The 40th anniversary of The Pogues‘ debut album Red Roses For Me will be marked by Spider Stacy at the Hackney Empire in London next month.
The 1984 LP is set to be performed in full on the night, with …
The death of Pogues bass player Darryl Hunt has been announced. He was 72.
Hunt has been remembered as a, ‘great friend and a great bass player’ by Shane MacGowan, who added on Twitter: …
Sessions undertaken by The Pogues on the BBC between 1984-86 will be released as a new collection on October 30th.
The Beatles, Queen and The Pogues have some of the UK’s biggest selling Christmas singles, the Official Charts Company has confirmed.
It happens, of course, at this time every year: people start talking about The Pogues.
Around December 1st it’s back again; that measured lament of a piano riff. That grawling, inimitable vocal. That smoky, black and white video. That greatest festive song of all time. “It was Christmas Eve …
Now we at Live4ever are always quick to doff our collective hat to anyone who shows a bit of love for The Pogues, so we’re pleased to learn that Deer Tick have done a good job with the band’s track ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With …
The Pogues have remembered their ‘remarkable and fantastically talented’ late bandmate Philip Chevron with an emotional statement issued to NME.
Philip Chevron, long term guitarist with The Pogues, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 56.
The Pogues will be back out on the road for another December UK tour this year when their 1985 second studio album ‘Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash‘ is set to be played in its entirety along side other ‘favourite tracks’.
Hollywood star Johnny Depp has been discussing his time recording with Oasis and more recently The Pogues, labelling the latter’s frontman Shane MacGowan as ‘one of the most important poets of the 20th century’.
Pogues guitarist Philip Chevron has revealed the cancer he was first diagnosed with in 2007 has returned, and is now ‘inoperable.
A statement on the band’s official website explains that doctors have discovered a new tumour which, due to its position, is not able to be treated. Chevron was diagnosed …
Jem Finer comes to the songwriting party in a big way on this tale of longing for a faraway love
Ultravox‘s 1981 single ‘Vienna‘ has topped a BBC poll which aimed to find the UK’s favourite ‘number two’ to mark the 60th anniversary of the Singles Chart.
The Pogues‘ 1987 single ‘Fairytale Of New York‘ is the most played Christmas song in the UK since 2010 according to new figures released by PRS For Music.
Since Rage Against The Machine‘s stunning rise to the UK’s Christmas Number One back in 2009, Facebook campaigns have become as frequent as the singles themselves, and now one of the most enduringly popular festive anthems has become the subject of its own Facebook-led assault on the charts.
The Pogues will celebrate their 30th anniversary with an end-of-year gig in London, it has been confirmed.