The Medusa Fora

just in case anyone hasnt seen it yet

I just texted half a dozen ppeeps to tell them..

What a fantastic doc. I am still waiting for BBC4's Pogues night. No offence but how come Squeeze, Slade and every other fucker gets their own night and the Pogues get nothing. New documantry please followed by the Paris gig ha ha

Question for Phil. What actually happened when you all met up in the recording studio for this doc? It didn't really mention it after the bit where Shane turned up

RICHB wrote:Question for Phil. What actually happened when you all met up in the recording studio for this doc? It didn't really mention it after the bit where Shane turned up

After our crew set up our backline in approximately the same studio areas as 1987, we just ran through "FoNY" a few times for the benefit of the cameras, as though recreating the moment, and illustrated, as you can see in the final cut, that we periodically need to give ourselves a refresher on how the damn thing goes: it's not that it's complicated, but it's easy to slip into a 4th which should be a 5th and vice-versa, a quirk amplified by the song's structural kinship with The Broad Majestic Shannon, which is not as similar as people think. There were some individual moments with players too, such as Andrew explaining "the hump" [please don't ask, the offside rule is easier] but apart from James illustrating the song's debt to Ennio Morricone in the piano, very little of that was used, the producers wisely concentrating instead on Steve Lillywhite and his Pro Tools as musical tour guide.

Then we all went upstairs to RAK's green room and had lunch and a photo session with Bleddyn Butcher and a very long chat about whether or not we were going to cut a new album [on that occasion, the result was, I think, "maybe"], while individual Pogues went back down to the studio room to be interviewed individually by the BBC people.

We weren't there, in summary, for any other reason than to participate directly in The Story of Fairytale of New York.

Thanks Phil. It's been said before but your always very open to answer most questions when you'd bein your right to say its none of your business ha ha and we're all very grateful. Next question what's the chance of any new.........(ill get my coat)