Sunday Post Dec 1992 - Pogues, Friends & Cover Songs

[daithi]

I remember before the Pogues played at the Barrowlands in December 1992, Spider was being interviewed by the Sunday post newspaper.

He mentioned amongst other things that the new songs from then to be released ‘Waiting for Herb’ were being well received by the audience and that the Pogues were not about to disappear just because Shane had left.

What he also said was there was plans to records a new album of cover songs with musical friends. Did anything ever come of this?

[philipchevron]

I remember before the Pogues played at the Barrowlands in December 1992, Spider was being interviewed by the Sunday post newspaper.

He mentioned amongst other things that the new songs from then to be released ‘Waiting for Herb’ were being well received by the audience and that the Pogues were not about to disappear just because Shane had left.

What he also said was there was plans to records a new album of cover songs with musical friends. Did anything ever come of this?

Effectively, the Brothers Warner were not as enthusiastic about this project as we appeared to be.

[daithi]

thats a shame Phil as collaborations and guest musicians in the past were highly effective. Did it even get to the song choices or other bands?

[philipchevron]

thats a shame Phil as collaborations and guest musicians in the past were highly effective. Did it even get to the song choices or other bands?

The "guests" album idea never got very far and it also got tangled up in the Joe Strummer "should I stay or should I go" thread occurring at around the same time. All of this sent out very uncertain messages to the Brothers Warner, who took the trouble to send out their favourite Hitman to Dublin, to ambush us there and inform us, at gunpoint, that a settled line-up with one permanent lead singer would be very much in our interests if we had any plans to carry on enjoying ourselves.

And that's how Spider Stacy became the lead singer of The Pogues.

It may be worth remembering that the Pogues didn't make almost as many albums as we did make. There was the album produced by Tom Waits, the Pogues and Kirsty West Side Story album, the childrens' songs album, the Pogues Opera album (a fragment of this appears on the Box Set)......... and the live album which would be titled The Entry Of Christ Into Jerusalem until it was sunk by arguments of a theological nature.

[Mick Molloy]

the Pogues Opera album (a fragment of this appears on the Box Set)

What??? Elaborate please haha