Blog: 30 Days Out

It wasn't St. Patrick's Day but Thursday night sure felt like it - or something like a wild, drunken Irish party - as the legendary Pogues rolled into town to play at the House of Blues. This punk-Irish-rock unit hasn't visited Texas in 20 years but here they were in all their glory and best of all, they were led by dissipated frontman Shane MacGowan, singing and smoking and drinking and slurring right where he belongs. To see MacGowan in the flesh is to wonder how this man is alive at all. Obviously damaged by decades of boozing [...]