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"If you'd said I looked like Bruce Springsteen maybe I'd have tried to sing like him. "Because people had already said it, I thought to myself 'well could I?'.
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It will be a return to familiar territory for The Joneses, who performed their very first show there four years ago.ĭeciding to finally become the man he'd been compared with for so many years, he started taking singing lessons at 51 - receiving expert tuition from a professional opera singer who was tasked with getting his voice to imitate that of Moz. On Saturday, November 13, The Joneses will be dishing up The Smiths' greatest hits at Manchester By The Sea, lining up alongside Slide Oasis - a band, who as the name suggests, replicate the sounds of the Gallagher brothers - at Olby's Soul Cafe in Margate. Be fair - Aidan Sheridan does look quite like Morrissey doesn't he? Now, The Joneses are taking the music to a new generation joining the ranks of other tribute acts replicating the moves and music of much-loved bands of years gone by. It has been the soundtrack of many a angst-ridden teenager and Steven Patrick Morrissey's lyrics have long struck a nerve, coupled with Johnny Marr's distinctive guitar and melodies. The music of The Smiths transcends the dubious views of its lead singer, however.
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But all he is really doing is destroying himself." I think he says these things to get people to think. "He just makes these observations - but he shouldn't be doing it. "I feel with Morrissey he shouldn't really speak outside his music because people take it too literally. The (real) Morrissey during his headline slot at the 2011 Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood.
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So he's a hugely sensitive guy, but not necessarily fully integrated into normal society. "A lot of his songs are about people who are bullies or abusive, told from the point of view of the victim. "If you listen to any of his lyrics, he has always been on the outside of society looking in," the singer says of Morrissey. Fronting The Joneses (see what they did there?), they have toured the UK playing shows in homage to one of the most influential bands of a generation.
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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out and What Difference Does It Make?īut this is just what former punk rock fan Aidan Sheridan is doing. Which is probably exactly how he likes it.Īll of which makes him perhaps a challenging choice for a Margate artist who has, over recent years, cashed in on his doppelganger status to front a tribute band dedicated to The Smiths, a group who unleashed classics such as This Charming Man. The quiff-haired maestro is, if nothing else, a mass of controversial contradictions. Yet at the same time, he's urged fans to vote for For Britain, an anti-Islamic far-right party, and said the media treatment of Tommy Robinson, co-founder of the English Defence League has been "shocking". The former frontman of seminal Manchester band The Smiths has developed something of an itchy trigger finger when it comes to getting his lawyers to defend allegations of racism and fascism (both of which he insists he "despises"). There are few iconic artists who have managed to alienate their loyal fanbase quite as much over recent decades as Morrissey.