NP - Pogues in NYC

[Ghetta Life]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/arts/music/17pogues.html

Shane MacGowan took the stage yesterday evening, intoning some profane 
verses from Lou Reed's "Sister Ray," and then the Pogues fired into "Streams 
of Whiskey." When Mr. MacGowan removed his sunglasses, a few songs into his 
first performance in New York with the band in 15 years, you could look him 
in the eyes. Not the whites of them: he looked half-asleep, heavy-lidded, 
his face a slack, puffy frown surrounding missing teeth. The upper third of 
his face, anyway, was the most expressive part of his body.

In their seven-year run as an intact band, the Pogues amassed a cult 
audience around the world, fusing the sound of old Irish songs with punk and 
pop, bringing out the smashing force of a folkloric dance music. They made 
money; they had hits. They ejected Mr. MacGowan in 1991; he was only 33, but 
there was not much left in him, physically.

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