The Pogues co-founder: ‘We’re the last proper London punk band’

It’s both brilliant and validating that UK band The Pogues are beloved by so many international fans, says Spider Stacy, who now replaces Shane McGowan – a hard-drinking poet, who died in 2023 – as the band’s frontman.

Every time he’s anywhere near an Australian or a New Zealander though, Stacy finds his sentences start sounding like questions.

“It’s like an earworm and I can’t shake it,” he tells RNZ’s Saturday Morning. “I hope it doesn’t come across like I’m sort of making fun, because I’m not.”