Pitchfork: Morrissey Readies Two DVDs, Confirms Meltdown Lineup

Morrissey Readies Two DVDs, Confirms Meltdown Lineup
Remaining international playboys to open all dates, November's monster too crippled to attend

With Morrissey apparently intent on ensuring that his comeback is as multi-faceted as is humanly possible, the news just keeps flowing, to the delight of fanboys (and girls!) everywhere. Hot on the heels of his recently announced new album, You are the Quarry, comes an upcoming DVD remaster and reissue of two Morrissey VHS releases-- Hulmerist and The Malady Lingers On. According to NME, both films will be released on May 31st, which could make May officially The Month of Morrissey. After all, You are the Quarry is due out on May 17th and its first single, "Irish Blood, English Heart", arrives May 10th.

Hulmerist is a collection of early Morrissey videos, and also features footage from a famous live performance from 1988 at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. The Malady Lingers On, meanwhile, picks up the videos where Hulmerist leaves off, collecting a number of mid-period clips, including five from Your Arsenal, as well as "Sing Your Life", "My Love Life", and "Pregnant for the Last Time".

Morrissey also recently signed on for this year's Lollapalooza tour, joining Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, and a bunch of other bands you've heard of. We'll tell you all about that in a dedicated (and well researched, natch) story to come, but for the moment, we've got the dates (keeping in mind that Morrissey is just playing the first date of each two-day Lollapalooza stop), courtesy of fansite Morrissey-Solo.com. He's also hitting the requisite festival rounds in Europe this summer, and getting ready for an imminent five-day stand in New York. Fuck LL, call it a comeback! Dates:

05-03 New York, NY - Apollo Theater
05-04 New York, NY - Apollo Theater
05-06 New York, NY - Apollo Theater
05-07 New York, NY - Apollo Theater
05-08 New York, NY - Apollo Theater
05-22 Manchester, England - M.E.N. Arena
06-05 Dublin, Ireland - Dublin Castle
06-13 Bologna, Italy - Flippaut Festival
06-19 Hultsfred, Sweden - Hultsfred Festival
06-27 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
07-02 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-02 Kristiansand, Norway - Quart Festival
07-11 Manchester, England - Move Festival

Lollapalooza Dates:
07-14 Auburn, WA - White River Ampitheatre
07-17 Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Ampitheatre
07-26 Englewood, CO - Coors Ampitheatre
07-29 Tinley Park, IL - Tweeter Center
08-02 Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
08-05 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Ampitheatre
08-09 Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
08-12 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post
08-14 Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
08-18 Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
08-21 Atlanta, GA - Turner Field
08-24 Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Center

08-27 Paris, France - Rock en Seine Festival
08-28 Reading, England - Carling Festival
08-29 Leeds, England - Carling Festival

Finally, as we previously reported, Morrissey has been chosen to curate this year's UK Meltdown Festival-- a sort of Europalooza in which an artist other than Perry Farrell is given free reign to arrange their dream program, which then takes place in London over the course of two weeks. And the lineup is confirmed! As it turns out, Morrissey's dream bill unsurprisingly includes a performance from himself, as well as by The Libertines, Sparks, Nancy Sinatra, and the reunited New York Dolls, among, many, many, many others. It's gonna be some cool shit, probably, so let's hope you've been building up the bonus miles. Look here:

06-11 Morrissey @ Royal Festival Hall
06-12 Sparks @ Royal Festival Hall
06-13 We Are All In The Gutter - An Evening With Mr. Wilde @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
06-15 Loudon Wainwright III & Damien Dempsey @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
06-16 New York Rock 'n' Roll - The Films of Bob Gruen @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
06-17 An Audience with Alan Bennett @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
06-17 Ennio Marchetto @ Purcell Room
06-18 New York Dolls (w/James Maker with Noko 440) @ Royal Festival Hall
06-19 Jane Birkin Arabesque (w/Ari Up plays the music of The Slits, James Maker with Noko 440) @ Royal Festival Hall
06-20 Nancy Sinatra @ Royal Festival Hall
06-23 Lypsinka! The Boxed Set (presented by Morrissey) @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
06-24 Lypsinka! The Boxed Set (presented by Morrissey) @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
06-25 Morrissey @ Royal Festival Hall
06-26 Morrissey @ Royal Festival Hall
06-27 Gorecki Symphony No. 3 + Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa @ Royal Festival Hall