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3 unusual facts about The Pogues


Kilkenny cat

The term "Kilkenny cat" is a clear influence on the Pogues song "Wild Cats of Kilkenny".

Le Bateau ivre

The Pogues recorded a song called "Drunken Boat" for their 1993 album Waiting for Herb.

Tom Fun Orchestra

The band features an unconventional mix of electric and acoustic instruments, including violin, banjo, accordion, trumpet, double bass, electric guitars and drums, and have elicited comparisons to acts ranging from The Clash, Tom Waits and The Pogues to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.


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Andy Parfitt

In December 2007, Parfitt was criticised for only authorising a cut version of The Pogues 'Fairytale of New York', censoring the words 'slut' and 'faggot'.

Galway Races

Further, it constitutes the last third of the track Medley on the 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God by The Pogues (the two first parts being Recruiting sergeant and an instrumental version of Rocky Road to Dublin).

Home Fire

Released in 1991 on Green Linnet records, the album is really a joint project with Terry Woods, formerly of The Pogues.

Hope and Anchor, Islington

Other bands which played at the Hope and Anchor include The Cure, The Stranglers, The Only Ones, The Police, The Stray Cats, The Pogues, Dire Straits, U2, Joy Division, Oliver Coates, The Men They Couldn't Hang amongst others.

If I Should Fall from Grace with God

If I Should Fall from Grace with God is a 1988 album by The Pogues.

Jack's Heroes

"Jack's Heroes" was a single released by The Pogues & The Dubliners in 1990, composed by tin whistle player Spider Stacy about the Republic Of Ireland football squad, then managed by Jack Charlton.

Morning Runner

The band spent much of 2005 touring, playing with the likes of Ian Brown, Bloc Party, The Magic Numbers, The Pogues, and supporting Coldplay on several of their Twisted Logic Tour dates, and built up a solid fanbase as a result.

Nyah Fearties

Nyah Fearties have been described as a kind of hybrid between Celtic folk-punk outfit The Pogues, and Glasgow-based industrial music band Test Dept.

Shane MacGowan and The Popes

The album was eventually released in 2009 as Outlaw Heaven, featuring Fiachra Shanks on banjo and Shane MacGowan as a guest vocalist on three songs, with Pogue Spider Stacy joining MacGowan and McGuiness on vocals on the title track.

Slugger O'Toole

The name is originally from the traditional Irish song "The Irish Rover", best known as a collaboration between The Pogues and The Dubliners.

Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead

This styling of "Dirty Old Town" was made famous by The Pogues, while "Ghosts" and "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" were created by The Jam and Split Enz, respectively.

Terry Woods

He is known for his membership in such folk and folk-rock groups as The Pogues, Steeleye Span, Sweeney's Men, The Bucks and, briefly, Dr. Strangely Strange and Dublin rock band Orphanage, with Phil Lynott, as well as in a duo/band with his then wife, Gay, billed initially as The Woods Band and later as Gay and Terry Woods.

The Nervous Fellas

In the beginning, they started as an opening act for such bands as The Pogues, Tragically Hip, George Thorogood, and Junior Wells, but it was not long before they grabbed the main stage themselves.

The Showbox

In its short history, the venue has already hosted events featuring Kid Rock, Heart, The Pogues, M.I.A, The Hives, Dropkick Murphys, Josh Ritter, Counting Crows, Panic! at the Disco, Adam Lambert, Odd Future, and many more.

Vince Power

In 1989 Mean Fiddler took over the organisation of the Reading Festival; acts included New Order, The Pogues, The Wonder Stuff and The Sugarcubes.

Within a Mile of Home

The review referred to the opening track "Screaming at the Wailing Wall" as a "toe-tapping, arm-in-arm Celtic boogie tune" and the following song "The Seven Deadly Sins" as a "kitchen-party Celtic assault." The review also noted that the song “To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh)” sounds like a "Dublin-ized Mike Ness of Social Distortion" and that “The Wanderlust” as a combination of The Clash and The Pogues.


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Cait

Cait O'Riordan, the bass player for punk/folk band The Pogues from 1983 to 1986

Cait O'Riordan

The Pogues' most commercially successful song, "Fairytale of New York" from If I Should Fall from Grace with God, was written as a duet for O'Riordan and MacGowan, but the band eventually recorded it with Kirsty MacColl singing the female part.

Gerry Smyth

This will be followed by another collection of essays on Irish music, featuring new material on the Pogues, Val Doonican, The Waterboys, and Augusta Holmes.

Nyah Fearties

As Stuart Cosgrove noted in the New Musical Express (March 14, 1987): "The Fearties are more critical than The Pogues, their Scotland is not a place to be eulogised…it's a home whose myths are savagely demolished…they use found percussion but stripped of Test Dept's artiness…"

Philip Chevron

Following the release of the Pogues' 1984 debut album Red Roses For Me, he was invited to join the band on a short-term basis as cover for banjo player Jem Finer's paternity leave.

Puckane

The village was also mentioned in a well-known Christy Moore cover of Shane MacGowan and The Pogues song "The Fairy Tale of New York".