Okay, so it wasn't "Fairytale", but I did hear Dirty Old Town on KXT 91.7 in Dallas this morning . . .

Ah, it would have to be the whiskey glass that Shane handed to me at a gig in Dallas in 1987(?) -- I was right up against the stage in front, and kept begging to hear Pair of Brown Eyes. When the song finally started up, he reached over and handed me the glass. It was "lost" for many years...

3. There simply aren't radio formats around here that play The Pogues. Are there any US radio stations that play the Pogues? I can't say that I've heard them on any of the major Chicago stations. We used to play a lot of Pogues on KNON in Dallas (community radio) back in the day . . . now all they ...

Oh, we had drunken sing-alongs going on in the balcony, too . . . only it was just a few of us. I really do wish we'd been downstairs, though the sound up there was incredible.

Thank you all for your concern. Shane did in fact turn up, just three songs late and has been fined accordingly. Spider held the fort admirably up to then and, I must be honest, later in the show too. New Orleans is perhaps not the best place to get lost, but if anyone can get lost there, Shane Mac...

Oh. This is not good . . . Very Bad. Please keep us posted!!!

Incredible, incredible show . . . I'm still too verklempt to say much more.

The only thing I would change if I could: I would have bought GA tix instead of balcony seats . . . it was a bit too tame up there.

I hope it's not another 20 years before the next Dallas show!

OOOOH, I hope the show in Dallas tonight is as good as the one in Austin last night reportedly was!