by Heather Tue Dec 15, 2015 6:56 pm
This was The Pogue Trader's first show at The Water Rats and it was an absolutely cracking night.
When we arrived at the venue, they were still doing the soundcheck but we were still allowed to go in anyway.
We'd only been standing there about 10 minutes when the lead singer of The Pogue Trader's, Lou, came over. He'd added me to the Facebook group the day before and recognised me from my photograph. He was really nice and we chatted for about 10 minutes.
The show started about 8.15pm and there were two support acts, Comrade X and Anto Morra, both of them giving lively performances and are well worth checking out.
The Pogue Trader's came on about 9.30pm. They started with Streams of Whiskey, went on to If I Should Fall From Grace With God followed by a wide range of other Pogues songs.
If there was ever a Pogues copy band to see, this is the one. They have the right sound and everyone in the audience just can't help singing along or dancing. They are better than some of the other copy bands out there and it is easy to see why Andrew Ranken approves of them.
The venue wasn't totally packed, it was a Sunday and a lot of people would have been working the next day, but it was still quite a big audience even so and there were enough people there for the bar to run out of every beer they had except for lager.
After the show, we stayed on for a bit and talked to the accordion player, the banjo player (who had a slight look of Philip Chevron about him) and Lou again.
A very enjoyable evening. It was well worth taking the trip down from Liverpool to London to see.
I must have recorded at least ten songs. At some point, I'm going to upload them to the internet, if they've turned out OK that is.
This was The Pogue Trader's first show at The Water Rats and it was an absolutely cracking night.
When we arrived at the venue, they were still doing the soundcheck but we were still allowed to go in anyway.
We'd only been standing there about 10 minutes when the lead singer of The Pogue Trader's, Lou, came over. He'd added me to the Facebook group the day before and recognised me from my photograph. He was really nice and we chatted for about 10 minutes.
The show started about 8.15pm and there were two support acts, Comrade X and Anto Morra, both of them giving lively performances and are well worth checking out.
The Pogue Trader's came on about 9.30pm. They started with [i]Streams of Whiskey[/i], went on to [i]If I Should Fall From Grace With God[/i] followed by a wide range of other Pogues songs.
If there was ever a Pogues copy band to see, this is the one. They have the right sound and everyone in the audience just can't help singing along or dancing. They are better than some of the other copy bands out there and it is easy to see why Andrew Ranken approves of them.
The venue wasn't totally packed, it was a Sunday and a lot of people would have been working the next day, but it was still quite a big audience even so and there were enough people there for the bar to run out of every beer they had except for lager.
After the show, we stayed on for a bit and talked to the accordion player, the banjo player (who had a slight look of Philip Chevron about him) and Lou again.
A very enjoyable evening. It was well worth taking the trip down from Liverpool to London to see.
I must have recorded at least ten songs. At some point, I'm going to upload them to the internet, if they've turned out OK that is.
