Tag Archives: The Pogues
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REWIND: For St. Patrick’s Day, five Irish bands that aren’t U2
The Pogues by their tour bus at a truck stop in Texas on June 18, 1988. Left to right: Jem Finer, Shane MacGowan, James Fearnley, Phillip Chevron, Darryl Hunt, Terry Woods and Andrew Ranken. Photo by Steve Pyke/Getty Images. We’re a few days past St. Patrick’s Day so that…
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REWIND: The youths like sea shanties, so let’s hear some modern shanties
Site of former sea shanties, as well as Alestorm’s current ones. There’s always some tension between our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman and I when it comes to this column. He, being the King of RIFF, cares about stuff like SEO and reader interest and boring things like that. I,…