From today's LA Times, an article about the Los Angeles- based band Ollin and their annual tribute to the Pogues...
There are many reasons why, for the last 10 or 11 years — the precise number is lost in the fog of memory — the L.A. Chicano band Ollin has celebrated St. Patrick's Day by paying tribute to the Pogues, the Anglo Irish ensemble that slammed the lilting grace of traditional Celtic music together with punk's raw energy during the Reagan-Thatcher era.
Ollin's annual homage will be reenacted Sunday night at the Satellite in Silver Lake, where the East L.A. lads will be covering "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash," the Pogues' 1985, Elvis Costello-produced masterpiece of keening rebellion and whiskey existentialism.
The article has a bit of the critic's know-it-all tone in my opinion. All that is missing really is "Tears will be shed for the famine."
