by Mike M Sat Jan 01, 2011 4:51 am
I suspect, although I cannot confirm, that my first contact with The Pogues was probably through MTV's iconic "120 Minutes", during the years when it was hosted by Dave Kendall. I have definite memories of seeing the video for "White City", but I'm thinking there must have been others prior to that, as I remember knowing *of* the band well before Peace and Love was released.
I do, however, have a very distinct memory of the first person I ever met that had seen the band live...met him around 1990, and he had seen them here in St. Louis at the now-defunct Mississippi Nights nightclub. I wasn't living in St. Louis at the time, but was a mere 90 miles away. Of course, being the days of no internet, I had no way to find out about shows in STL, so naturally missed my chance to see the boys before the big break-up. I remember being insanely jealous at the time that he had been able to see them live, and in a fairly small club, and I had not. The jealousy was finally tempered a bit when I got to see the boys live in KC in '09, but I still wish I'd been at that earlier show...
I suspect, although I cannot confirm, that my first contact with The Pogues was probably through MTV's iconic "120 Minutes", during the years when it was hosted by Dave Kendall. I have definite memories of seeing the video for "White City", but I'm thinking there must have been others prior to that, as I remember knowing *of* the band well before Peace and Love was released.
I do, however, have a very distinct memory of the first person I ever met that had seen the band live...met him around 1990, and he had seen them here in St. Louis at the now-defunct Mississippi Nights nightclub. I wasn't living in St. Louis at the time, but was a mere 90 miles away. Of course, being the days of no internet, I had no way to find out about shows in STL, so naturally missed my chance to see the boys before the big break-up. I remember being insanely jealous at the time that he had been able to see them live, and in a fairly small club, and I had not. The jealousy was finally tempered a bit when I got to see the boys live in KC in '09, but I still wish I'd been at that earlier show...
