I couldn't have come back from a four-day, computer-free weekend to better news: the Pogues are coming to the Midland by AMC on October 25. Pogues.com
Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 26, at 10 a.m. But a pre-sale is available today beginning at 3 p.m. to anyone who signs up for the Pogues' online community.
In recent years, it seems like the storied Irish trad-rock-punk band has only played in New York (and maybe one or two other select cities) when they've bothered to come to the U.S. Ev
It's been about a year since Lawrence singer-songwriter Suzannah Johannes wooed us with her debut EP on Range Life Records.
Thanks to sublime droplets of folk ambrosia such as the NPR pick "Horserider's Smile," that was one of our favorite records from '08.
There was a tour, a Daytrotter session and then...silence. Where, oh, where, did our Suzannah go?
Well, she's back, sort of, and not a moment too soon. Last week, Fader caught up with her in an unnamed dive in St. Louis for the ma
On his Tir Na Blog yesterday, KC Irish Fest organizer Dan Regan announced that he'd be giving away two tickets to see the Pogues first-ever visit to Kansas City, this Sunday, October 25, at the Midland by AMC.
Saith Danny:
The Kansas City Irish Fest and Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant have two pairs of tickets to Sunday's show. And they're yours for the taking. Tomorrow, Tuesday, I'll give you a very easy quiz on the band. Kid stuff, really. The kind of things any serious fan knows
This Sunday, semin ... no, wait. Legen-- nah. Fucking righteous Irish rock band the Pogues is playing its first concert ever in Kansas City. Brief history: The band formed in the early '80s in London, forcing punk and traditional Irish music together like opponents in a drinking contest who both end up on the barroom floor, talking to God and hugging. Beginning with the trio of singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, tin whistler Spider Stacy and guitarist Jim Fearnley, the group first called itse
To flip someone off in Ireland and the UK, you make the V-sign and hold it out palm inwards. Usually, the index and middle finger are closer together than, say, in the gesture you would make ordering two gyros at the falafel truck.
This version of the bird ("the two-fingered salute" as they call it) was designed and put into order by Parliament specifically and for no other reason than to enable Shane MacGowan to flip you off every time he takes a drag from his cigarette on stage. It's a fact.
