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Canceled and rescheduled Morrissey show in Dallas has been canceled again

UPDATE on Dec. 3: The Morrissey show rescheduled for Dec. 14 in Dallas has been canceled. On Morrissey site True To You, 360 Management was blamed for running out of money on the tour.

All six remaining six shows will reportedly be canceled.

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"The shock and sadness that we all feel -- for ourselves, and for our devoted friends in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, has left us in unrecoverable despair," the post reads.

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It goes on: "Incontestably, the Morrissey Band is the best in the world. We have been repeatedly done over in recent years by slippery industry incompetents, yet we have always recovered our stride and bounced back like the sea -- saving ourselves from those who wish us off the map. We are a disciplined ship and we succeed without any help from the music industry."

The post says they "expect no further chances" in Dallas, so don't expect a rescheduled date from this canceled, rescheduled, canceled Dallas show.

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After canceling his Nov. 16 concert, Morrissey and his band have also canceled the Dec. 14...
After canceling his Nov. 16 concert, Morrissey and his band have also canceled the Dec. 14 concert.(Courtesy photo)

Story from on Nov. 23: We just got word that Morrissey's Dallas concert at the McFarlin Memorial Auditorium has a new date. It is now scheduled to take place on Wednesday, Dec. 14. Tickets go on sale today, Nov. 23, at 3 p.m. (Tickets to the original show were automatically refunded.)

You might want to jump on those, considering the last attempt at this show was sold out.

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The announcement says that following the touring party's illness, "a full recovery is expected shortly."

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Original story: Well, darn.

Morrissey's sold-out, much-anticipated concert at McFarlin Auditorium has been canceled. Promoter AEG Live announced that the Nov. 16 concert in Dallas will not take place.

The band canceled its Nov. 14 show in Boulder, Colorado, because keyboardist Gustavo Manzur collapsed before the show, NME reports. ("Our good friend Gustavo has collapsed and is in your local hospital," Morrissey told the crowd, NME says. "We don't know what's happened to him. This is a family, we stay together.")

A statement from AEG Live confirmed the reason for the Dallas cancellation is because of "severe illness of a member of the band."

Refunds are available and the Dallas show might be rescheduled.

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Website True to You says that Moz and co are "determined to make the shows at Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago," which means shows until the Nov. 23 gig in Detroit are also canceled. Those shows are all in Texas: Nov. 17 in San Antonio and Nov. 19 in Houston.

The Nov. 23 gig in El Paso had previously been canceled for scheduling conflicts.

Morrissey has been known to cancel shows in the past, whether it's for health issues or other reasons. Consequence of Sound even wrote a story in 2014 called "Here's every tour Morrissey has ever canceled."

But the former Smiths frontman has a warm past with Dallas, GuideLive's Brentney Hamilton points out:

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"Maybe it has something to do with his faithful Hispanic followers; perhaps it's that the fervor of his burgeoning solo career bubbled over in a dramatic fan stage invasion, immortalized in the concert film Morrissey: Live in Dallas in 1991. Whatever the connection, it continued into the next century. Dallas plays host again to the deeply loved, hotly loathed and wildly controversial artist this week at McFarlin Auditorium."

Well, you know what happened.