When I was young...

[Daeth's Door]

I was introduced to The Pogues when I was 39. I mean like to their music. I was already a Irish music fan but nothing heavier than Paul Brady - if chew know what I mean. Anyway it happened on board a topsail schooner called the Tradewind which sailed out of Dunedin, NZ in the late 80s and took old boat nuts (like me) and twitchers to the NZ sub-antarctic and Antarctica. When the weather was fine (it was a great late summer beyond the roaring 40s in '89) and we were bowling along we used to crank up the tape deck and bring the big speakers up on to the foredeck and blast the mollymawks and albatrosses with The Pogues. 'Twas great me hearties. Anyway I was a convert.

In early 1990 the band played at the Horden Pav in Sydney. Shaney Mc was at his most errr whatever. I took the mott who was full of arms and legs at the time and even she loved it. Three days later she dropped the bundle. The bub was born and has grown up quite normal.

[DzM]

In early 1990 the band played at the Horden Pav in Sydney. Shaney Mc was at his most errr whatever. I took the mott who was full of arms and legs at the time and even she loved it. Three days later she dropped the bundle. The bub was born and has grown up quite normal.

But is the now teenage bub a Pogues fan?