THREATENED BY MORRISSEY

Normally, the idea of Mozzer issuing threats would seem to be risible - even his death wish for Johnny Rogan seemed to be more cuddly than killer, but we're not sure about his threat to staff working at the proposed Oxford vivisection lab:

"Make no mistake, for anyone working in the labs, we are going to get you."

After the really unpleasant digging-up-old-ladies-corpses and grave desecrations of the last couple of years, you'd have hoped that animal rights activists might have twigged that, yes, you may need actions more strong than PETA getting a supermodel to do a poster, but attacking individuals rather than institutions tends to be counter-productive in winning support. (Indeed, it's managed to generate an atmosphere in which there are now pro-animal testing protest groups forming - presumably marching under placards reading 'Beagles enjoy cigarettes' and 'Rabbits squirt shampoo in each other's eyes in the wild, you know'.)

In fact, Speak, an anti-organisation who were present when Mozzer made his comments (this was during the Oxford date of his current tour) seemed to be quick to try and recast his words into something slightly more cuddly:

[They] said later they supported Morrissey's words . . . but said he was not talking about violence when he said "We are going to get you".

"I suspect he was talking about exposing these people for what they do," said a spokesman.

Yes, yes, that would be it. It sounds a lot less menancing if you pretend he meant something else entirely.

To be fair, Mozzalandra was dismissive of calls for vivisectors to be killed, sniping back with a "it's that simple, is it?"

Of course, on recent form, if Morrissey really wanted to save all the lab rats, he'd send his manager to buy them all up, like with meat.

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