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| 31.08.2004 THE RAZZ: REVIEW: SHANE MCGOWAN AND THE POPES Celtic Roots Festival,Edinburgh August 21 ##### Daily Records 27 Aug 2004 Richard Purden THE fans know it's showtime when a bottle of gin arrives on stage a few seconds before MacGowan. The punk Behan returns to the form of his Pogues heyday thanks to the shedding of a few pounds, a black Fred Perry shirt and leopardskin brothel creepers. The Road To Paradise makes U2 sound like an underground garage band. For A Pair Of Brown Eyes, MacGowan is like Sinatra doing My Way or Morrissey delivering How Soon Is Now. This should be one of Scotland's premier live venues. The sound tonight is tremendous. MacGowan is particularly receptive to the audience,inviting some fans backstage for a drink. The Popes are stripped down with a tighter punk edge but guitar stalwart Paul 'Mad Dog' McGuiness beefs up the sound. A countrified Dirty Old Town sounds fresh and it's great to hear relentless old hellraisers like Bottle of Smoke. It's been seven years since MacGowan released a studio album. It would be criminal for him to return after The Pogues reunion without some new material. Sex, thongs and rock 'n' roll The Post 29/08/04 00:00 By Ros Drinkwater In 2004, nothing sells like celebrity provenance and Christie's South Kensington Pop Memorabilia sale has dazzle to spare. Irish talent makes an appearance with six pages of A4 paper with doodles, ideas for lyrics, proposed song titles and caricatures by Shane McGowan of the Pogues (?300-?500). 30.08.2004 Drunk and disorderly The Scotsman (on subscription) 29 Aug 2004 SIOBHAN SYNNOT SHANE MacGowan’s life has been coloured by the three Ds; drink, drugs and dentistry, a trinity that shaped his shambolic image and lifestyle. Now 46, MacGowan, former frontman of Irish folk-rockers the Pogues, has become a repository for hoary Oirish clich?s about artists with an endless thirst for poetry and pints. Unsurprisingly, MacGowan’s heroes are historically inebriated storytellers Flann O’Brien and Brendan Behan. Like O’Brien, he has a taste for Paddywhackery. Like Behan, his contributions have been largely overshadowed by his chaotic reputation. Nowadays, MacGowan still commands attention, but while some are still drawn to his artistic admiration, rather more are drawn to the former Pogue in much the same way that crowds gather at car wrecks. Last week, a scaffolder asked a court to believe that MacGowan might also have a Wilde side, alleging that in an incident at a London pub earlier this year, MacGowan had offered to pay him for sex. In return, Liam McInerney punched the singer, fracturing a cheekbone. McInerney received a three-year sentence for GBH. Fans of Oscar Wilde will recall that the verdantly carnationed Irish writer met his downfall over allegations that he had kissed a certain boy. "Certainly not," Wilde disastrously replied. "He was a very ugly boy." It is very hard to imagine MacGowan as a latter day Wilde. A few years back, he was asked about rumours he had worked as a rent boy in London before forming the Pogues. "That’s a load of rubbish," he said immediately. "That never happened. It all came from a song I wrote about rent boys called ‘The Old Main Drag’. I knew some people who did it, but I certainly never did it myself." There are other reasons why it seems unlikely that MacGowan could have made the offer of sex. As a man of many words but few teeth, and with his heavy accent and boozy slurring, MacGowan is more likely to make an offer you can’t understand. Two decades ago, his band the Pogues achieved a certain popularity with a fervid stew of traditional folk and punkish energy, and dreamy poetic licence. Playing an irreverent collection of acoustic and electric instruments, the Anglo-Irish sextet managed to revitalise elements of folk music for a generation previously lost to the stolid joys of older artists. A precocious child who could hold proper conversations by the time he was two, MacGowan was inspired by his extended family. His father’s relatives were well-read, while his mother came from a family of farmers who were all renowned storytellers. In the 1960s, when he was six, the MacGowans emigrated from Dublin to London to find work. Neither MacGowan nor his mother weathered the culture shock well; both were treated for nervous disorders with medication and hospital stays. Later he won a writing prize here and there, and attended then dropped out of Westminster School, the prestigious 800-year-old privately endowed establishment attended by the likes of playwright Ben Jonson and Sir Peter Ustinov. "I went to school when I was seven and was kicked out when I was 14," he has said. "That’s seven years out of my life at school and I didn’t pay any attention to any of it. All my education was from my family and from people I met in bars and kitchens and dances in Ireland, and as a teenager on the streets of London." Not surprisingly, this misfit found happiness in the emerging punk scene. He can be glimpsed in a photo of an early Sex Pistols concert with his familiar jug ears and teeth as crooked as old tombstones, and later found modest success with a punk band, the Nipple Erectors (later shortened to the Nips), with Shanne Bradley. The duo became a couple off-stage with Bradley claiming to have been MacGowan’s muse for a number of early Pogues songs, such as ‘A Pair of Brown Eyes’ and ‘London Girl’. It was with the formation of the Pogues that MacGowan’s eye for all things Irish found its outlet. His yarn-spinning lyrics ("drinking, f***ing and fighting songs"), gargled vocals and vivid contrast between folk and electric instrumentation all made the Pogues a striking novelty. Their biggest hit, the Kirsty McColl duet ‘Fairytale of New York’, is now