The UK music press hailed The Pogues' debut album Red Roses For Me as a breath of fresh air. Melody Maker felt that "the quality of their music, even the very nature of it, is strangely irrelevant. What's important is their existence at all. For The Poguesare a gesture – a particularly bloody two-fingered one – aimed at all things considered current and fashionable in 1984... Theirs is a gut reaction to traditional music – and with it comes all the motion, intensity and vigour that has largely been lost to these songs since the early days of the folk revival in the Sixties.”
For this exclusive performance, The Pogues' Spider Stacy curates a line-up of musicians to perform the debut album in its entirety, promising a mix of contemporary names and long-time collaborators:
Junior Brother Tom Coll (Fontaines DC) John Francis Flynn James Fearnley (The Pogues) Jem Finer (The Pogues) Sean Fitzgerald (The Deadlians) Daragh Lynch (Lankum) Holly Mullineaux (Goat Girl) The New Eves Jordan O'Leary Gary Powell (The Libertines) Brigid Mae Power Jim Sclavunos (The Bad Seeds) Nadine Shah Spider Stacy (The Pogues) Stick in the Wheel Kami Thompson (The Rails) George Vjestica (The Bad Seeds) James Walbourne (The Rails, The Pogues) Iona Zajac & The Pogues Brass Section
