Liam Ó Maonlaí of the Hothouse Flowers has recalled performing at Shane MacGowan's funeral in December on Friday night's Late Late Show.
He told presenter Patrick Kielty that the unique ceremony, which included attendees dancing in the aisles of the church during a rendition of Fairytale of New York, demonstrated as Irish people "how we face our vulnerabilities."
The musician was speaking during part of a music segment with other musicians from the upcoming Temple Bar Tradfest, which is set to take place later this month.
He said, "The most intense part of life is dealing with the loss of somebody - but it's also life, and we tend to gravitate towards a craiced way of doing it... and we did that with bells on it that time."
"And I've been to three other funerals since, and they keep getting better!" he joked.
Singer George Murphy, who also was one of the musicians who performed at the funeral, said, "It was incredible - the fact that it happened in the run up to Christmas and the ceremony kind of finished with Fairytale of New York and people were dancing in the aisles - it didn't seem like a funeral.
"For anyone that would have been looking at it they'd be like, 'That's a funeral?!'
"I know from talking to Glen (Hansard) and Victoria (Mary Clarke) as well, they wanted it to be a celebration of Shane's life," he said.
"They wanted his songs to come to the fore and make it about that and not about the sense of loss. Obviously it's a huge loss, but it was more about the music and the celebration, which was lovely."
Shane MacGowan's funeral took place on Friday 8 December in the Rosary Church in Nenagh, Co Tipperary.
Hollywood star Johnny Depp and U2 frontman Bono were among those who participated in the service for The Pogues singer-songwriter.
Also in attendance were President Michael D Higgins, Nick Cave, actor Aidan Gillen, and former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams.
Hundreds gathered outside the Co Tipperary church and earlier that day, mourners lined the streets of Dublin to say an emotional goodbye to MacGowan at a public procession through the capital.
