The Pogues Celebrate 40th Anniversary Of “Red Roses For Me” With Reissue On Red Vinyl

To celebrate its 40th anniversary on October 15, The Pogues’ debut album, Red Roses For Me, is to be reissued on two brand new formats: recycled red vinyl containing the 2013 remix of the album and a double-CD set, including the album and B-sides and a bonus disc of the band’s BBC sessions from 1984.

These anniversary formats will be released on October 18 and are available to pre-order HERE.

After four decades, Red Roses For Me is still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed ne’er-do-wells from London’s Kings Cross in the convulsive aftermath of the re-election of the Thatcher government. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals – about death and drink, love and London – with those of frontman Shane MacGowan’s – and all fuelled by the punk ethos.