Concert in Serbia?!

[Cuchulainn]

Hi Mr Chevron, I had one question for you! Please, tell me, do u know when you will be in Serbia and play a concert?

[philipchevron]

Hi Mr Chevron, I had one question for you! Please, tell me, do u know when you will be in Serbia and play a concert?

I have no answer at the moment. First, Serbia must ask us.

[wwfcpogue]

hi mr c ,shane performed at the exit festival novi sad serbia in 03,the crowds there are massive ,and love the irish punk rock scene .they have their own celtic bands like.....the orthodox celts and partybreakjers .that would be a great venue crowds of 80,000are present i hope youre invited for my mate irish rover who lives in belgrade ,i would come too .thanks phillip

[Guest]

I have no answer at the moment. First, Serbia must ask us.

Tnks Mr Chevron! Serbia will ask u very soon.

[A. Rakovic]

Yeah, that would be great. After several weeks of arguing with my wife, I decided to retreat and not to go to the Brixton gigs this year, because she was unhappy to see I was spending again 1.000 Euros (plane, tickets, hotel, etc) for 4 days in London like on last year Pogues gigs. We found middle solution - we'll be going together to Budapest or Vienna if Pogues play European tour or gig somewhere near. Peace at home.

But Belgrade gig will solve everything. Crowd of 20.000 in Belgrade Arena, with proper advertising, is almost guaranteed. Although that venue is expensive. Belgrade Hala Sportova with 7.000 like on Blondie and Stranglers also would be fine. SKC is to small with maximum of 1.700 on Exploited gig last month. And, on the end, the Exit Festival in Novi Sad with 15.000-20.000 is also possible (50 minutes of driving from Belgrade).

Belgrade is waiting Pogues from 1988, but 2006 is not late at all for Balkan safehaven of all fast-rocking musics: Hard Rock, Metal and Punk. Belgrade City - Hard Rock City.

[IrishRover]

Here oi am
Oi wish this with all me heart.Warm welcome and great crowd are guaranteed for Irish punk rock in Serbia.Please do come!!! Oi recommend EXIT Music Festival(the greatest music festival in this part of Europe...in 2005. more than 200.000 people came which shows amazing energy and spirit of people)...among domestic bands Orthodox Celts are the most famous and also have great crowd that will come to Irish gigs for sure(at Belgrade Beer Fest 80.000 people were present while they were playing).
Oi myself am now creating Shane MacGowan tribute band...tis Irish Rover and The Crew and with great people oi've managed to gather we will also spread amazing sounds of Irish punk rock!
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How it was at EXIT 2003.
SHANE MACGOWAN AND THE POPES(Paul,Tommy,Bob and Andy)
6th July 2003.
time:hour and a half
songs performed:
1. If I Should Fall From Grace With God
2. Rock & Roll Paddy
3. Boys From The County Hell
4. Dirty Old Town
5. Back In The County Hell
6. Donegal Express
7. Popes' Instrumental
8. Greenland Whale Fisheries
9. Body Of An American
10. Mother Mo Chroi
11. Poor Paddy
12. More Pricks Thank Kicks
13. Sally MacLennane
14. Broad Majestic Shannon
15. Streams of Whiskey
16. Sick Bad Of Cuchulainn
17. Irish Rover
18. Bottle Of Smoke
19. Rainy Night In Soho
20. South Australia

[IrishRover]

so,any hope for us who wait in Serbia?

[Eckhard]

Dobro Vece, Irish Rover

The "Exit 2003" was in Novi Sad, wasn't it?

My wife's from Backi Breg so I know at least parts of Serbia. As far as I can see the Pogues seem to be pretty popular down there. I've hear a version of "Dirty old Town" on the radio - half Serbocroatian, half English. Do you, by any chance, know who may have recorded that?

[IrishRover]

Dobro vece Eckhard
Yes,EXIT takes place in Novi Sad every year and it was loike that in 2003. as well! Its getting bigger and bigger every year...its becoming one of the greatest music festivals in Europe.
The website of festival is http://eng.exitfest.org/
Here is the announcement for 2006.

Exit 06 From July 6th to July 9th at Petrovaradin Fortress
Next year in July, in Novi Sad at Petrovaradin Fortress, Exit 06 festival will be held. After a huge success of Exit 05, which was visited by 150,000 people, out of which 15,000 were foreigners, there is no reason to change direction. Exit 06 will last for four days, from 6th to 9th of July in 2006. Even though there are some ongoing negotiations with bands, it is still too soon to announce bigger names for next year.

Oi'm glad to hear your wife is from Serbia and that you know pretty much of Serbia.Pogues are popular by all means in Serbia...there is a huge crowd of people who listen Irish music here and there are several domestic bands as well who play Irish music so you could probably hear one of them.Btw,
I'm creating band of me own...Irish Rover and The Crew...this week we should start practise and it will be tribute band for Shane MacGowan

Oi'm sure that Pogues gig in Serbia would be a great success!

[Eckhard]

As soon as you know who'll play there - please tell me.

[IrishRover]

no problems...tis too early oi guess to know for sure...
we still hope for Shane

[IrishRover]

The Observer: “Exit the Best Festival in the World”

The distinguished weekly magazine The Observer in its latest edition recommends Exit as the best festival in the world. In the article “Top 25 Travel Experiences”, Annie Mac from BBC Radio 1, was quoted: 'The setting is spectacular, the line-up massive and the people completely inspiring. It's a truly special festival.'
The author of the text, Sarah Turner says that Exit will fill in the void left behind the fact, that Glastonbury, the biggest UK festival, will not be held this year. It is also said that Exit is a result of student protest against Milosevic’s regime, as well as the tickets and beer are cheap.

The Observer is published in 440,000 copies, and each copy is read by approximately 1,160,000 Britons.
The web edition of The Observer is a part of the web site of Guardian newspaper, and is greatly appreciated and received many British and other rewards.


You can read the text “Top 25 Travel Experiences” on this web site:
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/top25/0,,1701721,00.html

[Christine]

The Observer: “Exit the Best Festival in the World”

The Observer is published in 440,000 copies, and each copy is read by approximately 1,160,000 Britons.
The web edition of The Observer is a part of the web site of Guardian newspaper, and is greatly appreciated and received many British and other rewards.

The paper has gone downhill a bit but I'm always impressed by the fact that they already reported on the French Revolution. Exit festival is in good company.

[DzM]

The Observer is published in 440,000 copies, and each copy is read by approximately 1,160,000 Britons.

Good lord. So the total publishing run is read by ... 510,400,000,000 Britons? That's 510.4 Billion Britons. 5.104e11 Britons. How many Britons are there? That's got to be one damned crowded island.

[Eyeball_Kid]

and you're calculation ignores the large number of Britons who only read The Sun.