Watch Glen Hansard & Friends cover The Pogues’ ‘A Rainy Night In Soho’ in tribute to Shane MacGowan

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The Pogues’ ‘A Rainy Night in Soho’, in tribute to the late Shane MacGowan. Watch the video below.On November 30, it was announced that MacGowan passed away peacefully surrounded by his family and friends.The next night, Hansard was among the guests on RTE’s The Late Late Show, performing the classic song alongside Pogues member Terry Woods, and the musicians Moya Brennan, Camille O’Sullivan, Aidan Gillan and Liam Ó Maonlaí.On the show, Hansard said: “He’d say find the truth in that lyric.

What’s the truth in that? He would push you… and he had that honesty and a kind of fearlessness about the work.”“And I think he’s told me to eff off about a hundred times.

And yet I’d get a Christmas card, I’d get a birthday card, he sent me a painting… and every time he’d send you something – it was full of insults.”‘A Rainy Night in Soho’ was first released on The Pogues’ 1986 EP ‘Poguetry in Motion’.Hansard rose to prominence as frontman of the Irish rock band The Frames, before forming The Swell Season in the early 2000s.

He starred in the 1991 film The Commitments, and the 2007 film Once, for which he won an Oscar for Best Song for ‘Falling Slowly’.On Friday (December 1), U2 performed their own version of ‘A Rainy Night in Soho’ during the latest of their Las Vegas shows at the Sphere.Since the news of MacGowan’s passing broke, a number of high-profile artists have been paying tribute to his influence on their work.Bruce Springsteen wrote on social media: “Shane was one of my all-time favorite writers.