The Pogues on Saturday Night Live

**Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:45 pm**

i was wonderin when the band was on snl (when robert lowe hosted), what was the names of the first and second song they played?

**Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:03 pm**

that was Paddy's Day 1990, they played White City and Body of an American

**Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:43 am**

it was a great set. i think Rob lowe was the host.

**Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:48 pm**

Yeah, it was Rob Lowe's first apperance after his sex tape scandal.

**Thu Jun 16, 2005 6:53 pm**

SNL being Saturday Night Live. very popular tv show here.

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**Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:05 pm**

Yes they did.

http://www.google.com/search?q=pogues+% ... 2+rob+lowe

During the end credits you can see our Mr. Chevron plant a peck on the cheek of the guest host, one Mr. Rob Lowe.

**Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:31 pm**

Much as I would like to claim that I frequently kiss Hollywood stars, I feel I should explain that Rob Lowe was doing his first TV show since his private motel porn home movie was widely circulated and damaged his career for a while. So I couldn't resist spiking his rehabilitation with a little gay subtext.

I think we played "Body Of An American" and "White City".

**Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:09 am**

philipchevron wrote:Much as I would like to claim that I frequently kiss Hollywood stars, I feel I should explain that Rob Lowe was doing his first TV show since his private motel porn home movie was widely circulated and damaged his career for a while. So I couldn't resist spiking his rehabilitation with a little gay subtext.

**Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:46 am**

philipchevron wrote:I think we played "Body Of An American" and "White City".

You did they're both on Kufen's Videos page, I got them both, Did you (The Band) do an interview?

**Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:36 am**

No Simon, we didn't. Nor did we take part in any sketches. Shame, I kinda liked "The Great Irish Song About Drinking And Fighting" or whatever it was called.

**Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:51 am**

I was reading one of the pages on the link DzM posted and it said

"In 2002 Q magazine named The Pogues as one of the 50 Bands To See Before You Die".

Ah what lovely insentive to go and see them!!

**Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:21 pm**

philipchevron wrote:I think we played "Body Of An American" and "White City".

I think you also did an instrumental. Battle of Brisbane? Wildcats of Kilkenny? Something like that. It got cut from the 1 hour rerun version of SNL (the first broadcast show is 90 minutes with three musical performances, and for rerun they cut them down to 60 minutes with two musical performances).

I suspect it to be an instrumental 'cause I read it somewhere at some point (but am too lazy to go hunt it down), and because Dennis Miller at the beginning of the Weekend Update says something incongruous with the lead-in sketch like:

"I love The Pogues, but I'm a sucker for lyrics."

Hmm. I guess you have to see it for that to make sense.

**Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:22 am**

If I recall correctly, Dennis Miller's quip that he's a sucker for lyrics was after "White City" and was due to the fact that Shane's rendition of the song on SNL left the words almost totally unintelligible, even if you already knew them!

**Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:50 pm**

I saw that show live and I do not recall 3 songs being done. As a rule, SNL only has the musical act do 2 songs.

It is possible they did Brisbane during a commercial break, I get the impression that happens. Also possible they really did the third song and I just don't remember.

**Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:53 pm**

I would swear that I read somewhere that there was a third song, and instrumental.

I'm probably wrong though.

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