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Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now there's just the rubble
In the hole here the paddies and the frogs
Came to gamble on the dogs
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh the torn up ticket stubs
From a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain
And the car-parks going up
And they're pulling down the pubs
And its just another bloody rainy day
Oh sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two
Ouch! This is REALLY tough after REM’s “Nightswimming" Glad this does not happen very often on RP!
Hmm... so I'm listening on 3rd July... and White City just followed Nightswimming.
Copy-paste playlist?
By Steve Earle
I met the Pogues in London, in EMI Abbey Road studios in 1986 while they were recording demos for what would become "If I Should Fall from Grace with God". They were trying to get out of their publishing deal at the time and had booked themselves into the third floor "penthouse" studio under the pseudo-pseudonym "The Terry Woods Quartet". . . . .
It was late, well after midnight and the journey out to St. John's Wood through an impossibly proverbial London fog took on the air of a secret mission in a B&W spy movie, all very hush-hush and deliciously clandestine. I presented myself to the uniformed security guard and I actually caught myself whispering as I announced "Steve Earle to see the Terry Woods Quarter in the penthouse." The elderly uniformed guard looked at me like I was a fucking idiot. "Oh, the Pogues? Top of the stairs turn right. You can't miss it. Half of fuckin' London's up there."
For the next couple of years we bumped into each other now and again in the middle of the night on one side of the pond or the other. Well, okay, sometimes it was a little harder than a bump. By the time we recorded "Johnny Come Lately" together (for my "Copperhead Road" Album), "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" was out and the boys were playing six nights during the week of St. Patricks Day at the old Town and Country club in Kentish Town. It was a magical week. Kirsty MacColl was there to sing "Fairytale of New York" with Shane every night and the encores included "Message to Rudy" featuring the Specials horn section and "I Fought the Law" with Joe Strummer himself fronting the band. I went out and sang "Johnny" with the band on each of the first three shows and then, on the morning of the fourth day, having worked out most of the kinks in front of 6000 people we recorded the track at Livingstone studios. We stayed up all night that night (like every other night) and the next morning Spider poured me into a cab for Heathrow and I only just made my flight home to the States. That night was the big St. Paddy's finale at the Town and Country. Somehow, in the confusion, no one bothered to inform Terry Woods, who had insisted on introducing me every night, that I was no longer in the country.
"Please Welcome" he rasped, "a good friend of ours from the great State of Texas -- STEVE EARLE!
And fuckin' nothin' happened because I was already halfway across the Atlantic nursing a hangover that registered about a 7.4 on the Richter scale. It took me about a week to recover and I'm sure some of the damage that I sustained that week was structural and permanent. But it was worth it. For four minutes on four consecutive nights in the Spring of 1987 I had been a Pogue.
Steve Earle
Fairview, Tn. May 2004"
I knew I took to Steve Earle for more than a love of his music. If I Should Fall From Grace With God is a CD i picked up at random and was immediately taken with. Good lord now i will go drink another ale and toast to Kazoo, our love of music and the interesting places music took us to. Alcohol was simply a fun companion...
I remember seeing The Pogues in Newport (South Wales) back in the 80s. It was just after hearing that the band had finally kicked Shane out. Arrived at the show to find his replacement was one Mr Joe Strummer. A stunning show of Pogues and Clash numbers followed that I can still see in my mind today.
Heaven.
That might have been 1990-91 when Hell's Ditch came out. Think Strummer produced that album. I saw them in NY during that tour. You probably saw them before me as they would have done shows in England, Ireland, Europe before coming here.
By Steve Earle
I met the Pogues in London, in EMI Abbey Road studios in 1986 while they were recording demos for what would become "If I Should Fall from Grace with God". They were trying to get out of their publishing deal at the time and had booked themselves into the third floor "penthouse" studio under the pseudo-pseudonym "The Terry Woods Quartet". . . . .
