Bluesfest Tours Announces The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy & the Lash 40th Anniversary Bringing the spirit of Bluesfest to stages ...

Dubliners burst into spontaneous renditions of Dirty Old Town and Fairytale of New York by The Pogues awaiting the funeral procession of the band’s beloved frontman Shane MacGowan. The cortege will ...

Dirty Old Town; The Sunnyside Of The Street; If I Should Fall From Grace With God; The Irish Rover; Rain Street; A Pair Of Brown Eyes; Boys From The County Hell; Fairytale Of New York; Body Of An ...

For a man who disliked American-inflected pop, Ewan MacColl wrote some matchless international hits. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, covered by the Chicago soulstress Roberta Flack, is as ...

Regarded for his wrenching, joyful lyricism as a bard of all things Irish, Shane MacGowan – the singer-songwriter known mostly for his work as frontman of the Celtic punk phenomenon the Pogues – was ...

Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas day in 1957 in Kent, England, and on his 30th birthday, he narrowly missed landing the Christmas No. 1 on the UK charts with “Fairytale of New York ...

Pete Doherty made a rare TV appearance on Channel 4 comedy talk show The Last Leg on Friday night (24 February). The Libertines frontman, 43, performed The Pogues’ 1985 classic “Dirty Old Town”, ...

Ewan MacColl knew it well. His ode to Salford, Dirty Old Town, opens with the lyric: “I met my love by the gasworks wall/Dreamed a dream by the old canal.” Now the city’s rusting gasworks are to be ...