The Bogues is a San Francisco based 8-10-piece Pogues celebration band founded by Bay Area songwriter and British Isles transplant Paul Griffiths."With our singing, bouzouki, tin whistle, banjo, accordion, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, drums, and, when circumstances demand, trombone, we celebrate the genius of Shane MacGowan and The Pogues, inspired by their fiery mix of traditional Irish folk and blood and guts rock 'n' roll; 'the brandy of the damned,' as Tom Waits called them." For their inaugural show on Saint Patrick's night in 2012, San Francisco's Make Out Room invited The Bogues to perform the definitive Pogues album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash in its entirety. With an ever expanding repertoire, the band has since been invited to play at The Starry Plough in Berkeley, Smiley's Schooner Saloon in Bolinas, Amnesia Music Hall in San Francisco and lots of places in between including numerous private events. The Bogues include many…