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The Pogues Azkena Rock
Festival/Spain
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The Pogues will be heading one
night of The Azkena Rock Festival in Spain this coming September. Other act's
include - Social D., Bad Religion, Television and eh? Deep Purple. Also rumors
abound about a UK tour with the Dropkick Murphys.
http://www.azkenarockfestival.com/sp/index.htm
Friends and compatriots, brothers and sisters, romans, countrymen, etc...
This is a formal announcement to advise you that your favourite bunch of alcoholic idiots has decided to pack it in. After storming around Canada and Europe for six years, Siobhan have decided that the time is right to take a permanent breather. Why? Well, we've posted some BS on the website (www.siobhan.ca) about liver failure but as our most dedicated and supportive fans, you folks deserve to know the truth. We can't hide it forever, so it's best to just come out with it and try and put the whole mess behind us.
The TRUTH is, microscopic intergalactic death-spiders from the Andromeda system have covertly invaded Planet Earth and have been using mind-control on various artists all over the world to broadcast subliminal messages of passivity and obedience to prepare the population of Earth for the arrival of their invading fleet, the Kurr-'ak Space Spider Contingent, a malicious race of slimy, 8-legged alien pods of death who aim to enslave humanity in their unholy quest for galactic imperial dominance.
Having discovered this, we can no longer play our music in good conscience.
BUT! Weighing the odds, we have decided that ONE FINAL SHOW is not out of the question, and so, on July 30th, for $6 you can See us one final time at Barrymore's Music Hall (Bank and Gilmour st, Ottawa) as we pound out the good ol' celtic punk one last time. Tickets are on sale and going fast, so we suggest you mosey on down to Barrymore's and get some, or go visit the fine upstanding people at Ticketmaster to buy tix.
The Creeps are opening, and we have a whole bag of drunken shenanigans in store, so I would suggest that you come on down. Show will start around 9:30, and the door price is $8.
To everyone on this list who can't make it, thanks for supporting us over the years, you're the best. Remember that you can still buy our top-rated album at www.cdbaby.com/siobhanmusic, and raise a glass of stout for us at your local pub, as we're going to need all the Irish luck we can muster to defeat these Spiders.
Peace, Love and Slainte,
Ol' Jimmy,
Siobhan
http://www.siobhan.ca/
Belgium punk label Ghetto-Rock are are currently working on a "Tribute To The Pogues" compilation album
tentatively called Streams Of Whiskey.
The Agitators "Streams Of Whiskey"
The following bands have confirmed so far:
The Borderguards "Bright Lights"
Colt 45 "Sunny Side Of The Street"
Lancaster County Prison "Satan Is Waiting" (co-written and sang by Shane MacGowan!)
The McGillicuddys "Thousands Are Sailing"
Mutiny "Navigator"
Neck "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day"
Nervous Chillin' "A Rainy Night In Soho"
The Porters "Fiesta"
The Reducers S.F. "A Pair Of Brown Eyes"
Rum Runner "A Body Of An American"
Saint Bushmill's Choir "Greenland Whale Fisheries"
The Street Dogs "Dirty Old Town"
The Tossers "Young Ned Of The Hill"
http://www.ghetto-rock.com/.
Our friends over a paddyrock.com have put together a CD collection of their most requested and newest artists featured on their
web radio show. The disk is availiable through cafepress only at the low, low price of $9.99. For more details or to get you grubby
hands on a copy click here http://www.cafepress.com/paddyrock.23409966
The Full track listing is as follows:
1. Brotherhood by Flatfoot 56
2. Plastic Paddy by The Peelers
3. Drunk Tonight by The Bloody Irish Boys
4. Through The Flames by The Killigans
5. Something About Nothing by Jackdaw
6. 1788 by The Go Set
7. Drunken Lazy Bastard by The Mahones
8. Connemara Man by Switchback
9. The Morning After by The Prodigals
10. Streets of Salvation by The Greenland Whalefishers
11. Trinity by Ice Wagon Flu
12. Whisky In The Jar by The Scuttlers
13. Sally MacLennane by The Broken Shillelaghs
http://www.paddyrock.com.
The Pogues have been confirmed as the Friday headliner for Guilfest, which takes place at Stoke Park, Guilford from Friday 15th until Sunday 17th July.
