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thereminOG 2002

Mar 17, 2008

Now I'm hoping this works... it's my first time using Flickr for photos, so I'm taking a risk... but this took a good amount of time to post and describe with the blurbs below, so hopefully it was worthwhile...

I gotta start really doing this after concerts I go to.. be disciplined enough to put the photos on the web and post them for you. (But excuse the bad quality.. it's taken with my phone is overall awesome minus it's 1 megapixel camera or whatever it is)

Here's The Pogues in NYC at Roseland Ballroom on Sunday.

First opener was an incredibly awesome foot stomping banjo plucking americana folk singer from Iowa named William Elliot Whitmore. Next, came the soapboxesque punkish folk or folkish punk strong-veined fed up with the world but keeps hope that it could be better political basher with an electric guitar... much like if The Clash or The Jam were still around as a solo act, Billy Bragg. Then, after doing his thing, with him sporting a shiny new cheap Texas shirt that he scored when he was down there for SXSW festival... explaining that he met this lovely girl he told that he was heading up to New York, and she came along being interested in going to the show in New York... out comes that girl... who happens to be Kate Nash. After her singing some duos with Billy.. she takes out a Feadóg (the Irish Penny whistle) and proceeds to play it! Hidden talent for sure! And Billy brought on this dude Fionn to accompany on acoustic guitar and so a psuedo Céilidh was born! That's all before The Pogues even coming on.

Then Wow! I mean Wow! The Pogues come on, put on a bigger moshing sweatier show than I attended in December back in London, which I mistakenly gambled was there most intense show I've been to yet. Or of the most intense of all concerts. But, no... last night was mosh pit rebirth.. in a friendly (but smelly sweaty way). hhaha. Dude sooooo many peoples' sweat got launched around on me. Got 16 dollar whiskey crushed out my cup.. all's good tho.. I enjoyed most of it before that, and even had some left after it was launched out... plus.. what's another 16 dollars on a new one.

So, the people were so joyful... making dancing circles towards the end of the concert... and I swooped into the middle as a show off and carelessly spun around while they rotated clockwise hand in hand... then opened the interlocked hands for me to be part of the clock. And everybody like with arms around each other... strangers.. but strangers who all love The Pogues.

First picture show's William Elliot Whitmore