Ireland & UK tour Dec 2012

[in_the_morning]

Sorry for double-post, but this sounds more like it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYTzn7XoyW8

Jesus people put any bollocks on Youtube these days don't they. Any actual videos of the gig?

Star of the county Down was fantastic. Anyone else think Shane looked a bit like a priest at the start with the scarf draped around his shoulders?

Don't think it's bollocks. Sounds like a decent review with some good thoughts on the band and their music.

[kevwolf]

my heads still banging,merry christmas to all.......great craic meeting old Barney greyheron,and his other half,dae catch her name,in the pilot inn.......expensive night,but brilliant.......loooking forward to the next one already when ever it is.....will be there

[poguefan+rand]

Absolutely fantastic night, thanks to the pogues a million times.

I got hooked on the pogues when i first watched the video on channel 4 of the St Patricks night gig from the Town and Country Club, probably best part of 25 years ago.

I still love watching that video, treasure my cds but most of all love seeing them live. I've managed about 15 gigs now, which i guess makes me a bit of a newboy compared to your average Medusan. I've bought a selection of friends along with me over the years - some have become converts, others less so, but everyone of them has always had a fantastic night.

I've indoctrinated my kids over the years with Pogues Cds never being out of my car - last night i brought along my two sons and my youngest daughter as her 18th birthday treat (actually falls on Boxing day). They all loved it! They and me and a couple of friends all left with grins like Cheshire cats. Feet aching from dancing, throats hoarse from singing, we couldn't have had a better night anywhere.

Yes i love Brixton and would have loved the gig to have been there, but actually found the o2 atmosphere ok, made of course by the band and the audience. As said above, i thought the sound clarity was as good as i've heard anywhere.

My kids like their music, they watch some of the most acclaimed bands of the moment - Killers, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, Mumford and sons etc - The Pogues last night blew them away - they couldn't think of a gig to top it in terms of entertainment and atmosphere. So please keep doing what you're doing year after year because it is something very very special.

[Clash Cadillac]

Two more things I learned last night (see above)

13. It's not easy to take photos when you are, at the same time, dancing and singing at the top of your voice.

14. I really do need a better camera.

Here are a few rather substandard pics, anyway:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15437467@N07/sets/72157632302526274/

Damn, that was some serious snow. Thanks for the pics.

[Luimneach Cailin]

First Pogues gig. Hope to Christ it's not the last because that was the best gig I've ever been to. Absolutely superb. We ended up standing. My ankle is completely busted now but who cares! Worth every ounce of pain.

Nice one lads! Ye brought the young one out of my Ma again and she's back in Ireland a very happy woman.

[Mike from Boston]

Damn, that was some serious snow. Thanks for the pics.[/quote]

Looking at the video, I wonder if Terry is going to survive the avalanche! Quite a look of stunned amusement on his face after the snow hit.

[rumsodomyandthelash]

Missed out on this one, not even been able to look at this forum knowing i could not go, ive had a bit of a time of it these last few months , as ever sounds like a stonker of a gig, i would have been soooooooooo drunk if i'd been their but thats just me
Happy Christmas everyone, heres to the next 30 years

[firehazard]

Thanks for the photo appreciation, Ms Walshy and Mr Cadillac. And thanks for the setlist, Thrupenny. I'd just about worked out what they'd played but not the order, and it helps my obsession to have that sort of thing.

On reflection, another thing I learned on Thursday night is that going to see The Pogues with your youngest is one of the best father-daughter bonding experiences you can have. We are both still on a Pogues high.

Thanks so much once again for a brilliant night.

[soulfinger]

12 Things I Learned Last Night

11. The strangest revelation of the night was that it turns out that I am actually Fr McGreer's dad.
Well, you never quite know about these things, do you? But it was good to see my long-lost only son after all these years. And I suppose that makes me Grandfather McGreer.

That's funny, because in the Market Porter earlier on the night, Fr McGreer said I was his dad. I think he saw parallels with my grumpy, stubborn, intolerant streak!

Thanks for the photos firehazard, particularly liked the avalanche on Terry.

