50-631: Pogue Mahone is the seventh and final studio album by the Pogues , released in February 1996. The title is a variant of the Irish phrase póg mo thóin , meaning "kiss my arse", from which the band's name is derived. It was the band's second studio album recorded after the departure of Shane MacGowan , and features Spider Stacy in the role of lead singer. The album was not a critical or commercial success. After its release founding member Jem Finer left
100-484: A 1991 tour as his drug and alcohol dependency increasingly affected their live performances. The Pogues continued after MacGowan's departure, first with Joe Strummer and then longtime band member Spider Stacy as frontmen, releasing new material on Waiting for Herb (1993). They broke up following the critical and commercial failure of their seventh and last studio album, Pogue Mahone (1996). The band—including MacGowan—re-formed in late 2001 and toured regularly in
150-666: A complete lack of edge in their performances leaves the harmless album sounding like the work of a skilled and spirited but bog-ordinary Irish pub band." The Los Angeles Times wrote that "some numbers sound almost new age, thanks to an airy whistle, while others sound like dull FM-rock with a dash of Irish flavor." Credits are adapted from the album liner notes, except where noted. The Pogues The Pogues are an Irih Trad band or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London , in 1982, as Pogue Mahone , an anglicisation of
200-741: A date in Spain in September 2005. The reunited Pogues played dates in the UK with support from the Dropkick Murphys in late 2005, and re-released their 1987 Christmas classic "Fairytale of New York" on 19 December, which went straight in at No. 3 in the UK Singles charts on Christmas Day 2005, showing the song's enduring popularity. On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance (recorded
250-624: A new album. Chevron said that one way to keep enjoying what they were doing was to avoid making a new album, although he did say that there still is a possibility in the future for new music, but certainly not in the near future. Terry Woods has commented that MacGowan has been writing, and most of it sounds good. In 2008 the band released a box set Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say....POGUE MAHONE!! , which included rare studio outtakes and previously unreleased material. The band received mixed reviews of their performances though they continued to pull
300-570: A previously unreleased live album featuring Joe Strummer at the London Forum in December 1991. Guitarist Philip Chevron died on 8 October 2013 in Dublin, Ireland from oesophageal cancer, aged 56. In December 2013, the Pogues went on a four-date UK Christmas tour, followed by a few shows during spring and summer 2014. The Pogues' last performance on British soil occurred on 6 July 2014 at
350-651: A reputation for their energetic, raucous live shows, the Pogues released their first studio album, Red Roses for Me , in 1984, featuring a mix of traditional Irish songs and original compositions by MacGowan. Their second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash , produced by Elvis Costello , was released the following year. The Pogues collaborated with the Dubliners on a 1987 arrangement of the folk song " The Irish Rover ", which reached number one in Ireland and number eight in
400-531: A second US tour in March 2007, once again to coincide (and conclude) with a Roseland Ballroom New York City show on Saint Patrick's Day . 2007 proved to be their most prolific year of touring since the reunion with a tour of the west coast of America and eleven dates in the UK in December. The band also made festival appearances in the summer across Europe (Sweden, Belgium and Spain). Guitarist Phil Chevron has stated there were no plans to record new music or release
450-404: A single, " Dark Streets of London ", on their own, self-named label, gaining a small reputation – especially for their live performances, and national airplay on BBC Radio 1 , primarily on David Jensen 's evening show. They came to the attention of the media and Stiff Records when they opened for The Clash on their 1984 tour. Following complaints from a producer at BBC Radio Scotland about
500-549: A songwriter with this disc, offering up poetic storytelling, such as " The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn " and "The Old Main Drag", as well as definitive interpretations of Ewan MacColl 's " Dirty Old Town " and Eric Bogle 's " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " (this had previously been covered by Shane's fellow punk contemporaries Skids in 1981). The band failed to take advantage of the momentum created by
550-469: A variety of guest musicians on vocals at Hackney Empire , London, to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Red Roses for Me . The re-formed band subsequently announced that they would be touring the UK and Ireland in 2025 to mark the fortieth anniversary of their second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash . Current members Former members Philip Chevron Philip Ryan (17 June 1957 – 8 October 2013), professionally known as Philip Chevron ,
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#1732780416185600-602: Is a famous comment falsely attributed to Winston Churchill who was supposedly describing the "true" traditions of the British Royal Navy . The album cover featured The Raft of the Medusa , with the faces of the characters in Théodore Géricault 's painting replaced with those of the band members. The album shows the band moving away from covers to original material. Shane MacGowan came into his own as
