I'm not sure it was a voluntary "loss of shoes" by most people..? The Brixton Academy at that time was general admission and had a floor that sloped towards the stage. Not a particular gentle slope, it was at quite an angle. You put a couple of hundred people all together at the front of t...

The shoe thing at Brixton Academy was the funniest thing..!

I expected to get to the front of the stage and find a "couple" of shoes but not three enormous mounds of various sizes; styles; etc.

Kind of sums up what the crowd was like that night..!!

Just wanted to share some recollections of when I was a "lad" and thought The Pogues were the "schizznit"..!!! I grew up in England and moved to the States in 1988. Prior to that I saw The Pogues several times across the U.K. Early 80's: Newcastle Mayfair (small nightclub type ve...

I have 2 Tixs for the Friday night show at the Avalon which I might be willing to sell for face value plus the usual "processing fees"..!! So just what I paid for them. I might not be able to make it for the Friday show but want to catch one show at least.....looking at the Sunday night at...