Pogues songs in Films

[philipchevron]

Perfect header for a question i've been wanting to ask... anyone ever have the soundtrack to the film THE COURIER? And notice how one of the bands listed is THE POGUES, yet there is no pogues song anywhere on the record? Whats the story with that?

Also...
Georgia - House of the gods

scott

A copy of THE COURIER soundtrack lurks as a curio in my Pogues archive along with the other CDs because, even if we're not on it, it does say we are. If memory serves, Elvis Costello did most of the music. The movie was, of course, Cait O'Riordan's first acting job after she left the Pogues. I couldn't say if any of these facts are connected in any way.

I worked with the principal male actor, Patrick Lynch when he appeared in Kathy Burke's production of Behan's The Quare Fellow a few years back. Nice man.

[Mick Molloy]

I'm crap on films, as I never go to the cinema, but i know I saw one (might have been a Neil Jordan one) which had a scene with Terry Woods and Ron Kavana playing in a pub.

That was Hidden Agenda.

I remember someone was in Michael Collins as well, or was I dreaming?

[johnfoyle]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0117039/fullcredits

Michael Collins (1996)

Who can forget Terry Woods in his vital role as 'Drinker in Pub'?

I was in the same film. I spent one of the most boring afternoons in my life in Bray as a extra ( unpaid - everyone in Dublin in the long, hot summer of '95 seems to have ended up doing a bit) for a recreation of the Croke Park crowd scenes as the Base And Brutal Saxon massacred some Paddies. I wasn't allowed wear my glasses because the poor people who went to games in the 1920's could not , I was told, afford them. So , in more senses than one, it was all a bit of a blur.

The movie itself was unintentionally funny in the depiction of the Michael Collins/Harry Boland relationship. Every time Michael ( Liam Neeson) shreiked at De Valera ( Alan Rickman) about 'What have you done to my Harry (Aidan Quinn)?' the audiences I saw it in kept sniggering. And as for Julia Roberts' accent......

I saw it a few times, trying to spot myself in the blur behind the goal. I must get the DVD and see if my Method Acting tour-de-force is visible.....

[RoddyRuddy]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0117039/fullcredits

Michael Collins (1996)

Who can forget Terry Woods in his vital role as 'Drinker in Pub'?

I was in the same film. I spent one of the most boring afternoons in my life in Bray as a extra ( unpaid - everyone in Dublin in the long, hot summer of '95 seems to have ended up doing a bit) for a recreation of the Croke Park crowd scenes as the Base And Brutal Saxon massacred some Paddies. I wasn't allowed wear my glasses because the poor people who went to games in the 1920's could not , I was told, afford them. So , in more senses than one, it was all a bit of a blur.

The movie itself was unintentionally funny in the depiction of the Michael Collins/Harry Boland relationship. Every time Michael ( Liam Neeson) shreiked at De Valera ( Alan Rickman) about 'What have you done to my Harry (Aidan Quinn)?' the audiences I saw it in kept sniggering. And as for Julia Roberts' accent......

I saw it a few times, trying to spot myself in the blur behind the goal. I must get the DVD and see if my Method Acting tour-de-force is visible.....

I was in Bray that day of filming.Wachted them blow the doors off the stadium gates and then spent a fantastic day in the pub listening to Wolfetones/rebel songs on a jukebox.

[RoddyRuddy]

Perfect header for a question i've been wanting to ask... anyone ever have the soundtrack to the film THE COURIER? And notice how one of the bands listed is THE POGUES, yet there is no pogues song anywhere on the record? Whats the story with that?

Also...
Georgia - House of the gods

scott

The cd cover does list "featuring music by U2 Declan MacManus Pogues..."etc. But the lp vinyl has a different cover & does not list Pogues , or at least one version I have seen does not .Even stranger .
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[ahamilton]

Not once in Michael Collins does the title character say anything like "What have you done to my Harry?" The only time Collins says anything at all to De Valera about Boland is when he argues against Boland accompanying De Valera to America ("Leave me Boland"... "I can't run this war without Harry Boland"... etc.).


