just saw them last sunday in portland, shane was a total train wreck. they opened with "streams of whiskey" and followed with "if i should fall from grace with god", only during the chorus of "if i should fall..." he was still singing the chorus to "streams of whiskey", HA!! the band was super tight however. only my second time seeing them, shane is largely unintelligible, but hey, its still the Pogues. have fun
I saw them in LA a couple years back and it was great...Shane came out in a top hat and some sort of velvet robe...he actually held it together for the better part of the show (at least as well as he can these days)...the thing that struck me the most was the physical difference between him and Spider Stacy...Shane looks 25 years older than Spider and he's actually only 1 year older...it's like a Charlie Parker phenomenon - the drugs will do that to a man...it was still amazing to see them - the musicians in that band are unreal...
