The Pogues-The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn

[missxsoph1]

Desperate attempts by English to claim them,yeah Shane was unfortunate ti he born on an engish vacation,Irish heart shines thru the show is late,late show

[HarryPotter9220]

nicenicenice

[Optics06]

Cait. :)

[robdcelt67]

his parents spent two weeks in London so that makes shane English! Haaaaaaaa, hilarious stuff. If a horse is born in a pig sty, it dont make it no pig. Go away ya desperate whore!

[BEricN]

I'm really digging Spider's coat! Cait's in pretty fine form here too. Great vid!

[laboheme26]

You can take the man out of the bog, but you can't take the bog out of the man...this is an Irish band, I don't give a fuck where they were born.

[NatureGnome]

Lets all agree they are a celtic band from england.... but in all honesty they give me some english pride for once.

[TimbaThe]

The audio isn't live, it's the recorded version that appears on Rum Sodomy and the Lash. Disappoint.

[mitch26]

@TimbaThe According to one of the Pogues I talked to parts of the music are piped in and parts are live. There's a lag on this video from converting it from PAL that makes it all seem worse than it is.

[TimbaThe]

@mitch26 Having watched more Pogues videos these past days it seems a lot of their videos were like that, showing live footage with studio audio. Apparently the orders to do so came from up above and it wasn't the band's decision.

[URUdderRandomness]

@TimbaThe are you sure? It does not sound like it. At some points it seems to fast and then some points it seems to slow...

[meatisburger2]

it cracks me up that everyone assumes theyre from ireland.. there may be a few from irish decsent but theyre from kings cross london

[rebelcounty77]

@meatisburger2 lol,i know.the drummer once said in an interview "its about time people started calling us a drunken English band". simple fact is they never would have happened in Ireland.

[casbah1982]

All this great sound coming out of just one 12" combo amp;)! Who is the bass player and whatever happened to her career? My irish heart is melting at 1:44 to 1:53.

[mitch26]

@casbah1982 The bass player was Cait O'Riordan who married Elvis Costello, that would have been at least 2 wives ago for him.....

[JustinRyanNumber1]

Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in madrid and you decked some f'in' blackshirt for cursin' all the yids!

love it!

[Pogue009]

When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt, and got Syph down in Cologne.... I fucking love Shane I can't believe they ever thought they could do it without him

[Noofak]

Happy st paddys day! from new orleans

[Ramonajunie3]

Nostalgia... my father would play this for me and my brothers when we were 3 or 4 years old. We called it the "slow-fast song". My mother never approved of it because it had "bad language" but my father insisted that it was okay because we couldn't understand it anyway. It was, and it was also one of my best memories as a child. :3

[ravingscholar]

A rare shot of Caitlin O Riordan. Wow!

[kibi45]

Love um! What a tune!

[steviekid1]

Legend auntie Gaybo!

[thinsnake]

Irish Magic at it's best :-)

[GoinDownToJunkieTown]

reminds me of the bill grundy/sex pistols interview. fuckin gay byrne.what a mong.

[1969tucker]

pure and proud!!!

[alchoholic20]

Alot of though went into writing this song look up the meanings behind the lyrics. Was Shane a historian or something? for a guy who didnt make it through school hes a genius.also he helps me drink not that he really has to its just a luxury

[jenniferjuniper97]

Was that Bob Geldof in the chair?

[Whippy930]

Lots of arse hole commentators on this clip.....

[jjmax75]

@Whippy930 indeeding there is, makes me wonder do they actually get what the pogues and this song is all about?

[finnandcork]

plastic paddy? damn, love how the irish love to hate each other. Listen cunt flaps, Im Irish and Cherokee, Doyle from Wexford and Cherokee from North Carolina and Oklahoma, Wilson from Antrim...American, Australian and NZ are not ethnicties, you daft emu ass.Ergo, the appelations we "new Worlders" go by: French New Zealander, German Canadian, Boer, Irish American, Cameronnian Australian. I love Ireland but sometimes I want to kill some Irish fucks

[omarshinken]

@finnandcork take no notice i am full irish and i hate the paddy term its like calling me a nigger so plastic paddy is very insulting if your irish or not . does it really matter st patrick was a roman who fucked the irish and his crappy church has fucked us ever since be more proud of your cherokee roots i wish i had roots like that anyone who uses a term like plastic paddy does not understand irish history or culture so just say pogue mahone to them

[marcusceltic]

@finnandcork Haha! Im Irish and they annoy the shit outta me too, please understand those people are a very loud minority of Irishmen, most of us love the fact we got Irish people all over the world

[MrTolerHimself]

Plastic and Proud!

