Kicking off the show was the Smiths classic "I Want the One I Can't Have" he serenaded the crowd with the lyric of "What the hell is my life for?" setting the tone of emotional unleashing early which he complimented immediately with "You Have Killed Me" from his Ringleader of the Tormentors album. His voice surged but it was his facial reactions that stood out with his imposing eyebrows making you believe he's not simply singing from a piece of paper but from deeper within. Throughout the course of the show Morrissey sold these songs with his emphatic vocals while his backing band provided aural textures of torment, elation and despair which they channeled through their hands to their instruments. The crowd lapped up every last note. No one has ever made misery feel and sound as elegiac as Morrissey. The set list was full off dreamy dread with "You're The One For Me, Fatty", "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" (with some shimmering guitar) and "First of the Gang To Die". A pair of new songs were performed, "People Are the Same Everywhere" was the edgier and more raucous of the two with tickling telescoping guitars and Morrissey upfront and center swinging his microphone like a whip. "Scandinavia" began with death march drums evoking impending doom. Morrissey doesn't have a label lined up for the record but here's to hoping he releases it in 2012 as the songs are as biting as anything he's ever recorded, a rarity for anyone with three decades under their belt.

Two early highlights of the show were the Smiths classic "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" and the Morrissey solo classic "Everyday Is Like Sunday", performed back to back. These two songs, above all others warrant encore performance, but that wouldn't be Morrissey. Here he is delivering two of his most endearing, drama filled and cinematic songs early in a set. "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" has always endured but it's now forever enshrined in popular culture due to (500) Days of Summer . The film singlehandedly took the Smiths from being a cult act to a cult act with recognition. If my mother were to ask me about the Smiths, I'd tell her they sing the song that brings Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel together and she'd immediately know. Morrissey has always worked against type and created a landscape of majestic, conspicuous and downright sick sentiments of love and death. No one can conjure up acute ache in the way Morrissey does and yet make it seem to a flush with romanticism. "Everyday Like Sunday" isn't your typical stay-in-bed and mope song, its paints a serene picture of ennui and yet it's as sweeping as any love song.