The Medusa Fora

A BENEFIT FOR MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE ORGANISATION

Alabama 3 / Shane MacGowan And The Popes / John Cooper Clark

Sunday 29th May Shepherd's Bush Empire

http://www.alabama3.co.uk/Visitors/view ... 04&start=0

http://www.alabama3.co.uk/news/calendar2.asp

additional info:

http://www.nme.com/news/4987.htm

http://www.nme.com/news/11466.htm

Fuck me That will be a good one

I dont really know whaty to make of this.Would Shane really be playing before these lot?Not that I dont like them I haVE SEEN THEM twice and they are good but the thing is i havent seen any notice of this on any Shane MacGowan or Popes website gig lists .?

It will be good for me if they do play first cos I wont be too
pissed and might be even more memorable.

Ste says (answering same question in guestbook at pumpactionpaddy.com) it's confirmed... Who knows. Maybe

if Shane had been involved from the start he would have headlined BUT May 29 at Shepherds Bush has for months and months been the London stop on the Alabama 3 May UK tour. So all the tickets have been sold to Alabama 3 fans. Only in last couple of weeks did the gig become a benefit show (for a charity that fights injustices done in the courts, like Birmingham 6) and Shane was asked if he wanted to join in, being a cause he supports he would naturally want to.

But he couldn't headline in front of 2000 rabid A3 fans!



his set might be short?

Afriend of mine says The Popes are listed to play Luton Carnival that Bank Holiday weekend aswell He said it was in the local paper but i cant ghet the website to work for proof .If sopmeone else tries it let me know can you if you find out anything.
http://www.lutoncarnival.co.uk/

The link doesn't work for me either. But try this one - it lists the Popes indeed! Though probably Shane-less...

Thanks Zuzana I 'll be there for that one aswell

Shane's appearances were cancelled Glasgow fri, and Shepherds Bush sun

truth of the matter is shane didn't want to be second on the bill. joey booked it mainly to keep the popes name out and about. albama 3 asked him because ticket sales were sluggish. shane never wanted to do it. the mojo people have been after him for years. he has no interest.

Well it was a fucking blinding gig anyway.I feel I have done my bit by going and buying a tshirt Hope Sane thinks he has aswell by being on the fliers and posters.
Alabma 3 were miles better than last time I saw them ,I bought a tshirt after the speech at the end

"The greatest gift in life you've got is your freedom,treaSURE IT........
because you never know when it can be taken away."

Paddy Hill 17 years


ironically I was arrested 6 in the morning ,making my way home for somrething i never did !!!!

WOW, Shane played in shephards bush and I missed it, again WOW, Im dumb like I didn't get enough warning.

Simon, I hear that Shane didn't play Sunday after all.

No Shane didnt turn up.That was what I was trying to say.....
It would have been good to have seen them again But it was still a good gig.

Fucking computers ....I get half way through writing and delete things by accident.Then i cant remember what I wrote

Better late than never.




Shane did it..