33 1 3 060 Pogue's Rum, Sodomy and the Lash Jeffery T Roesgen (pdf)

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.Darryl Hunt had been in London cabaret band Pride of theCross, which also featured Cait on vocals.Though he was anapt musician, Hunt was part of the Pogues road crew duringthe Rum, Sodomy & the Lash period.Based on this proximityto the band and his musical ability, Darryl was able to fill infor Cait when she left the band in the middle of their 1986tour of the United States.After the tour, he became apermanent member of the band.The Pogues met Frank Murray, their future manager, on their1984 tour supporting Elvis Costello.Murray, who d been atour manager with Thin Lizzy, the Specials, the Selecter, andMadness, had more recently worked with Kirsty MacColl andPhilip Chevron.Murray had the Pogues on the road often,94exposing more and more audiences to the band s liveprowess.Shane remembers of Murray: I think Frank did agreat job.He didn t make any promises.I think he was theright man for the Pogues at the time.Stiff Records, whose roster included Madness, the Damned,and Elvis Costello among others, released the Pogues firstthree records.Dave Robinson, Stiff s cofounder, recalls: Stan Brennan came to see me and then I met the band andwe did the deal.We worked out a very cheap budget to makethe first album and we, Stiff, put the money up. FrankMurray recalls Stiff during the Rum, Sodomy & the Lashperiod, The relationship with Stiff was good.Almostanything we asked of them, they gave us.They wanted SallyMacLennane out first as a single.We said no, we wanted APair of Brown Eyes and they gave us that.Filmmaker Alex Cox took note of the Pogues in early 1985,and soon thereafter directed the surreal video for A Pair ofBrown Eyes. In it, a paper bag of brown eyes are escortedthrough an Orwellian version of London.Later, Cox wouldrecruit the Pogues to appear in his film Straight to Hell and tocontribute to the soundtrack for his film Sid and Nancy.The Raft of the Medusa, July 1816The men beside me moaned as they entered the sea.They djust turned their wives to the support boats, while theythemselves assumed places on the raft.There were so far onlya pack of us aboard the raft, and already it floated below thesurface; water cuffing at our ankles.Through the morningthey loaded barrels of wine and flour and pemmican while95more men descended ladders to the raft.We watched thesupport boats and the Governor and his wife and daughterbeing hoisted in their armchairs down to the one that wasmost seaworthy.Their leather chests came next, followed bycrates of delicacies from St.Croix.A Royalist Lieutenantcommanded their boat that also included a well-armed squadof soldiers and a small group of sailors.When their boat washalf full of persons and cargo, it cast off from the Medusa.The Captain rode upon a similar boat, equipped with ablesailors and two squads.Families, officers, and soldierscrowded the other four boats.I watched for Jesse James andFrank Ryan as souls boarded and wept, but they weren t seenagain.Neither was there a trace of the gold.We were together at the interior of the raft, our feet wedgedbetween planking for balance, the water souping now at ourwaists.Our bodies held tight together like eggs, each onegaining stability from the other with the knowledge that asingle shift could send us all into the sea.Uncle Brian heldCait at the hips, his hands submerged.Bogle was right inamong us.For him, the water came to his thighs.Men closeby braced their hands upon him, as sturdy as a mast.Corr�ard,who refused his assignment upon one of the boats, stood closeby with his navvys, between us and a crude mast that hadbeen rammed between the planking.Savigny, the surgeon,similarly refused a position upon the boats.We huddled intoeach other as a single body, without the room to step.At last the boats organized.I craned back toward the Medusa:There was a collection of passengers who wouldn t ride onthe boats or the raft and would instead remain aboard.Most ofthese souls stood at the rail watching us prepare to go [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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