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| 19.04.2006 Some official reviews of the recent USA tour St. Shane's Day The reluctant Irish captain returns with his crew The Village Voice by Darren Reidy April 4th, 2006 5:41 PM A lot of Pogues fans seem to identify with Shane MacGowan, and in real personal ways. On Paddy's Eve at Nokia Theatre, one twentysomething was invoking the man's gum line, showing a friend the socket from which he'd ripped a molar the week before. Hero identification is important, because it helps postpone our becoming our own kinds of failures. But it also approves folly, which, down the road, could be a bad trip. The difference here is, largely, talent—a fact the band left in little doubt just two songs into their propulsive distillation of accordion-guitars-banjo-mandolin mash. MORE >>> The Pogues...In NYC...On St. Patrick's Day Shawn Donohue Thursday, March 30, 2006 A few years ago I scheduled a ski trip for spring break during grad school. Having never been out of New York City to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, I didn’t think anything of it, figuring I would enjoy the slopes with friends and then party on the Paddies, because that is what everyone does on the greenest day of the year. That weekend, I was rudely awakened to an empty bar’s lousy corned beef, horribly poured pints of Guinness, and it was nothing short of a true Irish disaster. Halfway through the night I swore a personal vow to never again leave the Big Apple on the 17th of March (Well maybe I will check out Chicago once). MORE >>> The Boys From County Hell The Irish Voice 22 March 2006 Legendary punk/trad band the Pogues have not toured together for over 15 years. Last week, they arrived back in Manhattan to play four historic shows. Kate Moss, Steve Buscemi, the newly victorious middleweight John Duddy, actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers and thousands of screaming fans came out to see one of the Irish music events of the year. After early nervousness about his form, Shane MacGowan triumphed. SEAN O’DRISCOLL was there. MORE >>> Drinking in the fury of the Pogues By Linda Laban 21 March 2006 Boston Globe Ten days, nine shows, each sold out; including a second night at the Orpheum Theatre. The Pogues certainly took the East Coast by storm this month. But then, for the first time in 15 years, this tour boasted the London-based Irish band's original lineup, including its fabled singer: Shane MacGowan, a wiry man with a constitution strained by drug and alcohol use far beyond the normal limits of endurance. MORE >>> Poet in the Beerlight New York Sun By MARTIN EDLUND 20 March 2006 New York City was treated to another, equally rare sighting over the weekend with the return of Shane MacGowan to the Pogues on Thursday at the Nokia Theater in Times Square. It was the first time he's toured with the group in America since the other members kicked him out for perpetual drunkenness in 1991. MORE >>> Irrish guys are smiling Paddying with the Pogues and Dropkick Murphys By: MIKE MILIARD 20 MArch 2006 5:13:00 PM The Phoenix I’d searched for Shane MacGowan all afternoon. He wasn’t in McFadden’s. Or at Mr. Dooley’s or J.J. Foley’s. He wasn’t at McGann’s, or in the Harp, or skulking at the Littlest Bar. No surprise, really. Rumor has it that Shane, that paragon of dissolution, can barely walk without assistance these days, so I’d figured the search was futile. He was probably in his hotel room, well into his cups, enablers by his side. MORE >>> LIVE REVIEW: ST. PAT’S WITH THE POGUES By Bret Liebendorfer New York Press His wiry mustache, sideburns and soul patch were all dyed green, matching the Jell-o shots he carried in a backpack. Long ago liquefied, these shots were stored in lumpy, single-serving sandwich bags sealed with a knot. “Just bite the corner, spit out the plastic and indulge,” the strange man at the bar persuaded. MORE >>> The Pogues end lengthy hiatus with oldies set 19 March 2006 4:54 PM ET Reuters/Hollywood Reporter NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - To get the most pressing matter out of the way first: Yes, Shane McGowan showed up, and yes, he made it through the entire show. MORE >>> The Pogues 19 March 2006, 12:29pm PT By DAVID SPRAGUE Variety.com Timing may not be everything, but it sure counts for something -- as borne out by the decision to circle St. Patrick's Day when it came time to schedule the New York dates on the brief reunion tour staged by these Irish legends' original lineup. At this, the first of four sold-out gigs, the band couldn't entirely hide the ravages of age and indiscretion, but still managed to generate a goodly amount of its old energy -- and just about all of its full-throated celebration of life. MORE >>> Pogues' worse-for-wear singer still has it BY RAFER GUZM?N Newsday Staff Writer 18 March 2006 The Pogues, the band that invented the enduring genre of Irish folk-punk, kicked off their first U.S. show in more than 15 years just in time for St. Patrick's Day Thursday night with "Streams of Whiskey," and it was as good a manifesto as any. On its face, the jaunty Irish jig is about a fanciful meeting with Brendan Behan, the IRA terrorist turned playwright. But singer Shane MacGowan wasn't much concerned with politics or