Band members of The Pogues, Amazulu, and The Circle Jerks are also featured in the film.

Occasionally, he is involved professionally with productions and his reviews are regularly published on The Pogues official forum under " Speaker's Corner.

The Go Set are often compared to bands like The Clash, The Pogues and Dropkick Murphys with a unique Australian pub rock character.

Also, several of the songs are inspired by the city in which the Pogues were founded, London (" White City ", " Misty Morning, Albert Bridge ", " London You're a Lady "), as opposed to Ireland, from which they had usually drawn inspiration.

Later, beginning in 1982 with The Pogues ' invention of Celtic folk-punk and Stockton's Wing blend of Irish traditional and Pop, Rock and Reggie, there has been a movement to incorporate Celtic influences into other genres of music.

Milwaukee's Violent Femmes jumpstarted the American folk punk scene, while The Pogues did the same on the other side of the Atlantic, influencing many Celtic punk bands.

Irish rock bands The Cranberries and The Pogues ( with Spider Stacy as whistler ) incorporate the tin whistle in some of their songs, as do such American Celtic punk bands as The Tossers, Dropkick Murphys, and Flogging Molly ( in which Bridget Regan plays the instrument ).

In the 1980s and beyond, Celtic rock was perpetuated by bands such as The Pogues, The Waterboys, Runrig, Black 47, and The Prodigals.

The emergence of folk-rock led to the creation of a popular music genre labelled Celtic music which " frequently involves the blending of traditional and modern forms, e. g. the Celtic-punk of The Pogues, the ambient music of Enya ... the Celtic-rock of Runrig, Rawlins Cross and Horslips.

Music by the Celtic punk band, The Pogues, is used throughout the series.

" Fairytale of New York " is a song by the Celtic punk group The Pogues, released in 1987 and featuring the British singer Kirsty MacColl.

As with electric folk in England, the advent of punk and other musical trends undermined the folk element of Celtic rock, but in the early 1980s London based Irish band The Pogues created the sub-genre Celtic punk by combining structural elements of folk music with a punk attitude and delivery.

The Pogues ' style of punked-up Irish music spawned and influenced a number of Celtic punk bands, including fellow London-Irish band Neck, Nyah Fearties from Scotland, and Australia's Roaring Jack.

The initial wave of Celtic rock in Ireland, although ultimately feeding into Anglo-American dominated progressive rock and hard rock provided a basis for Irish bands that would enjoy international success, including the Pogues and U2: one making use of the tradition of Celtic music in a new context and the other eschewing it for a distinctive but mainstream sound.

The Pogues ' style of punked-up Irish music spawned and influenced a number of Celtic punk bands, including Nyah Fearties from Scotland, and Australia's Roaring Jack.

They play a punk-influenced variant of Celtic folk music, similar to such bands as Great Big Sea, The Pogues or Spirit of the West.

However, amongst the known attendees were: Shane MacGowan ( later of The Nipple Erectors and The Pogues ), Shanne Bradley ( of The Nipple Erectors and The Men They Couldn't Hang ), Viv Albertine of The Slits, Chrissie Hynde ( later of The Pretenders ), Vivienne Westwood ( McLaren's then partner and co-manager of the Chelsea boutique SEX ), Gaye Advert and T. V. Smith ( later of The Adverts ), as well as members of the Bromley Contingent, the punk fashion avant-garde.

MacGowan drew upon his Irish heritage when founding The Pogues and changed his early " punk " voice for a more authentic sound with tutoring from his extended family.

The Pogues fused punk with traditional Irish songs.

Folk punk or rogue folk is a fusion of folk music and punk rock, or occasionally other genres, which was pioneered by the London-based Irish band The Pogues in the 1980s.

The album showcased their developing sound as the band widely progressed from being a four-piece punk rock outfit, and included collaborations with Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and Cock Sparrer's Colin McFaull.

The bands early influences were 1970s British punk bands like, The Clash, and Sex Pistols, as well as Irish rock band The Pogues

The Pogues ' Shane MacGowan recorded a punk cover of the song, reaching No. 29 on the UK singles chart.

Folk punk or rogue folk is a fusion of folk music and punk rock, or occasionally other genres, which was pioneered by the London-based Irish band The Pogues in the 1980s.

In the 1980s The Pogues became very successful with their radical new take on the fusion of traditional Irish music with punk rock attitude.

One result was a further hybridisation with the development of folk punk among younger acts in the later 1970s, some of which, like the Pogues and The Levellers, achieved some mainstream success.

She played bass guitar for the British-Irish punk / folk band The Pogues from 1983 to 1986.

In the UK, the fusion of folk and punk was pioneered by the London-based Irish band The Pogues, formed in 1982, whose mixture of original songs and covers of established folk singers, many performed with a punk sensibility, led to three top ten albums in the UK, a number two single in " Fairytale of New York " ( 1987 ) with Kirsty McColl, and a string of top ten singles and albums in Ireland.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

Hutchings ' new band was formed after he met established duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior on the London folk club scene, and the initial lineup was completed by husband and wife team Terry Woods ( formerly of Sweeney's Men, later of The Pogues ) and Gay Woods.

After The Pogues threw MacGowan out for unprofessional behaviour, he formed a new band, Shane MacGowan and The Popes, recording two studio albums, a live album, three tracks on The Popes " Outlaw Heaven " ( 2010 ) and a live DVD, and touring internationally.

Strummer occasionally joined MacGowan and The Pogues on stage ( and briefly replaced MacGowan as lead singer after his sacking from the band ).

When not touring with The Pogues, Shane plays with his new band, The Shane Gang.

Dillon appeared in 1987 in the music video for " Fairytale of New York " by the Irish folk-punk band The Pogues playing a cop who escorts lead singer Shane MacGowan into the drunk tank ".

The band got their first big break when their debut release, Home of the Brave, launched as a cassette at a St. Patrick's day gig at Reilly's in 1990, was heard by Frank Murray, manager of the The Pogues, who signed them to his newly launched label.

They went on to open for The Pogues at Brixton Academy in December of the same year, and following the collapse of Murray's label the band released an eponymous independent album in 1991, which bought them to the attention of EMI.

The Popes is a band formerly led by Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, who played a blend of rock, and Irish folk, sometimes referred to as Paddy Beat, borrowing from World Beat, a popular genre name in the 1980s.

The band have also incorporated elements of country music and roots rock, with comparisons to band such as Dropkick Murphys and The Pogues.

Red Roses for Me was the first full length album by the London-based band The Pogues and was released in 1984.

The song was originally planned as a duet by Shane MacGowan and Pogues bassist Cait O ' Riordan, but O ' Riordan left the band in 1986 before the song was completed.

Following the release of the Pogues ' 1984 debut album Red Roses For Me, he was invited to join the band on a short-term basis as cover for banjo player Jem Finer's paternity leave.

If you want to dig a bit deeper, members of The Hard Rock Miners can also be found playing in several other guises, including the obnoxious Speedway-Punk, Royal Grand Prix ( pronounced Royal Grand Pricks )... Faux-Mexican Mariachi Garage banders, The High Balls ... and their Pogues tribute band, Shane's Teeth, including Nettie Boulanger ( I, mudder accordion, Molestics ) on Accordion.

It was his suggestion that the Dubliners work with London Irish band The Pogues in the mid 1980 ’ s, thus giving them their biggest UK hit to date (" The Irish Rover ") and an appearance on Top of the Pops.