Events & Author Appearances

May
17
Book Event: Here Comes Everybody
James Fearnley
Cabinet of Wonders at the City Winery, 155 Varick St., New York, NY 10013 (map it)
Saturday, May 17, 2014

James Fearnley, Pogues member and author of Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues will take part in an evening of music and literature as part of Wesley Stace's Cabinet of Wonders, to be broadcast on NPR. Event time to be determined.

Visit thecabinetofwonders.com for tickets and more information.

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Here Comes Everybody
Here Comes Everybody ›
By James Fearnley

Trade Paper

Published May 2014

The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series of journals and correspondence he kept throughout the band’s career. Fearnley describes the coalescence of a disparate collection of vagabonds living in the squats of London’s Kings Cross, with, at its center, the charismatic MacGowan and his idea of turning Irish traditional music on its head. With beauty, lyricism, and great candor, Fearnley tells the story of how the band watched helplessly as their singer descended into a dark and isolated world of drugs and alcohol, and sets forth the increasingly desperate measures they were forced to take.