The UK music press hailed the Pogues' debut album as a breath of fresh air. Melody Maker felt that "the quality of their music, even the very nature of it, is strangely irrelevant. What's important is their existence at all. For The Pogues are a gesture – a particularly bloody two-fingered one – aimed at all things considered current and fashionable in 1984... Theirs is a gut reaction to traditional music – and with it comes all the motion, intensity and vigour that has largely been lost to these songs since the early days of the folk revival in the Sixties."

For this exclusive 'In Conversation', The Pogues' Spider Stacy and James Fearnley join author Donal Fallon to celebrate their seminal debut album "Red Roses for Me" turning 40 this year.

This is a seated event.