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“It was wonderful, boring, horrible, heartbreaking": Life with Shane MacGowan
The Pogues' Jem Finer recalls life in the original line-up
“There certainly was a fair amount of hard drinking. But there was a degree of professionalism, if hard to recognise at times”: How The Pogues made a folk-punk classic in Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash remains the late Shane MacGowan’s finest moment
Nadine Shah, Lankum's Darragh Lynch, Lisa O'Neill among guest vocalists joining The Pogues for their first UK headline tour in 13 years
The Pogues reveal guest vocalists joining them for their 40th anniversary Rum Sodomy & The Lash tour in May
How Jimi Hendrix became an unlikely influence upon Irish folk-punk legends The Pogues
Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy loved Jimi Hendrix, but The Pogues were never going to sound like Seattle's legendary guitar hero
The Pogues announce first UK headline tour in 13 years
London-Irish folk-punk group to tour for the first time since the death of former frontman Shane MacGowan
When Nick Cave first met Shane MacGowan
Nick Cave and the late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan were great friends: here's how their friendship began
Shane MacGowan: Music critic extraordinaire
Shane MacGowan didn't hold back when asked to review the music of his peers
“He would do crazy things like take 100 tabs of acid in a day then jump out of the window of a moving taxi, or paint himself blue": Shane MacGowan's wife Victoria Clarke on the unorthodox, unbreakable love she shared with The Pogues' late frontman
Victoria Clarke's four decades-long relationship with The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan wasn't always easy, but amid the chaos their love was pure
The albums on Stiff Records you should definitely own
Pioneering indie label Stiff Records was home to some of the great music of the 70s and 80s, from Ian Dury to The Pogues, The Damned and beyond. And these are the labe's best albums
“I’m not interested in my own angst. I like a good story. Violence. A bit of sex, a bit of drinking, a bit of drugs, y’knoworramean?” A tribute to Shane MacGowan, the genius lyricist who thought the music was more important than the words
As the music of the 80s became more polished, synthesised and over-produced, The Pogues took it back to its rudiments. And at the heart of it was Shane MacGowan and his lyrics: funny, romantic, full of characters and stories
