Thanks to the enduring allure of "Fairytale of New York," the spirit of the Pogues' Shane MacGowan is in the air once more. But MacGowan's impact and legacy were also heard onstage in Dublin last ...

It may be a little-known aspect of their character, but The Pogues liked a drink. The signs were all there early on: “Streams of Whiskey” sat at the heart of their 1984 debut album Red Roses ...

The Pogues‘ Spider Stacy and The Mary Wallopers rang in the New Year by paying tribute to Shane MacGowan with a rendition of ‘Streams Of Whiskey’ on Jools Holland‘s Hootenanny. The Irish ...

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“Streams of Whiskey” (1984) Everything that one needed to know about the Pogues was made clear on its very first record — 1984’s “Red Roses for Me” — which set the rowdy, brawling ...

With The Pogues, MacGowan brought a ... grasping a tall beverage in each hand — one whiskey, one beer — beaming out his jack-o’-lantern smile. We were both in our late 20s.

As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.

The Pogues blew up in London in the early 1980s, bashing Irish folk music in the rowdy spirit of the Sex Pistols and the Clash. “We were all into punk,” Shane told Rolling Stone in 1985.

Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten Joins Pogues to Perform ‘Streams of Whiskey’ At a concert celebrating the Pogues' first album, Red Roses for Me , a slew of new Irish musicians paid tribute to ...

Thanks to the enduring allure of “Fairytale of New York,” the spirit of the Pogues’ Shane MacGowan is in the air once more. But MacGowan’s impact and legacy were also heard onstage in ...