"The Pogues" concert exceeded all expectations
Bonn. Already in the first song they let flow the Pogues, the "Streams Of Whiskey". Shane MacGowan sang: "I am going, I am going / Any which way the wind may be blowing / I am going, I am going / Where streams of whiskey are flowing."
And the Museum Square voted out loud one in the desire to go where the whiskey flows like water. The Pogues had heated up, so to speak-enthusiastic one home game between art museum and the Art and Exhibition Hall, from the first note was a mood in British (or Irish) football stadiums, chants included.
Photos Images from the concert of the band The PoguesSänger Shane MacGowan appeared all in black and wearing sunglasses. In December, on Christmas Day, he will, if all goes well, 54 Due to the erroneous assumption that alcohol him as the way to Paradise, MacGowan has imposed his body in the past 40 years, a lot. It shows.
But for 90 minutes of use on the museum's enough room to breath. The 90 minutes it had in them, more intense, fast-paced, inspiring a live performance hardly conceivable. Eight virtuoso musicians were full of blood on the stage, and they won as a team, because the star Shane MacGowan is now dependent on the vocal support from his colleagues.
On the face of the singer hits the adjective devastated, he seemed to be during the concert again and again to hold on to cigarette and / or microphone stand. But then he sang "A Pair Of Brown Eyes" from the album "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash" (1985) and proved once again that he has improved as a songwriter for the Irish folk art form.
The band continued but also by one of their early programs. She played "binge-songs, how to get it heard in the Irish pubs in north London, and in our texts say nothing else than that everyone should find his own salvation" (original Pogues). The wild, anarchic, punk, they have still got it.
They sang as once the fate of the drunkards, rebels, and Penner Ausgeflippten. The museum square danced and turned into a gigantic open-air pub. The New Musical Express had once praised MacGowan dark masterpieces, in which "music-hall romance, intellect and genuine feeling of happiness" to combine.
Eric Bogle song "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" tells a story from the First World War in which a young soldier lost both legs: "Never knew there were worse things than dying." The feeling of having experienced something that was worse than death, mediated Shane MacGowan singing highly concentrated in a dramatic way.
Then they played hits like "The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn," "Dirty Old Town" and "Poor Paddy." The musicians spent on stage just like the people dancing on the court. After 90 minutes it was concluded that the Pogues had given everything - only happy faces everywhere. This must be love.
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