[one_half]Genre: Celtic Punk
Country: UK
City: Kings Cross
Current Label: Unknown
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[one_half_last]Band Members
Shane MacGowan
Spider Stacy
James Fearnley
Jeremy ‘Jem’ Finer
Andrew Ranken
Phil Chevron
Terry Woods
Darryl Hunt
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The Pogues Biography:
The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. They reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, until MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems. They continued with first Joe Strummer and then Spider Stacy on vocals before breaking up in 1996. The band began performing together again in 2001, though they have yet to record new music.
Their politically-tinged music was influenced by The Clash, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, banjo, cittern, mandolin, accordion, and others. In the later incarnations of the band, after the departure of Shane MacGowan, rock instruments such as the electric guitar would become more prominent.
The Pogues were founded in King’s Cross, a district of North London, in 1982 as Pogue Mahone—pogue mahone being the Anglicisation of the Irish póg mo thóin, meaning “kiss my arse”.
The band specialised in Irish folk music, often playing with the energy of the punk rock scene in which several of the members had their roots.
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