Mike Joyce

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Name = Mike Joyce


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Birth_name = Michael Joyce
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Born = Birth date and age|1963|6|1
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Origin = Fallowfield, Manchester
Instrument = drums
Genre =Alternative rock, Indie rock
Occupation = Musician
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Associated_acts = The Smiths
Morrissey
URL = [http://www.mikejoyce.com/ mikejoyce.com]
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Mike Joyce (born Michael Joyce, 1 June, 1963, Fallowfield, Manchester) is an English drummer. He became internationally known as the drummer for The Smiths.

Career

While The Smiths provided Joyce with his first taste of success, he had previously drummed for Manchester band The Hoax and Irish punks Victim. Joyce was a member of the Smiths throughout the band's existence (1982-1987).

Immediately after the break-up of the band, Joyce and Smiths bassist Andy Rourke played with Sinéad O'Connor. They, along with Craig Gannon, also provided the rhythm section for two singles by Smiths' singer Morrissey - "Interesting Drug" and "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" and their b-sides. Work with Buzzcocks, Public Image Limited, Julian Cope, P. P. Arnold and Pete Wylie followed throughout the 1990s.

Joyce and Rourke reunited to work on a project with fellow Manchester musician Aziz Ibrahim (formerly of the Stone Roses), ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead (as Moondog One), and Vinny Peculiar (alongside Craig Gannon also briefly in the Smiths).

In 1996, Joyce sued former Smiths' colleagues Johnny Marr and Morrissey for an equal share of performance and recording royalties (see The Smiths for more detail). He won the case. He was therefore not invited to the Manchester v Cancer benefit concert which was organised by Andy Rourke because Johnny Marr was playing.

In the film documentary, "The Importance of Being Morrissey", Morrissey describes it as a "terrible miscarriage of justice", declaring that he wishes "the very, very worst for Joyce for the rest of his life".

In July 2007, Joyce along with former bandmate Andy Rourke released "Inside The Smiths", a DVD which chronicled their experiences of being in the band. Both speak highly of both Morrissey and Marr in the film and convey how special they believed The Smiths were and still are to them.

In October 2007 Joyce toured the UK playing drums for Vinny Peculiar with Bonehead on bass guitar.

Discography

The Smiths

→ "See The Smiths discography"

Morrissey

* Bona Drag (1990)

External links

* [http://foreverill.com/drums.htm Foreverill.com]
* [http://www.mikejoyce.com/ Official website]