Half of The Smiths reunite for Manchester v. Cancer

From the official Manchester v. Cancer site:
"Manchester v Cancer is the idea of ex-Smith, Andy Rourke, following news that his manager’s sister and father had been diagnosed with cancer. Andy and his new company, Great Northern Productions Ltd decided to group together to raise £1million to fund cancer research at Manchester’s Christie Hospital, Europe’s largest cancer treatment and research centre.

Picking up the phone to friends, Andy quickly found that most people’s lives had been touched by cancer in some way and everyone wanted to help. And more famous faces and bands are set to confirm over the coming weeks."

Well, it was recently just announced that Johnny Marr has agreed to join the lineup for this show - what's that? The two guitar players from The Smiths* together on stage again!? Wonder what they'll play...? Wonder what the chances are that another ex-Smith joins them? We shall see.

Other excellent artists like New Order and Badly Drawn Boy (and a few more even) are also set to play.

(of course you can read more about this and talk to others about it over at Morrissey-Solo)



*also, if you hadn't noticed...there's no 'official' site for The Smiths so I try to give you some different, but good, links whenever they happen to come up.