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Times
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Pogues review — no Shane MacGowan but plenty of memories
When you lose a frontman who fully embodied your music, it's time to let the music slur for itself. The death of Shane MacGowan in 2023 paradoxically revived the decade-dormant Pogues — as part tribute, part open-invite wake and part one-more-for-the-road. The surviving members — Spider Stacy, Jem Finer and James Fearnley — reunited to briefly mark the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Red Roses for Me, last year, an array of guest vocalists joining Stacy to fill the gaping, drawling void centre stage. Now they returned to the Brixton Academy in London to honour its acclaimed follow-up, Rum Sodomy and the Lash in full, plus associated songs of the era. This was the album where the traditional Irish folk idyll had ten
Times
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Pogues on life after Shane: ‘He wasn't always drunk. He worked hard'
It is hard to imagine the Pogues without Shane MacGowan. The writer of such lachrymose classics as A Pair of Brown Eyes, Sally MacLennane and, with Jem Finer, the seasonal standard Fairytale of New York embodied the spirit of the London-Irish band: the wildness, the booziness, the literary and poetic intent underlying it all. Yet here I am in my office in London Bridge with Finer and Spider Stacy, who founded the Pogues with MacGowan in 1982 and have resolved, in the wake of the singer's death in 2023, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their classic album Rum Sodomy and the Lash with a global tour. Nobody could take the place of MacGowan, so Finer and Stacy have enlisted various singers from a