an annual visitor to the Christmas Top 40, appearing with Slade-like inevitability. Only MacGowan could write a line like "Happy Christmas your arse - I pray God it’s our last" and turn it into something you sing at the office Yuletide do. But the Pogues were doomed to self-destruct - MacGowan was only the most conspicuous member with overweening substance abuse problems. The pressures took their toll. MacGowan’s ritual drinking became the central, rather than secondary, issue. He began to miss shows, and when the Pogues were forced to tour with former Clash vocalist Joe Strummer in their usual frontman’s place, the rumours that he was dying seemed all too likely to be true. The output became weaker, despite guest appearances by Johnny Depp, Kirsty MacColl and Matt Dillon, and eventually singer and bandmates parted acrimoniously in 1991 for health reasons (his and theirs). The remaining members continued recording as Pogues through two little-noticed albums, while MacGowan set up a new band, insouciantly titled The Popes, which also suffered from his lethargy and ongoing dissipation. Sinead O’Connor called the police, worried about his drink and drug abuse, but this was only a temporary wake-up call for MacGowan and the company he kept. In 1999, the body of a drifter friend was found dead from a suspected drugs overdose in MacGowan’s Hampstead flat. And yet the fact that he has defied science, outliving numerous peers despite his self-confessed rock-star excesses in drink and drugs suggests that he is not the rock’n’roll casualty he affects to be. Underneath that homeless-person exterior is an articulate, widely read man. Friends allege he is painfully shy and a borderline social inadequate. Alcohol keeps people at bay; his friend Bono attests that MacGowan is a good deal sharper than he lets on. But he enjoys the myth. A few years ago, he published a stream of consciousness autobiography, transcribed by his long-suffering long-term girlfriend Victoria Clarke. An improbable childhood claims he was drinking two bottles of stout a day and gambling regularly at five, read Venus in Furs at eight, and never took a bath. Readers were also told by MacGowan that he only drank wine with food ("But you drink it every day! You drink at least two bottles every day," spluttered his girlfriend in print. "I eat every day," he retorted.) By the time the book was finished, so was their relationship. MacGowan blaming a heroin addiction; "I genuinely got incredible enjoyment out of it for years, but towards the end it really f***ed me up. Giving up was the closest thing I’ve been to hell on earth - it was like my own personal Iraq. I didn’t give a f*** about wasting any talent I had. It broke up my relationship with the only woman I ever loved and that’s all I give a f*** about." MacGowan is no longer high on illegal substances, but he is still addicted to his own mythology as rock survivor and the drunken seer. Both types can be fairly tiresome. Back in 1984 he sang that he was "going where streams of whiskey are flowing", and they have led not to the grave, as many expected, but to a sodden life of incoherence, and near irrelevance. IN HIS OWN WORDS 'People think my teeth were smashed through fighting - but it was from too much alcohol. Sugar rotted them away' ‘There’s Shakespeare and a few good poets, the Brontes and Thomas Hardy. And I like Dickens, but that’s it. I think Jane Austen and George Eliot are a pile of old crap. I’d recommend anything by Graham Greene. Although he was born and bred in England, he hated the bloody place’ ‘The whole point of the Pogues was that we were the same as the audience. It was a bunch of drunks coming to party with another bunch of drunks’ ‘My nose has been broken four times. Lisa Stansfield once got annoyed and punched me very hard in the face and broke it again. In fact she straightened it out.’ 25.08.2004 Loo man hit rocker Shane The Sun A SCAFFOLDER who beat up rocker Shane MacGowan was jailed for three years yesterday — after claiming the singer asked him for gay sex. Former Pogues frontman MacGowan, 46, suffered a fractured cheekbone in the attack by Liam McInerney, 23. He was punched and kicked in a pub toilet in Belgravia, central London. McInerney, of Forest Gate, East London, alleged MacGowan had offered him money for sex, Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court heard. He admitted GBH and a similar assault on a woman in another pub. Man jailed for attacking MacGowan Irish Examiner 25 Aug 2004 Irish rocker Shane MacGowan is breathing a sigh of relief after an English scaffolder has been jailed for three years for attacking the former Pogues frontman. MORE >>> ROCKER ATTACKED AFTER 'GAY SEX OFFER' The Daily Record 25 Aug 2004 A THUG who battered Pogues legend Shane MacGowan in a pub toilet claimed the star offered to pay him for gay sex. But scaffolder Liam McInerney was jailed for three years yesterday for the attack on the singer - and for punching a woman in the face while high on drugs. Prosecutors said the assault on MacGowan was 'totally unprovoked'.The star told earlier this year how McInerney lashed out at him for no reason. MORE >>> 21.08.2004 REVIEW: Shane MacGowan (23 July, Forum, Waterford, Ireland) Munster Express The prospect of a midnight gig with Shane MacGowan at the Forum last Friday had a thrill of sulphur on the edge of the grave. Would the old Liver Living Dead turn up, would he be able to stand up, etc. MORE >>> Eastleigh Summer Festival (30 July, Eastleigh, UK ) http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0024.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0025.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0026.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0027.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0028.