Morrissey Cancels Iceland Show Because Venue Serves Meat — stereogum.com

Feb 2nd '15 by Tom Breihan @ 4:36pm14 Comments Morrissey doesn’t exactly need excuses to cancel shows, but this time, he has one. The man has long insisted that any venue he plays be vegetarian, at least for the night, which led to some controversy when he played the Staples Center in L.A. in 2013. He was planning a show at Reykjavik, Iceland’s Harpa Concert Hall, but he’s pulled out, claiming that the venue refused to stop serving meat that night. He’s left them with a typically Morrissey statement: “I love Iceland and I have waited a long time to return, but I shall leave the Harpa Concert Hall to their cannibalistic flesh-eating bloodlust.” Zing!

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