Sheffield Academy 16/12/10

[Brian Boru]

Just got back from the show and sat here unwinding with a big glass of Bushmills!
What can you say after a show like that!! Just bloody fantastic really!
Shane was in excellent form - probably the best I've seen him since the reunion shows started, and the rest of the band were in great form too. They really seemed to be 'on it' tonight and appeared to be enjoying themselves immensely.
Hope it's as good for the Manchester show tomorrow!

[Pogues to Niagara]

Glad to here you had a great time. I still have to wait until March to see them in Detroit!
What part of Oldham are you from? I grew up in Fitton Hill, Limeside and finally (before Canada) Chadderton.
Cheers.

[Guest]

Just back from the POUGES- They were an hour late on but who cares for 2 hours they blew everybody away Phil Chevon did his beautiful Thousands are sailing Spider Stacy with his brilliant Tuesday Morning they even dug out the classic And the band played waltzing Matilda even Shane was coherent the best ive ever seen him. If this relay is the farewell tour they can sod off when a bands this good they should never stop.

[Guest]

PLEASE BRING MATILDA TO BRIXTON, WE WANT TO WALTZ

[philipchevron]

Just back from the POUGES- They were an hour late on but who cares for 2 hours they blew everybody away Phil Chevon did his beautiful Thousands are sailing Spider Stacy with his brilliant Tuesday Morning they even dug out the classic And the band played waltzing Matilda even Shane was coherent the best ive ever seen him. If this relay is the farewell tour they can sod off when a bands this good they should never stop.

Just for the record, last night we were fifteen minutes late.

[Brian Boru]

Fashionably late I would call it Philip! I don't think any of us there last night would begrudge you 15 mins after a show like that - a big thank you to the whole band!

[Guest]

Just back from the POUGES- They were an hour late on but who cares for 2 hours they blew everybody away Phil Chevon did his beautiful Thousands are sailing Spider Stacy with his brilliant Tuesday Morning they even dug out the classic And the band played waltzing Matilda even Shane was coherent the best ive ever seen him. If this relay is the farewell tour they can sod off when a bands this good they should never stop.

Just for the record, last night we were fifteen minutes late.

Sorry Phil i was just going on the academy website set times that said the Pouges was due on at 8. My apologies.

[philipchevron]

Just back from the POUGES- They were an hour late on but who cares for 2 hours they blew everybody away Phil Chevon did his beautiful Thousands are sailing Spider Stacy with his brilliant Tuesday Morning they even dug out the classic And the band played waltzing Matilda even Shane was coherent the best ive ever seen him. If this relay is the farewell tour they can sod off when a bands this good they should never stop.

Just for the record, last night we were fifteen minutes late.

Sorry Phil i was just going on the academy website set times that said the Pouges was due on at 8. My apologies.

In the section of these Forums where I post (and revise) showtimes as best I can, I always take a moment to qualify that in our business, showtimes are anything but fixed and are offered as guidelines only, and I'm sure the Academy takes a similar view. At every show, when we arrive for our soundcheck and rehearsal at 4pm, we are always greeted with that night's revised anticipated showtimes which may have slipped away again from our own original information for any number of complicated and/or dull reasons which, after all these years, one no longer even questions.

In any other branch of the performing arts, such an apparently cavalier attitude to scheduled starting times would rightly be considered intolerable. I've never been entirely sure why rock music should be treated as a special case: in part, it is obviously because rock n roll operates like a travelling circus, pitching its tent in a new town every day, with all the circumstances accruing from that. Perhaps also, because of rock music's roots in rebellion, in transgression and in the counter-culture, time has always been considered something of a bourgeois concept.

Personally, it drives me nuts. My body and mind sort of set their own clock based upon the information I have been given, and even 15 minutes can make a difference to that being upset. But it looks like it's going to remain a part of rock reality for some time to come, alas.

[soulfinger]

That was one hell of a performance. It was a fabulous crowd too, one of the best I've been in for a long time. Well done Sheffield! There were people who had travelled from all over; down the front before the support we were talking to folk from Blackpool, Peterborough, Wolverhampton, Rochdale and a bloke from Wythenshawe whose dad drinks in the same pub as mine. It's a small Pogue world.

The set was pretty much the same as reported from previous nights. Matilda was utterly fantastic, I hope it's in the setlist for tonight too. The byplay between the band members was terrific, they all seemed to really enjoy themselves. Spider was on top form, bantering with all and sundry. Repeal was the wildest reaction I have seen an audience for a while, everyone just went bananas. Other highlights were Tousands, BMS and another glorious sing along DOT. The horn section dancing and conga gets ever more outlandish.

There was a great moment in Body of an American where nobody seemed to know where they were up to (or where they were going); Philip was watching Shane intently, everyone else was watching Philip who suddenly gave two firms nods of the head and everyone kind of just slotted back into time. What a team.

I don't think anyone would've have been daft enough to leave even if they'd believed the Pogues at 8.00 nonsense: 15 minutes late was just right for the anticipation to build to fever pitch.

[raytheduff]

Glad to here you had a great time. I still have to wait until March to see them in Detroit!
What part of Oldham are you from? I grew up in Fitton Hill, Limeside and finally (before Canada) Chadderton.
Cheers.

I'm also an ex Fitton Hillbilly (Westerhill Rd from 65-88) and will be at the Apollo tonight!!

I work in the city centre so will finish work at 4 (time for a few bevies at the Xmas Markets) the off to the Apollo for the Best Christmas Party on Earth!!

[Mark_Wafc]

Cant add anything to whats been said; one hell of a gig.

[Guest]

Absolutely brilliant! Seen The Pogues four times on the re-uinion tour, last night was easily the best (and last year in Leeds was absolutely phenomenal, never thought I'd see it topped) Pogues gig I've ever seen. Everything was brilliant. Took my mate along and was really hyping it up to him, so glad you guys were on form best £30 I've spent in a very long time.

[Brendan Gillespie]

I thought the show was quite poor compared to previous shows. It's all about opinions.

[Mark_Wafc]

I thought the show was quite poor compared to previous shows. It's all about opinions.

Indeed it is; just out of interest why did you think it was poor?

[Dale]

I am absoluteley baffled as to how anyone could think last night's show was poor compared to previous show's i really am .But each to there own !!another most enjoyable evening despite the deesaster of a journey to Sheffield ,but we made it somehow .