i am officially going to see the pogues
I purchased my ticket earlier today, and I reeived it as a .pdf by e-mail. As soon as the whole process was finished my face glowed like a christmas tree. I doubt that my smug smile could have been any broader than it was at that point; I knew I was going to the biggest event of my life.
Seriously though, I reckon when (if it ever happens) I am to get married, and I am standing by my bride to be, about to say ‘I do’ I’ll be thinking back to August 27th 2010 when I went to see the Pogues. And when/if we have a kid, and I am holding it/him/her in the hospital for the very first time, I’ll look back to the time I drunkenly was singing my guts out along with Shane MacGowan.
I’d show the ticket you if I wasn’t afraid that you’d steal it. Well, you need the credit card you bought the ticket with to get in to the show, but still… I would like to show it to you. To me, this ticket is like a check for ten million dollars. It feels very reassuring to have the ticket safely in my Gmail inbox, at least now I won’t be able to lose it.
I am seeing the Pogues. Envy me, bitches!
Is this the first time you’ll see the Pogues?
It IS going to be the biggest event of your life!!
Hopefully I’ll get time off to see them in Norway as well.
@Jess
It is indeed my first time to see the Pogues, as well as my first ‘real’ concert. I just can’t wait! I bought my ticket exactly one minute after they went out for sale! I have now printed it out, so everything’s ready now.
Where are you from? You should definitely go see them, it will be cool to meet so many fellow Pogues fans!
Unfortunately it looks like I’ll have to work… I’m so annoyed!
I’m from Germany. Saw them here in Münster on Saturday. But Pogues concerts are like a drug – once you’ve seen them you want to see them again and again and bloody again…
@Jess
Ah, I’m sorry to hear that! But at least you got to see them this year! I saw youtube videos from the show, and it looked great. I’m so excited that I’m going!! Can’t you make it to any of the other shows in Germany, though? They are playing in Leipzig, Berlin and Hamburg the three next days!
By the way, how did you find my blog, if I might ask? It’s just that I get so few comments that I feel like I am blogging to myself, haha.
The next three days I’ll have to work, so I won’t make it to any of the other shows here in Germany. And I was actually really looking forward to come to Norway, haven’t been there yet.
How long does it take to get from Oslo Airport to Drammen by train or bus? If I fly with SAS or Lufthansa (and pay a fortune….), I could fly out on the 27th and back on the 28th. Then I would only need those two days off…
Oh bloody hell, I’m so pissed off!! I was seriously looking forward to spend my holidays in Oslo seeing the Pogues again.
I found your comments in the Pogues Forum, in the Drammen 2010 thread.
I must say I quite like what I read on your homepage so far. So even if you have the feeling that you are blogging to yourself, keep doing it. When did you start this blog?
Oh that’s a shame!
But yes, you should definitely try to make it to the show! Germans seem to love Norway, haha. But I guess the feeling is mutual, I loved the time I spent in Berlin in 2008! At that time I took a German class at school, and even managed to buy a tageskarte at the metro station, all in German. That felt so good.
Where do you work, by the way?
Well, first you could take the “flytoget” or directly translated to English would be “the plane train”, haha. But that only takes about 20 minutes, and it brings you to Oslo, and the Central Station. Then there’s the HOURexpress bus that goes Oslo – Drammen every hour. Drammen isn’t very far from Oslo, so I don’t think it will take a long time at all. I’m not sure about the train to Drammen, but I’ll look into it.
Shouldn’t be a problem to fly out on the 27th and then back again on the 28th.
You could stay at a Hotel in Drammen, the Pogues will be doing the same. I’m not sure which Hotel they will be staying at yet, but I think I’m going to spend a night in Drammen as well. I must seem like a creepy stalker to them, haha. It’s just that I’m so excited about seeing them! I never thought I would, especially not in Norway, not after their last visit. (when I hadn’t even heard about them.)
Ah, the forum, that was my guess.
I’ve been running this blog for about a year now, but I haven’t been writing actively for more than a few months, really.
Well thank you very much, it was fun signing on to find comments on it.
I’m working part-time in a bakery and I’m studying…
You had a German class at school? That’s brilliant! You could teach me Norwegian – I have a teach-yourself-Norwegian-course somewhere, but somehow I don’t have the time to actually teach myself Norwegian… So what is “Hello, I’m Jess from Germany. I really love the Pogues and I would cut off my arms and legs to see the bloody concert in Norway!” in Norwegian? Once I am able to say that, I think I mastered the essentials of the language
According to google maps it’s less than 100km from the Airport to Drammen. Since there is an hourly bus service, it really can’t take too long… I’ll speak to my boss again today!!
Spending the night in Drammen sounds like a good plan – and I’m sure they don’t mind creepy stalkers…… Find out in which hotel they stay and we’ll stay there as well!!
@Jess
Ah I see. I’m in my hometown for the summer, where I am working at my mom’s kiosk , and there’s a really nice German family living here who all are regulars.
Haha, yeah I had! I got a 5 in that class (equal to a B in the American school system), but I have forgotten much since then. It’s been two years, and sadly there hasn’t been any chance for me to speak or write German since then. I still have my dictionaries though, and a very limited vocabulary.
Hallo, jeg heter Jess og er fra Tyskland. I elsker virkelig the Pogues og ville gjerne gitt mine armer og bein for å se den jævla konserten i Norge”! would be a pretty accurate translation, hehe. Learnt that by heart and you’ll pretty much have everything you need for your stay in Norway! The same would go for me, with that same sentence translated to German, and altered to “Germany” instead of “Norway”.
Really? 100km? I never knew it was that short a distance!
Never been to Drammen before, I just recently moved to Oslo last August, so I’m not even that familiar with the Oslo region either, haha. Yes, speak to your boss! Tell him/her it’s regarding a Pogues concert, and you’ll get time off no doubt! Unless he/she doesn’t know his/her music. 
Haha, that’s been my plan all along, I just haven’t told anybody yet in fear of sounding like a stalker!
I’ll PM Philip on the Medusa forum and ask him where they are planning on staying. – Hope it’s not too expensive, but still, I’ll stay there! Staying at the same hotel as the Pogues, and seing them live, is priceless in my book!
What’s your username at the Medusa forum, by the way?
I think I sent you an email……