The Pogues News

SHANE MacGOWAN'S last trip to Liverpool was an eventful one, to say the least. He was arrested in his dressing room and spent a night in police cells at St Anne's Street after a man claimed he had been hit in the face by a microphone stand MacGowan had allegedly hurled into the audience at his Liverpool University gig.

CHARISMATIC frontman Shane MacGowan has chosen Ellesmere Port band Amsterdam to support The Pogues in Liverpool.

It's one of those amateurish, college newspaper expressions that instantly causes eyeballs to roll upwards: 'They don't take themselves too seriously'. And while this normally translates in the mind of the reader as 'they don't take themselves too seriously because their music is semi-listenable pap and they're going nowhere fast', it doesn't apply ...

"Is Shane MacGowan still alive?" That's the immediate reaction I got from a co-worker after informing them of the news that legendary Irish rock band the Pogues will be coming to Tempe's Marquee Theatre on October 21.

The reunited Pogues - who reached the States in 2006 for the first time in about 15 years - have typically played the northeast, though there was also a west coast leg of the tour.

The Shane MacGowan-led group, which has performed mainly on the West and East coasts during its recent US excursions, kicks off the outing Oct.

Shane MacGowan and his new set of choppers. Last month, The Sun reported that Shane MacGowan got himself a new pair of dentures to stop his face from "falling apart" after 35 years on the thrash.

6:30 p.m., $19.50-85 , all ages Look for complex horn charts, young backing bands and elderly singers when pop-funk band Earth, Wind & Fire and the enormously successful jazz-influence prog-rock band Chicago destroy the Fieldhouse.

The Pogues are playing in Kansas City on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at The Midland by AMC .

Background/ Composition: This Hogtown five-piece were formed in 2006 and are a cross between The Pogues and Uncle Tupelo.

Border guards in Chiasso see plenty of smugglers and plenty of false-bottomed suitcases, but no one in the town, which straddles the Italian-Swiss frontier, had ever seen anything like this.

Chaos has surrounded The Popes, ever since Shane MacGowan created them as his backing band in 1994 after he'd been thrown out of The Pogues for "unprofessional" behaviour.

Lily Allen's duet with Kate Moss' boyfriend Jamie Hince raised the most money at a celebrity charity karaoke, beating the supermodel's own performance with Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour.

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Aerosmith's summer tour, somewhat confusingly titled "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Presents Aerosmith," will roll through the country with the Boston-based hard-rock legends using ZZ Top as their "co-headliner," as Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has put it.

Notorious Irish rocker Shane MacGowan, due to headline at the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival this July, has been pulled from the bill.

IN his final tour of the UK, singer songwriter Eric Bogle visits the National Forest Folk Club on Friday to perform with John Munro.

IT MAY be National Smile Month but we've not had many reasons to smile lately. Even if we were to grin and bear it, our pearly whites probably wouldn't come close to the gleaming gnashers belonging to, say, Cheryl Cole or Tom Cruise.

FOR A magnificent 19th year Penzance's Golowan festival is ready to run later this month.

Five years on from its launch at a venue associated with the sport of kings, Wychwood Festival has established itself as one of the highlights in a busy calendar of summer open-air concerts.