BBC Radio 2 profiles The Pogues
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 7:52 am<blockquote><blockquote type=cite>POGUE MAHONE - THE STORY OF THE POGUES
Saturday 28th December 21.00 - 22.00
Presented by Mark Radcliffe
For one brief, beery, gap-toothed moment, back in the bleakness of the second term of Thatcherism, it really did seem like there was a new folk revival. Improbably - during a period dominated by shoe-staring indie pop and stadium rock'n'roll - somewhere on the dark streets of London, an ex-public school boy was leading this bunch of musical hooligans out of the beer-sodden back rooms and into the charts! [...]</blockquote></blockquote>Read the rest here.
Saturday 28th December 21.00 - 22.00
Presented by Mark Radcliffe
For one brief, beery, gap-toothed moment, back in the bleakness of the second term of Thatcherism, it really did seem like there was a new folk revival. Improbably - during a period dominated by shoe-staring indie pop and stadium rock'n'roll - somewhere on the dark streets of London, an ex-public school boy was leading this bunch of musical hooligans out of the beer-sodden back rooms and into the charts! [...]</blockquote></blockquote>Read the rest here.