The Informant features: Dirty Old Town, Maidrin Rua, USA, A Pistol for Paddy Garcia, The Battle March Medley, Streets of Sorrow, and A Pair of Brown Eyes.

The Matchmaker (which I've never seen) features You're The One.

[MacRua]

The Matchmaker features You're The One.

As well as The Nephew

[YAS]

Not once in Michael Collins does the title character say anything like "What have you done to my Harry?" The only time Collins says anything at all to De Valera about Boland is when he argues against Boland accompanying De Valera to America ("Leave me Boland"... "I can't run this war without Harry Boland"... etc.).


The Informant features: Dirty Old Town, Maidrin Rua, USA, A Pistol for Paddy Garcia, The Battle March Medley, Streets of Sorrow, and A Pair of Brown Eyes.

The Matchmaker (which I've never seen) features You're The One.

"The Informant" I had interesting in years since 1998 in released in Japan, as Japanese title 'Underfield'. I have only a copy VHS without DVD / Soundtrack . . .

[Simon Maguire]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0117039/fullcredits

Michael Collins (1996)

Who can forget Terry Woods in his vital role as 'Drinker in Pub'?

I was in the same film. I spent one of the most boring afternoons in my life in Bray as a extra ( unpaid - everyone in Dublin in the long, hot summer of '95 seems to have ended up doing a bit) for a recreation of the Croke Park crowd scenes as the Base And Brutal Saxon massacred some Paddies. I wasn't allowed wear my glasses because the poor people who went to games in the 1920's could not , I was told, afford them. So , in more senses than one, it was all a bit of a blur.

The movie itself was unintentionally funny in the depiction of the Michael Collins/Harry Boland relationship. Every time Michael ( Liam Neeson) shreiked at De Valera ( Alan Rickman) about 'What have you done to my Harry (Aidan Quinn)?' the audiences I saw it in kept sniggering. And as for Julia Roberts' accent......

I saw it a few times, trying to spot myself in the blur behind the goal. I must get the DVD and see if my Method Acting tour-de-force is visible.....

My father is clearly visible in the De Valaera (Rickman) anti treaty rally/ (hes the one in the flat cap waving the tri colour around)

[pogues24]

White City is played in the movie State of Grace. Sean Penn plays an undercover cop who returns to Hell's Kitchen to bring down Ed Harris and Gary Oldman (The Flannery Gang). White City can be heard in the very beginning of the movie playing in the background when Sean Penn walks into one of the local popular pubs in Hell's Kitchen.

Iain

[pogues24]

Also, this is not a Pogues recording, but You're the One; the Shane MacGowan/Marie Brennan duet is in the movie Circle of Friends.

Iain

[Irishman]

White City is played in the movie State of Grace. Sean Penn plays an undercover cop who returns to Hell's Kitchen to bring down Ed Harris and Gary Oldman (The Flannery Gang). White City can be heard in the very beginning of the movie playing in the background when Sean Penn walks into one of the local popular pubs in Hell's Kitchen.

Iain

I'm glad to see someone posted this. Great film!

[ginggang]

White City is played in the movie State of Grace. Sean Penn plays an undercover cop who returns to Hell's Kitchen to bring down Ed Harris and Gary Oldman (The Flannery Gang). White City can be heard in the very beginning of the movie playing in the background when Sean Penn walks into one of the local popular pubs in Hell's Kitchen.

Iain

I saw this film a few years ago before I really got into the Pogues. I was a late entrant into Pogueology.

Its a really good film (very violent though) and Gary Oldman is fantastic in it. Well worth seeing it. I may seek it out again as its now got a Pogues connection .

[kmurray105]

I wanted to see State of Grace when it was in the theater and never did. I had forgotten this movie even existed until reading this, so thank you!

[Welshie]

Wild cats was also on the starting sound track of a Welsh Language programme coming from the Eisteddfod in the 90's (as was the instrumental break from Bottle of Smoke and Fairytale!!!) strange but true!
Cheers
Aled