philipchevron wrote:Guest wrote:Who exactly is responsible for the "marketing strategy" of the Pogues? Rhino? Warners? Anthony Addis? The Pogues?
I ask because in this day and age, I find if unbelievable that the Pogues allow a situation where, two years later, a DVD filmed in New York in March 2006 is not even on the horizon yet. This is just laughable. Consider that films reach DVD a mere four months after general realease. Never mind the fact that the Pogues have a huge audience out there just dying out for a DVD of one of the most dynamic live bands ever.
Thank God the box set is coming out at last, although here too, one would expect it to be released in tandem with either a Christmas tour or Amercian tour. Which comes back to my question of marketing.
I have a fierce love for the Pogues, but, for God's sake, when will this DVD be released? 2010? 2020? Or a 100-year anniversary special in October 2082?
I think you put your finger on it. We don't have a "marketing strategy". We're The Pogues.
After all of these years where the band wasn't making money from the marketing efforts of others, it still doesn't have control over the more recent peripheral efforts? I think we all lose.
