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(Contact Music) Sad The Pogues to retire after Christmas, if there's enough whiskey in the world to keep them going till then   (contactmusic.com) divider line 26
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mamoru [TotalFark]
2010-08-31 11:48:32 PM
Well, Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last, indeed.

:-/
 
Sun God
2010-08-31 11:52:57 PM
mamoru: Well, Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last, indeed.

:-/

I could have been someone...
 
mamoru [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 12:05:34 AM
Well, so could anyone...
 
Sliding Carp [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 12:17:24 AM
When the band finished playing they yelled out for more.
 
Sun God
2010-09-01 12:22:32 AM
mamoru: Well, so could anyone...

What a great song.

/Kirsty MacColl RIP.
 
The English Major [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 12:23:36 AM
mamoru: Well, so could anyone...

You took my dreams
 
The English Major [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 12:25:31 AM
 
MuadDib
2010-09-01 01:10:05 AM
That's a fairy tale. Of New York, if I'm not mistaken.
 
BiffDangler
2010-09-01 06:19:59 AM
Glad i saw them last year when they came to the states. perhaps we should organize a fark expedition to london for Christmas.
 
habitual_masticator
2010-09-01 07:42:04 AM
Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello married the same woman? huh. Are they really the Pogues without Shane Mcgowan?
 
habitual_masticator
2010-09-01 07:44:14 AM
Everyone so far seems acquainted with it but for any lurkers who may wander through

Link (Fairy Tale of New York)
 
sprawl15
2010-09-01 07:54:48 AM
 
Spade
2010-09-01 08:16:43 AM
habitual_masticator: Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello married the same woman? huh. Are they really the Pogues without Shane Mcgowan?

Spider Stacy did a good job.
 
Rev. Skarekroe [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 08:33:03 AM
And Shane JUST got his teeth fixed!
 
Clash City Farker
2010-09-01 09:31:54 AM
It doesnt say retire. It says no more Christmas tours.
 
Superjew
2010-09-01 09:43:22 AM
You took my dreams from me when I first found you..
 
bobthenewsman
2010-09-01 10:01:49 AM
Pogues? Pog Mo Thoin.
 
Nogale
2010-09-01 10:21:19 AM
Huh? No farewell tour?
 
Doggie McNugget
2010-09-01 12:13:01 PM
I saw them 3 or 4 years in Chicago. While it was good to see them in their mostly original form, Shane can barely walk straight, let alone sing a tune. I could only understand the lyrics because I knew them beforehand. As much as I love the Pogues, at this point they're only touring for nostalgic reasons.
 
Clash City Farker
2010-09-01 12:27:02 PM
Doggie McNugget: I saw them 3 or 4 years in Chicago. While it was good to see them in their mostly original form, Shane can barely walk straight, let alone sing a tune. I could only understand the lyrics because I knew them beforehand. As much as I love the Pogues, at this point they're only touring for nostalgic reasons.

Not so. I have seen them 3 out of the last 4 years in Boston (they skipped out on us last year). Shane gets better every year, less drinkage.
 
ParadisePornoTheater
2010-09-01 12:41:56 PM
Still a bottle of smoke after all these years ...
 
sloughtown4ever [TotalFark]
2010-09-01 12:45:44 PM
I've seen them on every Christmas tour since 2001, and Shane hasn't been awful on any of those gigs. However he has been known to take a chainsaw to some songs ('If I Should Fall From Grace With God' he seems to have particular trouble with), but as the gig goes on, he generally starts to nail it. I can barely understand a word he says between songs, and while his voice doesn't have the same raspy quality it used to, he can generally hit the notes and on occasion smack poor James Fearnley in the face with his microphone stand.

One of my favourite moments at their gigs was back in 2007 I think. The band had 'The Auld Triangle' in the set list, but it has the same opening as 'Poor Paddy', so the band simply waited to see which song Shane would start singing and then pick things up from there.
 
Doggie McNugget
2010-09-01 01:16:19 PM
Clash City Farker: Doggie McNugget: I saw them 3 or 4 years in Chicago. While it was good to see them in their mostly original form, Shane can barely walk straight, let alone sing a tune. I could only understand the lyrics because I knew them beforehand. As much as I love the Pogues, at this point they're only touring for nostalgic reasons.

Not so. I have seen them 3 out of the last 4 years in Boston (they skipped out on us last year). Shane gets better every year, less drinkage.

At the show I was at he went backstage to fill his beer cup between songs. He even did a trick during one of the songs by balancing the cup on his head.

But had I never heard of the Pogues, and someone took to me to the concert I went to, I'd wonder why they let a drunk homeless person sing. And on the other hand, I wouldn't have attended it had Shane not been there. Just because it's Shane MacGowan.
 
Rawry
2010-09-01 04:10:04 PM
Doggie McNugget: I'd wonder why they let a drunk homeless person sing

That's one of my favorite stories. Some critic is sitting around waiting to watch and review The Pogues. The band is all set up and waiting for Shane to show up. Then some drunken homeless person stumbles into the bar, vomits on the floor, and then walks up on stage and begins to sing.

i.telegraph.co.uk
Drinking Problem?
 
freetomato [TotalFark]
2010-09-02 03:52:10 AM
I don't care how horrid they may be live. I'd slice off a pinky toe to see them in full form, live (Well, maybe, perhaps, someone else's toe, but still.). Me and my full set of toes are happy to enjoy them in CD.

The Pogues chill and thrill me in a good way.
 
Jim R
2010-09-02 11:30:50 AM
Don't they say something similar every year? I'd take the retirement talk with a grain of salt, subby.
 
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