Morrissey calls Marina Barrage an 'appalling venue'

SINGAPORE – Nearly two months after his concert in Singapore’s Marina Barrage, Morrissey said he felt sad for his audiences here, calling the venue “appalling”.

“We felt much sadness for our audiences at both Jakarta and Singapore City who struggled with appalling venues – venues which, in fact, were not really venues at all… just roped off bits of water logged fields,” the English singer-songwriter said.

“In dismal circumstances our friends in both cities gave us their best, and we shall never forget them.”

Morrissey made these comments in a blog post on fansite True To You, in which he raged against his management, 360 Management, alleging that they were to blame for the cancellation of the final six shows of his US tour.

“There was apparently not even enough money to transport the touring party to the next scheduled city, and 360 Management faded out as quickly as they had faded in,” Morrissey said, adding that the company had announced that “all funds had suddenly evaporated” after keyboardist Gustavo Mazur collapsed backstage at a show in Boulder, Colorado in the United States.

The former Smiths frontman also went on to rank his favourite audiences of the past year, naming Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Hong Kong among his favourites and Salt Lake City, Tokyo and Tel-Aviv in the last few places on a list of fifteen cities. Singapore was not on the list.

When contacted, LAMC Productions did not address Morrissey’s complaint, and only said: “We never received any negative feedback from artist management or fans that attended."