… the Aran jumper crowd (Pat Carty, ‘The Sunday Times, 3rd December 2023) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shane-macgowan-the-man-who-made-irish-music-cool-gj0fvk505 (apologies, it’s probably behind a firewall) Rum Sodomy & the Lash made it into the UK Top 20 in 1985 and it was likely the first time most of us heard of them. MacGowan’s songwriting had taken a quantum leap and…