The Medusa Fora

the official statement confuses the situation more imo

JakeMarley wrote:Most people can never hope to contribute to this world half as much as shane did in the 90's

Wot about the 2000's?

What happened to Cashman? Was it again bad mangement? Or just Shanes making his decesion not to go, being made to late?

Simon Maguire wrote:What happened to Cashman? Was it again bad mangement? Or just Shanes making his decesion not to go, being made to late?

You pays your money and you takes your chance with Shane and turning up.

I know we should all be philosophical about this by now but I've been gutted since yesterday morning when I found out.

Anybody have any clue how dicey Guildford is looking? Advance warning would be good as it'll be a sight more inconvenient for us Mancs if we trek to Guildford for no reason!

If Shane can't make it will it still go ahead? I'm not sitting though hours of Shite bands, and not to have some form of a Pogues line-up! I don't want to say he's ill or not. if he is not is none of my business, if he is telling a porky pie he may have good reasons, but theres no smoke without fire.

IMO do not worry.

Shane can blow out a popes gig for 500 people in a birmingham bar, but a 20,000 headlining festival slot with the Pogues. Absolutely no way.

please god i won't be eating my words.

http://www.shanemacgowanofficialtourdates.com has the Brum date reschelduled for 30 oct. For what it's worth ...

Well that page looks like it hasn't been updated for about a year.

"SHANE MacGOWAN & THE POPES ARE HAVING A FANTASTIC 2004 SO FAR."

has the Brum date reschelduled for 30 oct. For what it's worth ...


echo and the bunnymen are on that night ,ive spoke to ticket web and the reshedule as not been confirmed yet .yet its advertised on shanes web site.wots going on?????????

right now I wouldn't trust ANY purported Shane + the Popes dates at all!

im gonna send my tickets back to ticketweb ,i feel the popes and shane have split ,and the re schedule for the 30th of october cannot be right as echo and the bunny men are on that night ,unless shane is singing with them??? i somehow think not .id really like to know whats happening before i do get a refund

Such an event as this would never never occur were this a Pogues gig, or indeed any properly managed artist.

"All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday..."

As if no-shows were only Shane’s specialty – just yesterday, the Universally Beloved No. 1 in Irish Step-Dancing, Big Mr. Flatley, cancelled the world premiere of his new hyper-ultra-super "megashow" Celtic Tiger. Show for which there were posters on every corner in Prague for several months and which was personally promoted by the Master himself in every imaginable media. Cancelled mere two hours before the beginning... Isn’t it better to spend one’s precious time (and money) waiting in vain for Shane than for this (undoubtedly properly managed) clown... ehm, artist?

The fact MacGowan misses gigs adds to his mystery and also to the idea of him being an unreliable genius. This is also what happens when Pete Doherty misses gigs. Someone like Paul McCartney would never miss gigs cos he is too profesional and uncool these days.

The fact MacGowan misses gigs adds to his mystery and also to the idea of him being an unreliable genius.

Finally! someone got it...
It's a thoroughly planned demarche! Best brains worked on it.

wwfcpogue wrote:has the Brum date reschelduled for 30 oct. For what it's worth ...


echo and the bunnymen are on that night ,ive spoke to ticket web and the reshedule as not been confirmed yet .yet its advertised on shanes web site.wots going on?????????

The "Shanemacgowanofficialtourdates.com" site has always been NOTHING but a Popes site run by the Popes record company. Just to set things right.