[entombed30]

Fuckin' Quality band and brilliant song.

[leonidasleahy]

Is there still time to order another pint?

[Kavos2006]

shane is a god

[Kavos2006]

i saw the pouges live at beatuifel days

[Kavos2006]

sinn fein

[Kavos2006]

laid there,well,id rather sleep there#

[Kavos2006]

yer she maried coselo

[MrPaulwaller70]

Is that gay byrne.sorry me mammy was a paddy and i am sure she used to watch this.KEEP RIGHT ON

[Kavos2006]

yer she married costello

[Kavos2006]

yer i confece she mareied elvis costelo

[Kavos2006]

face it im right.go th pouges

[mitch26]

@Kavos2006 I don't think so, she married Elvis Costello.

[Kavos2006]

hey the girl ....no i dont know what shes called.anyway she was shanes girlfreind

[Kavos2006]

go shane..

[Pitfossil]

@Kavos2006 Cait O´Riordan, and everyone who has heard her singing is in loive.

[Kavos2006]

look im english..but t i still think irland should be inderrpendent

[tjmacjee]

Brilliant Lyrics - and music that can never be bettered

[mitch26]

@RIProrygallagher Plastic Paddy? Sorry I couldn't have been born more inbred like you, but I'm surrounded by rednecks here and that ought to count for something. I'd flame you more but being a Rory Gallagher fan gives you a bit of dispensation....this time.

[RIProrygallagher]

@mitch26 Naw, sorry man, I ain't inbred. I just hate this new wave American Paddies (ala Dropkick Murphy's / Flogging Molly etc..) Such people have sickeningly mistaken views of Ireland. Your comment about Irish TV caused me to pigeonhole you into that horrible category of falsified people.

[ogloosh]

@RIProrygallagher

Pretty sure the lead singer of Dropkick is German, actually.

That aside, welcome to the modern world. People see what they want. Quite a bitch ain't it?

[paddy54321]

@RIProrygallagher shut up u dopey cunt ha. irish pride all over world. ones born here n abroad. erin go bragh

[maineiacial]

@RIProrygallagher dude are you being a huge dick cuz you have a small cock?

[mutley5019]

'The midnight court' give a hoot read a book! e.g now god stands up for ...

[cinecyclist]

saw them a few times ...was completely in love with Cait O'Riordan.

[Tales0fCail]

Haha Shane doesnt give a fuck lol

[meagher100]

il hit you a feckin deck in the head ,rite

[skribble355]

Brilliant song. Always reminds me of my buddy Beams.

[praskovia13]

@skribble355 tis a brilliant song indeedy i've seen ppl puke in Midnight  Mass

[aliensexspoon]

I used to sing this song to get my kids to asleep! Changed the words to ''grandma and granddad coster (my surname) were singing by the bed, there's a glass of milk below your feet and a mummy at your head, there's daddy by the side of you with a bottle in his hand ..Youll need one more drop of milk and you'll dream of foreign lands etc etc

[fattirevsbud]

haha that's great!

[paddyoshea55]

decked means hit him down with the one hit, a strike to the floor, generally a haymaker and is irish slang, we use it all the time

[afrowmask]

It sounds as though you have lifted that answer right out of a dictionary. You are wrong in saying its Irish slang though, its Scottish, you would not of known that coming from America or wherever.

[neilhosey]

no.. its irish slang.

[Ohfishyfishyfish]

Well, i thought it was English.

Let's just all split the difference and say it's Welsh

[NobleHam]

It's pretty standard slang in the US, too. =P

[bigajosep]

we say it in america since i was little too. dont know its origens

[pantonepixel]

One of my favorites! He's a genius

[gezelligtexas]

A blackshirt is an English fascist, and "yid" is short for "Yiddish." (i.e. Jewish)

[mitch26]

Okay, 3 folks have all replied that's enough on this thread, I'll approve no more....

