Shane MacGowan

Shane died today RIP.
A poet
A punk
A legend.
He bought traditional Irish music to the younger folk.
Not everyone’s cup of tea.

 

Not my cup of tea, to be sure to be sure.

 

Well, I like this ...

 

I love Pogues and Shane, even though I don't usually suffer badly behaving addicts.

But there is something very bare and genuine here, an unhandsome lad belting away songs from his grandparents' past with true feeling.

This one with Dubliners is a gem, Shane is obviously drunk and looks like one of those misfits behind the Metro station and yet the clip is full of joy of playing and singing together. Wonderful.




We had five million hogs
Six million dogs
Seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million bails of old nanny goats' tails
In the hold of The Irish Rover