The band was founded in 1996 in Boston. They are, so to say, the legitimate successor of the british Pogues. A bit more punk and a bit rougher than the british group around the singer Shane MacGowan, that made Irish-Punk-Rock more socially acceptable in the 80’s. All the more fitting, that McGowan himself also…

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