Phil Coulter and John Sheahan vs Lankum and The Mary Wallopers: Sit back and enjoy the music-industry hatred
What a pleasure to observe the flare-up between the composer and last surviving Dubliner and the drone-folk maestros and bouncy balladeers
The Pogues
Stories about Irish band The Pogues
Apple has decided 2024 is the year it annoys everyone. Is its top 100 albums list really that bad?
Apple Music’s best albums list is a fair reflection of where music is at nowadays. But many fans should prepare to be vexed - it turns out to be a bonfire of the musos
Vince Power: Waterford-born ‘Godfather of Gigs’ who rocked the UK music scene
Music promoter, entrepreneur and founder of the Mean Fiddler Group had a favourite mantra: ‘Keep one eye on the till and one eye on the talent’
The Belfast film-maker who was Shane MacGowan’s cleaner in London
The Irish in England loved him. And many English in England loved him also
Siobhan MacGowan: My mind is full still with the magical mayhem of my brother Shane’s life
Even as very young children growing up in Tunbridge Wells, we were sure of our roots. Identity is not a postcode, and Shane understood this more than most
Crowds line Dublin streets to cheer, sing and bid farewell to ‘huge legend’ Shane MacGowan
As Pogues singer's cortege passed Westland Row only the slow beat of a drum and the lament of an uilleann piper could be heard before the applause began
Shane MacGowan funeral: Nick Cave and Johnny Depp play roles in star-studded service in Nenagh
Funeral featuring some of The Pogues’ greatest hits concludes with The Parting Glass as thousands line streets for singer who died aged 65
Shane MacGowan captured what it was to struggle on the margins of a place that didn’t want you
Pogues frontman gave lyrical meaning to the tension of an Ireland that demands a complex present while yearning for a simple past
Fairytale of New York may finally reach the Christmas number one spot following death of Shane MacGowan
The Pogues’ festive classic was pipped to the UK top spot in 1987 by Pet Shop Boys, but is now in battle for pole position with Wham! and Mariah Carey
London Irish pay tribute to Shane MacGowan, who gave voice to their identity
London Irish gather to pay tribute to late Pogues frontman who gave voice to their identity
Shane McGowan and The Pogues moved Irish music, like most Irish people, from the countryside to the dirty city
MacGowan told the stories of people on the edges of society. He never shirked from their degradation, pain and humanity while also elevating their lives into something rich, beautiful and mythic
‘Shane had many acquaintances, but just a few friends . . . we knew who was who’
Pogues singer had a deep connection with Tipperary, and some of its pubs, where he said he felt at home
Shane MacGowan talks to The Irish Times, 1985: ‘They call us drunk because we’re Irish, or maybe because we are’
From the archive: In this Irish Times article from 1985, the late singer talks about the ‘Irish ghetto’, the BBC’s Pogues ban, and ‘despair, dullness and sobriety’
Shane MacGowan: From céilí-punk rebel to feted genius, addict to national institution
Despite the many medical challenges of his final years, he retained an admirably cussed streak to the end
The Pogues: A waste of time were it not for Shane MacGowan’s songs
From the archive: How The Irish Times reviewed Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, the band’s second album, in 1985
Shane MacGowan: Young, gifted and London Irish
The Pogues in the early 1980s felt to thousands of second-generation Irish like the answer to an unspoken prayer
Shane MacGowan at McGonagles and the SFX: How The Irish Times reviewed two Pogues gigs in 1985
From the archive: Brian Kilmartin and Dave Fanning were at the Dublin venues in March and September for the band’s early Irish appearances
Shane MacGowan, The Pogues’ frontman and singer-songwriter, dies aged 65
Death of Fairytale of New York singer Shane MacGowan: Victoria Mary Clarke says the 'measure of her dreams' has died
Shane MacGowan 1957-2023: A life in pictures
A selection of photographs capturing the talented singer’s celebrated music career and life
Shane MacGowan: What Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Depp and others said about him over the years
‘I truly believe that in 100 years from now most of us will be forgotten but Shane’s music is going to be remembered and sung’
Shane MacGowan obituary: Outsider who became one of Ireland’s most feted sons
Pogues frontman kicked open the door to Irish music for millions who might never have experienced it, instilled pride among the Irish in Britain and made Ireland itself cool
Shane MacGowan: The lyrics that defined a great songwriter
Pogues' frontman's 10 most memorable lines, from Fairytale of New York, Dark Streets of London, Transmetropolitan and more
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