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Live Music: Philip Chevron Testimonial, The Olympia, Dublin

Philip Chevron’s recent announcement that he has inoperable cancer prompted his friends to organise this concert in his honour.Chevron is probably best-known as the guitarist for the Pogues, but for a handful of admirers he will always be remembered for his work with his first band, The Radiators from Space, and particularly for their 1979 album, Ghostown.

MC for the evening was actor Aiden Gillen, who nailed succinctly the genius of Chevron’s contributions to Ghostown: “On songs like ‘Faithful Departed’ and ‘Kitty Ricketts’ he made the pissy backstreets of Dublin sound like the pissy backstreets of Paris.”