Japanese Pogues cover band!!

[theholyspook]

Hey all,
Went down to my local the other night and to my surprise (well not really) there was a Japanese cover band of the Pogues.. named - Pogoes.. Quite good on the music end of things but the singer was a bit off.. Sorry.. sounded more like Tom Waits than Shane. Worth checking out if in the Tokyo area, Yokohama and also Shimo Kita in the near future if I can remember rightly.
They are all members of MIXI - which is a Japanese Myspace thing - 3000 Pogues members - so if you can get into there they might have a couple of videos up.. I have heard that you have to be invited to join MIXI though
The best thing about them was this 6 year old wee man who knew all the words in English and was jumping about and asking me to spin - Sally Mac.. GREAT!!

[The Duke of Ingmar]

Never heard of them, but I have some records by Japanese folkrock bands here - Dog Gie Dogg and Tokyo Skunx. Are they still around ?

[WagesOfSin]

Late to the party on this (as usual...) but here's a YouTube vid of the Pogoes doing IISFFGWG:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLTfockuIFc

The singer's Shane 'impression' is pretty amusing.

Never heard of them, but I have some records by Japanese folkrock bands here - Dog Gie Dogg and Tokyo Skunx. Are they still around ?

I remember hearing Tokyo Skunx around '95/'96 from the Japanese bass player in my band at the time. 'Rustic Stomp' I think he called it. Cool stuff. The Cherry Coke$ are quite good IMO, but I expect most on this board have heard them already.

[Sober]

They're really fun. But the signer couldn't speak English to save his life. He's harder to understand than Shane.

[Cdn Steve]

But the signer couldn't speak English to save his life. He's harder to understand than Shane.

Obviously a simple typo - but I immediately pictured somebody standing lower stage right, in a small spotlight, frantically trying to keep up to the singer with sign language for the deaf.