ratty Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Wonderful tonight at Brixton! Anyone else go? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 F*** forgot they were on :-$ Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-393982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 you scumbag --- you faggot Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-393989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Have had 2 offers of free tickets, but unfortunately can't make it this year. Have seen them 3 times and it always makes me feel like christmas has arrived. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-393993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 The missus is gutted she hasn't gone this year. She even managed it 8 months pregnant last year, and I swear the mocklet had a knowing grin as we played the pogues whilst decorating the tree this year. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 No I missed them but I saw Camille O'Sullivan on Saturday night and she sang Fairy Tale of New York (quite wonderfully) with her band, as an encore. Shane is the best. How is he still alive though? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 My missus - at 6 months preggy - gave it a miss in the end. I would have got into a fight if she was there as there were a lot of A-Holes about! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 giggirl Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> No I missed them but I saw Camille O'Sullivan on> Saturday night and she sang Fairy Tale of New York> (quite wonderfully) with her band, as an encore. > Shane is the best. How is he still alive though?Speaking on BBC Four's Folk Britannia television programme (first broadcast February 2006), Robyn Hitchcock recalled: "I remember going to the Hope and Anchor [a pub where many folk punk acts played in London]. The Pogues were all on stage and ready, it was a full house, but they hadn't started yet. Then this character shambled in through the door and shambled downstairs. I thought, 'Jesus, you're not letting that guy in are you?'. Then he walked on stage. That guy was Shane MacGowan."He has suffered physically from his years of binge drinking; he is notorious for performing while drunk, and was often impaired in interviews; on the BBC TV political magazine programme This Week MacGowan gave incoherent and slurred answers to questions from Janet Street-Porter about the public smoking ban in Ireland.On 7 September 2002 MacGowan became so intoxicated before a performance at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin that he stopped singing and threw up over fans in the front row. Fiona Wynne wrote in the Daily Mirror that the consequent criticism of the behaviour of MacGowan "who was in a wheelchair after breaking his leg" led Sin?ad O'Connor to call Joe Duffy's RT? Liveline programme three days later to defend MacGowan, saying: "He is an angel near the end who needs support. He's too far gone to stop drinking; he has an illness that cannot be cured, and as far as I can see, the end is near for him".[10]Conversely, MacGowan's fianc?e Victoria Mary Clarke claims that although his alcoholism was so bad that the two had to split up at one point, "[shane] loves a drink and he probably always will. But he drinks less than people think and I haven?t seen him drunk for quite some time", suggesting that his enjoyment of alcohol is in moderation, and perhaps not as dire or life-threatening as most of his fans believe. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 When I saw them in about 2004, he was terrible, and had to go off stage several times for rests. The 2 times I've seen them since then though, he has been fine. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Maybe he is gradually getting his life back on track.Interesting that he won a literary schoarship into Westminster School, so there is some educational foundation to the musical "genius" tag that he sometimes has attributed to him. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Been following the Pogues since 1985 and have seen them so many times. Shane did one of his better performances last night!Sally Maclannan was amazing! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I first saw them at the Hammersmith Palais supporting Elvis Costello & The Attractions back in '82 or '83 and they blew him completely off stage. It was downhill after they finished their set with the crowd won over and baying for more. That's still the best time I've ever seen them and I've seen them a quite few times since but not in a good ten years now. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I didn't discover the Pogues until the late 80s, just before they sacked Shane. To be fair they had cause; he spent many a set shambling around spilling his beer and trying to light his cigarette and singing seemed way down on his list of priorities. I saw a few shows with Joe Strummer before Shane returned. Shane is the best though. As shambolic as he is he has magic in spades. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapjackdavey Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Kingy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> you scumbag --- you faggotcheap lousy something or other . Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Happy christmas your arse Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJKillaQueen Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Don't want to be a downer on the thread but I do object strongly to the use of the word 'faggot'. It's not funny. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 It isn't supposed to be funny - it is a direct quote. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Are you kidding me? You want to ban the song as well? Do you know what you are complaining about?"You?re a bum you?re a punk You?re an old slut on junk Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed You scumbag you maggot You cheap lousy faggot Happy christmas your arse I pray god it?s our last."2 winos exchanging insults and you want them to respect each other's feelingsChrist on a bike Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On a positive note, thank you to Ratty for starting this thread and reminding me that I haven't listened to the Pogues in yonks. I spent a happy 40 minutes queueing in the post office with Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Like Jah Lush I saw Elvis Costello at Hammersmith Palais. I had absolutely no realisation that I had seen the Pogues as support, though. Oops! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 giggirl Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> On a positive note, thank you to Ratty for> starting this thread and reminding me that I> haven't listened to the Pogues in yonks. I spent> a happy 40 minutes queueing in the post office> with Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.Sounds nice. What were you listening to? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giggirl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Well Brendan, Sally MacLennane and Waltzing Matilda are favourites. Then I switched to best of and there are just so many to choose from. Thousands are sailing, If I should fall from grace with God, Turkish Song of the damned, Bottle of Smoke, Fiesta. So much choice and so hard to narrow down to favourites. Lullaby of London would make it on to my Desert Island Disc list though. I never get tired of listening to that. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 I've only seen The Pogues once, I think it must have been quite soon after they started out, and they were f***ing brilliant. What energy.Their version of Gentleman Soldier still makes me laugh every time I hear it :)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 What Sean said! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Scarlet Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 jeez......they still going! aint he dead yet! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14924-the-pogues/#findComment-394232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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