The Pogues will be reunited
for a last tour around Christmas 2004.
Support act: Damien Dempsey. CANCELLED.
More info here.
Monday 13 Glasgow Academy
Tuesday 14 Glasgow Academy
Thursday 16 Newcastle Arena Support: Morning
Runner
Friday 17 Birmingham Academy Support: Morning
Runner
Saturday 18 Manchester Evening News Arena Support:
Morning Runner
Monday 20 London Brixton Academy WEBSITE
Support: Morning Runner
Tuesday 21 London Brixton Academy WEBSITE
Support: Stephen Fretwell
Wednesday 22 London Brixton AcademyWEBSITE
Support: The Flaming Stars
Thursday 23 Dublin The Point WEBSITE
Support: Mundy.
Buy Tickets here:
UK
dates
Ireland (These tickets are on sale from September 18th)
NEWS
Cait O'Riordan will join the
Pogues on the Reunion tour. She will be singing, not playing bass.
Hopefully this means that we will get to hear songs like Haunted and I'm A Man
You Don't Meet Every Day.
Manchester Video clips,
Streams Of Whiskey full clip here.
Thanks to Liam Clayton for posting this.
Short video clips from the Manchester show can be found here.
Thanks to the band Big Betsy for posting this.
Support for The
Point announced.
The Pogues have confirmed Mundy
as special guest for their Dec. 23rd Point Show. Source: MCD
Promotional clip for
this show. (Right click and choose save as).
Setlist from Glasgow December 13th
Thanks to Scott Hislop for posting this.
1) Streams of Whiskey
2) If I Should Fall From Grace
3) Boys From The County Hell
4) Broad Majestic Shannon
5) Young Ned of the Hill
6) Turkish Song of the Damned
7) Rainy Night in Soho
Tuesday Morning
9) Rain Street
10) Medley
11) I'm a Man You Dont Meet Every Day (Cait on vocals)
12) Pair of Brown Eyes
13) Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
14) White City
15) Old Main Drag
16) Thousands are Sailing
17) Body of an American
1 Lullaby of London
19) Dirty Old Town
20) Bottle of Smoke
21) Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
1st Encore :
Sally MacLenanne
Irish Rover
Fiesta
2nd Encore :
Star of the County Down
Fairytale of New York (Cait on Vocals)
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
REVIEWS
The
Scotsman. 14.12.04
Financial
Times 22.12.04
The Times 22.12.04
The Independent 23.12.04
Photos
Manchester
and Birmingham.
Brixton ACademy December 21st.
More photos and a video clip from Brixton Academy can be found on Juergens excellent page www.shanemacgowan.de
http://www.damiendempsey.com/
From his official website....
A NOTE FROM DAMO - 28 October 2004
Howayiz all doin’ my friends, this is Damo here writing to you from Texas. I’m 17 gigs down on the Morrissey tour with 3 more to go and we had to pull the last 3 gigs in L.A. and Las Vegas because I need to have the third album finished by January 1st if the album is to be released before the summer and I really want to get it out there. I need to start working full time on it now if I’m going to get it right and this is why I had to pull the tour of Ireland in November and December and the Pogues and Shane MacGowan support slots I had. It kills me to do this, for you may have noticed how much I love playing to an up-for-it audience and I’m sorry if I’ve disappointed anyone but I’ll make it up to you in the New Year, I swear, with tons of gigs and hopefully a decent third album. But it will only be decent if I get stuck in now and try out lots of different things.
I’ve done some great gigs here in places like Radio City, NYC (Sinatra, Billie Holiday , Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder) and the original Grand Ole Opry in Nashville (Elvis, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash). It’s been daunting walking out on my own each night for me with just a guitar and the truth as I see it, to play in front of thousands of people who aren’t there to see me and maybe won’t get me, but as I say in one of my newer songs, "this life ain’t nuthin’ without challenges". The sleepless nights before I came to America will stay with me and the lonely hours pacing up and down in cold tiny unkempt dressing rooms in the bowels of cavernous ballrooms full of somebody else’s fans are stark memories but every night I get on that stage and do my best and once I know I done the best I’m happy enough. I always get a good cheer at the end of the set, I’ve gotten one or two boo’s but not everyone’s gonna like you. I think a lot of Morrissey’s fans are getting me, they’re a fairly even-minded bunch, thanks to Jaysus, some nights I’d need sub-titles but most of them get the gist. If they give me a chance I mostly play Factories, Negative, Party On, Seize, Ghosts, Apple and All Good.