literature. MORE >>> THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE ACCORDING TO SPIDER STACY Uk Today By: By Chris Castellani We often hope and pray that the bands of our youth will reunite so that we can see them as adults to relive the glory years. Often, there will be rumours floating around that The Smiths, The Jam or The Stone Roses will get back together. MORE >>> IT'S WORKING ON THE SHANE GANG Dan Aquilante 18 March 2006 New York Post WITH more than a decade of hangovers and regrets since Shane MacGowan's last New York performance fronting the Pogues, the reunited band was a powerhouse of Celtic punk Thursday night. At the first of a four-night musical binge at the Nokia Theatre (concluding tomorrow), MacGowan and company totally wowed the sold-out house. MORE >>> Some Old Irish Songs With Punk and Pop The New York Times By BEN RATLIFF 17 March 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. MORE >>> The Pogues back together; plus Black 47 By ANNIE ZALESKI FOR THE JOURNAL NEWS 17 March 2006 Things were much different for Irish punk-folksters the Pogues when they last toured America in 1996. Tin-whistle player Spider Stacy was handling vocal duties, as mercurial singer Shane MacGowan had been fired in 1991 and was now fronting a new band, the Popes. And while the Stacy-fronted group had a substantial hit with 1993's "Tuesday Morning," their latest album, "Pogue Mahone," was sinking without a trace. MORE >>> CONCERT REVIEW: The Pogues live up to the legend at Orpheum The Pogues played the Orpheum Theater in Boston last night. They play there again tonight. By CHAD BERNDTSON For The Patriot Ledger The Pogues blew the doors off the Orpheum last night, satiating a wildly enthusiastic crowd for the first of two sold-out Boston shows. The Irish collective’s greatest attribute - aside from its near-perfect marriage of traditional Irish music and instrumentation with a hard-charging punk aesthetic - is that i-ts live experience outdoes even its own stilted legend. The stories of hard drinking, fist-pumping and boundless energy are all true, of course, but the debauchery of the myth overshadows the intense warmth, conviviality and triumph of the reality. MORE >>> THE BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL The Pogues are older, but they still get—or act—drunk NewYork Press It’s been over 15 years since The Pogues played New York City. It was at the Old Ritz that last time, and it was the kind of show—rollicking, high-octane and drunker than sin—that brought everyone out. It was a hell of a show, too—with the mythically intoxicated Shane MacGowan on his back, waving a jug of wine over his head, being replaced on vocals by Joe Strummer. One of those shows you remember. MORE >>> Soundbytes: Remembering The Pogues In Irish Music History The Pogues Reframe Traditional Irish Music Channel3000.com David Hyland, Staff Writer UPDATED: 7:16 pm CST 16 March 2006 This past summer, I made my first trip to Ireland. Coming from a family that is 100 percent Irish Catholic, my siblings and I were programmed from very early on that we'd all have to make our own personal haji to visit the home country. Sometime, somehow, we'd all have to visit a place for which the connection remains subtle and yet very real. MORE >>> Faithful fansembrace spiritof the Pogues By James Parker, Globe Correspondent 15 March 2006 Having been obliged, more or less single-handedly, to soak up the sentimental excess and dispossessed romanticism of worldwide Irishry for the best part of 20 years, it should not surprise us that Shane MacGowan now resembles some sort of peculiarly ill-used industrial sponge. Pale and puffy -- although suavely attired in black shirt and waistcoat, with an unknotted tie draped around his neck -- the singer/lyricist for the Pogues floated murkily onstage at the Orpheum last night as if borne on toxic currents. MORE >>> Spry tunes, band buttress Pogues singer By Sarah Rodman 14 March 2006 St. Patrick’s Day may fall on Friday but the Pogues kicked off the celebration in high style last night with a delightful show at the Orpheum. It’s been a long time since the Anglo-Irish band - reunited in 2001 - has played Boston. The octet wasted no time in repaying the jubilant sold-out audience - including plenty of transplanted Irish folks - for their patience with an exuberant hour-and-45-minute set that ran the gamut of their ’80s and ’90s output. MORE >>> ''To become true legends, someone in our group needs to die'' The Pogues open up -- One of rock's wildest bands reunites and reveals why it took so long to happen by David Browne Entertainment Magazine It's 11.30 p.m., and backstage at the Point Theatre in Dublin, the Pogues are crammed into a tiny dressing room. Propped on a table is the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award they've just won at the Meteor awards (Ireland's equivalent of the Grammys). MORE >>> Unrepentant MacGowan lights Pogues' punk aura 14 March 2006 BY JAY LUSTIG The Star-Ledger Older but not necessarily wiser, Shane MacGowan is fronting the Pogues on a U.S. tour for the first time since 1989. A notorious alcoholic, MacGowan was kicked out of the London- based band in 1991. Though the Pogues -- whose'80's fusion of traditional Irish music and punk helped clear the way for modern