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« Reply #30 on: March 11, 2006, 04:42:00 pm »
great show. setlist was unbelievable. the crowd up front was rough, but jovial...thanks to whomever picked me up off the floor at one point. although i was thinking how cool my obit would be had i gotten trampled to death at a pogues show. oh well.
 
 too bad they never did waltzing matilda, but fairytale of ny was gorgeous...especially with the snow coming down and shane trying hopelessly to dance with the woman on stage. loved every second. for me, it's definitely up there with tom waits as one of the best shows i've seen.

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« Reply #31 on: March 11, 2006, 05:16:00 pm »
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 fairytale of ny was gorgeous...especially with the snow coming down and shane trying hopelessly to dance with the woman on stage. loved every second.
Yeah, that was quite the concert-going moment, one of the best I've ever experienced at the 9:30. I hope I never forget that. Fabulous. The "snow" was dishsoap bubbles, I think.

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« Reply #32 on: March 11, 2006, 06:21:00 pm »
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  I would have bought both of his CDs last night, except 9:30 was overcharging again ($15).
FYI the artists set the price of their merchandise, not the venue.

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« Reply #33 on: March 11, 2006, 08:44:00 pm »
the last two nights were a lot of fun, and a lot less trouble than i expected based on past experience.  there were a few trouble spots here and there, but for the most part, the crowd was well behaved, and that meant i got to enjoy the shows more.  
 
 i think friday's show had a lot more energy all around.  the band was great both nights, but they seemed to be having more fun with the second show.  shane was in much better shape than the last time i saw him, but trust me when i say the the drunken antics are not an act.  that's all you're going to get out of me on that topic, though.  it seemed to me that shane was holding the band back, and i was more impressed with the songs that he spent offstage, when the band let loose a bit.  
 
 i don't usually go for things like that, but i thought that the snow was a neat touch, especially because i didn't have to clean it up afterwords.  
 
 all in all, i'm glad to have had the chance to see the shows, and i'm glad that they didn't live up to my worst case scenario expectations.

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« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2006, 09:36:00 pm »
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  I would have bought both of his CDs last night, except 9:30 was overcharging again ($15).
FYI the artists set the price of their merchandise, not the venue. [/b]
We've been over this before. The artist may determine the price, but the venue takes a cut of the sales and the 9:30 Club takes a bigger cut than some other venues. It's perhaps commensurate with the 9:30 Club's size and status as a venue, but, as a result, the CDs at 9:30 Club shows often cost more than they would elsewhere and I purchase fewer of them. Anyway, some people complain about the $6 Yuenglings; I like to complain about the cost of the CDs. It's just my thing.

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« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2006, 10:37:00 pm »
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  We've been over this before. The artist may determine the price, but the venue takes a cut of the sales and the 9:30 Club takes a bigger cut than some other venues. It's perhaps commensurate with the 9:30 Club's size and status as a venue, but, as a result, the CDs at 9:30 Club shows often cost more than they would elsewhere and I purchase fewer of them. Anyway, some people complain about the $6 Yuenglings; I like to complain about the cost of the CDs. It's just my thing.
direct quote from william elliot whitmore when i bought a cd from him away from the merch counter at the end of the night: "i usually charge $15."

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« Reply #36 on: March 12, 2006, 09:23:00 pm »
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  Excellent, excellent show.
Sums it up about right! One of the truly fun evenings I have had at the club in years! Band was tight & playful.....the crowd was rabid for the music & veryone was enjoying themselves.....I was right down in the middle of it......Joz, I only picked you up once!.....  :D  ....the only thing that I was pretty pissed off about was when I attempted to take a few pics up front....dude to the front left got up in my face and screamed "NO,NO!" repeatedly in my face.....of course letting other people shoot away around me and one other guy up front that he "shut down" also...we drifted back and to the middle and I got some pics anyway.....maybe he didn't read THIS!
 http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=002742
 ......anyway,great night overall regardless.....classic set by a classic band.....

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« Reply #37 on: March 12, 2006, 09:41:00 pm »
I see that a pretty good quality recording of Thursday's show is now out. Just downloaded it. Anyone know of one for Friday's show?

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« Reply #38 on: March 13, 2006, 10:19:00 am »
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  Joz, I only picked you up once!
glad to have met ya...thanks, jonas!

