Events & Author Appearances

May
16
Book Signing: Here Comes Everybody
James Fearnley
Community Bookstore, 143 7th Ave., Brooklyn , NY 11215 (map it)
Friday, May 16, 2014 - 7:00pm

Join author and Pogues member James Fearnley for a reading and discussion of his book, Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues. Event time to be determined.

Visit the Community Bookstore website for updates and more information.

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Here Comes Everybody
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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.