The Pogues - 09 - London Calling (Live @ T&C '88)

[missxsoph1]

Who's the one sad cunt that's disliking every pogues song?

[hanshotfirst1138]

It's weird hearing "London Calling" with accordion in the background!

[hanshotfirst1138]

Where is Shane? Backstage?

[casperld]

jaysus....that was good

[IrishNickO]

This video is absolutely grand! Thanks for this!

[WINEMONKEY2]

Sorry, not covers. Performances.  After all, he's Joe Strummer.

[WINEMONKEY2]

One of the best live versions I've heard of this tune. get a bunch of top notch musicians together and the energy carries it, I reckon...

Saw Joe Strummer fill in for Shane at The Warfield in San Francisco in '91 during the Hell's Ditch tour. Brilliant. Great covers of Clash tunes, too.

[weimer495]

lucky

[bigboredthing]

God knows what i'd give to have gone to this. my 2 heroes on stage at the same time, Shane AND Joe! Met Joe when i was 10, about 3 months before he died after a Mescaleros gig with my stepdad. Unforgettable. Get well Shane.

[ClashCityRockers0]

My 2 heroes as well!

[teeshappy]

T&C in Camden was a great venue. Pogues played the whole week there - think I was there for 4 or 5 of the nights. Would have done the whole week but SLF or Iggy Pop was playing in Brixton same week. Wild days. RIP Joe Public.

[ultragamer123]

From 2:04 to 2:30 is the best music moment i ever seen/heard

[therealsteamingpile]

Jesus Joe was only 50? That fucking sucks, one of the most underrated musicians in the public's eyes

[kfz]

where was this show recorded?

[punkace]

The Town and Country.

[PTBLoyal]

These were the days, with a crowd going abselutely mental, QPR in top of the league, and Joe Strummer still living.

[ruderogo]

wow i saw joe a few years before he died, and he was still playing that guitar you see in the video, talk about a peice of history

[Listen2Strummer]

thats the black telecaster the only guitar he ever performed with or rcorded with he bought it with the money he got from marrying a women to give her english citezenship. thats what separates joe from others, we need him now more than ever....

[Marbeau]

He also had a white Fender Esquire.

[fugitive29]

fucking yes, joe looks so happy! so rejouvinated, the late days of the clash were tough on him

[dragyourhalo]

joe strummer is boring. i almost fall asleep watching him perform

[daviddavid987]

shut up you plonker

[jokamachi]

yeah, ya tosser

[joeyoap]

Love The Pogues and The Clash in equal amounts but for me the pogues without shane just aint the same

[roughneckredleg]

The Westway is burning, I live by the ocean!

[iroscoe]

My brother took me to this gig a week before my 16th birthday i dont think ive been to a better one since,i had to go home very drunk with odd shoes on as i lost one during london calling but found another at the end,thanks a lot for posting this .

[ShastaOrange]

You were THERE?! That's awesome, man!

[iroscoe]

I was indeed,i think The Pogues were at their absolute best around this time,that and all the great guests plus the fact it was St Patricks made it really special . I wasn't going to go cos i was so skint but my brother(bless his heart)stood me drinks all night as well as weighing out for the ticket .

[LucyStag]

Oooh lucky bastard. And it does look like a shoe losing sort of a gig. Glad you got to go.

[Hecklinatyall]

That is a gret rendition of a great song. Good think Shane isn't siging it or we would never know the song outside of the beat. Thanks for posting this.

[hanshotfirst1138]

@Hecklinatyall Shane's still understandable at this point, I think. Judging by how fantastic this gig is it's probably MacGowan at his peak right before his crashing downward spiral, judging by how incomprehensible he sometimes sounded afterward.