{"id":2137,"date":"2012-10-01T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/morrissey-says-he-was-once-offered-vegetarian-coachella-for-smiths-reunion\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T16:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:23:33","slug":"morrissey-says-he-was-once-offered-vegetarian-coachella-for-smiths-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/morrissey-says-he-was-once-offered-vegetarian-coachella-for-smiths-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey Says He Was Once Offered Vegetarian Coachella for Smiths Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/44\/Morrissey-Alexander-Film-.jpg\/220px-Morrissey-Alexander-Film-.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"104\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>Coachella organizers apparently wanted Morrissey and Johnny Marr to reunite as The Smiths enough that they might have eliminated non-vegetarian food products at the event.That, at least, is what the former frontman of the band indicated in a  new interview. Morrissey was asked about his perfomance at Coachella &#8217;09  where he told the crowd he smelled &#8220;burning flesh.&#8221;  <!--more-->  <br \/>&#8220;[I]nterestingly the agents for Coachella offered a 100 percent vegetarian event for the following year if I would agree to headline with Johnny Marr as the Smiths,&#8221; said Morrissey this week to Australia&#8217;s Herald Sun newspaper (via Diffuser).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fascinatingly they made it clear that they would &#8216;not require&#8217; the Smiths&#8217; bass player or drummer &#8230; which I thought certainly said something,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>While the festival does sell a variety of concession items &#8212; including vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options &#8212; there are plenty of traditional non-vegetarian staples sold at stands also.<\/p>\n<p>That atmosphere proved too much for Morrissey, a PETA supporter, at the &#8217;09 concert. After saying he could &#8220;smell burning flesh&#8221; he also reportedly added: &#8220;And I hope to God it&#8217;s human.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Hollywood Music Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coachella organizers apparently wanted Morrissey and Johnny Marr to reunite as The Smiths enough that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}