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0029.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0030.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0031.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0032.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0034.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0035.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0036.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0037.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0038.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0039.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0040.JPG http://www.liveinportsmouth.co.uk/notreallyportsmouth/040730/shanemacgowan0041.JPG Shane MacGowan by Hay Machine Wild wild throaty Irish briar rooted in your own fairytale blooming one rose after another that magic head rocking your sad singing eyes Singing old songs with wonder new songs and symphonies so we can wade out into your deep dark pools your sad singing eyes 18.08.2004 MacGowan to play at Ronnie Scott's 18 August 2004 www.rte.ie Shane MacGowan will play a month-long residency at Ronnie Scott's world-renowned jazz club in London. According to BBC Online, his spokeswoman said "After a lull a year ago, he's having a creative surge; he's on the ball at the moment." He has material for a new album ready to go and plans to start recording next month. MORE >>> MacGowan to play at jazz landmark By Chris Heard BBC News Online entertainment staff Legendary singer Shane MacGowan is to play a mini-residency at London's famous Ronnie Scott's jazz club. The former Pogues frontman will perform four dates during "a month of Sundays" at the Soho venue early next year. The shows may be recorded for DVD and are expected to draw high-profile fellow musicians to play on the bill. MORE >>> 16.08.2004 I won't call it "news". I know it was reported to RPS Forum twice at least (and Nobby3 was the first). I do it just for the record. To keep the conception of the page :)) So DEATH DISCOS IN DUBLIN + BELFAST WITH SHANE MACGOWAN!!! WHITE STRIPES/NY DOLLS/PEACHES AFTER-PARTIES! Shane MacGowan is set to DJ at Death Disco again! The man who forms the triad of Ireland's greatest living songwriters with Van Morrison and Bono appears behind the DD decks in Dublin and Belfast at the White Stipes/New York Dolls/Peaches after-parties. Shane has spun at Death Disco Dublin twice before, taking the live mic to sing along to songs like Elvis' I Was The One, and once at DD Belfast - where he had the whole audience singing along enthusiastically to Val Doonican's Walk Tall! "Shane's a great DJ" enthuses BPF. "Through the records he plays, you see the soul of the man". MAKE A DATE WITH DEATH DISCO! Tues Aug 24 with DJs Shane MacGowan + BPF + Surprise Guests! The Village, Dublin 10.30pm ˆ10 Wed Aug 25 with DJs Shane MacGowan + BPF + Surprise Guests! The Menagerie, University Street, Belfast 9.30pm ?8 Death Disco Dublinks.com "Death Disco, Dublin's premiere rock & roll club, plays at The Village on Tuesday, the 24th of August. For the Death Disco night in The Village, Shane MacGowan of The Pogues and The Popes will be behind the decks playing songs by Elvis and Val Doonican. Guaranteed to a night of rollicking good fun..." DETAILS >>> The Village 26 Wexford Street, Dublin 8. Tel: + 353 (0) 1 4758555 LE CHEILE 1st Aug, Oldcastle, co. Meath, Ireland SHANE MaCGOWAN ROCKS OLDCASTLE! "On Sunday August 01st 2004, legendary singer Shane McGowan with The Popes was fighting fit as he brought Oldcastles now famous 'Le Cheile' Festival' to a late yet triumphant close. McGowan and his Popes supported by Jacuzzi Jungle brought the house down and closed out what has fast-become one of the most important Irish three-day Festivals on the circuit." gasun.net presents some photographs of this historic evening. JULY 2004 ROAD TO PARADISE promotion is at its height 01.07.2004 - private gig by Shane McGowan at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate, North London. The Morror: 3rd of July, 2004 " The gig was really hush-hush - it was at a small venue just for people in the know. You needed a password just to get through the door. The idea was for Shane to showcase his latest single Road To Paradise and other new material for close friends." The bhoy is back Times OnLine July 10, 2004 Shane MacGowan hasn't drowned his musical talent, says Paul Connolly It’s a rather rum do. In a tiny Highgate pub, Shane MacGowan, one of the greatest songwriters of the past 25 years and former frontman of the Pogues, is roaring through one of his finest songs, A Rainy Night in Soho. MORE >>> Dickon Edwards: 11.07.2004 Another famous drinker, Mr Shane MacGowan, is a regular. In fact, he stays in the flat upstairs whenever he's in London. Recently, the pub became the venue for the launch party of his brand new single, "The Road To Paradise". This is a rather infectious and jaunty summer pop song featuring the Kick Horns. I was lucky enough to be on the guestlist for this party, my name next to the likes of Ms Kate Moss and Mr Johnny Knoxville from the Jackass TV programme, where he endured a variety of dangerous stunts in preparation for sharing a small room in Highgate with Dickon Edwards. One onlooker in bad shorts asked what I was doing there. Because, he said, I didn't look like "an average Shane MacGowan fan". I replied, "I'd hate to look like an average anything." I wonder if he said the same thing to Ms Moss? At one point I was dragged off to be seated with the other best dressed person in the room, the writer Ms Victoria Clarke, resplendent in a white toga-like gown belted around the waist. She is the singer's close friend, biographer, and former lover of some fifteen years. Ms Clarke introduced me to the others