650-619: Is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan . Soon after the break-up Shane MacGowan recorded a song titled Paddy Public Enemy Number One as a tribute to the Republican leader Dominic McGlinchey , a former leader of the INLA killed a few years before. After the Pogues's break-up, the three remaining long-term members (Spider Stacy, Andrew Ranken and Darryl Hunt) played together briefly as The Vendettas. They played mainly new Stacy-penned tracks, though Darryl Hunt also contributed songs, and
700-670: Is an anglicisation of the Irish phrase póg mo thóin , meaning "kiss my arse". The new group played their first gig at The Pindar of Wakefield on 4 October 1982. By their show on Friday 29 October 1982 at 100 Club in London, Cait O'Riordan (bass) and John Hasler (drums) had joined the band, with Andrew Ranken replacing Hasler on drums in March 1983. Pogue Mahone appeared on Thursday 3 November 1983 at Gossips in Dean Street Soho with Trash Trash Trash and The Stingrays. The band played London pubs and clubs, and released
750-691: The British Summer Time festival in London 's Hyde Park . The Pogues' last ever performance (to date) occurred on 9 August 2014 during the "Fête du bruit dans Landerneau" festival in Landerneau , Brittany , France . In a December 2015 interview with Vice magazine, when asked whether the band were still active, Shane MacGowan said: "We're not, no", saying that, since their 2001 reunion happened, "I went back with [the] Pogues and we grew to hate each other all over again", adding, "I don't hate
800-429: The Irish phrase póg mo thóin , meaning "kiss my arse". Initially poorly received in traditional Irish music circles—the celebrated musician Tommy Makem called them "the greatest disaster ever to hit Irish music"—the band were subsequently credited with reinvigorating the genre. They later incorporated influences from other musical traditions, including jazz , flamenco , and Middle Eastern music . Having gained
850-667: The "Sold on Song" top 100 poll. In 2007 the record was briefly censored by the BBC because of the word "faggot" being deemed potentially offensive to homosexual people. Following protests from listeners, including the mother of Kirsty MacColl, the censorship was lifted. In 1989, the band released Peace and Love , a jazzier record featuring six tracks written by MacGowan, as well as eight tracks written by band members Jem Finer , Terry Woods , Andrew Ranken, and Philip Chevron . As Mark Deming wrote in AllMusic , "It does make clear that MacGowan
900-502: The Cranky George Trio. Philip Chevron reformed his former band The Radiators, which briefly included former Pogue Cait O'Riordan. Terry Woods formed The Bucks with Ron Kavana, releasing the album Dancin' To The Ceili Band in 1994. Later, he formed The Woods Band, releasing the album Music From The Four Corners of Hell in 2002. The band, including MacGowan, re-formed for a Christmas tour in 2001 and performed nine shows in
950-611: The Pogues first met when MacGowan (vocals), Peter "Spider" Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer (banjo) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in London in 1977. MacGowan was already with The Nips , though when they broke up in 1980 he concentrated more on Stacy's Millwall Chainsaws, who changed their name to The New Republicans. . Shane and Stacy performed their first gig as The New Republicans at Richard Strange 's Cabaret Futura in London 's Rupert Street Soho in
1000-534: The Pogues reformed, Spider continued to write and record music with various bands, including the James Walbourne, Filthy Thieving Bastards , Dropkick Murphys and Astral Social Club . Shane MacGowan founded Shane MacGowan and The Popes in 1992. They released two studio albums and broke up in 2006 once The Pogues' reunion had become official. His autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan , co-written with his journalist girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke,
1050-603: The Stockton Weekender Festival in Stockton-on-Tees , UK to 11 and 12 September 2012 at L'Olympia , Paris, two shows filmed and recorded for a live album and DVD released on 19 November 2012. In March 2013, the Pogues released 30:30: The Essential Collection , a 2-disc set featuring 30 songs along with eleven videos. In October 2013, the Pogues released a box set titled Pogues 30 containing remastered versions of all of their studio albums plus
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#17327804161851100-495: The UK and Ireland in December 2004. In 2002 Q magazine named the Pogues one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die". In July 2005, the band – again including MacGowan – played at the annual Guilfest festival in Guildford before flying out to Japan where they played three dates. Japan is the last place they all played together before MacGowan was originally sacked in 1991, and they have a strong following there. The band played
1150-402: The UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK , despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released. It was also voted as the 27th greatest song never to reach UK#1 in another VH1 poll, and also voted as the 84th greatest song of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in
1200-651: The UK and Ireland, also performing in the USA and mainland Europe. Following the death of longtime guitarist Philip Chevron in October 2013, the Pogues dissolved the following year. Longtime bassist Darryl Hunt died in August 2022 and MacGowan died in November 2023. Surviving members Spider Stacy , Jem Finer and James Fearnley subsequently re-formed the Pogues and will tour the UK and Ireland in 2025. The future members of
