The Medusa Fora

Fr. McGreer wrote:Thanks Philip. Now, how to get the gang out of Brogan's at 10 to 9

mike g kelly wrote:Hi Philip,
im a fan of the pogues sense i say ye on tv at the Self Aid concert in the 80's. I never saw ye live but when I heard ye were coming to Killarney I just couldnt believe it. I went straight to the inec an booked my tickets.Id say it will be some show and im very excited about it. Id love to meet you after for a chat in the green rooms and mabye a photo. Ye are all Legends. Please sing Thousands are Sailing Philip. Thanks.
Mike.

soulfinger wrote:Blimey! I look forward to the lead singer being on stage for an eight o'clock start in Sheffield.....I wonder what time we should leave the pub!?

Paddy McCarthy wrote:Phillip,How come on the showtimes thread you said The Pogues would be on stage at 8pm when you actually came on at 9:30ish?.This resulted in us coming out of a pub which was £1.50 a pint to having to drink the foul overpriced rubbish in the academy serves for nearly 2 hours. Bang out of order!.

philipchevron wrote:

Paddy McCarthy wrote:Phillip,How come on the showtimes thread you said The Pogues would be on stage at 8pm when you actually came on at 9:30ish?.This resulted in us coming out of a pub which was £1.50 a pint to having to drink the foul overpriced rubbish in the academy serves for nearly 2 hours. Bang out of order!.

*Sigh*

There's only one "l" in Philip.

Posted by Philip Chevron on another thread

In the section of these Forums where I post (and revise) showtimes as best I can, I always take a moment to qualify that in our business, showtimes are anything but fixed and are offered as guidelines only, and I'm sure the Academy takes a similar view. At every show, when we arrive for our soundcheck and rehearsal at 4pm, we are always greeted with that night's revised anticipated showtimes which may have slipped away again from our own original information for any number of complicated and/or dull reasons which, after all these years, one no longer even questions.

In any other branch of the performing arts, such an apparently cavalier attitude to scheduled starting times would rightly be considered intolerable. I've never been entirely sure why rock music should be treated as a special case: in part, it is obviously because rock n roll operates like a travelling circus, pitching its tent in a new town every day, with all the circumstances accruing from that. Perhaps also, because of rock music's roots in rebellion, in transgression and in the counter-culture, time has always been considered something of a bourgeois concept.

Personally, it drives me nuts. My body and mind sort of set their own clock based upon the information I have been given, and even 15 minutes can make a difference to that being upset. But it looks like it's going to remain a part of rock reality for some time to come, alas.