around the table, including the man himself and Ms Moss. Later, I learn that Ms Clarke is an ex-New Romantic. Mr MacGowan performed a couple of short live sets with a youthful backing band, some of whom can't have been born when the first Pogues album came out. They played a mesmerizing version of "A Rainy Night In Soho", which has to be my favourite song of his. Mr MacGowan has certainly had his much-reported physical problems over the years, but on the evidence of this iconic performance, his worst days are behind him. The event is later reported in the Mirror newspaper, as part of the gossip on Ms Moss's romantic life. Nothing in there about mine, I see. The article mentions a couple of inaccuracies. They say Ms Moss missed the gig. Not true. She missed the first set, but danced vigorously to the second and nearly high-kicked me in the face at one point. They also report that Mr Nick Cave played the gig too. He wasn't there, unless you count his calendar on the wall opposite. Again, this is another plus point for the Boogaloo: how many pubs have Nick Cave calendars?... "Was one of the lucky ones to be at Shane Mac Gowan's record launch party in the Boogaloo tonight, what a rockin party, Shane sang new and old material, he was in top form, Sinatra style, great suit , and then danced the night away with Kate Moss" CONEYISLANDMUSI SHANE ON THE AIR, IN PRINT, UPON SCENE: According to Sean Fay - Shane MacGowan Management - and Shane's Official Site this month Shane has been promoting his new Hit single “Road to Paradise” 06.07.2004 - RTE, 2FM, Gerry Ryan Show. "What a disaster of an interview that was!!! Shane sounded like he was just after waking up (which is probably the case) and it's one of those best forgotten moments which will only give the Anti-Shane brigade something to shout about." - BBC, Radio London Live, Robert Elm Show. "wooo, this one was a lot better! Shane talked a bit about meeting Johnstone, seemed a great deal more together. Said his own version of Dirty Old Town was the best - no disputing here. plus free advertising for the Boogaloo." - Christine "was listin 2 shane on bbc london.he sounded good.he sounded like he was havin fun laughin away" - Celtic.Dave 12.07.2004 - BBC, Radio 4, TODAY Programme 16.07.2004 - RTE, TODAY FM, He appeared on Today FM whereupon meeting Paul Collins sportscaster for Today FM, the two Tipperary men decided to exchange jerseys in true hurling tradition. "Mostly talking about the charity single but says he's starting recording an album in 6 weeks. Also said he decked the mascot at a Celtic match when he was invited on the pitch. He sounded pretty pissed but very funny. Said he first met Jimmy Johnstone when he (JJ) was in his early sixties and they went on the drink! " - Robbie - Interviews were held with The Irish Mirror and Hot Press - Shane signed copies of his new single for Hundreds of Fans at Tower Records in Dublin. He stayed signing for over 3 Hours and talked to each and every person writing individual comments on each CD Cover. He stayed signing until after 8pm so that He could meet every fan who came, despite having traveled all night from London , getting the 3am ferry and arriving in Dublin at 6am that morning "As I approached the store, there were a mixture of tourists with hand held video cameras and passers by hanging around for a glimpse of the great man. Inside the store an orderly queue stretching to the back of the store waited patiently clutching copies of the single as the instore sound system blasted out Red Roses for Me and Rum Sodomy. At about 4.50 ( just a tad late!) the sounds of Simple Minds and Jimmy Johnson came pounding out, indicating Shane's arrival was imminent. Then he arrived, dressed in the obligitory black suit hiding behind his shades. A huge cheer, followed by a nod of acknowledgement and Shane was ready to meet an greet. As I was near the end of the queue at this stage, it was difficult to asses what was going on up front. Flashing cameras followed by good natured laughs indicated that Shane was in good form. As I got closer I could see Shane playing up to the cameras, pulling faces, having a laugh and drinking out of what can only be described as a large tupperware bowl !! The queue moved very slowly. This was down the the fact the Shane was writing something original on each CD sleeve. Many artists would just sign their name and move on, but this man has a lot more to give than a plain signiture. It was funny to see people wandering into the store having no idea who was in the corner. When they eventually spotted him, jaws were dropping, people started ringing their friends telling them to get down there. Behind me, the queue showed no signs of tailing off. When it came to my turn to meet him, he wrote a personalised litte ditty on the inside sleeve followed by his trademark hiss.I looked down and read what he wrote, looked at him and his hissed again !!!! (we've met before on a few occasions and from his note it was obvious he'd remembered!! Lets just say that this was the first time I'd met him sober) I took a photo and shook his hand wishing him the best. A class act." - Nobby3 17.07.2004 -A Photo shoot was held in Dublin for “The Independent” of London 19.07.2004 - News Talk Radio Sean Moncrieff Show 106FM 20.07.2004 - 12:00 Radio Interview with 95FM Limerick Ed Myres 5:00pm interview was held with his local newspaper The Nenagh Guardian 6:00pm Interview with Kilkenny / Carlow Radio Station "Shane's best line from Limerick FM:. DJ: how are you enjoying your comeback? SHANE: I never went away. where have you been???" - noel kenny TEX'S RIDERS ABC senior executive 21.07.2004 - 4:00pm Galway Bay FM Interview with Marc Roberts 6:00pm In Store Signing at Zhivago Records, Shop street, Galway, where Shane signed for over 