SHOWTIMES UK/IRL 2010

[philipchevron]

These times are correct at December 7.

Please note they are approximate: ley lines under Shane's tent and other factors beyond our control may play a part, delaying the start by up to 15 minutes or so.

If there are any important changes as the tour progresses, I will post here.

Enjoy the shows.

Doors 7pm
Opening act 8pm
THE POGUES 9pm

Exceptions:

KILLARNEY
Doors 7.30
Opening act 8.30
THE POGUES 9.30

SHEFFIELD
Doors 6.30
Opening act 7pm
THE POGUES 8pm
Curfew 10pm

[soulfinger]

Blimey! I look forward to the lead singer being on stage for an eight o'clock start in Sheffield.....I wonder what time we should leave the pub!?

[Fr. McGreer]

Thanks Philip. Now, how to get the gang out of Brogan's at 10 to 9 I can't make Wed now So have to wait till Thurs.

Best of luck with the tour

[mats]

Thanks Philip. Now, how to get the gang out of Brogan's at 10 to 9

Taxi?

[mike g kelly]

Hi Philip,
im a fan of the pogues sense i say ye on tv at the Self Aid concert in the 80's. I never saw ye live but when I heard ye were coming to Killarney I just couldnt believe it. I went straight to the inec an booked my tickets.Id say it will be some show and im very excited about it. Id love to meet you after for a chat in the green rooms and mabye a photo. Ye are all Legends. Please sing Thousands are Sailing Philip. Thanks.
Mike.

[philipchevron]

Hi Philip,
im a fan of the pogues sense i say ye on tv at the Self Aid concert in the 80's. I never saw ye live but when I heard ye were coming to Killarney I just couldnt believe it. I went straight to the inec an booked my tickets.Id say it will be some show and im very excited about it. Id love to meet you after for a chat in the green rooms and mabye a photo. Ye are all Legends. Please sing Thousands are Sailing Philip. Thanks.
Mike.

I can't promise the chat or the photo but, pipes permitting, Thousands is a safe enough bet.

[Brian Boru]

Thanks for the info re. Sheffield, Philip,
As I left it a little late to purchase standing tickets for the Manchester show, we are venturing over the hills for a change!
I had no idea it would be an early start, but I guess that's Yorkshire for you!!

[philipchevron]

KILLARNEY:

POGUES 9pm
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BIRMINGHAM:

Doors: 6.30pm
Support: 7.00 - 7.30pm
Pogues: 8.00pm
Curfew: 10.00pm.

[philipchevron]

SHEFFIELD (tonight)

8.15 to 8.45 Sparrow & the Workshop

9.15 Pogues

Sorry about that. In the original info submitted to us, Birmingham and Sheffield got mixed up, I think.

[Brian Boru]

Ha Ha! We had just set off before you posted Philip! Still it was no bad thing we did because the traffic was horrendous on the motorway and it was 7:45pm by the time we got to the venue! I would have hated to miss any of last nights show!

[soulfinger]

Blimey! I look forward to the lead singer being on stage for an eight o'clock start in Sheffield.....I wonder what time we should leave the pub!?

I'm going to go into the fortune telling business.

[Paddy McCarthy]

Phillip,How come on the showtimes thread you said The Pogues would be on stage at 8pm when you actually came on at 9:30ish?.This resulted in us coming out of a pub which was £1.50 a pint to having to drink the foul overpriced rubbish in the academy serves for nearly 2 hours. Bang out of order!.

[philipchevron]

Phillip,How come on the showtimes thread you said The Pogues would be on stage at 8pm when you actually came on at 9:30ish?.This resulted in us coming out of a pub which was £1.50 a pint to having to drink the foul overpriced rubbish in the academy serves for nearly 2 hours. Bang out of order!.

*Sigh*

There's only one "l" in Philip.

[Paddy McCarthy]

Phillip,How come on the showtimes thread you said The Pogues would be on stage at 8pm when you actually came on at 9:30ish?.This resulted in us coming out of a pub which was £1.50 a pint to having to drink the foul overpriced rubbish in the academy serves for nearly 2 hours. Bang out of order!.

*Sigh*

There's only one "l" in Philip.

True though PHILIP!

[MissWalshy]

Posted by Philip Chevron on another thread

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.