With great relief, some pride and joy, I express my sincere thanks to you for our recent UK/Mexico tour - which, impossibly, perhaps, seemed like our best yet. I felt mesmerized by the audience at Alexandra Palace, and overwhelmed by the audiences at Birmingham and Glasgow. That compressed image, to the very last glimpse, is in the mind forever. It’s a joy that even happiness might become confused by. So, thank you - in the most plain language, for your support and loyalty, both of which could never be questioned. 

I am sorry that our art-hounds at The Independent and The Guardian were so hateful about the tour, but as we now know, hatred is their income. They do not care and they have no taste. Rather than suffer the ordeal of insanity, I would suggest that you never again buy or log onto these ‘hoax news’ outlets: they will die quickly without you. 

Enormous thanks to Radio 2 for adding Jacky’s only happy when she’s up on the stage to their playlist this week! This is as our My love, I’d do anything for you single spends its second week at number 1 in the UK vinyl chart. We are immensely proud. 

It’s difficult to pull the best from the greatest, but our recent dates were most stylishly celebratory at: 

 1.LONDON Palladium (10 March) 

2.MEXICO CITY (17 March) 

3.LONDON Alexandra Palace (9 March) 

4.GLASGOW SSE Hydro Arena (17 Feb) 

5.NEWCASTLE Metro Arena (23 Feb) 

6.LEEDS First Direct Arena (24 Feb) 

7.BIRMINGHAM Genting Arena (27 Feb) 

8.LONDON Brixton Academy (1 March) 

9.ABERDEEN GE Arena (16 Feb) 

10.LONDON Royal Albert Hall (7 March) 

11.BRIGHTON Center (3 March) 

12.DUBLIN 3arena (20 Feb) 

Thanks to all venues for being 100% vegan: it’s great to eat and to save lives at the same time. Meanwhile, The Great Conor McGregor’s new TV commercial for Burger King looks like something out of the last century - marooned in the past. 

We plan a release for our Back on the chain gang single for August - if the wind remains at our backs and in our sails. If you find yourself at a loose end until then, please read Douglas Murray’s The strange death of Europe. 

I believe the unquestionably qualified writer J Rogan is researching yet another book of Morrissey Gossip. He simply hasn’t made enough money from the Smiths/Morrissey; he hasn’t yet extracted enough blood; he hasn’t yet caused enough propulsive sorrow; he hasn’t yet wafted a dead body downriver; he hasn’t yet been congratulated for his inexhaustibly mundane enterprise of gossip; he cannot write and move on, and should you bear a barbaric grudge he shall shortly ring your doorbell in the name of thumbscrew research. 

For me, now, life is enough, and your support elevates me all over again. I can only continue expressing my thanks to you for all that you do, and I brim with pride to think that we’re all still here. 

Incontestably yours 

MORRISSEY 

9 April 2018. 

photograph taken at the London Palladium, 10th March 2018.