2 hours 22.07.2004 - 11:30 am Interview with 98FM Cork, Neil Prenderville show 4:00 pm In Store Signing at FM Record Store, 118 Patrick Street, Cork "The interview lasted about 15 minutes. Dirty Old Town and A Pair of Brown Eyes were played beforehand. The DJ told how the people that had served Shane breakfast commented on him being a perfect gentleman. He said Shane was looking very well. He asked Shane if he'd given up alcohol. Shane said that he'd cut down on everything and given up heroin last year. The DJ said that must have been tough. Shane said he just got sick of it. He said drugs were available in every schoolyard in Ireland. The DJ said drugs were cheap now including coke. Shane said that's a rich mans drug. The DJ said its still cheap. Shane said that bad coke is cheap. He said scumbags were selling smack to kids. Shane said that the smoking ban in Ireland meant people smoked outside pubs. That was bad because they could be smoking anything including heroin without it being suspicous. He said that he was only interested in drugs when he was young because they were illegal. Alcohol though was part of Irish culture. The DJ said Pair of Brown Eyes was a love song. Shane said that it was about war. The DJ asked about the Road to Paradise single. Shane explained it was to raise money for the motor neurone charity and that Johnston had the disease. The DJ asked what the connection was between Shane and Celtic. Shane told him about the Irish immigrants being Celtic supporters and they discussed how Rangers fans were protestant. At the end of the interview the DJ asked him what he was going to do before the 4pm signing session. Shane said he was going to have a kip. They said their goodbyes followed by the single and the midday news." - Liam 29.07.2004 -Shane did a phone interview with Daire Nelson of Louth/Meath FM .. Daire will broadcast this peice later on his show today which is running from 11:30am this morning until 1pm LMFM is on 95.8FM and broadcasts to an audience of 300,000 adults SHANE: " My Secret Son" Irish Mirror July 2004 Shane MacGowan and his new love secretly "adopted" a teenage boy in Tibet... Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 RETURN OF THE MAC RI-RA magazine July 2004 Legendary folk / punk hero Shane MacGowan is back with his first release in years. RONAN McGREEVY talks to the man. Discerning listeners of the BBC Radio 4's Today programme will have choked on their soldiers and toast had they tuned in a couple of weeks ago. At 8.22pm, right after the slot usually reserved for Prime Ministers and peers of the realm, was that unmistakable bastardised accent and rattlesnake hiss of Snake MacGowan. MORE >>> Shane returns to paradise RICHARD PURDEN 18th July, 2004 Scotsman.com SHANE MacGowan never disappears, he just chooses a different bar to drink in. The behemoth of Irish music has repeatedly proven that despite years of rock’n’roll debauchery, he can still stand up and be counted among every new generation of artists. So it should come as no surprise that when MacGowan releases a new single, many in both the British and Irish media are moved so far as to hail the track his best work since The Pogues. MORE >>> Shane MacGowan: Catch a falling star Thanks to Shane MacGowan's many friends, he's still with us and making music. The legendary Pogue meets Steven Hands Independent 23 July 2004 When a person introduces himself with some version of the old "I'm mad, me" formula, you can usually bet that you're in for a thunderously dull time. But when it's Shane MacGowan barking out: "I'm a self-confessed certified lunatic" by way of greeting, you should bear in mind that he's the exception to the rule... MORE >>> My Sean's booze Shane The Sun IT was always going to be a dangerous mission — to interview legendary drunkard SHANE MacGOWAN in a pub. So I wasn’t that surprised when Bizarre reporter Sean Hamilton was later discovered unconscious on a toilet floor at 5am after a drinking contest with the POGUES star. MORE >>> I did it for Ireland and the Money, nothing else Hot Press 30 Jul 2004 That, according to Shane MacGowan, will be the title of his next, and exceedingly long-awaited album. in the meantime there’s Sean N?s, the war, his dad, drink and Celtic football legend Jimmy Johnstone to be going on with. MORE >>> MacGowan is a friend in deed Nenagh Guardian Saturday July 31st 2004 Reporter Simon O’Duffy met up with the legendary Shane MacGowan, who has released a charity single in aid of the Jimmy Johnstone Motor Neurone Tribute Fund With a 25 year long roller-coaster ride of a career in music under his belt the legendary Shane MacGowan revisited his ancestral homeland of Nenagh last week as part of a promotional tour for his latest single, Road to Paradise. The single is in aid of the Jimmy Johnstone Motor Neurone Disease Tribute Fund. MORE >>> Catch a falling star... ... or better still, don't. Andrew Mueller has overdosed on angst. Saturday July 31, 2004 The Guardian Just once, it'd be nice if a self-destructive rock star destroyed themselves in an even slightly novel way - self-immolate on the steps of some pariah state's embassy. Recruit a dozen desperate men and stage a coup in some fly-blown state. Take up bullfighting. MORE >>> 23.07.2004 Played the Forum in Waterford REVIEW: Shane MacGowan T he prospect of a midnight gig with Shane MacGowan at the Forum last Friday had a thrill of sulphur on the edge of the grave. Would the old Liver Living Dead turn up, would he be able to stand up, etc Doors opened about 11.30and a predominantly male audience gathered with the occasional howl of Shane O. A raw but brillo tribute band of real punk quality and energy thrashed through an exciting set from 12.30 for about a half hour. An interminable wait while The Popes road crew