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Pogues Announce First Tour Since Shane MacGowan’s Death
Irish rock band the Pogues have announced a May 2025 tour. It's their first since 2014, and since singer Shane MacGowan died in 2023
The tour is timed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pogues’ beloved 1985 album Rum Sodomy & the Lash — the record that built MacGowan’s legend as a brilliant, tragic bard. Founding members Spider Stacy, James Fearnley, and Jem Finer are confirmed to take part in the reunion, along with “special guests” yet to be named. In an eloquent tribute written following the news of his death, Rolling Stone ‘s Rob Sheffield remembered MacGowan as “one of rock’s most fiendishly brilliant growlers, snarlers, songwriters, storytellers, and blackguards,” and noted that “mortality was always at the heart of his music”: “Shane’s demise has been predicted so many times, over 65 years of hard living, it’s bizarrely shocking that the end has finally come.”
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