The Pogues, with Martin Stephenson & The Daintees, play Portsmouth Guildhall.
The Pogues are playing Portsmouth Guildhall on Saturday 28 November, with Martin Stephenson & The Daintees opening the bill. It's a Saturday night in Portsmouth, and the music is the kind that usually gets a room moving.
If you're not familiar with them, The Pogues are the Irish folk rock band of the 1980s and 90s who essentially invented 'celtic punk'. They built their sound from the punk rock scene and traditional Irish instruments: tin whistle, banjo, cittern, mandolin and accordion. They started in King's Cross, north London, in 1982 as 'Pogue Mahone'—the Anglicisation of the Irish póg mo thóin, which means 'kiss my arse'. They shortened the name when the curse earned them too little radio play.
Original members Shane MacGowan on vocals, James Fearnley on accordion and Spider Stacy on tin whistle busked the streets of London before opening for The Clash in 1984 and releasing their first album, Red Roses for Me, that October. In 1985 they recorded Rum Sodomy & the Lash with Elvis Costello, a title attributed, probably falsely, to Winston Churchill. Their 1988 album If I Should Fall From Grace With God gave them the Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl, 'Fairytale of New York', which VH1 voted the best Christmas song ever.
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It's a late November date, so the timing sits right before the usual Christmas run for a song like 'Fairytale'. The Pogues headline with Martin Stephenson & The Daintees supporting. The show starts at 7:00 PM at Portsmouth Guildhall.
