A small band of Irishmen frequent Lonesome Onry and Mean's local waterhole, and they are all abuzz about the arrival of the Pogues at House of Blues October 29.
Led by the charismatic and erratic Shane MacGowan, the Pogues set the music world buzzing when they burst onto the London scene in 1982. Their brilliance lay in the combination of Irish traditional music and instruments with the politics and the aggression of the punk movement.
While at the beginning they mostly covered old Irish songs,
