by Villajohn Tue May 04, 2010 12:08 pm
Mr.Clarke,greetings once again from the Mr.Traintimetable man,i am in ST.JOHNS,my fourth visit in 3 years,which is amazing because the first trip very damned near killed me---long story.This is a brilliant place,TERRY and Philip toured played in Newfoundland with the Mahones a few years ago.Yes i still go and see the Pogues and hopefully will see them on foreign soil for the first time since July 1996 Ghent, Belgie.The POGUES would go down a storm if they played here,they are probably the one band that most people here would want to see,i have met several fans who have had to fly to New York or Boston in order to see the Pogues,i can relate to that.Great music scene here,a lot of Irish influenced stuff and in some cases Newfoundland music influenced the Irish.The song SONNYS DREAM made famous by Christy Moore,Dolores Keane/Mary Black/Emmylou was written by RON HYNES , a great singer-songwriter,storyteller who hails from ST.JOHNS via Ferryport.The big success story from these parts is GREAT BIG SEA who have been performing their brand of Folk,rock and general mayhem since the early 90s,a very early line up was virtually a Pogues tribute act called Rankin Street.Othere bands worth checking out include The Punters,Navigators,The Irish Descendents,oops i am dragging on a wee bit here.So how goes it with your band?i purchase your album from Amazon for the princely sum of one penny plus postage!Dont spend all the royalties at once,you shuld be able to get hold of that Byrds stuff,but i could always get copies to you[not tapes though ,unless you still want tapes]Thats all for now Jamie,you can email me at
john.mcgvrn@googlemail.com,its pissing down here hence the rather long message.Good luck. JMG
Mr.Clarke,greetings once again from the Mr.Traintimetable man,i am in ST.JOHNS,my fourth visit in 3 years,which is amazing because the first trip very damned near killed me---long story.This is a brilliant place,TERRY and Philip toured played in Newfoundland with the Mahones a few years ago.Yes i still go and see the Pogues and hopefully will see them on foreign soil for the first time since July 1996 Ghent, Belgie.The POGUES would go down a storm if they played here,they are probably the one band that most people here would want to see,i have met several fans who have had to fly to New York or Boston in order to see the Pogues,i can relate to that.Great music scene here,a lot of Irish influenced stuff and in some cases Newfoundland music influenced the Irish.The song SONNYS DREAM made famous by Christy Moore,Dolores Keane/Mary Black/Emmylou was written by RON HYNES , a great singer-songwriter,storyteller who hails from ST.JOHNS via Ferryport.The big success story from these parts is GREAT BIG SEA who have been performing their brand of Folk,rock and general mayhem since the early 90s,a very early line up was virtually a Pogues tribute act called Rankin Street.Othere bands worth checking out include The Punters,Navigators,The Irish Descendents,oops i am dragging on a wee bit here.So how goes it with your band?i purchase your album from Amazon for the princely sum of one penny plus postage!Dont spend all the royalties at once,you shuld be able to get hold of that Byrds stuff,but i could always get copies to you[not tapes though ,unless you still want tapes]Thats all for now Jamie,you can email me at john.mcgvrn@googlemail.com,its pissing down here hence the rather long message.Good luck. JMG :lol:
