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The Pogues' Shane MacGowan Planning a Cooking Show

Who knew Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan had aspirations to be a food-television personality? MacGowan and his wife have already done one food-related TV show for the RTE channel in Ireland where they lived off produce they grew themselves, but apparently that’s just the beginning....  read more

Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave and Johnny Depp Cover "I Put a Spell On You" for Haiti

Musicians have been on overdrive for the past couple weeks putting on shows and raising funds for the people in Haiti. But while Bon Iver and Radiohead performed live to raise money, others are collaborating on recorded work. For instance, Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has assembled an intriguing group in a London studio to record a cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You.”...  read more

The Pogues - Atlanta - The Tabernacle - 3/9/2009: Beer, Brawls and Potcheen-doused Brilliance

Even though it’s officially still winter, this is Hotlanta, and inside converted church The Tabernacle, it feels like it’s 100 degrees, 100 percent humidity. The venue’s defining feature, an enormous pipe organ, protrudes from behind the stage backdrop and light scaffolding, a remnant of the place’s holier days.  I check my phone. It’s just before 9 p.m. The floor is getting crowded. Roadies meander about the stage, setting up gear. After a while, a rather interesting item is carted out. Sitting ominously, tragically (tragicomically?) at the center of the stage is a lone, padded bar stool—Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan’s seat....  read more

The Pogues schedule a few tour dates

Lifetime Achievement Award-winners The Pogues are getting busy. The octet of raucous punk laddies just announced a 2009 East Coast tour, set to kick off March 7....  read more