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Johnny Marr: Talk of a Smiths Reunion is "Boring"

October 30, 2009 8:49 a.m. by Nick Neyland

Johnny Marr has tired of talking about the possibility of The Smiths reforming, and his attempts to shed his past by joining the Shins, the Cribs, and forming his own band has not caused journalists to stop asking that question. Marr was talking to Spinner about the “boring” speculation surrounding the Smiths.

 

"I'm asked about it a lot, for obvious reasons." He said. "I don't really have any stock feelings about it either way, to be honest with you, it's kind of boring, really." The band would make a tidy sum of money if they did decide to bury their differences, but Marr commented that only a few bands manage to reunite successfully,

 

"I saw Television and they were really good, their music stood up to maturity and they didn't change," he said. "They had real command of their instruments and look at it, a lot of the music kind of had some kind of gravity when it started. It wasn't some adolescent pop stuff. I don't have a problem with adolescent pop music, but I do if it's a 50-year-old singing it."

 

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November 2, 2009 at 2:42 p.m.

And when you say that Johnny Marr joined The Shins, are you referring to an alternate universe where he joined them instead of Modest Mouse?

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