The thing that was different about this gig was, to be frank, the much higher ratio of tossers in the audience. Loads of people holding what were to them very important conversations whilst the band were playing, the previously mentioned "he's soooooo drunk, he's staggering off" stuff and a very large number of people smoking in the crowd and not understanding why that was not OK. Pitiful really.

None of that took the edge off a great night. The band were fabulous, the odd remix was beautifully managed. Repeal, Body and Ned were the highlights for me. Old Barney was a great notch on my Medusans what I have met list! Nice to see Fr McGreer, Carmen and lots of others too. And now it's Xmas!

[firehazard]

12 Things I Learned Last Night

11. The strangest revelation of the night was that it turns out that I am actually Fr McGreer's dad.
Well, you never quite know about these things, do you? But it was good to see my long-lost only son after all these years. And I suppose that makes me Grandfather McGreer.

That's funny, because in the Market Porter earlier on the night, Fr McGreer said I was his dad. I think he saw parallels with my grumpy, stubborn, intolerant streak!

Thanks for the photos firehazard, particularly liked the avalanche on Terry. ...

Ta, SF.
There appears to be the need for a paternity testing service on Medusa.

Someone seated behind us spent the first half of the gig shouting out intermittently, "Get back to Brixton." Eventually he stopped and so presumably started allowing himself to enjoy the gig.

[pms]

Thank you all for a wonderful concert. So glad we were able to go. We really missed the absence of a tour last year but last Thursday was one of the best by the band that we have ever been to. Loved hearing my favourites sung live again - Lullaby of London, Thousands, Kitty - in fact all of them! Hope there is a concert next year. A night to remember.

pms

[15minuteslaterwehad]

Incredible, Shane on best form I think I have ever seen him (been Xmas annually since 2002, Greenwich 2011, Strummer etc), I honestly can't describe in words what The Pogues mean to me, as a teenager I'd write 'London Irish' under the other section in the nationality part of forms and then I found The Pogues and everything made sense. I'm going through some really difficult times at the moment, all kinds of chaos and drama and I know that this will sound stupid but seeing The Pogues on Thursday has given me a clarity of thought and strength to deal with a load of the shit. They are more than a band, they are a philosophy and a direction and a belief. They are greater than each other and greater than all of us and it's only when we all come together that everything comes alive. As for the geezer who is complaining about smoking in the crowd, get a grip mate, Shane was smoking on stage, and if you think that was anything to write home about you clearly never went to Brixton.

[Maldoror]

Here are a few rather substandard pics, anyway:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15437467@N07/sets/72157632302526274/

I guess there's no crisis in snow business.
Thank you for the pictures, Firehazard.

[Fr. McGreer]

12 Things I Learned Last Night

11. The strangest revelation of the night was that it turns out that I am actually Fr McGreer's dad.
Well, you never quite know about these things, do you? But it was good to see my long-lost only son after all these years. And I suppose that makes me Grandfather McGreer.

This is actually true. The only way i could get into the VIP section to say hello was to convince the security guys that Firehazard was my Dad

The stupid things you do when you're half-full. As i'd never seen FH before and wanted to say hello, i stood at the barrier near the wheelchair section and waited for a song to finish and the crowd to go quiet. Then, at the top of my voice shouted "FIREHAZARD???" and hoped one of the 10 or so bemused guys and girls sitting in wheelchairs would say hi back. It worked

Pleasure to meet you, Sir.

[firehazard]

...The only way i could get into the VIP section to say hello was to convince the security guys that Firehazard was my Dad

The stupid things you do when you're half-full. As i'd never seen FH before and wanted to say hello, i stood at the barrier near the wheelchair section and waited for a song to finish and the crowd to go quiet. Then, at the top of my voice shouted "FIREHAZARD???" and hoped one of the 10 or so bemused guys and girls sitting in wheelchairs would say hi back. It worked

Pleasure to meet you, Sir.

The pleasure was mutual, my son. Good to have seen you.

I do usually eventually respond to my moniker being shouted loud enough in my direction, though my kids would dispute that. You did well to talk your way past the scary female steward who was guarding the wheelchair section. (You should have seen her face when Shane lit up onstage...) My daughter was somewhat confused to find she had an undiscovered sibling, though.

And thanks, Maldoror.