The Pogues "Red Roses for Me" (40th Anniversary) garnish it's an opportunity to reflect

it's an opportunity to reflect on the astonishing creative and cultural influence of one of the most innovative and enduring bands of modern rock history

In these dire days

and Alana HAIM (guitars and keyboards)

and Slaughter and The Dogs

The Pogues "Red Roses for Me" (40th Anniversary) garnish it's an opportunity to reflectAfter four decades, Red Roses For Me is still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed neer do wells from Londons Kings Cross in the convulsive aftermath of the re election of the Thatcher government. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals about death and drink, love and London with those of frontman Shane MacGowan's and all fuelled by the punk ethos.