Shane MacGowan

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Primordial stages

Boston's open mics: Launch pads or crash sites?
Boston's open mics: Launch pads or crash sites?
By MATT PARISH | November 24, 2008

More than a decade into their career, Dropkick Murphys accept success — and pay tribute to the people and the city who helped them earn it
On Boston Harbor’s Long Island, two miles out in Quincy Bay, the Curley Building stands hulking and decrepit.
By MIKE MILIARD | September 07, 2007

In the moment

The Pogues, Avalon, March 8, 2007
The Pogues live in the moment, and last Thursday that moment lasted two hours at Avalon.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 12, 2007

The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 15

The Pogues | Axis | July 2, 1986

By PHOENIX STAFF | October 25, 2006

Folk re-revival

Springsteen rediscovers faith and fun in Seeger
The laugh that opens Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is the first clue that what’s about to follow might actually be fun.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | May 24, 2006

Rats!

Guinness brewmaster says Shane MacGowan, Dropkick Murphys grossly mistaken
With or without its fabled special ingredient, Ireland’s most distinctive pint is in good health.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 27, 2006

Irrish guys are smiling

Paddying with the Pogues and Dropkick Murphys
I’d searched for Shane MacGowan all afternoon.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 20, 2006

Set ’em up, knock ’em back

15 people who could (or can) drink more than you
History’s greatest drinkers, music’s greatest drinking songs, and a wobbly time line of booze in Boston.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 17, 2006

30 songs to spill beer on your iPod to

The greatest drinking songs of all time
No song captures the quiet desperation of a hard-drinking, hardscrabble nowhere town better than this one.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 16, 2006

Regaining Shane

The return of the MacGowan Pogues
It was 1985 and it was time for a new kind of kick. I did not expect to find it with guys playing tin whistle, banjo, and accordion, and a guy who used to sing for the B-level punk band, the Nips ( nés Nipple Erectors) — that would be the dentally challenged Shane MacGowan.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 07, 2006