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A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day – talking A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan with Richard Balls
After acclaimed music books on Ian Dury and Stiff Records, you could argue it was almost inevitable that established rock biographer Richard Balls would turn his attention to Pogues frontman and somehow living legend Shane MacGowan next. But there was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cait O'Riordan, Dexys, Dublin, Elvis Costello, Fairytale of New York, Ian Dury, Kirsty MacColl, London, Microdisney, Norwich, Omnibus Press, Paul Ronan, Richard Balls, Sex Pistols, Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, Stiff Records, That Petrol Emotion, The Clash, The Jam, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Nips, the Pogues, Tipperary, Victoria Mary Clarke
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The Men They Couldn’t Hang, still on the loose, avoiding the noose – the Phil Odgers interview
Listen to Cock-a-Hoop, the new record by The Men They Couldn’t Hang, and you get an album by a band sounding as fresh today as when their first album was released in 1985. What’s more, the subject matter of their … Continue reading
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Tagged Boothill Foot Tappers, Cock-a-Hoop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Ghosts of Cable Street, How Green is the Valley, Ironmasters, Joe Strummer, John Peel, Night of a Thousand Candles, Paul Simmonds, Phil Chevron, Phil Odgers, Ricky McGuire, Shanne Bradley, Shepherd's Bush, southampton, Spider Stacy, Stefan Cush, The Clash, The Defiant, The Men They Couldn't Hang, the Pogues, Tom Fletcher, Waiting for Bonaparte
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