The Pogues have insisted that their late bandmate Shane MacGowan "wasn't always drunk". At a White House event, President ...

Shane MacGowan’s bandmates have defended his legacy (Picture: Phillip Massey/FilmMagic) Shane MacGowan’s bandmates from The Pogues have defended the late singer against an ‘insulting ...

There’s a strange incongruity there – but that is the Pogues at their core. Shane MacGowan, of The Pogues, in 2009 – the band is currently touring the UK nearly two years after his death ...

The loss of Shane MacGowan is impossible to ignore. But to see his genius living on without him is a gift.

This is a very different band to the Pogues of 40 years ago, with Shane MacGowan, the band’s talisman and a songwriter of rare brilliance, having died in November 2023. Only three original Pogues are ...

Last December she used the power of music to celebrate the life of her friend and colleague Shane Macgowan. “I performed for seven Christmases with Shane in my Sharon Shannon Big Band so I ...

The trad icon is happy to see a new generations of fans become transfixed by the songs her own dad used to sing, but with the mad energy made famous by Shane MacGowan and pals in the 1980s.

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