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photos by Faith-Ann Young
The Pogues performed two of their three scheduled pre-St. Patrick's Day NYC gigs over the weekend at Roseland Ballroom (canceling Thursday, 3/12). Franz Nicolay opened Friday, 3/13. Lucero opened Satuday, 3/14.
"While the cittern and pennywhistle players chugged away at "Sally MacLennane," youngsters in tweed caps jigged along with linked arms, and although frontman Shane MacGowan slurred his way through "If I Should Fall From Grace With God," the crowd knew every word. In fact, the only intelligible phrases to come out of MacGowan's mostly-toothless mouth were 1) "we're drunk," and 2) "General Franco, everybody!" When the singer stopped the music with a stream of verbose garble, a thick brogue carried from the back of the packed hall: "Start singing, ya lazy bastard!"" [Village Voice - Saturday night]And from Faith, also from Saturday:
On cue, "Straight To Hell" by The Clash blasted loud as the The Pogues walked on stage. Shane MacGowan came on in black shades with a bottle of wine and cigarette in hand. Starting strong with "Streams of Whiskey," The Pogues carried the crowd with ease and tight musicianship - particularly accordionist James Fearnley and a wiry, shrunken, Phil Chevron. If you didn't know every word, you were in the sad minority. [Faith-Ann Young]The Pogues play again tonight (3/17) and tomorrow night (3/18) in Washington, DC, and this weekend (3/20 & 3/21) in Boston. Lucero will be at SXSW and a lot of other places soon.
More pictures from Saturday night below...
Lucero...
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what's hotter than a girl in a Dinosaur Jr shirt?
(5th picture from the top)
Posted by wembley | March 17, 2009 2:59 PM
Show of the year.
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:10 PM
a dude wearing an Albannach shirt.
(4th picture from bottom)
possibly a camera-shy Jim James
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:22 PM
Ben Nichols is hotter
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:25 PM
ben nichols' guitar is hotter!
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:38 PM
Gimme mah setlist?
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:45 PM
As an irish-American, I used to think Shane was a disgrace.
Now I know he'll outlive us all.
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:57 PM
woW, a genuinE band in brooklyn their not even wearing the trucker hat$ to be ironic,
Posted by crooklynvegan | March 17, 2009 7:04 PM
what's hotter than a girl in a Dinosaur Jr shirt?
(5th picture from the top)
Posted by wembley | March 17, 2009 2:59 PM
Show of the year.
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:10 PM
a dude wearing an Albannach shirt.
(4th picture from bottom)
possibly a camera-shy Jim James
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:22 PM
Ben Nichols is hotter
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:25 PM
ben nichols' guitar is hotter!
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:38 PM
Gimme mah setlist?
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:45 PM
As an irish-American, I used to think Shane was a disgrace.
Now I know he'll outlive us all.
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 3:57 PM
woW, a genuinE band in brooklyn their not even wearing the trucker hat$ to be ironic,
Posted by hhy | March 17, 2009 10:04 PM
Say what you want about how decrepid/fucked up Macgowan is...The friday night show was great and he'll go down as a legend...If you can go to a bar on st patty's (or anytime for that matter) and not get a thrill when you suddenly hear the Pogues blasting through I don't know what's wrong with you...
Posted by Anonymous | March 17, 2009 11:56 PM
uh, you're not pretending to be Irish.
Posted by Anonymous | March 18, 2009 7:34 AM
Dude...That's my mum and dad in the second last pic :)
Posted by Michelle | March 18, 2009 5:44 PM
And that's my sister in the Dinosaur Jr. T-shirt.
Posted by Fronzel | April 11, 2009 7:37 PM