set up and at 1.50 Shane shambled and shuffled onstage, unsteady but ready to exchange expletives with a fan base who were ready to pogo in place for their hero; their rebel of the punky eighties. Shane had already Fallen From Grace when he split from the Pogues. It was the favourite hits routine in a more slurred, more beery, more bleery sad slomo of nostalgia. There was a time when Shane would snarl and roar at nostalgia, now it's all he's got. The sweet poet of those sour times was incoherent and slurred and the beauty of A Pair Of Brown Eyes was gone and no more he'll go a roving just drunk as hell. When he hunkered down for The Broad Majestic Shannon, his heart was no more in Tipperary. Dry your eyes babe, they're all gone in the years babe. Oh how it hurt to hear and see his Fall From Grace. I don't know what is relationship with his band The Popes is. He started them in 1994 but hadn't made a CD with them since 1997 except for guesting on their Holloway Boulevard in 2002. I believe this tour is to promote a four track CD tribute to a Celtic football star - Jimmy Johnstone - but the band were slow, under-rehearsed and the banjo player must have thought he was tuning a guitar. The support band Blood And Whiskey were so much better, more raw energy and attitude. The only rebellion we got from Shane was not to promote the CD - The Bhoys From Paradise and to smoke onstage and after a lack lustre Irish Rover he shambled, offstage with a Happy Fuckin' Christmas. I was sad when it ended. I am going. I am going... There's nothing ever gained by a wet thing alled a tear. It ended at 2.50. The support band, Blood And Whiskey, were a real blast giving it loads and thrashing about like kick-ass screaming monkeys. They were what The Pogues used to be and their "I'll Do It For You" was what punk used to be, Irish style. 24.07.2004 Playing at The Regal Lodge, Skeeter pk, Murrintown in Wexford (053) 39395 30.07.2004 Eastleigh Summer Festival UK "Shane was in great form in eastleigh last night. bass guitar kept cutting out which fucked up a couple of songs though. Old fella, i was right at the front and saw you come flying over the barrier, you looked dead, what the fuck were you doing man? and get rid of the hi-tech trainers!! shane said that there had been a 'petition to sack joey so now hes just got him playing all the wind instruments'. joey was on the telly last nite too in 'in the name of the father' fuck, im becoming a mass media of info for this forum, and to think you were all telling me to fuck off a few weeks ago." - Mark Pompey "I went to Eastleigh too, just haven't got around to posting. Very pleasant ground but smallish crowd. Shane was in very good form, gesticulating to all the songs, very lively, joked with the audience, clear good voice. Predictable setlist but they also did The Road to Paradise, which I find a bit too jaunty but it seems to have worked very well with the audience. Joey tin whistled on DOT but someone else was bringing Shane fags. Great pity about Tom. Debs, I too heard Tommy and Brian's Duelling Banjos in Stockwell where both really showed off their talent, and it's sad to see Brian having to save Tom from lots of embarrassment now. Paul looked half-dead, Bob missed his cue etc. Shane started off in the wrong key for Angel of Death but I think he was only mimicking Bob. To those who posted about support bands: Both warblefly and Suzanne Vega were extremely good. Warblefly actually play all the instruments you would like to hear in support of Shane, they rehearse beforehand, and are a lot of fun to listen to - all a welcome contrast to The Popes. The audience seemed to enjoy them very much, and the same goes for Suzanne Vega. Thanks to some very kind people, I got to chat to Shane for a few minutes before the show. He was sitting in the sun, which must be a totally new sensation for him, and had a writing pad on his lap - so with luck there are actually some new songs in the making. He seemed relaxed and happy and was very polite, alert, charming, a gentleman. I still can't understand much of what he says. For the truly obsessive fan who is also interested in contemporary German literature: Ehm-Marks, Eintoeniges Leben in schmucklosem Raum, Karin Kramer Verlag, uses Shane's "I'm the lowest of the low..." etc as a motto and covers much of the same territory." - Christine 31.07.2004 Playing at Dolans Warehouse Limerick "Shane and Popes gigs always start a bit late in Dolans..But 11.55 was taking the p1ss. On arrives the Popes and Shane.. Two banjo show is still in place with no additional irish instruments. Animal looks completely fcuked..eyes falling out of his heads. I was trying to decide whether it was Drink or Drugs..Transpired it was drink. Animal is basically not playing his banjo sounds pure sh1te..rubbish. The bass player has one hell of a bitch face on his..There is whailing feedback and the bass is making a terrible buzzing noise, He is throwing the Sound Guy,some of the worst filthys and fcuking him out of it. Three songs in..he has had enough, Everyone is under the impression that he has walked off. Comes back five songs later with a borrowed stingray..looks like this was got somewhere around Limerick late at night. Bass problems sorted..and in fairness he is a class basist and one mean moody cool mutha. Shane in fairness looks great, never seen him look as good. No longer carrying excess weight..looks in great shape..Honnestly appeared to be drinking water and did not even smoke one cig in gig duration. The sound was brutal though..Drums too mic'ed up, Vocals too low, Bass issues...Animals Banjo shite and Newboys banjo OK. Joey Cashman came on and mimed dirty auld town and irish rover..waste of time. Overall..This was one sh1t gig..I would follow Shane anywhere, but I