Funnily enough I will be making my first ever O2 visit this month to see Morrisey. Unfortunately had to settle for seats but near the stage and lower tier. Going to treat it as a one off. Wont know till the day if he will turn up, cancel, turn up and leave the stage early or play a blinding two hour set packed with Smiths songs. Doubt if it will be the latter somehow.
Never done the O2 either and don't particularly want to but it's looking like the only English gig this year so may still indulge... as you say high risk (walked off stage in Poland the other night after about 5 songs because he didn't like what someone said FFS) but playing a lot off the new album so I'm tempted (not bothered about revisiting the past too much). Not sure but I don't think he's ever played over 90 mins in his life so no chance of 2 hours.