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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:35 am

If anyone can translate, much appreciated....

Mr C the picture looks very recent, can you fill us in on when and where this was taken?


http://www.gaelnet.de/2011/04/29/pogues ... -gewinnen/

Er war so etwas wie der Pete Doherty der 80er Jahre: ein genialer Songwriter mit einem Hang zum Rausch. Die Rede ist von dem Mann dessen Lächeln Zahnärzte in Verzückung geraten ließ: Shane MacGowan. 53 Jahre ist MacGowan heute alt, und es gibt nicht wenige, die das angesichts seiner exzessiven Dorgenkarriere schon für eine beachtliche Leistung halten. Doch womit der zahnlose Shane in die Ruhmeshalle der irischen Musik eingehen wird, war die Gründung einer Band, eine Folk-Rock-Combo, die bis heute Kultstatus auf der ganzen Welt genießt: The Pogues. Im Juli kommen The Pogues mit ihrem Gründer und ersten Frontmann für drei Auftritte nach Deutschland.

Alles begann irgendwann Ende der 70er Jahre in London, als Shane O’Hooligan, wie sich Shane MacGowan damals noch nannte seine erste Punkband, die “Nipple Erectors” gründete. Als der Erfolg ausblieb, trennte sich die Combo, und MacGowan investierte mehr Zeit in ein anderes Bandprojekt, The Millwall Chainsaws, die sich schließlich in „The New Republicans“ umbenannten. Ein Jahr später und um einige Bandmitglieder erweitert gab sich die Band schließlich den neuen Namen “Pogue Mahone”, die phonetische Entsprechung des irischen “Pog mó thoin” (Küss meinen A..llerwertesten).

Es konnte Pogue Mahone jedoch nicht in Frieden leben, wenn es der bösen Plattenfirma nicht gefällt und so musste die Band nach ersten Beschwerden von schottischen Radiohörern der BBC den Namen zu dem verkürzen, der bald zum Inbegriff des irische Folkpunks werden sollte: The Pogues.

Erste Aufmerksamkeit erregte die Band als Vorgruppe von The Clash im Jahr 1984, in dem sie auch ihr erstes Album “Red Roses For Me” einspielte. Der Erfolg stellte sich im Folgejahr ein, als die Pogues mit den Songs „Dirty Old Town“ und „The Irish Rover“ auf ihrem zweiten Album „Rum, Sodomy And The Lash“ zwei ihrer
bekanntesten Hits aufnahmen. Der größte kommerzielle Erfolg und gleichzeitig der Durchbruch in den USA wird das 1987 veröffentlichte Album “If I Should Fall From Grace With God”, dessen Titelsong, wie auch die Weihnachtshymne “Fairytale Of New York” die britischen Top Ten stürmen.

Als MacGowan wegen seiner Suchtprobleme zunehmend unzuverlässiger wurde, feuerten ihn seine Bandkollegen 1991 während der Promotion-Tour für das neue Album “Hell’s Ditch”. Die verbliebenen Pogues nahmen ein weiteres Album “Waiting for Herb” auf, das die international erfolgreichste Single der Bandgeschichte “Tuesday Morning” enthielt. Nach weiteren Personalwechseln floppte das siebte Studioalbum “Pogue Mahone” völlig und so kam 1996 das Aus der Band.

Doch wie auch in der Mode, so ist es auch in der Musik. Gutes kommt einfach immer wieder. Und so kommen auch die Pogues wieder nach Deutschland und freuen sich auf drei feucht-fröhliche Nächte in Stuttgart (5. Juli), München (6. Juli) und Bonn (7. Juli). Denn wie sagte Shane MacGowan so schön: “I am going where streams of whiskey are flowing.”

Gaelnet.de wird in den kommenden Wochen immer wieder Tickets für die verschiedenen Konzerte unter allen Lesern verlosen, sowohl hier auf der Website, wie auch auf Facebook.

Heute gibt es 1 x 2 Karten für den Auftritt am 7. Juli in Bonn zu gewinnen. Schreibt uns dazu den Namen der Sängerin, mit der Shane MacGowan die Originalversion von “Fairytale of New York” aufgenommen hat an info[at]gaelnet.de. Einsendeschluss ist Sonntag, 1. Mai, 23.59 Uhr. Bei mehreren richtigen Einsendungen entscheidet das Los, der Rechtsweg ist ausgeschlossen, ebenso eine Barauszahlung des Gewinns.
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:01 am

nothing interesting there...

