An Absolutely Brilliant Look At A Legendary Band On Stage
If you want a one word review of this concert video the word would have to be "FUN" no question about it. This video captures a Pogues show quite well showing the band and the crowd having a raucous good time! We were lucky enough to see the Pogues here in Chicago about a year ago and this truly does capture the energy in the room during a Pogues show.
For those of you that follow the Pogues you'll know that frontman Shane MacGowan likes to have a little bit of the whiskey before the shows, sometimes causing him to miss the performance and sometimes making him pretty incoherent on stage. While all of that adds to the charm and the mystique of the Pogues if you ask me here, for a night in Paris, Shane is in fine form. There are times during the show where you catch another band member's reaction to what Shane is doing on stage and there are smiles all around.
The picture quality is excellent and the shots and cuts all make sense. We have all seen concert...
Next best thing to being there
If ever there was any doubt that the Pogues are one of the all-time great live bands (not to mention all time great bands, full stop) then this is the final proof. If you've ever been to a Pogues concert then this does an amazing job of recreating the experience - bettering it in some ways, since Shane has rarely, if ever been so... coherent. The first time I ever saw them he could sing ok, but otherwise stood vacantly on the stage, whirling his mic around in a daze. Here he is on top of his game and clearly having fun. But no one goes to a Pogues concert for the vocal abilities (throughout the show we also get Spider, Terry and Andrew all crooning, and none of them are going to win any awards); the Pogues have always been about the energy, skill and sheer exuberant joy of the instruments, and it is so good to see that, 30 years on, they can all still produce in abundance. Even Phil Chevron, who is obviously suffering from his cancer, is channeling everything he has into the...
Shane Mcgowan Really performs !
This is the best Pogues performance I have ever seen and I have been a fan since the beginning. Shane McGowan remembers all the lyrics and gets all his cues. The musicians are terrific. I have watched this DVD several times and enjoy it more every time
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