1250-574: The UK, and later that year released the Christmas single " Fairytale of New York ", which reached number one in Ireland and number two in the UK. A duet with Kirsty MacColl , it features on the band's critically acclaimed and commercially successful third studio album, If I Should Fall from Grace with God (1988), and remains a perennial Christmas favourite in the UK and Ireland. The Pogues recorded two more albums with MacGowan— Peace and Love (1989) and Hell's Ditch (1990)—before sacking him during
1300-671: The age of 65. The band's surviving members reunited to perform " The Parting Glass " at his funeral on 8 December 2023. Following the death of MacGowan, "Fairytale of New York" went to No. 1 in Ireland on 1 December 2023. On 13 December 2023, the Pogues reissued "Fairytale of New York" as a charity 7-inch single in tribute to MacGowan and to benefit the Dublin Simon Community, an organization fighting homelessness that MacGowan had supported. On 3 May 2024, surviving members Finer, Fearnley and Stacy performed Pogues songs with
1350-439: The album Trouble Pilgrim in 2006. In later years, he became The Pogues' unofficial spokesperson and frequently visited online forums, answering questions from fans. In 2004, he oversaw the remastering and re-release of The Pogues' entire back catalogue on CD. He toured regularly with The Pogues, who reunited after a reunion tour in 2001. Chevron was openly gay and penned the anti-homophobia song "Under Clery's Clock", which
1400-601: The annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards in February 2006. In March 2006, the band played their first US dates with Shane in over 15 years. The band played a series of sold-out concerts in Washington, D.C., Atlantic City , Boston , and New York. Later they played a series of sold-out gigs during mid-October 2006 in San Francisco, Las Vegas , and Los Angeles, and toured Glasgow , Manchester, Birmingham , London, Dublin , and Nottingham in mid-December 2006. They began
1450-403: The band at all – they're friends. I like them a lot. We were friends for years before we joined the band. We just got a bit sick of each other. We're friends as long as we don't tour together. I've done a hell of a lot of touring. I've had enough of it". Long-time Pogues bassist Darryl Hunt died in London on 8 August 2022, at the age of 72. Shane MacGowan died in Dublin on 30 November 2023, at
1500-478: The band at this period (as throughout their entire career) was the increasingly erratic behaviour of their vocalist and principal songwriter, Shane MacGowan. Their record label, Stiff Records , went bankrupt soon after the 1987 release of the single "The Irish Rover" (with The Dubliners ). Members of the band, including O'Riordan, acted in Alex Cox 's Straight to Hell , and five songs by the band were included on
1550-526: The band from promoting their 1990 album Hell's Ditch , so in 1991 the band sacked him following a chaotic live performance at the WOMAD Festival held in Japan. Vocal duties were for a time handled by Joe Strummer . Spider Stacy took over permanently after Strummer left in the winter of 1991. After Strummer's departure, the remaining seven Pogues recorded in 1993 Waiting for Herb , which contained
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1600-436: The band's live set included a few Pogues songs. First Ranken then Hunt left the band, the latter going on to become singer/songwriter in an indie band called Bish, whose self-titled debut album was released in 2001. Ranken later performed with a number of other bands, including Kippers, The Municipal Waterboard and, most recently, The Mysterious Wheels. In addition to The Vendettas, who Stacy freely admits lost all attraction when
1650-492: The band's name, Jensen began referring to the band on air as "The Pogues", which the band subsequently adopted as their name. They released their first album, Red Roses for Me , on Stiff Records that October. The band gained more attention when the UK Channel 4's music show The Tube made a video of their version of " Waxie's Dargle " for the show. The performance, featuring Spider Stacy repeatedly smashing himself over
1700-512: The band's seventh and final studio album, Pogue Mahone . The album was a commercial failure, and, following Jem Finer's decision to leave the band in 1996, the remaining members decided it was time to quit. According to Shane MacGowan, among the reasons of the break-up was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro- Republican songs – though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey
1750-405: The band's third and final top twenty single, "Tuesday Morning" which was written and sung by Spider Stacy. Terry Woods and James Fearnley subsequently left the band and were replaced by David Coulter and James McNally respectively. Within months of their departures, ill health forced Phil Chevron to leave the band; he was replaced by his former guitar technician, Jamie Clarke. This line-up recorded
1800-456: The band, and the remaining members decided to end their run together as well. The album yielded one single, "How Come". "Love You Till the End" was to be the second single, but this was never released. The song appears in the 1999 movie Mystery, Alaska and on the soundtrack to the movie P.S. I Love You . Trouser Press wrote that a "shortage of songs that are more than workably agreeable and
1850-511: The crowds. Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as "puffy and paunchy," but said the singer "still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean 's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point". The reviewer continued: "The set started off shaky, MacGowan singing of 'goin' where streams of whiskey are flowin,' and looking like he'd arrived there already. He grew more lucid and powerful as
