Van Morrison has denounced the supposed “pseudoscience” around coronavirus and is attempting to rally musicians in a campaign to restore live music concerts with full capacity audiences.
Ah, vanmorrison. You used to be so much cooler. covidisreal
Love Van Morrison, but he should do a little studying up on how viruses transmit. It's real science. Extremely disappointing he would put financial interests ahead of the health and lives of his fans.
“Nothings Shocking” since Covid, truly admire vanmorrison since a wee babe, Van’s story rose me&broke me’ 12•/• Irish💕, I “Fully Completely” feel his plight, sadly many in arts are hurting& Luck, time nor chance not had, can’t even send “Glad Tidings from New York City”
Shitty musician is also shitty scientist
Oh, Van...
charlesadler Less thinking and more singing vanmorrison. Although, you’re clearly struggling with both.
the fella has ventured into the slipstream, can someone go and find him!
A lifetime fan; no longer a fan
Stop ruining old people by asking them for their barely era-appropriate opinions. It's gonna be whatever you told them to think decades ago anyway. Honestly, the movement back in the day was 90% posers with half-baked views and profit in mind. Van Morrison was barely a blip.
Love you, Van, but this is madness.
I love Van but with that attitude l’d be willing to trade him to have John Prine back straight up. What do you say Lord?
Still not as offensive as dedicating an album to L Ron Hubbard.
I ain’t doin‘ no Goondance.
That was not a wonderful remark.
Good for him.
As for the pseudoscience bit though, sorry Van, not coming to your show anytime soon.
Ah, yes, esteemed epidemiologist Van Morrison.
It’s not a wonderful night for a moon dance
Can someone tell me if the coronavirus uk test actually tests specifically for COVID19 or just for the generic coronavirus ? Because if so we could have thousands of positive test for people who's had or got the common cold..
John Prine might like to have a word.
When Neil Young came out vocally antiGMO I deleted all his music from my archive... Stopped coving his music at my gigs.... Stopped listening to him at all. Guess Van is next.... Good riddance
markdevenport I thought he was a singer not a scientist or a doctor. Stick to singing
markdevenport No Guru, No Method, No Braincells.
As a world renowned scientist He should know 🤣🤣
Van the Man is not just wilfully ignorant re. COVID-19, he's living dangerously rejecting physical-distancing. He fits at least two high risk groups: 1) Men over 70; 2) Obese/overweight people. Many name musicians have been killed by the virus already. Is VAN NEXT?
Respect to Van for being one of the few brave enough to question the ridiculous rules. The torrent of abuse he’s getting just shows how there is no debate or even daring to question the dogma decided around this which will destroy society. Unquestioning compliance is shocking
Into the mystic.
Morrison's always been a sort of Odd Duck.
Im in my 50s and one of his younger fans, he wants large gatherings of over 60s in confined spaces? Id go judt to hear him sing Classics like 'that wasnt a wonderful remark' and 'it's a marvellous nite for an intubation' or ' and healing hadn't begun'.... Ill get me coat
ok boomer
'Shut up and sing Browneyed Girl'
Van who?
Best when he uses his normal interview technique of not saying anything. He might be a musical genius but planetjedward have more common sense.
For someone who famously doesn't talk to the audience, this is what you're speaking up about?
Gigs for big stars were always overcrowded and packed in like sardines, but spaced out/ social distancing in groups could be the best thing to happen for the audience, but just maybe not for his pocket
Ugh! Horrible little man!
Golly! Is Van Morrison actually saying he misses his audience? Awwwww ......
By people’s reactions here I get the backlash. Doesn’t make him wrong as government is using pseudoscience.
It’s a marvellous night for Van to STFU
vanmorrison is a wise man who has enough experience and brains not to believe hysterical sensationalist misleading MSM.
And right he is.
Next Month’s Headline: 🤔 Singer in hospital after crowd surfing at gig riddled with Covid-19
Being able to sing for living does not necessarily mean you can think.
two weeks later....Van morrison 72, dies of Covid 19
Another reason to dislike him
TheGunnersPub Love Van Morrison to bits but he's talking bolkocks.
He barely ever turns up for his own gigs...
This coming from the guy that walked off the stage at NOLA Jazz Fest last year during his closing song.
Oh no! No more moon dance.
🙄🤪
ah the old 'please ignore the threat to your health/possibly life to help keep my net worth at + £60million' plea. Bold move Van Morrison.
Ok boomer
Andrew_2786 Go on Van the Man! Tell it like it is!
another one bites the dust
Musicians (and other entertainers) often lead lives dwelling in emotionality. This can produce great art but also often shallow or just plain stupid intellectual takes on things. Case in point. So the moral is to look to entertainers for their art and ignore everything else.
We’ve lost another one
Where does he have his medical or even college degree from? Enough said...
Van the Man. Performer extraordinaries, and well known Virologist
Van loves to be difficult.
His music was great but his concerts aren't worth the time or money. He has zero respect for his audience.
What quality does he possess to enable him to recognise true science? Bio: 'Morrison attended Orangefield Boys Secondary School, leaving in July 1960 with no qualifications. ' Wiki 15 years old. IQ vanmorrison
When I want to know the real science, I ask an aged singer.
I see Morrison is drunk again.
He's a giant but giants can be giant narcissists also.
Is that Nobel Prize-winning virologist Prof. Van Morrison, or 1970s vocal curiosity Van Morrison?
Someone like you.... 🤭
Very sad to hear him say this. It is not pseudo-science. He is being reckless in his comments. Masking wearing and social distancing help mitigate the spread. He is about to turn 75. Seniors are vulnerable to virus. Please take care.