Eamo (Eamonn de Barra) was meant to come over with me; the American USA people haven’t given him a working visa yet. They must think he’d be shooting poison darts at George Bush through his tin whistle, not a bad idea come to think of it.
I’ll come back to Ireland a stronger character I reckon though. Definitely heavier if not stronger. I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all your support and your patience and your open minds and your love right back at yiz. Youse all made the last few years very special for me and I’ve built up a lot of new confidence from these years and all the great gigs that I’ve gone to see youse all perform at. I’ve about 15 songs to choose from for the next album, you’ll recognise a few of them: Party On, Sing All Our Cares Away, Not On Your Own Tonight, Cursed With A Brain, then there’s Spaceship, Was Concrete Valleys, Hold Me, Patience, St Patrick’s Day, Choctaw Nation, Spray Paint Back Alleys, Serious and Anywhere You Go. We also might redo Colony.
I’ll be doing a lot of these songs live in the New Year to get all your opinions on them, should be interesting. I’m on stage in 10 minutes so I better throw a shape. Keep the faith my friends and remember "we are all in the gutter but some of us are lookin’ at the stars".
See youse all soon
Much love
Damo
27/10/04
Fort Worth, Texas USA
Thanks to Alan for posting this on shanemacgowan.com
Post By Philip Chevron on www.shanemacgowan.com forum on December 3rd.
Oh dear. it appears I have inadvertently opened a can of worms here, so let me make it as plain as possible: a lot of people made a lot of money from The Pogues in the 80s and 90s. The Pogues themselves were not necessarily among that number.
Andy, the business hasn't won. These days, we cooperate only if they're paying top dollar and if most of that is going into our pockets. That's the way it works now - they steal your creativity from the outset, for as fast a buck as possible, but if you can outsmart them by surviving for long enough, you get to call the shots after all.
Mr MacGowan, on the Frank Skinner show last week, attributed his "longevity" to the fact that his imminent demise has been confidently predicted for 20 years. Don't think for a moment he was kidding - payback is a strong motive!
Now, none of that would matter a damn if we didn't actually still enjoy playing together, if we didn't actually look forward to the opportunities when they arise. Personally, I like the work better now than I ever did first time around. The point is, we are on nobody's rollercoaster, we are nobody else's career plan.
Again, none of this would matter if we were not blessed with loyal and smart supporters. The reality seems to be that most of those are to be found in the UK and Ireland, so at the moment it makes more economic sense to do our shows there.
A lot of the work we do is year-round and behind the scenes, whether it's Spider and Jem taking personal responsibility for the quality of the t-shirts or myself and Darryl supervising the sound of the reissues (and making sure, incidentally, that these new definitive editions are as low-priced as possible). Nobody is more respectful of the Pogues' legacy, or of the fans' part in that legacy, than the Pogues themselves. This is why we unequivocally renounce such shabby cash-ins as the "Streams Of Whiskey" album and the recent "Town And Country" DVD.
If what we are doing these days seems like a cynical nostalgia-fest to any of our fans, they are right to vote with their feet and boycott us. I only know that, to me, performing "The Old Main Drag" or "A Pair Of Brown Eyes" in 2004 is a uniquely different experience to playing them in 1985. These songs grow and resonate in new ways as they - and we - gather their own baggage.
Nobby, rehearsals begin on Monday.
taying alive and stayingcharge them top dol
Post By Philip Chevron on www.shanemacgowan.com forum on December 4th.
Father McGee, we will rehearse from next Monday for a week. We all see quite a bit of each other when we're not actually playing, or as much as the geography allows.
This is likely to be my last post this year so, if I don't see some of you during the tour, have a safe Christmas and a peaceful 2005.
Chevvy
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