Highly recommended: a great documentary about the #pogues singer Shane MacGowan with Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, Joe Strummer and others. You can set the language to English
I've had Fairytale of New York ear-worming since Shane MacGowan passed away. Don't know why he's haunting me! I like the song but it's starting to drive me mental now! 😬 👂 🐛
Shane McGowan was buried today. I just want to take this opportunity to remind people that "Fairytale of New York" is a perfect song because it's a full-length novel in one song. And it's beautiful. #Pogues
Shane MacGowan funeral procession to pass through the streets of Dublin so people can pay their respects. The procession will apparently end just off Fenian Street - which seems appropriate.
@historyofpunkrock Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre-#Pogues band The Nips from 1980. Plain white cardboard cover with a stuck-on b&w insert, in typical #bootleg style. Features the legendary 'King of the Bop' on side one - perhaps the first really cracking song that Shane ever wrote. A cross between #punk and #rockabilly.
I bought this in 'Rock On' in London's Camden Town. Three quid and seventy-five pence, at the time. @vinylrecords
Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre-#Pogues band The Nips from 1980.
Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre-#Pogues band The Nips from 1980.
Inhaltslose #Fake Beiträge zum #Tod von #ShaneMcGowan. Bilder seiner #Beisetzung - die allerdings erst am 08.12. stattfinden wird, seine vermeintlichen "#Lastwords - 5 hours before he died!", die traurigen Abschiedsworte von #JohnnyDepp, die aus alten Interviews zusammengeschnitten wurden...
@historyofpunkrock Here's an interview I did with Shane MacGowan in 1994 for the Irish Post.
I first met Shane at a wild Cramps gig in London in 1980 (Bryan Gregory on guitar), way before he started the Pogues. He really was an incredibly intelligent and gifted person, very well read, quite sensitive and not at all like the image the music business machinery forced upon him.
And over the years he helped and inspired me in many, many ways.
I am sad at his passing but glad that he is at his rest now. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.