The Pogues the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl, the first time the band had played the song live on television. The following week they performed live on the popular music show "". Shane MacGowan wrote a blog for "The Guardian" website in 2006, detailing his thoughts on the current tour. The band was awarded the lifetime achievement award at the annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards in February 2006. In March 2006, the band played their first US dates with Shane in over 15 years. The band played a series of sold-out concerts in
Twelve Tales of Christmas Twelve Tales of Christmas Twelve Tales of Christmas is a Christmas-themed solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Tom Chaplin. The album was released on 17 November 2017 by Island Records. It is Chaplin’s second solo studio album, following on from the release of his debut album "The Wave" in 2016, as well as the four studio albums he had recorded as the lead singer of Keane. On 13 October 2017, Chaplin announced that he had recorded his first solo Christmas album, entitled "Twelve Tales of Christmas", to be released on 17 November 2017. Simultaneously the first single from the