Owl Woman

So, apparently Morrissey is 'curating' (pretentious? Moi?) this year's Meltdown at the Royal Festival Hall. On the bill, along with evenings of Oscar Wilde and Alan Bennett's work, is a gig or two from Morrissey himself. Not surprising, until I was told one of the support bands - 1980s skinhead/Oi band the Cockney Rejects. I was a big fan of this band, being able, as one does as a youngster, to convince myself that they were good lads really. Some of the Rejects' early stuff was great - Ramones inspired riffs and choruses, but their dodgy side was too much and I gave up on them after one nearly ended up in gaol for hitting someone with an iron bar.

With this in mind, Morrissey's fanbase - a lot of rather androgynous folk with quiffs and specs, a lot of out and out queers and various skinny wimpy types, are going to have a wonderful time sitting next to extremely heterosexual thirty-something union flag tattooed ex-skinheads.

Queue nicely for the ambulances, people.