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chicafrom3I have received my Christmas present from my bb brother!
He's let having a good job go to his head. I'm not complaining in the least.
So obviously I immediately put on the Pogues DVD.
It's glorious, okay? It's everything a concert video should be. I realize I'm biased, but for real, it's well-shot and well-edited; it strikes a nice balance between showing you everything that's going on and artistic license/cool images.
And it's a fantastic performance. The band is completely on from beginning to end and look like they're enjoying every moment of it and at one point James makes a snow angel in the Fairytale Of New York fake snow and whoever edited the video together clearly got a huge kick out of Spider and the beer tray.
And Shane is completely flawless, snarling his way through songs, bickering and bantering and genuinely enjoying himself, and only in a few moments does he slur thickly enough to make understanding difficult. Please live forever, Shane.
The bonus content is also great; there's a recording of Philip singing "Thousands Are Sailing" at a 2006 concert, and two French featurettes on the band from 1986 (which made me a little depressed because of the whole "The band is recording their next album" part and they haven't recorded a new album in ages and I am overinvested) which had some fantastic footage of early concerts.
The boxset also came with a two-CD set of the Paris concert and a booklet with people reminiscing about 30 years of the Pogues, which introduced me to this story I'd never heard before:
I sincerely hope that is honestly the way Cait O'Riordan joined the Pogues.
He's let having a good job go to his head. I'm not complaining in the least.
So obviously I immediately put on the Pogues DVD.
It's glorious, okay? It's everything a concert video should be. I realize I'm biased, but for real, it's well-shot and well-edited; it strikes a nice balance between showing you everything that's going on and artistic license/cool images.
And it's a fantastic performance. The band is completely on from beginning to end and look like they're enjoying every moment of it and at one point James makes a snow angel in the Fairytale Of New York fake snow and whoever edited the video together clearly got a huge kick out of Spider and the beer tray.
And Shane is completely flawless, snarling his way through songs, bickering and bantering and genuinely enjoying himself, and only in a few moments does he slur thickly enough to make understanding difficult. Please live forever, Shane.
The bonus content is also great; there's a recording of Philip singing "Thousands Are Sailing" at a 2006 concert, and two French featurettes on the band from 1986 (which made me a little depressed because of the whole "The band is recording their next album" part and they haven't recorded a new album in ages and I am overinvested) which had some fantastic footage of early concerts.
The boxset also came with a two-CD set of the Paris concert and a booklet with people reminiscing about 30 years of the Pogues, which introduced me to this story I'd never heard before:
Cait had joined the band of merry men by then. (Shane met her on Oxford St. He said if she lent him five quid she could join his band.)
I sincerely hope that is honestly the way Cait O'Riordan joined the Pogues.
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