The one-time Smith updates fans in characteristic style and vows to continue touring.

Over the weekend, Morrissey was hospitalized in Royal Oak, Michigan, forcing him to cancel gigs in Flint, Chicago and Minneapolis.

In a tongue-in-cheek message via fansite True To You, Morrissey lists his ailments and says he is “fully determined to resume the tour” when it resumes on February 9 in Las Vegas. The full text is below, followed by the remaining dates.

The reports of my death have been greatly understated. Once admitted to the William Beaumont Hospital at Royal Oak in Michigan, I received treatment for concussion, a bleeding ulcer, and Barrett’s esophagus. The positive from all of this is that there are now no known ailments left for me to try.

I am fully determined to resume the tour on February 9 at the Chelsea Ballroom in Las Vegas. If there’s an audience of any kind in attendance, I just might die with a smile on my face, after all. If I am not there, I shall probably never again be anywhere.

Equally, I am determined to play Flint (Michigan) if it kills me (which, on the face of it, it almost has.)

Thank you to everyone present at both Brooklyn (New York) and Melbourne (Australia) during recent weeks for two of the best nights of what might charitably be termed my “career”. My debt to you will outlive time itself.

pause at my headstone,
MORRISSEY
31 January 2013.

Dates:
February 9 – Las Vegas, NV – The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
February 10 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theatre
February 12 – El Paso, TX – Tricky Falls
February 13 – Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall
February 15 – Pharr, TX – Pharr Events Center
February 16 – Beaumont, TX – Jefferson Theater
February 18 – Dallas, TX – Palladium
February 21 – Denver, CO – Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre
February 22 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kingsbury Hall
February 24 – San Francisco, CA – Davies Symphony Hall
February 27 – San Diego, CA – Balboa Theatre
March 1 – Los Angeles, CA – Staples Center
March 2 – Sparks, NV – John Ascuaga’s Nugget – Rose Ballroom
March 3 – Davis, CA – Robert Mondavi Center at UC Davis
March 6 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
March 8 – Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
March 9 – San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom