SonOfErin wrote:Not sure about NYC venue, when I seen them at the Nokia theatre in Times Sq. it was GA, (great venue i thought) but I guess its at Roseland this year...never been.
I've been to the Roseland Ballroom several times, but
this'll be my first Pogues show there (I saw them at the
Nokia, too, and in Philly last year) I've got nothing but
stellar memories of the place - I saw the Sex Pistols
there in '96, and David Bowie the same year. I saw
Garbage there too. All great shows.
My buddy Marc saw the Stones there! The bastard!
They've got a pair of Fred Astaire's shoes on display in a glass
case in the lobby.
I definitely expect to stand in line and claim a spot at the front.
It can get pretty wicked if you don't have a rail to hang on to!
Expect to be frisked at the door.
The place has quite a history - (from Wikipedia:)
Roseland was founded initially in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1917 by
Louis Brecker with financing by Frank Yuengling (of the D. G. Yuengling
& Son beer family).
(note from O'B - Yuengling is still in business and makes that vanishing
commodity, good old fashioned BEER. Their porter is very good too.)
Orchestras that played the venue included: Vincent Lopez, Harry James,
Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. The appearance by
Count Basie was a turning point in his career and a break though in the
all white atmosphere of the club. One of his songs was to be the Roseland
Shuffle.
Brecker was to popularize Marathon dancing until it was banned, staged
female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of
highly publicized jazz weddings with couples who met at the club.
As the club grew older, Brecker attempted to formalize the dancing more by
having hostesses dance for 11¢ a dance or $1.50 a half-hour with
tuxedoed bouncers (politely known as "housemen") keeping order.
It was to work its way into stories by Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson,
F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara.
The original New York Roseland was torn down in 1956 and it moved to its
new venue on West 52nd in a building that Brecker earlier had converted
from an ice skating rink to a roller skating rink.Disclaimer: These are my opinions and not fact as realised in these here United States, lest I give my friends the idea that everyone thinks like me.
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Must be tough!! 
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