found it hard to tap my feet the other night. Blame the Popes or Shane ??? hard to know !! The Joke is over..he needs a big time change.. Either New Popes or new band but something has to give. A few sidenotes.. They played in total for one hour !! yes one Hour..thats including encore. Animal collapsed to the ground at one stage and had to be pulled up by road crew. Is there any other band in the world that don't sell shirts at their gigs...The place was full and you would have shifted 50 shirts at least. Finally...This was one sh1t gig..Did nothing for Shanes reputation...If anyone else was there please comment..and reassure me that I did not imagine this sh1t.I have seen the popes numerous times in Dolans and last Sat was definetly the worst. The gig where Shane Sat in the Wheelchair all night was better than last Saturdays effort." - Texas Rider Nth West Tipp "I too was at the Dolans gig. It's GIN not water! He did well not smoking, was quite strange not to see Shane with a fag. I agree Tom was out of it that night, but so was Shane. I don't know the last time you saw him, but he was looking a bit worse than usual. I did take photos so I'll try and postone when film is ready. Shane did't even stay behind for autographs or anything as he usually does. Out of his head. Shame." - GIN Torino Traffic Festival 9th of July, Turin, Italy at around midnight last friday in a beautiful park in the northern Italian city of Turin, and before a crowd of 20,000, Shane performed Rainy Night In Soho backed by an orchestra of horns, trumpets, trombones, double bass and more. i saw shane & the popes last friday in turin and it was great fun even though shane was in bad conditions (please, just a few drinks less, shane ! ). anyway this was my 14th time to see their gigs. and it won't be the last... Stefanj, Italy (originally reported to forum @ www.pumpactionpaddy.co.uk) Been having a go at the Turin reviews with my pocket Italian dictionary. The gist is that Shane had been drinking all day, and had to sit down for the gig, but he still sang with spirit, and was the most alive person in the group (il pi? vivo del gruppo). There is more criticism for the Popes who are described as truly wretched automatons! One of the reviewers described Shane as the missing link between Las Vegas Elvis, Sid Vicious and the Pope! Peter Shane didn't sit down, he was on good form, but what he was, was late, at least that would explain the 40 minute set. Re: Italian reviews - of course he'd been drinking all day etc ... he's been drinking all day for decades ... He hasn't been in that part of the world for a long time so maybe they didn't know what to expect. The band were good, but Tom was absent. The show was free, paid for out of local taxes! on a collosal stage in a beautiful park, and it was hot, T-shirts at midnight and Guinness and cold beer on tap, there were probably 20,000 people there. At the end a dozen musicians in black suits joined Shane for Rainy Night, mainly brass instruments, good to hear but a bit jumbled. Someone broke a bale of hay over Shane at the end ... he didn't notice. The gig was filmed? The Stooges played the next night ... a real eye-opener, Iggy is 57? Unbelieveable if you saw what he was getting up to on stage. A fit man 30 years younger would be hard pressed to keep up. eye-witness account I wrote about rumours related to a song to be recorded in Turin together with Marc Ribot, Flaco Jimenez, Vinicio Capossela and Roy Paci...Just rumours as the Popes have been present in Turin on the planned recording date (Thursday) but Shane and Mr. Cashman landed in Turin only on the morning before the concert (Friday) and they've been found sleeping drunk in the airport waiting hall... The gig was sad for Shane's health condition but our man's performance has been highly appreciated by the 12.000 italians in front of him : just one hour of Pogues hits and the concert has been concluded by the most beautiful version of "Rainy night in Soho"of my life. Shane and the Popes have been accompanied by Roy Paci (Manu Chao's trumpet) leading a ska-jazz sax/trumpets band, I hope to find the concert bootleg because the last 10 minutes (Rainy Night extended version) have been something magic and wonderful (Shane and the public highly apppreciated it, our old fans eyes were so bright ...) Me and many fossers didn't like the Popes performance : the guys were so far and cold, I know it's not easy to play with Shane but if you do that without any emotion you better to change the artist they pay you to support Moris Bellussi (via FOS mailing list) SHANE + JESSE 12 of July, The Metro, London, UK "Ex-Pogue Shane McGowan joined Jesse Malin on stage for a rendition of "Oliver's Army" at Jesse's post T in the Park gig at The Metro in London. http://www.pogoagogo.com/metro_london.htm JUNE 2004 ROAD TO PARADISE www.jimmyjohnstone.com: 'Road to Paradise'/'the Bhoys from Paradise' is going on sale in the UK on 21st of June, and the Irish release is two weeks from Monday. We involved in the Charity behind this project are encouraging everyone to request airplay from your local radio station, this will push up our chart ratings and give the Charities involved a better reward. The single only needs to sell 20,000copies to reach the top five in the charts. CHARITY CD BLOW FOR JINKY 19 June 2004 ENGLISH record shops have put the boot into Scots football legend Jimmy Johnstone's charity record. They are refusing to stock his rendition of Dirty Old Town, recorded to raise cash for Jinky's Motor Neurone Disease Tribute Fund. Full article... Irish Mirror had a small piece about Shane promoting the Road to Paradise single at Glastonbury with the heading “Would you buy a CD of this man ?” on top of a truly scary picture of Shane snarling into the camera drinking out of cardboard cup. To be fair, the title was in jest with the article saying he had a heart of gold for getting involved in the single and raising money for Motor Neuron Disease. Nobby3, (originally reported to forum @ www.shanemacgowan.com) 28.06.2004 - The Road To Paradise is No.8 in The Official UK Top 40 Indie Charts. 