I got this mailed to me today from someone pointing me to Philip Chevron needing some Pogues related help…
Glad to BT (kind of like RT on Twitter….? Except not.)
Just trying this one more time.If anybody has a copy to loan us - however rough sounding - of the infamous 1985 Pogues press conference at RTE, Dublin, please let me know. This was the event which was broadcast on BP Fallon’s radio show - the BP Fallon Orchestra - and was the Pogues’ introduction to the massed gents and ladies of the Irish media. This was the occasion the concertina player Noel Hill, in particular, called our music “unlovely” and “an abortion” and we were, in general, accused of the most base paddywhackery imaginable. Basically, had Yeats been there, he would almost certainly have thundered “you have disgraced yourselves again” at the assembled Irish journos and musos. Anyway, a fella called Sean Campbell, who has written a number of scholarly theses on Irish rock, wishes to revisit the moment and figure how it now stands, 25 years later, against what was subsequently known about the Pogues’ work and general impact. He has had no luck tracking down a tape of the show from any of the potential sources, including BP Fallon and RTE themselves, so he has sought out my help. As this press conference is perhaps the Pogues’ equivalent of Dylan at Newport, I’m quite curious myself to see how it stands after all these years. So if you have a copy of the radio programme, in any format, or know somebody who has, can you please drop me a message via this site’s Personal Message system. I’d very much appreciate it and would of course, compensate for your help.
First person to deliver the goods gets a pre-release set of 5 CDs of Just Look Them Straight In The Eye and say Pogue Mahone from me. This set of discs still includes the two Chieftains/Pogues live tracks which were left off the box set when we ran out of time to get clearances from Paddy Moloney. They are the final reference discs used before we settled on the eventual running order and content, which means that only the members of the Pogues have copies. Subsequent sets advertised for sale on eBay are later versions, with the final mastering and omitting the Pogues/Chieftains tracks.
Thanks.
