Shane MacGowan ’s bandmates from The Pogues have defended the late singer against an ‘insulting’ misconception about him. The ...

From 1932, for almost sixty years, it was leased to the Courtauld Institute of Art, whose director between 1947 and 1974 was the art historian, Master of the Queen’s Pictures (and infamous ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...