About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: The Pogues, Random Gender, Skids, The Blackout, The Mescaleros, 3 Colours Red, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Adequate Seven, Alternative TV, The Homosexuals, Splodgenessabounds, Generation X, Rubella Ballet, Deaf Havana, AntiProduct, Rosie and the Goldbug, Charged GBH, List of punk bands from the United Kingdom, Blaggers ITA, The Distractions, Hitechjet, Blitzkrieg Bop, The Cape Race, Fabulous, Bollock Brothers, Acrobats of Desire, Rudimentary Peni, Sheep on Drugs, Motormark, Shadow Warriors, Neon Hearts, Chron Gen, Rikki and the Last Days of Earth, The Martini Henry Rifles, The Prats, 4ft Fingers, The Mo-dettes, Foreign Legion, All or Nothing, Icons of Filth, The Needles, The Defects, The Devildolls Rock n Roll Street Gang, Cranial Screwtop, Bubblegum Screw, The Ejected, Disrupters, !Action Pact!, Guns n' Wankers, Psylons, Tin Pot Operation, Inner City Unit, Deviated Instinct, Anti-Pasti, The Ghost Frequency, Screen 3, The Escape, Shootin' Goon, The Oppressed, Crisis, Toxic Waste, The Speedometors, Red Flag 77, DIRT, New Hearts, Society, Dead Identities, Masters of the Backside, The Loyalties, Day 21, Five or Six, Hexes, Pseudo Hippies, Bethnal, Ruby Tombs, Thee Mighty Caesars, Hooton 3 Car, GMX Stuns, The dash, The Shallow Call, Bobbie Peru, Red London, Blood from the Soul, Mere Dead Men, Exitstance, The Take. Excerpt: The Pogues are a band from Kings Cross, London, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before breaking up in 1996. The band reformed in 2001, and has been playing regularly ever since, most notably on the US East Coast around St Patrick's Day and across the UK and Ireland every December...