To mangle a line from a Smiths classic:Â Adelaide, Melbourne and Newcastle take a bow.
British singer Morrissey, who wrapped up his Australian tour in October, has ranked his '15 most appreciated' audiences of 2016, and local gigs have featured heavily on the list.
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Adelaide was in fourth spot, Melbourne in fifth, and Newcastle at 11th on the list, published on the fan blog True To You.
In his review of the Melbourne leg, Age critic Michael Dwyer called the gig "a hair-raising thrill" and wrote the singer was in "high passion and magnificent voice".
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a gig in Wollongong that ended in near fisticuffs, with Morrissey temporarily stopping the show to ask a disgruntled fan "Do you want us to go?", didn't make his year-end shortlist.
The former Smiths frontman also used the post to blast touring company 360 Management for a series of recently canned gigs in the United States.
"We have been repeatedly done over in recent years by slippery industry incompetents," he wrote.
"We continue to live with the optical device of an industry where only scale and enormity of cash is seen as evidence of talent; where the public is thought ready to swallow anything as long as it is done with the punch of five million dollars.
![Morrissey named Adelaide, Melbourne and Newcastle among his 'most appreciated' audience of 2016.](/web/20170426135620im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/g/u/i/i/h/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gt4rcg.png/1481017372391.jpg)
"The results appear to be continually elaborate comic-strip dumbshows that do not even matter to those directly involved. The true artists must look after themselves...," he added.
The singer's October tour, which also stopped in Canberra, infamously included a feud with Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce over the government's live animal exports policy.
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"If meat is murder, live export is the slow boat to hell... You can deny it until you are red(der) in the face, but the industry is dying," Moz told Joyce in an open letter written for PETA.
"Mightn't be a big fan of The Smiths, but I am a great fan of families in WA, NT and FNQ who rely on our $2bn live export industry," was Joyce's zinging Twitter retort.
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