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
A Partridge Family Christmas Card Jones as the lead singer ("The Christmas Song"). "A Partridge Family Christmas Card" was the best-selling Christmas album in the United States during the Christmas season of 1971. It was the number 1 album on "Billboard" magazine's special Christmas Albums sales chart for all four weeks that the magazine published the chart that year. The album was reissued in 1992 on CD and is also available as mp3 downloads. Only two tracks, "Winter Wonderland" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", were featured on the TV show (in the second-season episode "Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa") A Partridge