Quote Of The Day – SHANE MACGOWAN About Drinking (What Else?)
Let’s drink to that…
Shane MacGowan
COMING SOON! The SHANE MACGOWN Movie ‘CROCK OF GOLD: A Few Rounds With…”
17 November 2020
In cinemas on 20 November. On DVD & digital on 7 December
The trailer…
NME says: “Put some Motown on now or I don’t say another fucking word,” huffs Shane MacGowan at the start of Crock of Gold. Any journalist who’s ever had the pleasure of interviewing the Irish raconteur will know that with his furious intelligence, cutting wit and undeniable talent comes a scabrous kind of defiance. MacGowan is a man who does things on his own terms and – as this film shows – it’s been the same ever since he was a kid… His final words (which we won’t spoil here) are potent, poetic and a right laugh – three things Shane MacGowan always was, and always will, be.” Full review here.
New SHANE MACGOWAN Documentary ‘CROCK OF GOLD’ Coming Soon
28 October 2020
Early February a new documentary – produced by Johnny Depp – about
brilliant singer/songwriter, Irish folk punk, hard drinker, and survivor SHANE
MACGOWAN, the unique voice and face of the equally brilliant THE POGUES
for years, was announced. And now we have more details.
The docu is directed by renowned filmmaker Julien Temple, who also canned the
Sex Pistols movie The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle as well as docs on the Pistols
and the Clash.
Crock Of Gold — A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan
is coming to theaters and VOD next December.
Here’s the fairytale trailer…
SHANE MACGOWAN: Facebook
Quote Of The Day – SHANE MACGOWAN
The man who co-wrote one of the all time classic Xmas songs with ‘Fairytale Of New York’
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(image on top: cover from The Popes album ‘The Snake’)
Picture This…
Happy 61 To SHANE MACGOWAN…
25 December 2018
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan was born to Irish parents in Tunbridge Wells, Engeland on Christmas Day 61 years ago today and became one of the best singer/songwriters and genuine performers of all time and yes, he also saved a couple of breweries and distilleries from going bankrupt. Let’s celebrate the man with that big Xmas classic we all know. I chose this particular version because of that sweet little dance Shane had with the late great Kirsty MacColl and… with Camille O’Sullivan (years later, in 2012), at the end of this video. Happy Xmas, happy birthday…
Let’s Drink To Legend SHANE MACGOWAN’s 59th Birthday And The Best Christmas Anthem Ever…
24/25 December 2016
FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK is without a shadow of a doubt the best Christmas song ever.
It is, isn’t it? THE POGUES‘ banjo player Jem Finer came up with the gorgeous melody and the original concept for the anthem in 1985 – two years before its release – while infamous frontman, full-time drunk and extremely gifted songwriter SHANE MACGOWAN wrote the song’s magical story, containing some of the best (egoistic) love lines ever when the late, wonderful late Kirsty MacColl sings “You took my dreams from me / When I first found you” and Shane answers with “I kept them with me babe / I put them with my own / Can’t make it all alone / I’ve built my dreams around you…”
MacGowan himself was born on Christmas Day 1957 in Kent, England! Happy 59 to one of the most colorful, talented & troubled (broke his pelvis last year) musician in history! Let’s toast and listen once again to this timeless, melancholic diamond…
Shane on writing the lyrics in 1985: “I sat down, opened the sherry, got the peanuts out
and pretended it was Christmas. It’s quite sloppy, more like ‘A Pair of Brown Eyes’ than ‘Sally MacLennane’, but there’s also a céilidh bit in the middle which you can definitely dance to.
Like a country and Irish ballad, but one you can do a brisk waltz to, especially when you’ve got about enough drinks. But the song itself is quite depressing in the end, it’s about these old Irish-American Broadway stars who are sitting round at Christmas talking about whether things are going okay.”
With thanks to British music magazine NME check
25 facts about Fairytale in New York right… here
