"I would love to have been in Memphis at the time of Elvis, or in Liverpool at the time of the Beatles...but I was young and in London during the heyday of the Pogues and that's more than enough musical good luck for one lifetime"
I wrote that, or something like it, while waxing nostalgic during one of the covid lockdowns.
I think I’m luckier still to have gone back to Brixton Academy to see the Pogues again at the weekend, with my daughter and my partner.
Of course it was different without Shane, but it was still a great show. Some bits worked better than others, but that was always the way with the Pogues.
God bless them.