It was late, well after midnight and the journey out to St. John's Wood through an impossibly proverbial London fog took on the air of a secret mission in a B&W spy movie, all very hush-hush and deliciously clandestine. I presented myself to the uniformed security guard and I actually caught myself whispering as I announced "Steve Earle to see the Terry Woods Quarter in the penthouse." The elderly uniformed guard looked at me like I was a fucking idiot. "Oh, the Pogues? Top of the stairs turn right. You can't miss it. Half of fuckin' London's up there."
For the next couple of years we bumped into each other now and again in the middle of the night on one side of the pond or the other. Well, okay, sometimes it was a little harder than a bump. By the time we recorded "Johnny Come Lately" together (for my "Copperhead Road" Album), "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" was out and the boys were playing six nights during the week of St. Patricks Day at the old Town and Country club in Kentish Town. It was a magical week. Kirsty MacColl was there to sing "Fairytale of New York" with Shane every night and the encores included "Message to Rudy" featuring the Specials horn section and "I Fought the Law" with Joe Strummer himself fronting the band. I went out and sang "Johnny" with the band on each of the first three shows and then, on the morning of the fourth day, having worked out most of the kinks in front of 6000 people we recorded the track at Livingstone studios. We stayed up all night that night (like every other night) and the next morning Spider poured me into a cab for Heathrow and I only just made my flight home to the States. That night was the big St. Paddy's finale at the Town and Country. Somehow, in the confusion, no one bothered to inform Terry Woods, who had insisted on introducing me every night, that I was no longer in the country.
"Please Welcome" he rasped, "a good friend of ours from the great State of Texas -- STEVE EARLE!
And fuckin' nothin' happened because I was already halfway across the Atlantic nursing a hangover that registered about a 7.4 on the Richter scale. It took me about a week to recover and I'm sure some of the damage that I sustained that week was structural and permanent. But it was worth it. For four minutes on four consecutive nights in the Spring of 1987 I had been a Pogue.
Steve Earle
Fairview, Tn. May 2004"
I remember seeing The Pogues in Newport (South Wales) back in the 80s. It was just after hearing that the band had finally kicked Shane out. Arrived at the show to find his replacement was one Mr Joe Strummer. A stunning show of Pogues and Clash numbers followed that I can still see in my mind today.
Heaven.
wow.. jealous as all hell on that one.
gosh, you're on the ball.
I remember seeing The Pogues in Newport (South Wales) back in the 80s. It was just after hearing that the band had finally kicked Shane out. Arrived at the show to find his replacement was one Mr Joe Strummer. A stunning show of Pogues and Clash numbers followed that I can still see in my mind today.
Heaven.
Him and Keith Richards should face off in "Survivor".
Who wins in a battle between the undead—and how?
Not for an Irishman.
Lord, even his dentures are clapped out.
How is this man still alive? Does he have new livers swapped in like fresh batteries?
Him and Keith Richards should face off in "Survivor".
More Pogues please.
801 - Tomorrow never knows
Joe Cocker
The Jam
and now Shane and his bunch of rabble rousers... not their best song, but certainly up there...
People make fun of the way musicians look.
Are these the same people?
I don't know, do they also play music?
People make fun of the way musicians look.
Are these the same people?
Lord, even his dentures are clapped out.
How is this man still alive? Does he have new livers swapped in like fresh batteries?
Better than the originals!
I saw this bunch at a Nottingham festival last year, and Shane McGowan was absolutely pissed as a fart, such that he had to be led off the stage at one point to be replaced by someone who could sing. The band themselves were troupers who carried on despite Shane's babbling. Sadly I couldn't last the whole of the gig as I'd come down with feckin' swine flu so had to leave early :(
Thank you
Way underplayed on RP: The Pogues.
iscoot4peace wrote:
I completely agree with you!
....on such a great station, I forgot to add.
+1
I completely agree with you!
; "Eek")
Wrong dude-Shane's got shiny new store bought teeth.
Shane REALLY needs to spend about five hours in a dentist chair.
I was highly impressed... 
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Hmm... so I'm listening on 3rd July... and White City just followed Nightswimming.
Copy-paste playlist?
i'm listening on 7/28 - same thing.