NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Shane MacGowan on 11 December 2023. Shane MacGowan has been played on NTS shows including Idle Hands w/ Zane Landreth, with Lucy (Version #2) first played on 16 December 2020.

Shane MacGowan (December 25, 1957 - November 30, 2023) was best known as the original singer and songwriter with The Pogues, and is considered one of the most important and poetic Irish songwriters of the last thirty years.

MacGowan drew on his Irish heritage to create The Pogues, a band that he founded, but from which he was away during a long hiatus in the 1990s. Many…