[Kavos2006]

@mitch26 nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooo hear this,make it longer and better quility

[glengal]

@gezelligtexas or a Tottenham fan - Come of you Spurs! (not the San Antonio version)

[eckmacdonald]

Blackshirts are nazis

Yids are jews

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[hawkeyepierce12]

i remember this late late show episode from back in the day.

brings back memories.

[erp2k]

fascists, in italy and spain in pre and WW2 era, wore blackshirts

a yid is a jew (from yiddish)

awesome vid, thanks uploader!

[mitch26]

Bob is on the tail end of the vid.

[theneildeal666]

There was lazy drunken bastards singin' billy in the bowl

[mutley5019]

Great clip, but dear god Gay burne

[mitch26]

I'm sure the Irish know him better than me but I find him amusing and like his blunt line of questioning.

[ShaniaMacFree]

Slaínte for Shane!

[wolfgar50]

i eat when im hungry i drink when im dry n if the whiskey dont kill me i;ll live till i die.ya fuckin gobshite

[praskovia13]

great stuff ,up the Pogues!

[SIFLandOLLYshow]

Hahahahaha! I love how almost everyone is jumping around and going crazy, except for Shane, who sorta just stands there.

Great find!

[Rattachatrat]

Good to see Shane singing live w/out being totally smashed! What a great performance.

[CptMystery]

bob geldof looks smashed...

[smileyboi111]

woot quarter irish and loving it

[chrismess13]

Type of video, that can only elevate the all ready legendary status.

[MrGodza]

Jos jedna tura piva i viskija za sve postovaoce THE POGUESA!

[McCainTheTurdburglar]

This song is so fucking epic. I will skull fuck anyone who disagrees.

[kiwiflyer316]

@McCainTheTurdburglar nice reply

[midnightstrings]

Damn, this song gets to me. I'm so mexican, but when I listen to this, I'm fucking english/irish!! fuck. I'\m druink.

[ekimelyobo]

forget about englishness.... stick to the irishness

[midnightstrings]

will do!

[DERRYIRELAND]

You're welcome in Ireland anytime darling!

[wgilroy]

;-)

[smythy68]

@midnightstrings IRISH

[rainbowchakra90]

@midnightstrings Why are you English? WHY?

[fitzy545]

@midnightstrings this is a irish band not a english band what you on about

[theRADteepee]

@fitzy545 they're english fuckface

[katoness]

@fitzy545 Would you relax, sorry to inform you but half of the band have English accents. What does that tell you? Maybe 'cos they play Irish/folk music you think that makes them Irish. Celts are celts, with or without Irish, English accents.

[blu5572]

I love the Pogues...they are great

[shanester71]

gaye byrne is a plonker!

[N1SwtWorld]

My favorite Pogues song...

[twochaudio]

this guys a bad man very good spot on Hay....  for all you americans this this is why you don`t want national health care

[greendayrules15]

its like a pirate song!!

[heressShelly]

'so ya dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church' gowan shaney

[wowweemeltcity]

lead balloon springs to mind lol

[stevedub24]

Excellent !!!

Many thought Shane would not last ... his music, style and lyrics are unique well done for the ceili irish vulger rock...

[rankbadjin]

i'm sure the producer or researcher guy of that show got a bollocking after letting the boy's play 'sick bed.'

[BobbyMcGee1966]

anybody know what Cait's doing these days?

[mansderk]

I read somewhere that shes currently studying arts and playing in a band, cant remember their name, and at the same time struggling to remain sober, going to AA meetings and shit.

[heressShelly]

shes in a band now called Prenup...yer man outta hothouse flowers is in it aswell

[radioactivemanphilc]

ah fuck, the last bit got cut off.

[gcamaill]

Please, give it up about being Irish, Welsh, or the anointed of the world, just enjoy the music and the moment.

[coronachilla]

THANK YOU!

[FionnBaguh]

Course they have tv in ireland you twat!

[dganet]

Oh Jesus.....truly brilliant to see this again.........the original Late Late show...........great vid, great show.........THANKS x

[JakMil69]

NOBODY LOVES THE WELSH!!!!

[pablonikov]

Oh, I've heard the banshees howl, indeed.

