Topic: Shane MacGowan
Read more: The making of the Pogues 'Fairytale of New York' - SEE VIDEO. . This Christmas marks the tenth anniversary of the strange death and...
This brand-new duet has to be the most surreal and delicious blindside of the year.The Little Drummer Boy/ Peace on Earth medley is mostly famous...
After creating the album Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, which put them on the map, people were expecting big things of The Pogues next release. One of the great bonuses of the Pogues work is that on top of that great punk-folk ...
To many people a band such as the Pogues seem as Irish as you can't get without being actually carved from the Blarney Stone. The difference with the Pogues is that if you walked into a bar and heard them singing ...
The Pogues have always been an odd band to pigeon hole, punks with folk instuments, folkies with a punk attitue, bar room boozers, who knows, but thats really not the point. The point is that the Pogues kick out a great range ...
Most people who know the name Shane MacGowan probably have him pegged as a stereotypical drunken paddy, fronting The Pogues as a whirlwind of frenzied punk inspired folk music and alcohol try to beat him to the floor in a dishevelled and ...
From U2 to Damien Dempsey, The Avalanches to The Dubliners, Ireland has a wealth of contemporary characters and heroes to draw on. One man who emulates him, and fails, is the enigma that is Shane MacGowan. That said - MacGowan unquestionably was a ...
The legendary U2 producer Steve Lillywhite has said the band's latest album 'No Line on the Horizon' was a flop. The album sold poorly and...
As we prepare for SXSW each year, we pore over the lists of hundreds upon hundreds of bands, making a schedule of sets to catch that is booked to the minute of each and every day. And their sound, despite a Chicago ...
), had a two-decade-long career during which she had her greatest solo success with the witty "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop (Swears He's Elvis)" in 1981 and accompanied Shane MacGowan on "Fairytale of New York," which was a ...