I didn't really drink seriously in 1986. I distanced myself from two friends who were beginning to do so during the year and started going out with a girl who only required a glass of wine to go entirely red in the face and develop a deeply enchanting rictus grin.. She froze. And this was generally a cue for me to take her home..
So I never really developed a Pogues drinking momentum during their prime. Which frankly came round about in 1986 with the release of the Poguetry In Motion EP. It really tells you pretty much everything about drinking heavily and what it can do. For better and for worse, To make you laugh and make you cry, To make you despair of life irself and enable you to cope with that despair. It;s as good as Joyce and Beckett, As good as a pint of Guinness/ You can also put it on the jukebox in pubs..
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