Irish-punk groups such as Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys -- continued without him, the music was never as magical. MacGowan, after all, was the band's lead vocalist, main songwriter, and most recognizable (and charismatic) member. MORE >>> Pogues please crowd in A.C. By Dan DeLuca Inquirer Music Critic 13 March 2006 Considering Shane MacGowan's hard-earned reputation as a two-fisted falling-down drunk of epic proportions, you'd think that the leader of the Pogues (and sometimes, the Popes) would have a long track record of disappointing his faithful fans with hopelessly inebriated performances. MORE >>> Drinking it all in: Pogues enjoying second round of life on the road By Sarah Rodman/ Music Monday, March 13, 2006 Spider Stacy would like to apologize. The Pogues’ tin whistler is convinced his band is partially responsible for the rise in Irish theme pubs during the past 20 years. “I’m really deeply sorry for that,” he says from England, laughing, of course. Stacy also thinks the seminal group - the first to wed traditional Irish folk music with punk rock energy - had something to do with the growth in St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the UK. MORE >>> The Pogues 11 March 2006; Page C04 Christopher Porter Astooped, whiskey-bottle-toting Shane McGowan appeared to be 47 sheets to the wind when he took the stage with the reconstituted Pogues at the 9:30 club on Thursday. McGowan walked up to his mike, opened his toothless mouth and said, "Blargh garhde darlgzane argha." In fact, he pretty much said nothing comprehensible other than the slurred song titles he struggled to read from the set list posted at his feet. MORE >>> Beer and Loathing All hail the return of the Irish Rovers. by Neil Ferguson 8 March 2006 Philadelphia Weekly "I tend not to look back, y'know? What's done is done." You might be forgiven for thinking Terry Woods-the Pogues' multi-instrumentalist virtuoso-would have more than his fair share of regrets. Principally, the fact that the Pogues-who burst onto the U.K.'s moribund mid-'80s music scene with such passion, promise and swagger-should have ended the way they did: with self-destructive frontman Shane MacGowan, lost in a sea of sake and self-loathing, fired after a particularly fraught Japanese tour back in '91, the band stumbling to increasing commercial and critical indifference, dwindling away, tired, listless and neutered in the mid-'90s. MORE >>> THE POGUES Reunited, and it feels like it's gonna be sick PATRICK KENNEDY Boston's Weekly Dig 8 March 2006 There’s a lot more to the Pogues than Shane MacGowan’s remaining teeth. It may be hard to believe now, but when MacGowan and Spider Stacy formed the band in London in the early ’80s, there was nothing hip about traditional Irish music. There was certainly no call for a punk band to play folk songs and sea chanteys with acoustic guitar, accordion, tin whistle and banjo (plus electric bass and a stripped-down drum kit). MORE >>> Regaining Shane The return of the MacGowan Pogues Boston Phoenix By: JIM SULLIVAN 3/7/2006 12:00:30 PM http://www.pogues.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37844#37844 It was 1985 and it was time for a new kind of kick. I did not expect to find it with guys playing tin whistle, banjo, and accordion, and a guy who used to sing for the B-level punk band, the Nips (n?s Nipple Erectors) — that would be the dentally challenged Shane MacGowan. Oh, and there would be a diffident female bassist named Caitlin who would later marry (and get divorced from) Elvis Costello. But find it I did. 06.03.2006 Survivors After years of very hard living, Shane MacGowan of the Pogues should really be dead. But he and the band are back, breathing life into their careers with a long-awaited us tour. Boston Globe By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff 5 Mar 2006 DUBLIN -- When Shane MacGowan lurches into the Morrison hotel on a recent Thursday afternoon, clutching a cocktail, half the people in the lobby begin to breathe again. The famously damaged frontman for the Irish folk-punk band the Pogues is usually late by several hours, but MacGowan was delayed overnight by emergency surgery on an abscess under one of his few remaining, rotted teeth. In four hours he and the band are scheduled to arrive on the red carpet at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards, this country's equivalent of the Grammys, where the Pogues will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. MORE >>> Some news from Sean Fay: 1st March 2006 - Shane does a Video Clip for Bob Geldof's upcoming " Lifetime Achievement Award " at the I.R.M.A Awards to be held in a few weeks. Photos >>> Shane autographs caricature painting by Niall O'Loughlin that is due to be auctioned in aid of the worthy charity DEBRA. Photos >>> Fairytale Believer Irish Voice 1 Mar 2006 By SEAN O’DRISCOLL Original URL (subscription) Shane MacGowan will tour the U.S. this month with the reformed Pogues, who haven’t been together for 10 years. During a turbulent 4 a.m. interview on Tuesday morning, he talks to SEAN O’DRISCOLL about reforming the band, the recent Dublin riots, his support for the Kirsty MacColl campaign and his thoughts on his own career. MORE >>> |
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