http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-pogues-and-swingin-utters/Event?oid=1728948 Comments On: The Pogues and Swingin' Utters en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Christopher_86]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:51:36 -0700 Portland Mercury Spider, James and the rest, thanks so much for visiting us. Please come again. You fellas rock, are outstanding musicians and seem to be &%$@ people, too. I'm so glad that I didn't have to fly to San Francisco, San Diego and the like. I danced, then, took public transportation home with my lovely wife.
Please, please visit our city again. The joint was jumpin'!
Posted by fallsurf]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:21:54 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by PoguesFan]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:38:54 -0700 Portland Mercury The band did appear to be very ashamed, standing there, playing the songs, not moving, not really into it, they seemed to be ashamed that they were there. When Shane was led off the stage so a song could be done without him, they played well, but when shane was there it was pittiful. He appeared so drunk that he was unable to speak. The volume wasn't such that words were lost, there were just no words coming out of his head. He staggered around the stage, mostly making noises that sorta went with the songs, but the band would miss, he would miss, some members ending stongs before others. sad. We walked out mid song. I wish I would have seen them back in the day.

...and they stole $100 (2 tickets) from us. If I could have figured out who to demand my money back, I would have. Likely from the person that gave them all the liquor (I heard from an employee about how much they requested, and presumably got, before the show, criminal)
Posted by gunterhausfrau]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:55:38 -0700 Portland Mercury I have lived, loved, and listened to the Pogues for 20 years now and have always heard of the notorious live shows when Shane was booed off the stage, or didn't show up at all.
Tonight, i paid $58 (after tix master charge) to watch this guy get led onto stage like he was fucking ray charles and then MASSACRE every song that we pogues fans hold dear to us. Sure, he wrote them, but he should NOT be singing them anymore...
the whole fucking band should be ASHAMED of themselves for dragging this WORTHLESS CORPSE of a rock star around with them to drum up more suckers like me.
FUCK YOU POGUES for stealing my hard earned money, I feel sorry for all the other people who wasted theirs tonight too.
Posted by bubs]]> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:58:04 -0700 Portland Mercury