Here Comes Everybody - The Story of the Pogues

[old barney greyheron]

Excellent read, just finished reading it 2 weeks ago, absolutely brilliant and a real insight to the internals of the band.

Just starting into Carol Clerks book now, read The Lost Decade by Ann Scanlon over Christmas after buying on ebay for a £1.

I lost Ann Scanlon's book years ago...i'll have to see if I can also snaffle a copy off ebay...her parents had a pub, in Brigg, just down the road from Scunthorpe..used to go there regularly.

[Low D]

Excellent read, just finished reading it 2 weeks ago, absolutely brilliant and a real insight to the internals of the band.

Just starting into Carol Clerks book now, read The Lost Decade by Ann Scanlon over Christmas after buying on ebay for a £1.

I lost Ann Scanlon's book years ago...i'll have to see if I can also snaffle a copy off ebay...her parents had a pub, in Brigg, just down the road from Scunthorpe..used to go there regularly.

There's a PDF version out there on the internet somewheres. I downloaded it years ago. Can't Find it now...

[old barney greyheron]

What is this PDF you speak of?

[kahaya]

Excellent read, just finished reading it 2 weeks ago, absolutely brilliant and a real insight to the internals of the band.

Just starting into Carol Clerks book now, read The Lost Decade by Ann Scanlon over Christmas after buying on ebay for a £1.

I lost Ann Scanlon's book years ago...i'll have to see if I can also snaffle a copy off ebay...her parents had a pub, in Brigg, just down the road from Scunthorpe..used to go there regularly.

There's a PDF version out there on the internet somewheres. I downloaded it years ago. Can't Find it now...

Yes indeed I downloaded it years ago (still have it on a disc somewhere) but for the pictures alone the book was well worth the £1 I paid for it.

[Low D]

What is this PDF you speak of?

Sorry, forgot "old" is the first word in your user name. "PDF" is an electronic document format, that is in theory universal. It is one of the formats that electronic books are made into.

[DzM]

What is this PDF you speak of?

Sorry, forgot "old" is the first word in your user name. "PDF" is an electronic document format, that is in theory universal. It is one of the formats that electronic books are made into.

Fun trivia:

"PDF" is an acronym ("P.D.F.") that stands for "Portable Document Format." It's a derivative of a page description language called PostScript. PostScript is (mostly) a vectored drawing language used to "describe" printed elements for a printer (PostScript is in the heart of just about every laser printer ever shipped, and is NOT at the heart of every ink jet printer, though a software version of PostScript likely runs on your computer and feeds the direct drawing instructions to the printer rather than relying on a native R.I.P. (raster image processor)). PDF is an attempt to basically take what is awesome about PostScript and adapt it for electronic displays rather than printed content.

If Adobe hadn't been all "My ball! None for you!" with PDF back in the early 1990s then the entire web could very easily have been driven by PDF content rather than the (at the time) much more primitive, but very open, HTML spec.

Soooo ... There we are. PDF.

[Low D]

Do you remember what a pain making PDFs was back in the 90s? Remember embedding fonts? They really sorted all that out nicely. But yeah, crazy that adobe didn't let it run free (although they do... so long as you use THEIR free software which is something i don't understand).

I am always amazed when we receive an invoice here at the office and it's NOT a PDF. I'm all like "what, .doc? or .xls? Are you for real?!

[DzM]

Do you remember what a pain making PDFs was back in the 90s? Remember embedding fonts? They really sorted all that out nicely. But yeah, crazy that adobe didn't let it run free (although they do... so long as you use THEIR free software which is something i don't understand).

I am always amazed when we receive an invoice here at the office and it's NOT a PDF. I'm all like "what, .doc? or .xls? Are you for real?!

They try to let PDF be free these days, but back in the 90s they wanted to charge for Reader ($40 if I recall) and Writer (hundreds of dollars I seem to recall). Bost? Missed. Foot shot? Yep.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Article on the book / Interview with James in the Village Voice:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/04/james_fearnley_pogues.php

[Mike from Boston]

Okay, a bit late to this party, but I recently bought the book for my mini-iPad. Just read the part where James got into an altercation with Ali Campbell of UB40 over his badgering of Shane on the tour bus at some festival. A few thoughts:

Wished James had kicked his ass!
How the heck did UB40 ever sell 70 Million records??
Aren't UB40 to reggae what Pat Boone was to black rock music (Little Richard, et. al) in the 50's?

[old barney greyheron]

My brother-in-law, Bloater, loves UB40...if you knew the shite he listens to...nuff said..(smileyfacething)

[Frances]

I kinda like UB40. A coupla' songs anyway.
I also liked Howard Jones, Billy Idol, Gene Loves Jezebel and the Thompson Twins growing up.

As to the book, I was reading a preview online at the start where the author goes into minute detail about the appearance of his friend and I just got turned off, big time. It reads like a Ren & Stimpy cartoon come to life. Ya' know, where they look in the ear canal, etc.

But that's just me.

[Julieexeter]

Finished Here Comes Everybody at the weekend, excellent. About to start The Lost Decade which I recently managed to get on eBay

[DeeDeeMahone]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/POGUES-publicit ... 5d34078918

James with Winona Rider

[Scottie Dog]

Okay, a bit late to this party, but I recently bought the book for my mini-iPad. Just read the part where James got into an altercation with Ali Campbell of UB40 over his badgering of Shane on the tour bus at some festival. A few thoughts:

Wished James had kicked his ass!
How the heck did UB40 ever sell 70 Million records??
Aren't UB40 to reggae what Pat Boone was to black rock music (Little Richard, et. al) in the 50's?

I'm even later to "the party" than you, but I wholeheartedly agree, I wish James had twatted that horrible, sweaty, excuse for an individual that is Arse hole Campbell, he always looked like he had a big mouth. That part of the book made me angry, I wonder what would have happened if Spider was present, rather than being, ironically, with the rest of UB40 at the time. Still, hats off to you James Fearnley, a great read, really enjoyed it. Just away to start Calum Bruce's book now, about being a fan, I noticed that James has written a piece in there too.