Hell will freeze over before the Smiths reunite. This is pure fact. Anyone who believes otherwise is naive and probably is still awaiting Santa Claus. Offer them millions to do Coachella and Morrissey and Johnny Marr and they will spit in your face (ok, Marr will politely tell you, “no thanks.”)
However, a documentary with the two-lesser reptilian members of the Smiths, rhythm section, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke is happening. Hilariously titled, “Inside the Smiths,” the documentary due on DVD July 16 via Tib Street Films and of course the key members of the Smiths are naturally, completely absent from the film aside from archival footage.
Morrissey, who would rather eat glass and his own excrement live on global television than sit in the same room as Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke let alone reunite the Smiths, wrote in meticulous detail his hatred for Joyce and the lawsuit that cost him millions of dollars in an open letter last year.
The two ostracized, vampiric Smiths still have some decent friends though and the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, New Order’s Peter Hook*, the Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley, and members of the Kaiser Chiefs all appear in the documentary to sing the praises of the legendary British group (*Hook plays in the “supergroup” with Joyce called Freebass.)
The trailer looks absolutely dreadful.
Download: The Smiths – “Reel Around the Fountain (Peel Session)”
Watch: “Inside The Smiths”
