{"id":178230,"date":"2025-11-13T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/178230\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:38:10","slug":"being-able-to-sing-shane-macgowans-songs-on-stage-is-such-a-special-thing-iona-zajac-on-going-on-tour-with-the-pogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/178230\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Being able to sing Shane MacGowan\u2019s songs on stage is such a special thing\u2019: Iona Zajac on going on tour with the Pogues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe Scottish star reveals how she sang in front of MacGowan the only time they met and how her overactive imagination finds its way into some of the songs on her new album\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763026690_49_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Singer Iona Zajac talks about taking to the stage with the Pogues in place of Shane MacGowan <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was one of many \u2018pinch-me\u2019 moments that Iona Zajac has experienced over the past year. The setting was Dublin\u2019s 3Arena, a week before last Christmas, and the Edinburgh singer was lustily singing a song that\u2019s most associated with Shane MacGowan and with backing from a super-sized iteration of the Pogues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Although she is adamant that she wasn\u2019t replacing MacGowan \u2013 who could? she reasons \u2013 Zajac performed as though her life depended on it. And she loved every moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish star reveals how she sang in front of MacGowan the only time they met and how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,17689,2519,36193],"class_list":{"0":"post-178230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-john-meagher","14":"tag-review-magazine","15":"tag-shane-macgowan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115541725242379694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}