[Certex]

Any French person (ie Filafrance) going on about peopel hanging around in silly clothes with stripes on it is ironi. This is a national stereotype, as is the striped sweaters THEY wear...

;)

[Woody053]

not very good quality but awesome song, and awesome band!!

[battycrease1992]

And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the yids...

[AmineTommylee]

Frank Ryan bought me whiskey i swear!!!

[AmineTommylee]

Frank Ryan bought me whiskey i swear!!!

[ash2712]

am thinkin shane would b good on tha podge n rodge show [appologies if he has all ready]

[mitch26]

He has, they showed what he'd look like with a makeover. LOL

[lennyfoot72]

its on you tube its briliant,type in podge and rodge and scroll down

[pmcgrath1991]

that was the best podge & rodge show

he sang a real republican song lol

[RORYDuggan51]

The Poet Shane MacGowan!

[grof2]

thank you for posting this, i like it.

[RevDrDark]

Da dog's bollocks issa Irish ting yah na kin canny

[jimmyshitbags]

this is a good song.

why is there so much bickering about who is and who is not irish on these videos?

[fifilafrance]

Irishmen are proud men, like scotsmen they love to hang about in silly clothes with stripes on it, pretending they discovered poetry and booze in one shot...and left reason to the rest of us, poor european wankers.

I don't know about Welsh: do they share this strange behaviour?

BUT WE ALL LOVE THEM , Don't we?

[cornjuggler]

because people want to be idiots

[bazzerboy]

THe Pogues music has aged well. Can't say the same for Gay Byrnes haughtiness, self-importance, arrogance, overconfidence and general conceit.

[mitch26]

LOL we have David Letterman for that..... I'm surprised if Gay Byrnes is still alive he must be 90....

[mh189]

that show's The Late Late Show on RTÉ 1, if you wanna know.

[mitch26]

The Late Late Show? So in Ireland that's anything after afternoon drinks?

Irish foreplay, "Brace yourself Bridgette."

[dandav666]

you will pay the price if you a fussy eater!!!

[bikegeek6666]

"more than our share of irish rejects"? you're aware most of those "irish rejects" weren't here by choice but because of famine? emigrate or die isn't a pretty choice.

[elrrobe]

¿aquí no habla nadie en cristiano o que cojones pasa pues?

[sashman1972]

Did I hear a train in the backround?

[dbx42dot1]

let`s have another round!

[connect4van]

whos the american jackass

[gumble1111]

Could anyone please give me a friggin chance to understand it? Thought it was bout the pogues-and yaahooouu-they are very good and funny musicians!!

[darragh1212]

"Live on Irish TV (who knew they had TV there?)"

Ha Ha coming from an america

your country is founded on the throwaway shit of other countries.Wanker

[mitch26]

Yeah we sure do have more than our share of Irish rejects over here, you can have them back if you want. Besides the Pogues, Chieftains, and Guinness you have nothing....:)

[benbebin]

I dont think youve tried our beef or our sausages, has to be said there quare good, and weve our own language and whiskey.. all america has is a few bright lights and the odd moving picture

[aaronb01]

you only got rte 1 an 2 though, i fucking hate yanks, they all reckon theyre irish in some way.

[blurfist]

Wrong. I don't reckon I'm Irish, ya limey turd.

[zsrt23456]

only alright? have u never tried e, then?

[zsrt23456]

u dont like mondays, huh, but have u tried the happy ones? halelujah!

[mitch26]

yes I have the Happy Mondays are all right by me:)

[OhNoItsToxxy]

Was that Bob Geldof there at the very end?

[mitch26]

Yes that is the one hit wonder man. I don't like Mondays either....

[dylbollox]

who knew they had tv there? most of your computer was probably built there...

[miceal27]

My favourite pogues song. the imagery in the lyrics is astounding! The great london irish punk'n'irish sound!

[milkoASH]

`SHUT UP REHAB

[mark315111]

rehab is for quiters

[electricrussell]

have to say it doesn't sound 'live'. It sounds like they're miming to the album.

[atomsdecolorins]

I agree... it doesn't look synchronized. But it's one of their best songs anyway!

[snicky58]

Back when Shane had teeth. Ah, memories.

[gamelis1]

Shane McGowan is a genius