The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash

In London in the early 80s, a rag-tag band of hellraisers came together, on a mission to take Irish traditional music into places it had never been before.

They were the Pogues, and by the time of their second album, they'd grown from riotous punk-trad, into surprisingly mature and insightful songwriters, fuelled by the pure poetry of Shane MacGowan.

On Long Player, Steven Rainey investigates the making of 1985's Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.