A parting glass with The Pogues — US Tour 2011
02-19-11, 04:46 PM
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A parting glass with The Pogues — US Tour 2011
After not touring in 2010, The Pogues are back for their US tour.
March 3 - Chicago (Congress Theater)
March 4 - Detroit (Royal Oak Music Theater)
March 7 - Baltimore (Rams Head Live)
March 8 - Washington DC (9:30 Club)
March 11 - Boston (House of Blues)
March 12 - Boston (House of Blues)
March 15 - New York (Terminal 5)
March 16 - New York (Terminal 5)
March 17 - New York (Terminal 5)
Support will be Titus Andronicus(!)
Spoiler:
I'll be seeing them in Boston on the 12th. GA at the House of Blues.
02-19-11, 05:20 PM
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Re: A parting glass with The Pogues — US Tour 2011
02-20-11, 08:54 AM
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I read something else a month or so back that it was going to be their last. Hopefully this latest info is true.
02-20-11, 09:07 AM
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Sounds like they already have a history of using suggestions of a farewell tour as a marketing ploy
Pogues guitarist calls farewell tour a 'marketing ploy'
Phil Chevron posts on band's website to criticise suggestions that this year's Christmas tour will be their last
The Pogues have announced a "farewell tour" for the UK, much to the consternation of their guitarist. Phil Chevron has blasted notices for the goodbye tour, calling it "a marketing ploy" by others in the band. "This claim does not come from me," he wrote on the group's website, "and I will neither be supporting it nor discussing it."
The seven-date tour begins in Glasgow and ends on 21 December in Brixton, with reported Irish gigs earlier in the month. These concerts will close the band's 28th year, and their ninth since frontman Shane MacGowan re-formed the folk-punk rabble-rousers. But despite the flier's unequivocal "Farewell Christmas Tour" tag-line, the Pogues don't exactly seem ready to say farewell.
Not long after Chevron's grumpy post to the official message-board, bandmate Spider Stacy popped in with a clarification. "This is the last Christmas tour for the foreseeable future," he wrote. "That's not to say we won't be showing up at festivals here and there or maybe even the odd gig around the UK and Ireland and certainly in Europe. But we're tired of dragging our weary, freezing carcasses around these drowning islands every December, so we're going to give it a rest before you get tired of it, too. Go and see the Libertines. They're the best."
But Chevron clearly doesn't agree with his bandmate. "As you can see, opinion is not uniform on the matter," he wrote. "Spider is using the royal 'we' here." Stacy responded: "Using the royal 'we'? God forbid a band member would come on these pages and do something like that!"
Later, Stacy reappeared, trying to calm the Pogues' tremulous fans. "Don't get yer kecks in a twist," he wrote. "Take a deep breath and flick back a couple of pages and read slowly. Does it say we're splitting up? No it doesn't. And sorry to disappoint but there's absolutely no internal arguments going on, spirits are high in the Pogues camp." Indeed, spirits are so high they seem almost icy. Perhaps a break is not a bad idea.
Pogues guitarist calls farewell tour a 'marketing ploy'
Phil Chevron posts on band's website to criticise suggestions that this year's Christmas tour will be their last
The Pogues have announced a "farewell tour" for the UK, much to the consternation of their guitarist. Phil Chevron has blasted notices for the goodbye tour, calling it "a marketing ploy" by others in the band. "This claim does not come from me," he wrote on the group's website, "and I will neither be supporting it nor discussing it."
The seven-date tour begins in Glasgow and ends on 21 December in Brixton, with reported Irish gigs earlier in the month. These concerts will close the band's 28th year, and their ninth since frontman Shane MacGowan re-formed the folk-punk rabble-rousers. But despite the flier's unequivocal "Farewell Christmas Tour" tag-line, the Pogues don't exactly seem ready to say farewell.
Not long after Chevron's grumpy post to the official message-board, bandmate Spider Stacy popped in with a clarification. "This is the last Christmas tour for the foreseeable future," he wrote. "That's not to say we won't be showing up at festivals here and there or maybe even the odd gig around the UK and Ireland and certainly in Europe. But we're tired of dragging our weary, freezing carcasses around these drowning islands every December, so we're going to give it a rest before you get tired of it, too. Go and see the Libertines. They're the best."
But Chevron clearly doesn't agree with his bandmate. "As you can see, opinion is not uniform on the matter," he wrote. "Spider is using the royal 'we' here." Stacy responded: "Using the royal 'we'? God forbid a band member would come on these pages and do something like that!"
Later, Stacy reappeared, trying to calm the Pogues' tremulous fans. "Don't get yer kecks in a twist," he wrote. "Take a deep breath and flick back a couple of pages and read slowly. Does it say we're splitting up? No it doesn't. And sorry to disappoint but there's absolutely no internal arguments going on, spirits are high in the Pogues camp." Indeed, spirits are so high they seem almost icy. Perhaps a break is not a bad idea.
02-24-11, 01:00 PM
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Re: A parting glass with The Pogues — US Tour 2011
I cannot wait for the Shane MacGowan brand coffins, and various untapped dental floss/toothpaste endorsements. Perhaps even Pogues brand condoms and credit cards. 5000 dollar meet and greets. my god the mind boggles if someone emulates Gene Simmons business plan.
03-13-11, 08:38 AM
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Re: A parting glass with The Pogues — US Tour 2011
Show last night was excellent, but the Boston crowd was the rowdiest of any so far. Nice range of participants in the pit too. Several guys with their shirts off (who apparently had not bathed in a few days). I counted at least three guys in suits in the pit (one even with a vest). One gentleman, easily in his 60s, was crowdsurfing.
03-17-11, 09:31 AM
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I didn't bring a suit, sadly. Next time, maybe.
HOB in Boston is a great venue. Even their beers weren't overpriced (
HOB in Boston is a great venue. Even their beers weren't overpriced (
