Folk-punk anglo-celtic band The Pogues have announced their first tour in over 13 years to take place in early May 2025. The band has announced that the tour will be a celebration of their album “Rum Sodomy and The Lash” which was released forty years ago.
The Pogues return in 2025 for their first UK Tour since 2012 to celebrate 40 years of Rum Sodomy & the Lash Ft James Fearnley, Jem Finer, Spider Stacy & special guests.
Tickets go on sale 9:30am Fri 22 Nov. Sign up at https://t.co/PxhZ8bnwBA by 5pm on 19 Nov for presale access pic.twitter.com/hFACjdf7yc— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) November 18, 2024
The concerts lined up will see most original band members performing: James Fearnley, Jem Finer and Spider Stacy have confirmed they will be returning to the band for their revival tour. Furthermore, the band has announced there’ll be special guests throughout the nights of tour.
The tour is relatively limited, with only six dates set so far; it will be starting off from Leeds and culminating in Newcastle on May 8. Here are all the stops and venues:
Leeds, O2 Academy (May 1)
Birmingham, O2 Academy (May 2)
London, O2 Academy Brixton (May 3)
Glasgow, Barrowland (May 6)
Manchester, O2 Apollo (May 7)
Newcastle, O2 City Hall (May 8)
The Pogues begun their career in the early 80s in London, with little success at first. They released their first album, titled “Red Roses for Me” in 1984 and successively their hit record “Rum Sodomy and The Lash” the following year. The latter album gained The Pogues critical acclaim and peaked at 13 on UK charts, eventually receiving a gold certification. “Rum Sodomy and The Lash” is perhaps The Pogue’s most successful studio album.
The band kept releasing albums with their front man, Shane MacGowan, until 1991. Their record “If I should Fall From Grace with God” peaked at number 3 on UK charts, making it their highest achieved position on UK charts; the record also includes the hit Christmas song “Fairytale of New York” which comes back to charts every year at Christmas, but always fails to achieve number one.
After firing MacGowan, the band released a few records that weren’t reviewed positively by critics and failed to achieve success. This eventually led the band to break up for some time, to eventually reunite, along with MacGowan, in the early 2000s, and start performing together around the UK and Ireland and played some shows around Europe and the US as well. Their last performance together took place in Hyde Park in 2014, after which the band dissolved once again.
The Pogues have announced that the upcoming tour will see all the songs from “Rum Sodomy and The Lash” performed, along with some other ones.
Tickets will be available on pre-sale on November 20 if fans sign up here before 5 pm on November 19. General tickets will instead be available on Friday November 22 at 9:30 am.
