The Pogues

The Pogues, a great Irish band, haven't produced an album in years and are officially no longer together but every year they do a small ~10 date tour of England and Ireland. My birthday present this year was tickets to see them in Birmingham.

This year the Saw Doctors opened up for them. The crowd was appreciative but was waiting for the Pogues to hit the stage. I've never seen a lead singer so drunk before. He would stumble on and off stage when there were songs that he wasn't singing.

One of the songs that they did was "Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham 6" about 6 Irishmen who were wrongly accused of a devastating bombing in Birmingham in 1974 and served 16 years in prison before having their convictions overturned and released.