On 15th October 1984, The Pogues released their debut album ‘Red Roses For Me’. To celebrate the 40th anniversary, we’ll be releasing a 2CD set with a version of the 2013 remix plus a bonus disc of B-sides and BBC sessions from 1984.

After 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.

Tracklist:

1. Transmetropolitan
2. The Battle Of Brisbane
3. The Auld Triangle
4. Waxies Dargle
5. Boys Form The County Hell
6. Sea Shanty
7. Dark Streets Of London
8. Streams Of Whiskey
9. Poor Paddy
10. Dingle Regatta
11. Greenland Whale Fisheries
12. Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
13. Kitty

CD2: B-Sides and BBC Sessions 1984 Single B-Sides

1. The Leaving Of Liverpool
2. Muirshin Durkin
3. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
4. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
5. Whiskey Youre The Devil
6. The Wild Rover – John Peel Session 10th April 1984
7. Streams Of Whiskey
8. Greenland Whale Fisheries
9. Boys From The County Hell
10. The Auld Triangle – David Kid Jensen Session 21st June 1984
11. Dingle Regatta/Holly Johnsons
12. Poor Paddy On The Railway
13. The Boys From The County Hell
14. Connemara, Lets Go! – John Peel Session 4th December 1984
15. Whiskey Youre The Devil