Morrissey Too Sleepy To Perform Tonight, Says Noisy Hotel Was “Indescribable Hell”

Morrissey might not be making his best music or his most coherent public statements these days, but he’s still innovating in the field of “finding reasons not to perform.” The old rascal is currently touring behind his new album Make-Up Is A Lie, and he’s already canceled US shows in Rancho Mirage, San Diego, St. Louis, Atlanta, and St. Petersburg. Now, we can add Valencia, Spain to the list. See, Morrissey’s hotel in Valencia was too noisy, so Valencia doesn’t get a Morrissey show.

Morrissey was scheduled to play Valencia’s Palau Des Les Arts tonight, but Morrissey couldn’t do the show because of a hotel experience that, according to Morrissey himself, was an “indescribable hell.” A series of increasingly funny posts on the Morrissey Central site lays it all out. Here’s the first one, which threw the show’s status into doubt and which blamed factors like “loud techno singing”:

MENTAL IN VALENCIA

Having travelled for two days by road, Morrissey reached the hotel in Valencia late on Wednesday. Any form of sleep or rest throughout the night was impossible due to festival noise / loud techno singing / megaphone announcements. This experience has left Morrissey in a catatonic state. Before leaving for tonight’s scheduled concert, please check that the show remains possible under these circumstances.

And here’s the announcement that canceled the show while describing the show as “not cancelled”:

VALENCIA

Tonight’s scheduled show in Valencia has been rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation. Morrissey drove from Milan to Valencia but has been unable to rest in Valencia due to noise.

The show is not cancelled. Circumstances render the show impossible.

Finally, here’s the word from the man himself:

OH VAL-EN-CIA SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR

Morrissey has described his hotel on Plaza Manises as …

“indescribable hell. It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement”.

What’s the opposite of a trooper?