Look Out Live! by Johnny Marr (Sep 19, 2025)

Johnny Marr: Look Out Live!

The Johnny Marr live album, Look Out Live!, originally came out on Record Store Day in April 2025 as a limited edition double Orange vinyl. I haven’t seen the record anywhere for sale, and had forgotten about it, until recently (September 19), BMG re-released the album as a regular 2xLP and 2xCD deluxe album.

Due to the limitation of the vinyl format, the CD is probably the best version to get, as it contains four extra songs… making it a complete recording of the concert at Hammersmith Apollo, from April 12, 2024.

Smiths songs on his set includes, “Panic”, “This Charming Man”, “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want”, “How Soon Is Now?”, “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby”, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”, “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before”, “Bigmouth Strikes Again.” But those aren’t the highlight of the concert. That honor goes to Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant showing up to sing “Rebel Rebel” (David Bowie cover), and “Getting Away With It” (Electronic song).

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

In latest The Conjuring movie series, The Conjuring: Last Rites, there is a photo of Morrissey in one of the teenager’s bedroom.

I recognize the photo as the cover of David Bret’s Landscapes of the Mind (paperback version). I own a copy and looked up the copyright, it’s credited as “Photofest” and designed by Roy Colmer. No copyright year on the photo, but I am guessing, based on other similar photos, that this was taken by Kevin Cummins circa 1991, during the Kill Uncle era. Finally – it would make sense to use a “modern” photo of Morrissey (solo), in a biography on the singer – and not use his photo from The Smiths (circa 1982-1987). The reason why I am bringing up the year of the photograph, it is because the film is supposed to take place in 1986!

I know this sounds like such a small, tiny thing… but Morrissey once sang, “such a little thing, but the difference it made was grave.”