The Medusa Fora

philipchevron wrote:with so little to show by way of financial profit.

You could save money by hiring a couple of caravans and putting them up in my backyard next to the chook pen. And Gurrier would have room for a tent or two....we wouldn't mind, really!

And you wouldn't need to bother with any hangers on, just bring yourselves and your instruments, I'm sure we can rustle up some help for you. Think of the money you would save. And forget the fancy restaurants, Gurrier can throw a few prawns on the barbie and I'll make some pavlova, and you other guys will help won't you!

I know there are a hell of a lot of people who would sell a kidney to see you guys.

I for one would part with a considerable portion of my organs for just a few songs.

But if you can't come here I might have to go all the way up there.

You're right you know, It's such a long way!

So Patty you have healthy giblets?? I have a spare kidney in good nick.....

Aussie V Fest 2009 announced soon, lets hope the Pogues are a part of it

Australoia deserves to see the Pogues, so, maybe to use use Philip's phrase, Australoia needs to ask..
tois' proibably that soime majoir coincert agency froim OIz shoiuld send an oiffer.. maybe Jenny, Gurrier and oither great Medusans oin Australoia coiuld try to gather and try to cointact soime festoival people who can make such an oiffer.. that woiuld the moist realoistoic way oif ye ask me.

Great thinking OIrish! As long as it's not Jan 09 cos I'll be in Thailand or Feb-April 09 cos I'll be in the UK then (Y A Y ! ! ! !) visiting my dear long lost sis Irishbookish, of course missing the Pogues who'll be in the US around that time.

IrishRover wrote:Australoia deserves to see the Pogues, so, maybe to use use Philip's phrase, Australoia needs to ask..
tois' proibably that soime majoir coincert agency froim OIz shoiuld send an oiffer.. maybe Jenny, Gurrier and oither great Medusans oin Australoia coiuld try to gather and try to cointact soime festoival people who can make such an oiffer.. that woiuld the moist realoistoic way oif ye ask me.

Just to be clear about this. We did receive a serious offer from an Australian promoter but it was not, in our judgement, sufficiently financially rewarding to undertake the punishing schedule. As we all get older, I am no longer the only Pogue who needs to factor these things in.

philipchevron wrote:Just to be clear about this. We did receive a serious offer from an Australian promoter but it was not, in our judgement, sufficiently financially rewarding to undertake the punishing schedule. As we all get older, I am no longer the only Pogue who needs to factor these things in.

oik, well oi was pointoin' oin that doirection, to maybe get anoither oiffer, also seroius but rewardoin' enoiugh;
oim sure that Pogues goig(s) oin Australoia woiuld be voisoited by thoiusands, so at the end of the day, tois' proibably
just a matter of gettoin' such proimoiter who coiuld fully antoicoipate the grand perfoirmance and broing oin the truly rewardoin' oiffer that woiuld be acceptable foir the Pogues.

jennylois wrote:Great thinking OIrish! As long as it's not Jan 09 cos I'll be in Thailand or Feb-April 09 cos I'll be in the UK then (Y A Y ! ! ! !) visiting my dear long lost sis Irishbookish, of course missing the Pogues who'll be in the US around that time.

thanks Jenny, thats great news, woish oi coiuld be there to meet woith boith ye & booikoish.

Bloody cheapskate Aussie festival promoters!

And OIrish, we will meet one day, to be sure!

jennylois wrote:Great thinking OIrish! As long as it's not Jan 09 cos I'll be in Thailand or Feb-April 09 cos I'll be in the UK then (Y A Y ! ! ! !) visiting my dear long lost sis Irishbookish, of course missing the Pogues who'll be in the US around that time.

One of the secondary reasons I moved back to England from Brisbane was to see bands that don't tour Oz that I was really missing (then Billy Bragg goes down a couple of months later )
Of the English blokes that I did see in Oz - Martin Stephenson, Luka Bloom, Fruitbat from Carter - most of the chaps aren't accompanied by seven other band members and just sort of busk around while they're on their xmas holiday, staying with friends and relations, which I guess makes the financial side of the business a secondary thought?

Tickets are generally more expensive over here as well.

jennylois wrote:Tickets are generally more expensive over here as well.

yep, regardless of working out the figures in comparison to the exchange rate (which I stopped doing as soon as a wage came in) they are not only expensive, but over-priced. The Special Beat played in one of the Brisbane suburbs and were charging $74 a ticket

Eric Clapton tickets range from $99 to $400 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Which is approx 42 to 170 GBP.