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« Reply #39 on: March 13, 2006, 10:50:00 am »
Pogues are on Conan Thursday, for those of us on more modest budgets...

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« Reply #40 on: March 13, 2006, 11:43:00 am »
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  Joz, I only picked you up once!
glad to have met ya...thanks, jonas! [/b]
I wanna bear your children.
 
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« Reply #42 on: March 13, 2006, 11:58:00 am »
First, I've got to commend the 9:30 Club staff -- I was pretty close up, stage left, and there was some active moshing going on.  A staff person came over, didn't intervene at all, but just made sure things weren't getting out of hand.  I stood behind him and it was awesome.  I'm tellin' ya, the staff is so amazing.  Nearly all of the time they are watching out for us and we don't even know they are there...
 
 Second, GREAT show.  All of it, which I quite happily remember.  Who needs anything more for a Friday night.  It's all been said, so I can't really add to the comments other than to note that there's another very happy patron whistling Pogues' ditties at work today.
 
 Oh, and third, thanks to our hero Relaxer who not only passed along a spare ticket to me for that friend who realized too late how great a night it would be, but made it particularly easy to get the ticket.  THANKS!

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« Reply #43 on: March 20, 2006, 10:05:00 am »
Review, NYC show
 
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/music/17pogues.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
 
 Some Old Irish Songs With Punk and Pop
 
 By BEN RATLIFF
 Published: March 17, 2006
 
 Shane MacGowan took the stage yesterday evening, intoning some profane verses from Lou Reed's "Sister Ray," and then the Pogues fired into "Streams of Whiskey." When Mr. MacGowan removed his sunglasses, a few songs into his first performance in New York with the band in 15 years, you could look him in the eyes. Not the whites of them: he looked half-asleep, heavy-lidded, his face a slack, puffy frown surrounding missing teeth. The upper third of his face, anyway, was the most expressive part of his body.
 
 The crowd at the Pogues concert Thursday night.
 In their seven-year run as an intact band, the Pogues amassed a cult audience around the world, fusing the sound of old Irish songs with punk and pop, bringing out the smashing force of a folkloric dance music. They made money; they had hits. They ejected Mr. MacGowan in 1991; he was only 33, but there was not much left in him, physically.
 
 (One of his band members recently said that the end came when the singer was "leaving taxis horizontally.")
 
 Conceivably, there could have been more life in the project. He, and other members in the band, had written a stack of first-rate songs about memory and hope and disappointment, about Irish culture moving and staying in place. With some traditional instruments, two-beats and waltzes and ballads, they sounded permanent. A little like Bob Dylan, they had created a sound in their youth that wasn't disappearing any time soon.
 
 So the energies of the music had no problem last night, at the beginning of their four-night run at the Nokia Theater, during their first full American reunion tour. The energies of the singer did, intermittently, however. And for a Pogues show, the night before St. Patrick's Day, the crowd was more docile than one might have expected. It had aged, too, though not as sharply as Mr. MacGowan.
 
 In a two-hour show that culled their best songs â?? opening with "Streams of Whiskey," running through "If I Should Fall From Grace With God," "Young Ned of the Hill," "Bottle of Smoke," "A Pair of Brown Eyes," "The Old Main Drag," and closing with "Fairy Tale of New York" and "Fiesta," they did as good a job as age and context would allow, playing well if slightly subdued.
 
 Mr. MacGowan took breaks in the wings, vaguely restoring himself; others took the microphone to sing, including the tin-whistle player Spider Stacy and the guitarist Philip Chevron. But it was Mr. MacGowan who owned the best moments, with his lurching growl, especially in "Dirty Old Town," where the audience sang along through all four image-rich verses about kissing a girl by the factory wall and smelling the spring on the smoky wind. Turning words into syrup, he said a few unintelligible things between songs â?? something about Americans, something about Truman Capote and Jimmy Breslin. He drank on stage. But he appeared not to miss a word of a song.
 
 The Pogues continue at Nokia Theater, 1515 Broadway, tonight, tomorrow and Sunday.

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« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2006, 01:29:00 am »
I saw the Friday (St. Pat's day) show in NYC. Classic falling-down-drunk Shane.  It was a great set especially towards the end because he gets so passionate when he's had a few but there were a lot of pissed-off people in the audience, especially for the first half or so where Shane left the stage after every two songs and Spider took over for 2 or 3 before Shane could make it back.