The Pogues will be appearing with a line-up of Shane MacGowan, Peter 'Spider' Stacy, James Fernley, Jem Finer, Phillip Cheveron, Terry Woods, Andrew Ranken and Darryl Hunt.
This will be The Pogues first appearance since the Xmas 2004 tour, preceeding their appearance at the Fuji Festival and the short tour of Japan which follows.
They join the headliners for the Saturday and Sunday, Paul Weller, and Status Quo respectively. More acts will be announced in around a week.
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/050406b.shtml.
The Real McKenzies have completed work on 10,000 Shots, which will be the band's first official release for Fat Wreck Chords and will tentatively hit stores August 23rd. The band's last full-length, Oot & Aboot, was released via Honest Don's in 2003.
The band also underwent a lineup change for the album, with Fat McMicheal now on bass and Good Riddance drummer Sean Sellers handling percussion duties.
Also, the band is planning on touring Europe this Fall, to be followed by dates in the states, Japan, Australia, and Canada. Those dates should be available soon.
http://www.realmckenzies.com/.
JIVIN' JONES IRISH ROCK FESTIVAL RETURNS TO CONNOLLY'S, NYC, FRIDAY, APRIL 15TH AT 8 PM
Line-up Includes The McCabes, Icewagon Flu, The Ruffians, and The Mickey Finn's.
On Friday, April 15th, at 8 PM, Jivin' Jones Records presents the Jivin' Jones Irish Rock Festival music series, featuring The McCabes, Icewagon Flu, The Ruffians, and The Mickey Finn's.
For tickets and more information, please visit www.irishrockfest.com.
Event Information
Ticket Information
This Concert is sponsored in part by Guinness, Harp, and Smithwick's.
The Jivin' Jones Irish Rock Festival was founded in December 2004 with inaugural events spanning both sides of the Hudson river. One night in Hoboken, NJ and one night in New York City. It was designed to showcase the disparate styles of Irish rock music that have been developing across the globe and pervading the underground music scene for more than a decade. It featured the Irish jig-punk of The Prodigals, the rockabilly celtic raucousness of Lancaster County Prison, direct from London, the psycho-ceilidh of Neck, the quirk-pop celtic-americana of Icewagon Flu, the Irish-American punk of The Ruffians, and more.
The first Irish Rock Festival was an incredible success and to continue the tradition, it was recommended that the event occur more often to highlight more groups that are working to expand the genre of Celtic influenced rock music. The Festival has recently found a permanent home at Connolly's, 121 West 45th Street, (The home of Black '47) where it will be a monthly music series featuring the best Irish rock bands from around the globe.
April's installment will feature: one of America's best-loved Irish bands THE MCCABES with their fast Irish music that born in Ireland and made in the USA. ICEWAGON FLU continue to blur the lines between Irish- Americana rock and intellectual musical mischief with mandolin, tin whistles, kazoos, drums and some of the most witty and genre defying song writing since They Might be Giants. Incorporating the heart and soul of Celtic music with the exuberance of American and British punk rock, THE RUFFIANS perform original songs and inventive interpretations of traditional Irish dance music that make them one of the most exciting bands out today. THE MICKEY FINN'S join the Festival as an Irish Rock supergroup of sorts. Their line-up includes Padraig Allen (former lead singer of The Whole Shebang) on vocals and guitar, Matt Mancuso (former lead fiddler in Lord of the Dance and Raglan Road) on vocals and fiddle, and Brian Tracey (former drummer for The Prodigals) on drums.
Friday, April 15th, 2005, 8 PM
JIVIN' JONES IRISH ROCK FEST
Connolly's, 154 West 45th Street (between 6th Ave. & Broadway)
The McCabes, Icewagon Flu, The Ruffians, The Mickey Finn's
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 day-of-show. Advance tickets can be purchased at www.irishrockfest.com.
