Morrissey appearing at the Alexandra Palace in London, March 2018. (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Morrissey‘s show in San Diego on Saturday night ended slightly earlier than planned after a stage invasion.
Despite the famously zealously nature of fans’ devotion to the Smiths singer spilling over onto the stage, his manager Peter Katsis has since disputed online allegations of an assault, insisting that the crowd ‘were simply doing what they have been doing for almost 30 years, trying anything they could do to jump onstage and touch him, or hug him’:
“The fan in question was certainly more aggressive in reaching out for him than most, so security had to do their job and subdue the fan. That’s all it was.”
The statement also confirms that no-one was hurt or arrested, though Morrissey didn’t return to complete the encore which had been underway with a performance of Everyday Is Like Sunday.
The tour’s US leg was completed with this incident; next up is a visit to Mexico and two concerts at the National Auditorium on November 22nd/23rd.
