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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

Cat Power eyes Dark End of the Street release

Cat Power will release her newest covers EP...  read more

The Pogues Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Folk-punk band, The Pogues, will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Meteor Ireland Music Awards 2006. The popular '80s band returns with an upcoming tour of the U.S. including St. Patrick’s Day in Times Square. For more information including tour dates click here....  read more