Shane MacGowan tribute album to be released

Victoria Mary Clarke, widow of The Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan, has shared plans for a tribute album to the late artist.

She told RTÉ's The Brendan O'Connor Show that the record is set to be released next year.

The news comes around the second anniversary of MacGowan's death (Sunday, 30 November).

Discussing her top five songs, she picked KNEECAP's 'Sick in the Head', adding that they are like "the early Pogues". The writer and journalist revealed that MacGowan "was aware of KNEECAP and he was very interested".

"You know, he was already quite ill at the time, but he was very interested in them. And I've been pursuing them to play one of his songs on the tribute album," she added.

Clarke revealed that she has 30 people working on songs and that KNEECAP are "definitely on my list of people I'd really like to [appear]."

"There's Americans, there's English people, Irish people. It's kind of a mix," she said, describing who will be on the album.

"I probably shouldn't say who they are, but they're kind of obvious," said Clarke. "Some of them are obvious, but then some of them are not obvious, and they're the ones I'm kind of interested for people to hear."