Pogues, The

The Pogues are an Irish-British Celtic punk / folk band founded as [a=Pogue Mahone] ("kiss my arse" in Gaelic) in London in the early 1980s.

Founder & front man [a=Shane MacGowan] was fired in 1991, going on to form [a=Shane MacGowan And The Popes]. The band continued, with some lineup changes (including the temporary addition of [a=Joe Strummer]), until 1996. The group reformed in 2001, and played their final show in August 2014, shortly after the death by cancer of [a=Philip Chevron] on 8 October 2013. [a=Darryl Hunt] died on 8 August 2022, and MacGowan passed away on 30 November 2023.

[a=Spider Stacy], [a=James Fearnley], and [a=Jem Finer] reconvened under The Pogues' name, with a long list of special guests, for a series of shows in 2024 & 2025 curated by Stacy to celebrate the 40th anniversaries of [m=43754] and [m=43758].