He auditioned twice, he said. The second time, Mr. MacGowan and Mr. Finer told him that he would be allowed only two drums, a snare and a floor tom, and that he would have to stand when playing them. “No cymbals,” he recalled them telling him, “but you can have a saucepan lid.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/arts/music/andrew-ranken-dead-the-pogues.html

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