The Pogues in Kansas City
The Pogues are playing in Kansas City on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at The Midland by AMC.
Big news this.
The Pogues are so big and so influential on so much of the Irish music that you hear in Kansas City and the Midwest that I’ve written about them loads of times - so there’s really no need for me to do it again (see below for previous pieces), or to use it as an excuse to trot out some tired Shane MacGowan jokes.
The Pogues, like Count John Mc Cormack, Van Morrison, and The Dubliners, before them, gave us a genre of Irish music that has been imitated in every city with a sniff of Irishness about it. A curse in other words. Except for the existence of the original.
There are no negatives. Go.
Just Some of the Earlier Posts on The Pogues:
• Blogue Mahone: Best Irish Music Blog Ever
• The Pogues, They Started Radio Stations
• The 27th Greatest Song Never To Reach Number One
• Shane MacGowan & Christy Moore Sing Spancil Hill
• Mike Webber Reviews The Pogues
• December 25th: Shane MacGowan’s Birthday
• Dirty Old Town by The Pogues
• Shane MacGowan on Kirsty MacColl
• How Do You Pronounce “Pogues”
Tickets
Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10am to the general public, though TicketMaster are doing their internet presale on Thursday from 10am to 10pm. The official Pogues site is advertising tickets for all venues on this tour going on presale at 3pm tomorrow, Tuesday, to their internet community
Tickets start at $45 for what’s classed as an all ages show. As this could be history you might want to bring somebody young. Or somebody old come to think of it.
Coors Light Live Concert Series
This gig in The Pogues Fall Shows, 2009 - NW X W X SW Tour (see what they did there?) is presented as a Coors Light Live Concert Series show.
Irish Events Calendar
This event is posted on the Kansas City Irish events calendar - and of course it’s over on the far right sidebar of every single page on IrishKC because it’s considered to be among the events that are Irish Highlights in KC.
Pogues USA Tour
Dates are now posted for the fall 2009 USA Tour by The Pogues
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