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All has been quiet in The Wrong Arms in recent days as Morrissey continues to record his new covers LP in LA. In fact, the only thing to report is one solitary tweet from Our Mozzer yesterday, but more about that later. Firstly, I must make mention that a tuba/sousaphone playing session musician named Devon Taylor posted a photo on his Instagram account on Friday of himself with Moz and Joe Chiccarelli along with the following statement: "Played Sousaphone for Morrissey in the studio tonight. He likes him some spanky tuba." I don't have an Instagram account, and don't really understand how it works, but it has also been reported that 'Taylor the Tuba' added another photo of himself with the wording, "Got a last minute call for a session tonight - Hangin in Hollywood". Coincidentally, and I am sure that in this circumstance it is a genuine coincidence and not one of our coincidences, Devon was wearing what looks to be a blue rose in the photo! He isn...

Following weeks of excitement and anticipation, I am pleased to report that yesterday at 5.39pm (9.39am LA time), Our Mozzer gave birth to a new parody piece, and it was quite a whopper, weighing in at approximately 2,500 words. The title of the new parody; which I should add at this point is hilariously funny, is The AA Meeting - Artistic Alliance , and is set at "Morrissey mansions - on a dirt road just off the A538." The main theme to the parody is a meeting between Our Mozzer and Barking Billy - a parody Billy Bragg. BARKING BILLY Rather surprisingly I am included in the parody, coming in for much ridicule, but as; Boz, Michael 'Mikey' Bracewell, Ricky Gervais, Russell Brand, Amanda Holden, Morrissey's mother and Morrissey himself also come in for ridicule, I am in good company and deeply honoured to have a part. "PILLOWS AS FLAT AS AMANDA HOLDEN'S INTELLECT" I am quite touched that early on in the parody Morrissey states about me,  "I think...

There is still no sign of that new parody piece we were promised or answers to those questions I submitted nearly two weeks ago , although I do have news on both. First though, I must report the very exciting news about a new LP. A  short interview with Argentinean website Infobae  has emerged, and in answer to the interviewer asking why Morrissey had never recorded the classic songbook like other artists, Morrissey replied, "Well, just yesterday I started recording what will be my new album: it will be entirely covers and with 12 songs. So, you see, I'm already doing what many said I would never do." I can't believe for one minute that the 12 songs will come from a classic songbook that your average man in the street will recognise, and will more likely be a combination of: A) obscure album tracks from even more obscure artists, B) b sides from female singers of the 1960s, C) an Elvis song. There will also no doubt be a D, E AND F......but NO G. Since the news broke...

In my previous blog entry of last Saturday I wrote that Our Mozzer hadn't been heard of since 6pm on Thursday, when he announced that due to "logistical issues" the promised new Parody piece had been held up. I had wondered at the time if perhaps the "logistical issues" were a lack of broadband in Altrincham, but as Morrissey was photographed on Saturday night in LA with Debbie Harry, it would appear that those "logistical issues" were in fact a flight halfway across the world! One would have thought that a twelve hour flight would give a seminal artist plenty of time to cobble together a few lines of comedy material for a waiting audience of twenty odd (Ed - very odd!) people, but so far the new parody still hasn't hit the news stands.....or at the very least, the True Morrissey blogsite , although there have been little tasters. On Saturday afternoon at 2pm (6am LA time) I received a Twitter Direct Message from Morrissey (as @Alfsbutton) which r...