Facts on The Pogues and Shane MacGowan

The Pogues played their first concert to approximately 35 people at the Hope & Anchor venue. In 2000, the band's accountant asked promoter Simon Moran about The Pogues reuniting. Later, during The Pogues' reunion tour, a prosthetic leg was thrown onto the stage at a concert in Sydney. On tours where Joe Strummer stood in for Phil Chevron, Strummer taped chord sheets to his guitar.

Shane MacGowan wore a suit when he brought the song A Rainy Night in Soho to the band. In 1992, the BBC asked Shane MacGowan to change a line in the song Fairytale of New York for the program Top of the Pops. The Pogues made an instrumental track titled Planxty Noel Hill. Another song, Lorca’s Novena, is about Federico García Lorca.

Jem Finer and Spider Stacy played on the album The Snake by Shane MacGowan and the Popes. The Pogues recorded the track Gabrielle for a tribute album to Shane MacGowan. Spider Stacy watched the band Lankum for the first time at Shane MacGowan's 60th birthday celebration, which took place in Dublin.