Lot's of goings on in Poguesland these days. First off a serious of 3 shows in Japan this summer has been announced:
27 July Tokyo, Shibuya AX
Also following up on last years back catalog reissue, "The Ultimate Collection" has been released in Europe. It's a double CD with disk 1 being a best of... and disk 2 live performances from Brixton in 2001. Track lists are as follows
Disk 1: A Rainy Might in Soho, Sally MacLennane, The Irish Rover, Dirty Old Town, Fairytale of New York, Streams of Whiskey, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Fiesta, Body of an American, Misty Morning Albert Bridge, Repeal of the Licensing Laws, Boys from the County Hell, Sunnyside of the Street, A Pair of Brown Eyes, Summer in Siam, The Sickbed of Cuchulainn, London Girl, Tuesday Morning, White City, Hell’s Ditch, Young Ned of the Hill, Thousands are Sailing.
Disc 2: Streams of Whiskey, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Boys from the County Hell, Broad Majestic Shannon, Young Ned of the Hill, Turkish Song of the Damned, Rainy Night in Soho, Tuesday Morning, Rain Street, A Pair of Brown Eyes, Repeal of the Licensing Laws, The Old Main Drag, Thousands are Sailing, Body of an American, Sally MacLennane, Lullaby of London, Dirty Old Town, Bottle of Smoke, Sickbed of Cuchulainn, Fairytale of New York (with Lila MacMahon), Fiesta, Irish Rover.
Finally there are rumors of another Xmas jaunt around the UK & Ireland in 2005
28 July Osaka, Mother Hall
29 July Fuji Rock Festival (Naeba, Niigata)
Press release from http://www.theradiators.tv
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Earlier this year, Philip Chevron, Pete Holidai and Steve Rapid, who formed the legendary Dublin punk pioneers in 1976, joined forces with former Pogues bassist Cait O'Riordan and Those Handsome Devils drummer Johnny Bonnie to forge a dynamic new line-up and The Radiators (from Space) became The Radiators (Plan 9).
The new band made its debut in Dublin on June 16 this year and also made a big hit at the Oxegen Festival at Punchestown in July.
The band has been steadily working on new material with a projected album due in 2005. In the meantime, this EP, with four new recordings of Radiators classics, provides a dynamic musical bridge between the original band and the new one.
"Television Screen 2004" revisits the band's very first 45 from April 1977. This new version updates the song as a commentary on the Iraq War.
Cait O'Riordan performs "Kitty Ricketts", a song from the band's legendary second album Ghostown (from 1979). Pogues fans will recall Cait's featured performances as a vocalist with that band, notably on "I'm A Man You Don't Meet Everday".
"Enemies" and "Prison Bars", two songs originally found on the Radiators' first album TV Tube Heart (1977) completes the line up.
The recordings were made for, and originally aired on, John Kelly's "Mystery Train" programme on RTE Radio 1 in July 2004, except "Television Screen 2004" itself, which was broadcast live from Oxegen by 2FM as the band performed.
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Remind me: Who Are These Guys??
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Within four months of their arrival in London, The Radiators (they symbolically dropped the "from Space" bit as soon as it became clear they were staying) were working on a new album in Soho with producer Tony Visconti. The resulting record Ghostown was a unique outpouring of love, frustration, anger and heartbreak. Visions of Dublin and Ireland trapped in a childhood jam-jar and unleashed in exile, as they had to be. The sheer scale of the material could be seen when "Million Dollar Hero" became the great lost hit single, the late Agnes Bernelle performed "Kitty Ricketts" in her West End show and Christy Moore (and later Moving Hearts) adopted "Faithful Departed" as the perfect song with which to launch his own new vision of Irish music.
Commercially, the album bombed. It would be a few more years before Britain would
be ready for a band who sought to express a new generation's view of Irishness.
By then, Philip Chevron was himself a member of that band, The Pogues, along with
bass player Cait O'Riordan who has now rejoined her former colleague in a new line
up of The Radiators which also stars founder-members Steve Rapid and Pete Holidai
and former Those Handsome Devils drummer Johnnie Bonnie .
Shite'n'Onions 2004 Top 10 Albums
1. The Peelers - Liquordale
2. Saint Bushmill's Choir - Same
3. Flogging Molly - Within a Mile
4. The Go Set - Sing a Song
5. V/A - Shite'n'Onions: Vol. 1
6. Jackdaw - Jackdaw
7. Neck - Here's Mud
8. Larkin - Curse of Our Fathers
9. Amadan - Hell Bent
10. Siobhan - Welfare State
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