POGUES - North America, March 2009

by **territa** Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:46 pm

seizedcarautos wrote:Hello to all ! Great site. I am new here greetings to all from Poland.

Welcome, seized! Greetings to you. Please join us.

by **seizedcarautos** Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:09 pm

Hello to all ! Great site. I am new here greetings to all from Poland.

by **Old man Winter** Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:09 am

It was my third year in Boston made alot more interesting with a flight in from Vancouver instead of the usual drive from Halifax.Philip is right about the ease of travel in from Logan.My flight landed at 7:30 and after a quick Metro line it was straight to the HOB and a little slice of heaven. It's been a long time since I've experienced true excitement and anticipation of a show.
Cheers boys and thank you for giving live music a leg up. It's a breath of fresh air in pre fab world. You're the real deal and I hope you continue to give North America a chance to sing and dance for years to come.
Well done

by **DrugProwlingWolf** Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:24 am

Straight to Hell is maybe the best entrance music ever. A profoundly gorgeous song, and it's always cool seeing how many people in the audience know it.

I was bummed to see Dark Streets dropped from the set. That's a barnstormer of a song.

by **Charles** Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:09 am

Still lots of the Nu Europe album too.

by **Corey S. Sullivan** Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:45 pm

Broad Majestic Jimmy wrote:We were treated to three Clash songs on Saturday, The Call Up, Magnificent Seven, and of course Straight to Hell.

In Boston? Yeah, I went to the Friday show also and if memory serves 90% of the stuff playing between sets were Clash tunes which greatly added to my enjoyment of the night. Good times.

by **Broad Majestic Jimmy** Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:13 pm

We were treated to three Clash songs on Saturday, The Call Up, Magnificent Seven, and of course Straight to Hell.

by **Irishrose** Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:59 pm

bigboston wrote:Was at the show Friday night and have seen the Pogues 4 times in the past several years. I've always wondered what the song is that they come out to. It plays right before and as the pogues are coming on stage.

The Clash "Straight to Hell"

in a way, a very fine tribute to Joe Strummer IMHO??....................................

when i hear it before they come on it makes my hair stand up with anticipation of whats to come??

dam what great performances we were fortunate to witness this year, listening to Straight the Hell as i type this message??

dam we have to wait another year for their possible return??................... :roll:

Irishrose

by **bigboston** Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:38 pm

Was at the show Friday night and have seen the Pogues 4 times in the past several years. I've always wondered what the song is that they come out to. It plays right before and as the pogues are coming on stage.

by **philipchevron** Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:39 am

Lallie wrote:First time ever seeing the Pogues but it won't be the last, it was an excellent time! And a nice crowd, too, everybody in a great mood. One question. It did seem really, really packed. All the HOB's seem to have a reputation for overcrowding. Does anyone know how many people were actually there on Saturday?

Officially 2500. But they managed to oversell it and tried to redistribute Saturday tickets to the more comfortably sold Friday night by offering freebies for Friday if you had a Saturday ticket. I never much pursued the outcome of this effort as it did not affect our fee anyway, though certainly, if it had appeared overcrowded - it didn't - we would certainly have investigated that.

Nice venue, mind.

by **Lallie** Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:18 am

First time ever seeing the Pogues but it won't be the last, it was an excellent time! And a nice crowd, too, everybody in a great mood. One question. It did seem really, really packed. All the HOB's seem to have a reputation for overcrowding. Does anyone know how many people were actually there on Saturday?

by **philipchevron** Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:00 pm

wtcg83 wrote:EPIC SHOW

Left Newfoundland at 4:30am Friday, missed a connecting flight, arrived at Logan at 6:40pm...just made the concert.

BEST SHOW EVER. Worth every penny!

Wow! Glad you made it. I've noticed Logan is one of the world's more user-friendly airports, in that it's less than thirty minutes drive to civilization.

by **wtcg83** Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:58 pm

EPIC SHOW

Left Newfoundland at 4:30am Friday, missed a connecting flight, arrived at Logan at 6:40pm...just made the concert.

BEST SHOW EVER. Worth every penny!