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28 March 2000
Estadio Victor Jara, Santiago, Chile

Hairdresser On Fire
Alma Matters
Ouija Board, Ouija Board
Now My Heart Is Full
The Boy Racer
Is It Really So Strange?
The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
I Am Hated For Loving
Speedway
Meat Is Murder
November Spawned A Monster
The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils
Billy Budd
Half A Person
Break Up The Family
Tomorrow
Shoplifters Of The World Unite
/Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

This was a fantastic concert. The crowd was ecstatic, fans kept cheering their hero and singing along to the words. The only downside were the sound problems experienced during certain songs. No one made it on stage because of strict security. As on the previous date in Mexico, Morrissey must have felt really welcome. He was still very talkative and often thanked his fans in Spanish.

After entering stage at the end of the James Bond theme, Morrissey greeted the audience with "All my Chilean children!". After the first song he added "Welcome to Santiago's biggest toilet... drinking and smoking tonight are essential...". The latter negative comment must have been about the rundown condition of the venue, but sensing that he might be misinterpreted, he continued "... no jokes... no more jokes for me...". Before "Ouija Board, Ouija Board", he said "I would like to say another hello to you after all these years... and I would like to say hello to Julia, after all these days... Julia's here, I'm here, you're here, we're all here... so... Boz... Boz is here". After the song, the loud "Morrissey! Morrissey!" chant started by the fans was echoed by Morrissey with his own "Chile! Chile!". He then enquired "I don't smoke, but does anybody have a cigarette? Oh?... good because I don't smoke...". In "Now My Heart Is Full" he changed lines to "...just some rain coated lover's hermanos" and "...every Santiago poet".

After "The Boy Racer", Morrissey said "I'm glad you know these songs because I thought some of you might think it's Simply Red... it's not Simply Red... you don't like Simply Red...". Strangely, after "Is It Really So Strange?", he said "No Mexico? No!...". In "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" Morrissey strained his voice more and more as the song went on. This might have been due to sound difficulties, or perhaps frustration, given the tone of the lyrical changes "I bear more grudges than stupid british judges" or "I will creep into your bed like a sick song that you can't stand, take the easy way and give in to me".

Before "I Am Hated For Loving", Morrissey asked "Yes? What do you need to say? Speak to me please!". The performance of "Speeway" was very unusual. Before the song Morrissey said "you need some water" then imitated his fans in a high-pitched voice, screaming "Oh my god! Oh my god!". Then he counted the intro in a mock-orgasm manner! At one point into the song he laughed (in a forced 'I mean it!' way) instead of singing some words.

"This song is about blood culture, blood culture, the culture of blood, flesh, flesh, flesh, blood culture, oooh!" was the intro to "Meat Is Murder". The song was ended with a single drum pounding like a dying hearbeat and, unlike other dates, wasn't followed by a moral. "November Spawned A Monster" which came next suffered from significant sound problems. During its performance Morrissey looked at both Boz and Alain, trying to figure out the problem, then apologised to the fans.

In "Billy Budd" Morrissey had difficulties singing the first lines. The crowd might have been too hectic, although further in the song he changed some words to "I took my job application into town, do you want to go home to bed?" hinting that the fans looked bored. But it wasn't the case, the song was rapturously received like all the others. After it Morrissey said something undecipherable then "What does that mean, I don't know...". He returned to the subject after "Half A Person": "Do you want to go home? (crowd: "NO!") Well you might have to... ("NO!") YES! ("NO!") SI!".

In "Break Up The Family", Morrissey was becoming more and more playful, taking liberties with some words and their intonations (echoing "friends, friends..."), changing lines like "I want to sleep with my friends tonight!", all this on top of all the other usual changes. After the song he joined his fans into the "Morrissey!" chant, all the way into the first bars of "Tomorrow" which set the rhythm of the chant. The latter song was retitled "Maņana" in Chile as it had been in Mexico and Southern California before.

Before "Shoplifters Of The World Unite", Morrissey enquired "Do you know how much this costs? Very expensive!". He returned for the encore dressed in his sailor suit. At the end of that final song, he greeted his fans by singing over and over "I love you... God bless you!... I love you!... God bless you!".

This concert was recorded and broadcast on Chilean radio. There was no opening band.

BOOTLEGS

This concert is the best souvenir of the Latin American leg of the Oye Esteban tour, perhaps of the whole tour. Morrissey was as much or even more playful than he had been on previous dates, the crowd was very appreciative and vocal and the concert is available in rather good quality from a radio broadcast. The recording's quality gives the listeners the impression that they are in the venue with the Chilean fans.

The broadcast mentioned above, despite lacking "November Spawned A Monster" which suffered from serious sound problems, is the most commonly available version of this concert on audio bootlegs. However, a rarer pre-FM soundboard version can also be found. This also excludes "November Spawned A Monster" but it is free of any DJ intervention.

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The radio broadcast from this date is well circulated, but this is from the original radio cd that was used for the broadcast. This means that there are no DJ intervention and the sound quality is soundboard, it didn't go through the FM airwaves.

The full set is featured, minus the botched "November Spawned A Monster".

Enjoy!

Stephane