gig and looked him straight in my eyes with pogue mahone posters.d anchor and underground clubs will with their friends the shillelagh sisters, blue hill flipped actors and the men they could not hang. as that then fans started to grow in number, they rehearse at their friend richard vern's flat while i ate bread and marmite in the small kitchen, listening to the crashing and banging coming from the back room. from heaving sweaty gates, the stopping ever—growing crowds hoisted them from obscurity and it sent them hurtling on the hallowed stage is like the dominion in tottenham court road, where an ecstatic audience invaded the stage. this manic life following broth a band of the attention of stiff records and they released their first album, red roses for me, as the pogues in october 1984. after the dominion, the second son that my brother was on to something was when the band supported elvis costello at the brixton academy and i heard the crowd calling out shane's name. and so the journey began. i was just going to take another sip for this last bi