan Crawford for \u201cLet me Kiss You\u201d and Bruce Lee for the timelessly cool Smiths track \u201cHow Soon Is Now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Cinematic references such as U.S. avant garde filmmaker Maya Deren and Mathieu\u00a0Kassowitz\u2019s La Haine, a gritty French movie about immigrants in Paris, also played behind him. Many things might bore Morrissey, but the man is nothing if not cultured. <\/p>\n

To balance out the frippery, he also has a penchant for brutes, boxers and the sultry, misunderstood James Dean. Perhaps that\u2019s why he ripped off his shirt Saturday \u2014 as he is want to do \u2014 as a show of masculinity.<\/p>\n

Other tracks featured in the set included \u201cFirst of the Gang to Die,\u201d \u201cIrish Blood, English Heart,\u201d \u201cEvery Day is Like Sunday\u201d and Western-infused track \u201cThe Loop.\u201d Morrissey also performed the Smiths song \u201cPaint a Vulgar Picture\u201d \u2014 its first time being played live since 1997.<\/p>\n

Notably absent from the set was his brand new triphop-tinged single with a Bj\u00f6rk-esque beat, \u201cMakeup Is a Lie<\/a>.\u201d Dropped Friday, the edgy and intoxicating track demonstrates a musicality just as fresh and relevant as ever. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure you heard the very good news,\u201d the singer said onstage of the release. However, he said the band wouldn\u2019t be performing the new single this show \u2014\u00a0because it has to learn it first.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s performance made it clear why San Antonio loves Morrissey so much, despite the many controversies that follow him.<\/p>\n

No one does loneliness and alienation quite like Morrissey, except for maybe Sartre or Camus.<\/p>\n

So when he sings \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight?
And if you\u2019re so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 he\u2019s not only singing about his own loneliness but yours too. Likely adding to San Antonio\u2019s and Mexico\u2019s love for Morrissey are the many comparisons of his melodramatic ballads to ranchera balladeers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s basically the British Vicente Fern\u00e1ndez,\u201d my concert companion remarked.<\/p>\n

The lovelorn songster may not do a grito, but it comes through nonetheless.<\/p>\n

This is why fans rush the stage after a show \u2014 like one San Antonio man did \u2014 to embrace the foppish dandy and \u201cprofessional refusenik<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

And why they sang along to nearly every word, returning his plaintiff pining. <\/p>\n

This is why his fans\u2019 undying love is a light that will never go out.<\/p>\n

Photos by Oscar Moreno.<\/p>\n

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