1900-576: The early months of 1981. Also on the bill that night were Soft Cell . In 1982, James Fearnley ( accordion ), who had been a guitarist with The Nips, joined MacGowan, Stacy, and Finer, forming the band, then known as Pogue Mahone. Fearnley notes that Stacy suggested the band's original name, taken from a sentence in James Joyce 's Ulysses , where the character Buck Mulligan exclaims: " Pogue mahone! Acushla machree! It’s destroyed we are from this day! It’s destroyed we are surely!" "Pogue mahone"
1950-455: The evening gathered steam, through two hours and 26 songs, mostly from the Pogues' first three (and best) albums". In December 2010 the Pogues (with support from Crowns ) played what was billed as a farewell UK Christmas tour. In March 2011, the Pogues played a six-city/ten-show sold out US tour titled "A Parting Glass with The Pogues" visiting Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore , Washington, D.C., Boston , and New York City (in that order), with only
2000-518: The film's soundtrack album. The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ". "Fairytale of New York" was released as a single in 1987 and reached No. 1 in the Irish charts and No. 2 in the British charts over Christmas (the time of peak sales). The song has become a festive classic in
2050-433: The head with a beer tray, became a favourite with the viewers, but Stiff Records refused to release it as a single, feeling it was too late for it to help Red Roses for Me . Nevertheless, it remained a favourite request for the show for many years. With the aid of producer Elvis Costello , they recorded the follow-up, Rum Sodomy & the Lash , in 1985 during which time guitarist Philip Chevron joined. The album title
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2100-458: The last three cities getting more than one show. Stacy said "I think we are basically pretty certain this is the last tour of this type we'll be doing in the States. There might be the odd sort of one-off here and there. We're not saying this is absolutely, definitely the end". In August 2012, the Pogues embarked on a 30th Anniversary Summer 2012 8-city European Tour scheduled from 4 August 2012 at
2150-490: The previous week) on the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl , the first time the band had played the song live on television. The following week they performed live on the music show CD:UK . Shane MacGowan wrote an article for The Guardian in 2006, detailing his thoughts on the current tour. The band was awarded the lifetime achievement award at
2200-577: The strong artistic and commercial success of their second album. They first refused to record another album (offering up the four-track EP Poguetry in Motion instead); O'Riordan married Costello and left the band, to be replaced by bassist Darryl Hunt , formerly of Plummet Airlines and Pride of the Cross; and they added a multi-instrumentalist in Terry Woods , formerly of Steeleye Span . Looming over
2250-466: Was an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist and record producer. He was best known as the lead guitarist for the celtic punk band the Pogues and as the frontman for the 1970s punk rock band The Radiators from Space . Upon his death in 2013, Chevron was regarded as one of the most influential figures in Irish punk music. Chevron grew up in Santry , a suburb of Dublin. Beginning in the late 1970s, he
2300-409: Was first performed in 1987 when The Radiators reformed for one gig, an AIDS benefit in Dublin, and released as a single in 1989. In June 2007, The Pogues ' website announced that Chevron had been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer . In early 2008, the website announced that Chevron had recovered, and that his hearing had returned to almost pre-treatment levels. He embarked on the March 2008 tour of
2350-432: Was hardly the only talented songwriter in the band – though the fact that the set's most memorable songs were written by others did not bode well for the group's future." The band was at the peak of its commercial success, with both albums making the top 5 in the UK (numbers 3 and 5 respectively), but MacGowan was increasingly unreliable. He failed to turn up for the opening dates of their 1988 tour of America, and prevented
2400-569: Was invited to join the band on a short-term basis as cover for banjo player Jem Finer 's paternity leave. He took over as guitarist following MacGowan's decision to concentrate on singing—thereby becoming a full-time member of the band in time for the recording of its second album, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash . Chevron wrote the songs " Thousands Are Sailing " and "Lorelei" among others. He left The Pogues in 1994 following problems with drugs and alcohol. In 2003, he reformed The Radiators (Plan 9) with ex-Pogues bassist Cait O'Riordan . They released
2450-428: Was lead singer and co-founder of the punk rock group The Radiators from Space , receiving some critical acclaim but little widespread popularity or financial success. Following a temporary breakup of the band in 1981, he lived in London for a while, meeting and befriending Shane MacGowan through time spent working together at a record shop. Following the release of the Pogues' 1984 debut album Red Roses For Me , he
2500-493: Was released in 2001. Jem Finer went into experimental music, playing a big part in a project known as " Longplayer ", a piece of music designed to play continuously for 1,000 years without repeating itself. In 2005, Finer released the album Bum Steer with DB Bob (as DM Bob and Country Jem). James Fearnley moved to the United States shortly before leaving the Pogues. He was a member of The Low And Sweet Orchestra and later
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