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the only way to get a ticket mate is on Yahoo auctions or try a tout before the show.. good luck with it and maybe see ya there..

Jesus Christ! It's an hour-long show!? I guess I WON'T make the trip from Taiwan to see the band.

By the way, so like Shane IS performing with the Pogues? Sorry, I haven't followed the band since they, ahem, broke up....

blessed patrick of the bells,shanes walked by the angels,they will never get him out of the sushi bars ,swilling saki from the well of nourishment by the bucket load! and you"ll be seeing godzilla and mothman fighting in the bay of tokyo on a belly full of that firewater !

If anyone in Tokyo is interested in a Pre Pogues party on Monday July 25th.. A pub called Moon Stomp in Koenji is having one.. should be fun and might carry on til the next night!! If sunny, pre-show drinking will occur in Yoyogi Park which is a mere stumble from the venue!

Good Christ! If I had known about the London show, I would have found a way to get there, come hell or high water. And I am from Canada. Oh please Shaney Mac, and the honourable Pogues, come to Canada. I will go one end of the country or the other to see ya's. I only have about 3000 bucks saved up, but I will spend the last dollar to see it...

hello my name is mick o carroll I live in osaka for five year and I own a irish pub in osaka abount 1o mins from your the The poguers or playing.
if anybody need some help give me aring at 81 06-820677 6f lead plaza
1-6-31 higashi shinsaibashi chuo-ku osaka and heres my email mickocarroll@hotmail.com

Baseball are an australian band, lead by violin.
We're also in Japan at the sam time as the Pogues and would love to have played on a bill with you fellas.

our dates are..
25th Tokyo @ Shibuya Yaneura
26th Osaka @ Fandango
27th Kyoto @ Cafe Independants
29th Nagoya @ HuckFinn
31st Tokyo @ Kichijoji Warp

It'd be great if you could come to a show, or maybe hook up when you tour Australia

our webshite is...
http://www.geocities.com/baseballtheband
and my email addy is there.

may see you in Japan
cheers
ben

'If I Should Fall: The Shane MacGowan Story' is being shown on the big screen at Fuji Rock.

http://www.smash-uk.com/frf05/lineup_fun.html

The Pogues started performing around 19:15.　Finished somewhere around 21:30. More details later. Perhaps from TheHolySpook. And nice to have met you Kirk.

was there any changes to the set-list from Chrsitmas how was Shane (Better then The Pogues last visit to Japan I hope) I can't wait to read James's next write-up.

Pictures anyone, can't find any help, help, starting to sweat abit now.

I got some photos of the shows.. I will post them up later.. yeah very good shows indeed, high energy and the band was spot on.. the crowd was good, management great.. shows started on time and finished a couple of hours later.. I think it was the same set list as Christmas but I can't remember the running order exactly.. Nice to meet you too DZM.. if you are in Tokyo for the weekend give us an email and we can hook up..

Anonymous wrote:was there any changes to the set-list from Chrsitmas how was Shane (Better then The Pogues last visit to Japan I hope) I can't wait to read James's next write-up.

Set list:

As written on the prompt on stage right:

Streams
Fall
Boys
BMS
Ned
Turkish
Rainy Night
Tuesday
White City
Pair of Brown Trousers
Repeal
O.M. Drag
1000s
Body
Lullaby
Do T.
Bottle
Sick Bed
----
Star
Dog
----
Sally
Fiesta


Translated, and adjusted to reflect the performance:

Streams of Whiskey
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Boys from the County Hell
The Broad Majestic Shannon
Young Ned of the Hill
Turkish Song of the Damned
Rainy Night in Soho
Tuesday Morning
White City
A Pair of Brown Eyes
Repeal of the Licensing Laws
The Old Main Drag
Thousands are Sailing
Body of an American
Lullaby of London
Dirty Old Town
Bottle of Smoke
Sick Bed of Cuchulain
----
Star of the County Down
The Irish Rover
Sally MacLenanne
Fiesta

I suspect this is the same set list as was played at Osaka, but can't vouch for that.

The Osaka show was great--my first time to see the Pogues! I wrote the setlist down, but don't have it with me at the moment--will post it soon if someone else doesn't do it first. It was pretty similar to the setlist of the "ultimate collection" live album, with a few modifications. One song I didn't recognize--what was the 1st encore song that Andrew sang? Anyone who knows, please let me know.

Anyway, the audience was incredibly pumped-up--didn't realize that Japanese Pogues fans were so passionate! During some songs, seems like the whole place was a mass of writhing bodies. Shane is obviously much beloved here, but Spider is also a star of sorts--lots of people shouting "Supaidaa!" (how "Spider" sounds rendered in the Japanese language). I've been to a number of shows here in Japan, and I've never heard a Japanese audience singing a long so loudly to non-Japanese language music! I've seen English, Chinese and Spanish-language acts here, and usually the audience just sings along with the choruses, if that, but on a lot of songs, they seemed to know every word. They were so loud on "Dirty Old Town" that they practically drowded out the band.

Before the show, they played a great collection of amped-up traditional Japanese music... I'd love to have a CD of whatever they were playing. A few minutes before the show, they played a song by my favorite Japanese band, "Soul Flower Union," a song that combines Okinawan and Celtic music in a rather outrageous way They cranked up the volume on that particular song, and the audience started chanting and dancing, roaring and otherwise carrying on--having gone to hundreds of shows in my lifetime, I don't know if I've ever seen an audience get so excited even before the lights went down. When the lights finally did go down, they played "Straight To Hell" as the opening music--rather emotional, and appropriate.

Anyway, seeing the Pogues was like a dream come true for me, and I was not disappointed!