The Medusa Fora

http://www.koeln.de/koeln/was_ist_los/k ... 95280.html

Basically it says that Shane was shambolic und cut a sad figure and that it annoyed the other Pogues, but that the positive mood from the audience then made the band happier throughout the concert. But it's unbelievably negative about Shane, who I thought was absolutely fantastic in Bonn, as well as the rest of the boys. One of the best shows ever. Don't know what's wrong with the crap journalist who wrote this pile of shit.

in_the_morning wrote:http://www.koeln.de/koeln/was_ist_los/konzerte/fans_feiern_pogues_trotz_indisponierten_macgowans_495280.html

Basically it says that Shane was shambolic und cut a sad figure and that it annoyed the other Pogues, but that the positive mood from the audience then made the band happier throughout the concert. But it's unbelievably negative about Shane, who I thought was absolutely fantastic in Bonn, as well as the rest of the boys. One of the best shows ever. Don't know what's wrong with the crap journalist who wrote this pile of shit.

I agree. Shane has been in great voice on this tour and, as it happens, both his and our best show so far was in Bonn. Shane can't win. It makes you wonder sometimes why he still bothers.

I've seldom read a Pogues/Shane concert review that's been fair or accurate. In the days before the world got so fucking PC, yesterday's newspapers wrapped today's fish & chips!

philipchevron wrote:

in_the_morning wrote:http://www.koeln.de/koeln/was_ist_los/konzerte/fans_feiern_pogues_trotz_indisponierten_macgowans_495280.html

Basically it says that Shane was shambolic und cut a sad figure and that it annoyed the other Pogues, but that the positive mood from the audience then made the band happier throughout the concert. But it's unbelievably negative about Shane, who I thought was absolutely fantastic in Bonn, as well as the rest of the boys. One of the best shows ever. Don't know what's wrong with the crap journalist who wrote this pile of shit.

I agree. Shane has been in great voice on this tour and, as it happens, both his and our best show so far was in Bonn. Shane can't win. It makes you wonder sometimes why he still bothers.

Does Shane get the reviews in the papers ? And is he still bothered if they are bad ? I think the reaction of the crowd is a better indicator if the concert was a good, bad or a perfect one and the opinion of his bandmates should be more important to Shane than a crappy article in a lousy paper.

"The Pogues" concert exceeded all expectations

Bonn. Already in the first song they let flow the Pogues, the "Streams Of Whiskey". Shane MacGowan sang: "I am going, I am going / Any which way the wind may be blowing / I am going, I am going / Where streams of whiskey are flowing."

And the Museum Square voted out loud one in the desire to go where the whiskey flows like water. The Pogues had heated up, so to speak-enthusiastic one home game between art museum and the Art and Exhibition Hall, from the first note was a mood in British (or Irish) football stadiums, chants included.

Photos Images from the concert of the band The PoguesSänger Shane MacGowan appeared all in black and wearing sunglasses. In December, on Christmas Day, he will, if all goes well, 54 Due to the erroneous assumption that alcohol him as the way to Paradise, MacGowan has imposed his body in the past 40 years, a lot. It shows.
But for 90 minutes of use on the museum's enough room to breath. The 90 minutes it had in them, more intense, fast-paced, inspiring a live performance hardly conceivable. Eight virtuoso musicians were full of blood on the stage, and they won as a team, because the star Shane MacGowan is now dependent on the vocal support from his colleagues.

On the face of the singer hits the adjective devastated, he seemed to be during the concert again and again to hold on to cigarette and / or microphone stand. But then he sang "A Pair Of Brown Eyes" from the album "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash" (1985) and proved once again that he has improved as a songwriter for the Irish folk art form.

The band continued but also by one of their early programs. She played "binge-songs, how to get it heard in the Irish pubs in north London, and in our texts say nothing else than that everyone should find his own salvation" (original Pogues). The wild, anarchic, punk, they have still got it.

They sang as once the fate of the drunkards, rebels, and Penner Ausgeflippten. The museum square danced and turned into a gigantic open-air pub. The New Musical Express had once praised MacGowan dark masterpieces, in which "music-hall romance, intellect and genuine feeling of happiness" to combine.

Eric Bogle song "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" tells a story from the First World War in which a young soldier lost both legs: "Never knew there were worse things than dying." The feeling of having experienced something that was worse than death, mediated Shane MacGowan singing highly concentrated in a dramatic way.

Then they played hits like "The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn," "Dirty Old Town" and "Poor Paddy." The musicians spent on stage just like the people dancing on the court. After 90 minutes it was concluded that the Pogues had given everything - only happy faces everywhere. This must be love.

http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/ind ... lid=911254

Shock to fans
Pogues wanted to quit after an hour ago

Bonn -
It was a shock to the fans: Item 21 clock said "Pogues' singer Shane MacGowan at the concert on the Museum Place:" Have a good night "and went with his seven colleagues to finish. Until then, the Irish cult band had played just 60 minutes. Because instead of, as previously announced, stood at 19.30 clock "The Pogues" only by 20 clock on the stage.

The result: wild whistling of some 3,000 visitors, plastic beer cups flew through the air. But then everything was good again: The Irishman laid on top of a half-hour encore.

Well be thought Shane MacGowan (53), whose mouth hangs after a stroke wrong. Demonstrative of the former junkie and had cups of mineral water drinkers fall on a stool standing. In addition, he then had a bottle of wine in hand.

An enthusiastic visitor was Clemens Schmitz, captain of the Bonn passenger ship: "This was the first song to go right. The people in front of the stage were on Pogen like crazy. "

Even Fritz Dreesen restaurateur, whose company later this year provides for the entertainment of guests at the Museum Mile, was pleased with the evening: "It has sold more beer per head than usual, but eventually everything was peaceful and the crowd had fun."

http://www.express.de/regional/bonn/pog ... 8651096/-/

Did Shane have a stroke ??? Never heard of that...

Where is Beatles band?