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RIP Shane MacGowan

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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Algarveaddick said:
    I had forgotten that he came to see a band I was managing at Dingwalls once. Wish I had had the courage to go and chat with him.   
    Didn’t know you were in that business @Algarveaddick. Which band was it?
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002


    strongly recommended
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,675
    JamesSeed said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    I had forgotten that he came to see a band I was managing at Dingwalls once. Wish I had had the courage to go and chat with him.   
    Didn’t know you were in that business @Algarveaddick. Which band was it?
    The cheeky girls 
  • Wellred
    Wellred Posts: 1,118
    Born in Kent I Always thought he was Irish 
    Rest Easy Shane 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Pride of place on my wall
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Huge irish hero.
    RIP Shane.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002

    ‘The genius of Shane’s contribution includes that his songs capture within them, as Shane would put it, the measure of our dreams – of so many worlds and particularly those of love, of the emigrant experience and of living and seeing the sides of life that so many turn away from.’

     

    – Irish President Michael D. Higgins pays tribute 

  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited November 2023
    Just a sad waste.  
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    Such a shame that he has passed, but what a life he led!  Thanks for the music...RIP Shane, God bless you sir. 
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    RIP Shane. 

    I saw the Pogues in 1986 and 1988. The ‘88 show at the Town and Country Club was filmed and released on video. Kirsty McColl sang on a couple of the songs, including Fairy Tale of New York. Joe Strummer also came on and they did I Fought the Law and London Calling.

    Sadly the decline in Shane as front man and singer between 1986 and 1988 was already evident with his vocals much diminished and hanging onto the mike stand to stay upright. It was a real shame as the band were phenomenal that night but obviously carrying Shane.

    https://youtu.be/40gvMLEGqIs?si=SZvs1piwGC7A9nr0
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  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,255
    Lyrical genius, what a talent, what a pisshead. Read that when he had liver problems many years ago he washed his medication down with bottles of wine. Always  a brilliant night out with the Pogues :D RIP Shane
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,107
    RIP Shane … lived life to the full
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,716
    RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    RIP
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited November 2023
    JamesSeed said:
    Sad day. What a great character he was. Used to know him back in the day. He went to Westminster school, which might surprise some people. 

    What also might surprise is he was born in Pembury, Kent, that well known republican stronghold 🤔which can also claim Jonny Williams, Ben Garner and Sam Billings as born in Pembury.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited November 2023
    Wellred said:
    Born in Kent I Always thought he was Irish 
    Rest Easy Shane 

    His parents were Irish and maybe just the drink talking ? But Macgowan was quoted as saying he wished he had the nerve to have joined the IRA and he was a friend of Gerry Adams.
    Still a great writer and lived the quintessential rock and roll life and death even if he way outlived the ' 27 group'.
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,808
    Not a good day for deaths - this, Henry Kissinger, Alistair Darling and Jimmy Corkhill
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    A tremendous song writer for sure, leaves a terrific body of work.

    Saw him 'perform' on two occasions but the less said about them the better.

    His wife Victoria's book A Drink with Shane MacGowan was an illuminating if dispiriting read. 

  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,153
    JamesSeed said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    I had forgotten that he came to see a band I was managing at Dingwalls once. Wish I had had the courage to go and chat with him.   
    Didn’t know you were in that business @Algarveaddick. Which band was it?
    Rochee and the Sarnos. Once described by Sounds as "The oddballs of the cowpunk movement", which they weren't really, just a rockabilly band with a sense of humour.  
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    EveshamAddick said:
    RIP Shane. 

    I saw the Pogues in 1986 and 1988. The ‘88 show at the Town and Country Club was filmed and released on video. Kirsty McColl sang on a couple of the songs, including Fairy Tale of New York. Joe Strummer also came on and they did I Fought the Law and London Calling.

    Sadly the decline in Shane as front man and singer between 1986 and 1988 was already evident with his vocals much diminished and hanging onto the mike stand to stay upright. It was a real shame as the band were phenomenal that night but obviously carrying Shane.

    https://youtu.be/40gvMLEGqIs?si=SZvs1piwGC7A9nr0
    Was there at the T&C Club.
    Always dragged along by the then boyfriend to hold coats/pints etc as they chucked themselves about up the front.
    Brilliant night of many.
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  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,051
    Some of my favourite ever gigs. Some of the most stunningly beautiful lyrics. Shane’s “image” belied one of the greatest songwriters we’ve ever been blessed with. He even played a part in The Jam’s early career, giving me another of my musical heroes. Forever grateful for being able to enjoy his genius.

    Rest in Peace Shane. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam 💚
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    KBslittlesis said:
    EveshamAddick said:
    RIP Shane. 

    I saw the Pogues in 1986 and 1988. The ‘88 show at the Town and Country Club was filmed and released on video. Kirsty McColl sang on a couple of the songs, including Fairy Tale of New York. Joe Strummer also came on and they did I Fought the Law and London Calling.

    Sadly the decline in Shane as front man and singer between 1986 and 1988 was already evident with his vocals much diminished and hanging onto the mike stand to stay upright. It was a real shame as the band were phenomenal that night but obviously carrying Shane.

    https://youtu.be/40gvMLEGqIs?si=SZvs1piwGC7A9nr0
    Was there at the T&C Club.
    Always dragged along by the then boyfriend to hold coats/pints etc as they chucked themselves about up the front.
    Brilliant night of many.
    I was there too, great night 
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    edited November 2023
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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    RIP
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,625
    Saw a few bits of Shane’s funeral today, a great send off.
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    Brilliant 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,035
    Thats awesome
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,639
    I had the funeral on in the background while doing other stuff. Very impressive send-off. Then Cait got up and sang I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day, with the arrangement tweaked just slightly to turn it into more of a lament than a drinking song, and I'm afraid I was in bits after that.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Agreed

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