Shane = drunken genius
Nips = his first band
Pogues = pog mo thoin = kiss my arse
Fairytale = very popular song
Red Roses, Rum, Fall From Grace = albums
1991 = Pogues fired Shane
1991-1996 = Pogues minus Shane

NOW THE COMEBACK: Bonn, Stuttgart, Munich

Win tickets for the Bonn show: Who sang FONY with Shane the first time round?

a) Madonna
b) Kirsty MacColl
c) Britney Spears
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:19 pm

NewJerseyRich wrote:Mr C the picture looks very recent, can you fill us in on when and where this was taken?




Probably not since he´s not in the picture :wink:
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:30 pm

mats wrote:
NewJerseyRich wrote:Mr C the picture looks very recent, can you fill us in on when and where this was taken?




Probably not since he´s not in the picture :wink:


He might have been the one that snapped it.
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:35 pm

Sportin' Life wrote:He might have been the one that snapped it.


Where in the world is Philip Chevron. The people want to know!
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:56 pm

I don't know these people. Are they a pop group?
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:58 pm

Google comedy translation:

It was something like the Pete Doherty of the '80s: a brilliant songwriter with a taste for noise. The speech is made by the man whose smile dentists swoon: Shane MacGowan. MacGowan is 53 years old today, and there are very few that hold the excessive given its Dorgenkarriere already a remarkable achievement. But making the toothless Shane will go down in the pantheon of Irish music, was the formation of a band, a folk-rock outfit that enjoys cult status today around the world: The Pogues. In July, The Pogues come with its founder and first front man for three performances in Germany.

It all started sometime in the late 70s in London, as Shane O'Hooligan how Shane MacGowan then called his first punk band that formed "Nipple Erectors. As the success of forthcoming, broke up the combo, and MacGowan spent more time in another band project, The Millwall Chainsaws, which finally in "The New Republicans" renamed. A year later, and extended by several band members, the band finally gave the new name "Pogue Mahone", the phonetic equivalent of the Irish "Pog Mo Thoin" (Kiss My A.. ller cheapest).

It was Pogue Mahone does not live in peace if it of the evil record company do not like and then the band had after the first complaints from Scottish radio listeners of the BBC shortened the name to the one who was soon to become the epitome of the Irish Folk Punks: The Pogues.

First attention was the band as opening act for The Clash in 1984, where she recorded her first album "Red Roses For Me". The success came the following year, when the Pogues with the song "Dirty Old Town" and "The Irish Rover" on their second album "Rum, Sodomy And The Lash" two of their
known hits shots. The biggest commercial success, while the breakthrough in the U.S. is the 1987 released album "If I Should Fall From Grace With God", the title track, like storming the Christmas anthem "Fairytale Of New York" the British Top Ten.

When MacGowan was increasingly unreliable because of his addiction problems, he fired his band mates in 1991 during the promotional tour for the new album "Hell's Ditch". The remaining Pogues took another album "Waiting for Herb", which contained the most internationally successful single by the band's history "Tuesday Morning". More personnel changes, flopped the seventh studio album "Pogue Mahone" entirely, and so was 1996, of the band.

But, as in fashion, so it is in music. Good comes easy and time again. And so the Pogues come back to Germany and look forward to three wet-happy nights in Stuttgart (July 5), Munich (July 6) and Bonn (July 7). For as Shane MacGowan said so well: "I am going where streams of whiskey are flowing."

Gaelnet.de is giving away in the weeks to come again and again tickets for the various concerts of all readers, both here on the website, as well as on Facebook.

Today, there are 1 x 2 tickets for the concert on 7 July to win in Bonn. Write to us the name of the singer, has recorded with Shane MacGowan, the original version of "Fairytale of New York at info [at] gaelnet.de. Entry deadline is Sunday, 1 May, 23.59 clock. With several winning entries will decide the fate of legal recourse, as a cash payment of the profit.
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:18 pm

I'll settle for the "cash payment of the profit".
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:42 pm

DzM wrote:Google comedy translation:

When MacGowan was increasingly unreliable because of his addiction problems, he fired his band mates in 1991 during the promotional tour for the new album "Hell's Ditch".
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Post Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:40 pm

Alex wrote:
DzM wrote:Google comedy translation:

When MacGowan was increasingly unreliable because of his addiction problems, he fired his band mates in 1991 during the promotional tour for the new album "Hell's Ditch".


You know, i'm pretty sure that's also how Shane tells it in his/Victoria's book...
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