Please stop giving these fruit cakes a voice.
Last time I saw him live, 'the limits' were set by a chess type stopwatch on his keyboard player's rig: to make sure his gig lasted 90min, as per contract, not a single one more. Ah, the mood. (Fine music, btw, great songs - the guy... not so much🤨😏)
His music is great, can we please see his medical credentials as an infectious disease expert?
vanmorrison, a musical genius, and a real-life buffoon.
Just put old Van out of his misery
Jerk.
He's not known for his compassion
I always hated that guy...
He's a miserable sod but I love hearing him!
Of course. Good on him.
He is my favourite, it is a sad day for me, when my favourite goes batty.
Says the man who often never turned up at his gigs, cos he couldn’t be bothered. Now he’s officially an arrogant idiot.
Another Covidiot,or gotten senile Did he miss fandom?
hughbie Look at the state of him! 🙄
Fair play
Genius songwriter and general cock.
The rabbiting of yet another privileged out-of-touch old man.
pnjaban I love Van Morrison. I think he’s one of the greatest songwriters and performers of our lifetime. Iconic, that’s the word. Iconic.
I went to his concert years ago. Dont waste your money like I did. His concert was shit.
Morrison hates his audience so surely, the fewer people there, the better, from his point of view?
Stick to music Van. Actually, your voice was kind of annoying.
Love his music but ...
And then suddenly I deleted all of his recodings from my iPod.
He’s absolutely correct. These lab rats don’t care about people’s livelihoods. This is a virus that more than 99% will survive yet the government has decided destroying people’s lives is the way forward
And in surprise news, grumpy old misanthrope Van Morrison is... a grumpy old misanthrope.
Mumbling one-hit grouch with no medical degree.
tragic
A. He's still alive? B. Is he drinking again?
He knows normal gigs won’t be back unless we fight this. Good on him!
Good for you Mr Morrison!!!! Calling bullshit on this Plandemic!!!!
Stupid old git.
Have I told you lately that you're the George Galloway of rock...
Now we're getting some sense out of celebs. Where are the other spineless ones?
Oh no, no, no!! Cmon man
must be low on cash....
And another expert with an opinion.
Whoops 2020 is a tough year in many ways. Supposedly intelligent famous artists are now coming out of the woodwork, breaking all our delusions that they had something special about them. Of course, they're just as stupid as the next idiot 🙄
Never forget the time Van couldn’t get the harmonica out of his pocket fast enough
Another 'jokovic' repeat.
I'll stick to his vinyls, not his principles.
Great bloke ...love to see him duet with Morrissey.
She’s my brown lung girl
pnjaban All hail the Van.
And he would know, of course! 🤔
Van veering off into the mythic.
COVIDIOTS
Like your music vanmorrison but you are so wrong on this LongCovid COVID19
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It's clear from this picture that Andrew Neil and Van Morrison are the same person.
Man who made a career out of being an irritable,awkward bastard has spoken. Made some great music,doesn’t stop him being a complete walloper.
Man's a legend. For astral weeks, moon dance, Gloria and this.
What an old selfish pos.
Must have missed the bit where he was an expert virologist / epidemiologist. Stick to the singing Van.
You cannot change reality through denial. It just doesn’t work!
pnjaban Will you quarantine me forever? Let think on it. I got know right now.
WearAMask
Men of A Certain Age...
I don't get it. Doesn't this man have enough money to just sit down & relax. But wanna chat sh*t and doesn't have no types of degree to make these statements. For god sake, shut uppppp...!!!!!
I really love Van Morrison but he really can be a grumpy old so and so
One more propagandist covidiot spotted. Van Morrison.
He doesn’t speak much but when he does it spot on
pnjaban IStandWithVan
Fcuk off into the mystic...pseudo musician.
pnjaban I'm with him!!
Nooooooooo! I ❤️ you, but do STFU Van!
Pseudomusic
Van the man in grumpy about something shocker.
Coke and kicks.
C19 March 16, 2020, the Vietnamese government requested that97mpeople wear face masks when going into public spaces .Today 27dead 0.3/m 186th world. Singapore 10thApril same 27 dead 5/m 156th world. UK no masks 65000 dead 970/m 1st in the world. Johnston school ,fined or jail.
No surprises there. He’s always been a nob head
pnjaban Wise men do not stockpile supplies at the end of the voyage.
Enlightenment, don't know what it is.
He probably still thinks the Caravan is on its way to the border.
Wonderful singer/musician/songwriter. Always been a crank.
Good to see sanity from some quarter. Too bad rock is no longer the defiant claiming of freedom in defiance of unjust authoritarianism. The entire shut down has been a preposterous overreaction.
oh no
Because his advanced knowledge of science is far superior!
As he never speaks on stage I think he’s been practicing social distancing with his audience for years
Man's always been a bit of a muppet. Down in the mosh pit without your mask Van!
Dude wrote two songs that i never care to hear ever again anyway. eat shit
I don't think it would hurt for the rules to be relaxed for the 5 minutes it takes Van Morrison to play his only good song.
who?
His dad was in PSYOPS so...
Always preferred blue-eyed girls
When someone you like turns out to be a dickhead.
Oh dear Van please stick to what you're brilliant at, which is not science.
Does he know how old he is 😳
He’s right. His fans need to listen.
He made like one good song tops.
Wait, a rich old dude doesn’t get it? And he stands to lose money from social distancing? Well butter my arse.
Why did his parents call him van?
Tosser
God damn it. I hate 2020. I’ll hate 2020 until the day I die. Wtf Van Morrison?