{"id":336049,"date":"2026-03-12T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/336049\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:14:08","slug":"morrissey-cancels-concert-because-hes-sleepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/336049\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey Cancels Concert Because He&#8217;s Sleepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, who has already canceled many concerts this year, cites street scene outside Plaza Manises in Valencia, Spain, as an \u201cindescribable hell\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/morrissey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morrissey\" data-tag=\"morrissey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morrissey<\/a> couldn\u2019t dream whether somebody loved him or not because apparently he couldn\u2019t sleep. The singer, 66, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-cancels-more-north-america-tour-dates-1235501740\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">no stranger to canceling concerts<\/a> called off his Valencia, Spain gig on Thursday citing the least rock &amp; roll excuse of all time: a lack of sleep, and all because other people were having fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPosts on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisseycentral.com\/messagesfrommorrissey\">Morrissey Central\u2019s \u201cMessages From Morrissey\u201d<\/a> page painted a vulgar picture of how the world won\u2019t listen to his pleas for peace and quiet: \u201cHaving travelled for two days by road, Morrissey reached the hotel in Valencia late on Wednesday,\u201d the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisseycentral.com\/messagesfrommorrissey\/mental-in-valencia\">first post<\/a> said. \u201cAny 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\u2019s scheduled concert, please check that the show remains possible under these circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe crescendo began with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisseycentral.com\/messagesfrommorrissey\/valencia\">the second<\/a>: \u201cTonight\u2019s scheduled show in Valencia has been rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation,\u201d it said. \u201cMorrissey drove from Milan to Valencia but has been unable to rest in Valencia due to noise.\u201d But the post said the show was not \u201ccanceled,\u201d rather that \u201ccircumstances render the show impossible.\u201d (A rep for Morrissey has since confirmed for Rolling Stone that the concert is indeed canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThen finally, words <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisseycentral.com\/messagesfrommorrissey\/oh-val-en-cia-so-much-to-answer-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">attributed as coming directly from Morrissey\u2019s own mouth<\/a> appeared: \u201cMorrissey has described his hotel on Plaza Manises as \u2026 \u2018indescribable hell. It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/morrissey-smiths-spain-concert-festivities-18611a27fd65f92222f0b46c2c41a75c\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the noise Morrissey apparently had trouble sleeping through may be from celebrations taking place in anticipation of Valencia\u2019s Las Fallas festival, which kicked off on March 1. It features parties in the street and fireworks. It will end on March 19 with the burning of papier-mache sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMoz(zzz) is touring in support of his recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/morrissey-make-up-is-a-lie-review-1235521933\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Make-Up Is a Lie<\/a>, his 14th solo album since the Smiths broke up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis article was updated at 1:14 p.m. ET on March 12 to reflect that the concert was canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer, who has already canceled many concerts this year, cites street scene outside Plaza Manises in Valencia, Spain,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,23422],"class_list":["post-336049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-morrissey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}