March 2008: Opening Acts

**Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:24 pm**

SonOfErin wrote:Would anyone else like to see The Levellers?

i'd love to see that but i think Spider has said on here he doesn't care for them. I could be mistaken though.

The Levellers do need to come over to the states soon, that's for sure. it's been over 4 years! Maybe when their new album comes out next year...

**Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:20 pm**

I just saw Darkbuster in NYC last night w/ the street dogs. Theyre awesome theyd be a good opener. So how bout we get them on for a show and then The Slackers. AHH! Thatd be beautiful.

**Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:59 pm**

I've been talking up Darkbuster on these pages for awhile now.Great,aren't they!Did they bring the horns with them last night?I'm road tripping up to Albany on Saturday night for the same show that you just saw.Wondering if the brass is there...

**Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:38 pm**

I'd have to vote for WEW...

**Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:44 pm**

I would like to see the tossers. I saw them open for dropkick murphy this summer and they were excellent, I think i was one of three people in the entire crowd that had heard them before though.

**Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:50 am**

I would like to see Gogol Bordello. I would also like to see something Latin and yet almost tragically hip. And they could rush on stage for Fiesta. But who would that be?

**Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:48 am**

pogues24 wrote:Maybe Flogging Molly should open up for the Pogues, to prove to Dave King who makes the better music between the two. Since Dave King and Flogging Molly as of recently say their not influenced by The Pogues. SIGH!!!

Iain

How could they not be influenced by The Pogues? What are they trying to pull

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**Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:30 pm**

Anonymous wrote:What are they trying to pull ?

What is Flogging Molly trying to pull? Their hair out! So people forget that Dave King fronted an hair band heavy metal act in the 80's called Fastway. :lol:

**Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:18 am**

Tom Waits. (He can bring the Dalai Lama if he wants.)

Hey, I can dream, right?

**Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:51 pm**

Maryland Governor (previously Baltimore Mayor) Martin O'Malley's band, O'Malley's March, should open the Baltimore show. A good reason to come out of retirement!

(O'Malley said he'd shelve the band if elected Govenor, as he'd be too busy. He was getting a lot of grief for playing once in a while when Mayor :roll:

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http://omalleysmarch.com/

**Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:04 am**

I'd rather it be the ghost of Al Jolsen than the Tossers again. Please don't have them play this year. This isn't reverse psychology. If it came down to the Tossers playing or me standing on the stage getting shot in the stomach with a paint ball gun by Michael Bolton, I'd take the Bolton. I'd rather eat sushi off of a naked Van Morrison than be subjected to the sounds created by the Tossers. I'd rather watch a naked Jon Bon Jovi eat Cork City Crubeens than be subjected to the cacophony created by the Tossers. I'd even so far as to say that I'd rather listen to Billy Joel singing "Uptown Girl" whilst George W. Bush pooped on my chest. Thank you for you thoughts and prayers.

**Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:26 am**

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Silly analogies... but I couldn't agree more. The Tossers are just that.

**Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:24 pm**

I couldn't disagree more. And none of those things is really painful, so go right ahead.

**Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:26 pm**

Wow! I am psyched that the ghost of Al Jolson is opening! Is he doing all the shows?

**Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:30 am**

If you all are lucky, you could get Whitmore and then the LA band Ollin, like we had last Nov 1 in LA. They tore the place down! Ollin mixes Latin, Irish, swing, and some other things. There was just an article about them in the LA Times. I hope the Pogues arrange them for all future LA shows...

Once I though Gogol Bordello would be perfect (actually they would be), but I think they are almost too big & raucous now. It would be like having co-headliners. I saw them both in LA within a week (Gogol was in that last week of October) - quite a pair of shows, both exhausting and exhilarating, but I've never been so sweaty after a show as after the Gogol show.

LA Times story:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la ... 7805.story

CULTURE MIX
Vibrant in a fading East L.A. scene
The Rodarte brothers wants to bring music back to the neighborhood.
By Agustin Gurza, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 12, 2008

It's Wednesday night on Cesar Chavez Avenue in Boyle Heights. At 8 p.m., the lights are still on at Jesse's Barber Shop, but the botanica is closed and so is the orthopedist whose sign says "Doctor de los Huesos" (bone doctor). The sidewalks are empty as a police cruiser glides down the street in the heart of this historic immigrant neighborhood.
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