24.07.2004 - The Road To Paradise is No 19 in the Irish charts SONGS FOR YEATS 17th June, Boogaloo, London, UK MacGowan on song for Yeats birthday bash at the Boogaloo Irish Post by Amanda Diamond LEGENDARY singer Shane MacGowan surprised fans when he made a guest appearance at a WB Yeats anniversary event in north London. The larger-than-life performer turned up at The Boogaloo Bar in Highgate during a WB Yeats birthday celebration and treated the audience to a few old favourites. He took to the stage and gave a rendition of The Irish Rover and Dirty Old Town before joining the Bap Kennedy Show Band in belting out a several more hits. Event Organiser Gerry Keaney said: “The appearance of Shane MacGowan was an unexpected bonus and the highlight of the night for a lot of people. “His contribution made what was already a great night a legendary one for the audience.” MORE >>> Hot Press July 2nd, 2004 Ex-Pogue Shane MacGowan reportedly launched into an impromptu rendition of the Yeatsian ditty ‘Down By The Sally Gardens’ at a cultural night to mark the anniversary of the poet’s birth. Organised by the Institute of Technology Sligo Alumni Association, London Chapter, the event was billed as ‘The Cat And The Moon’ – but ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’ was more the style as the Bap Kennedy Show Band gave its all to a Deep South blues set at The Boogaloo Bar, a literary pub in Highgate owned by Sligo man Gerry O’Boyle. MacGowan, a bit of a bard in his own right, was obviously inspired by the line-up, which included Ciar?n McCauley of Sligo’s Blue Raincoat Theatre reading ‘A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety’, Ardal O’Hanlon reading ‘The Fisherman’ and Pat McCabe of Butcher Boy fame with tributes to Kavanagh and Bosco. Vox ‘n’ roll at the BOOGALOO Ri-Ra magazine By Robert Dineen: This is not your average North London boozer. Run by former Filthy McNasty's supremo Gerry O'Boyle, The Boogaloo is the real deal for atmosphere and music. A sun-beaten June evening, Highgate. London's streets are deserted of patriotic England fans watching their country vanquish Switzerland in Euro 2004, but in Gerry O'Boyle's The Boogaloo bar on Archway Road a very different kind of night is brewing. Anyone who lost a night, or nearly as likely a day, at O'Boyle's former Islington hole-up, the cult celebrity hangout Filthy McNasty's Whiskey Cafe, will be familiar with the artist-studded scene. On an evening slated as a celebration of the works of W.B. Yeats, the firebrand novelist Patrick McCabe is preparing for his raucous, re-interpretation of the celebrated poet's verse by downing pints at the bar, Father Ted's Ardal O'Hanlon is standing nearby nervously waiting to take the stage, and that latter day great Gaelic bard Shane MacGowan is slumped on one of The Boogaloo's several torn sofas. Later, MacGowan, for years Filthy's most famous patron and now a resident upstairs at The Boogaloo on his trips back to London from Ireland, will join Bap Kennedy's band for an impromptu, but characteristically impassioned, set of rock'n'roll numbers and The Pogues' classics that sends the crowd wheeling in surprised delight. For The Boogaloo's maverick landlord, however, it is just another night spent playing host to legends. "It's only a year and a half since we opened, but The Boogaloo is getting a bit of a cult status," admits Sligo-born O'Boyle, who persuaded many of the planet's most anarchic talents to perform at Filthy's seminal Vox‘n'Roll events that combined literary readings and live music. "You could never recreate Filthy's. Every week, we had a legend in the bar: from Shane to Irvine Welsh, to Ken Kesey, to Roddy Doyle, to Denis Leary, to Dick Dale, the surf music guy in Pulp Fiction. Even Johnny Depp used to hang out there. But this one (The Boogaloo) isn't short of names either." This is no empty boast. Each month at The Boogaloo a different, high-profile musician programmes 10 favourite albums into a jukebox decked with classic albums released no later than 1994 (r?-r? partied to Bernard Butler's selection). Similarly, contest the Tuesday night pop music quiz and you could face the surreal task of testing your Britpop knowledge against unfairly over-qualified regular competitors like Butler and Jarvis Cocker. Designed like a Deep South jukejoint, and sporting a music policy that is part rockabilly, part honky tonk, and part anything else worth listening to from the last 50 years, The Boogaloo may be less overtly Irish than Filthy McNasty's, but it is clear that the O'Boyle has recaptured a spirit that many regret London nightlife lost when the 38-year-old sold Filthy's four years ago for reasons he refuses to explain. "Filthy's worked because we were the real deal," O'Boyle explains, drawing on Marlboro Lights in an office annex behind The Boogaloo which he owns with Cork accountant John Keane. "All the fake Irish pubs were springing up at the time, which everybody knew wouldn't last, but we weren't fake. We weren't trying to con anybody. It was as pure as you got for music, and literature, and characters. "Now, we've had years of Pop Idol, and people want to hear real songs, and real songwriters. They want to hear it all again. That's where we come in." Bands that have already played The Boogaloo include the wonderful Deep South blues and roots rockers North Mississippi All Stars, the jazz swing outfit Hot Club of Cowtown, and The Libertines' bassist John Hassall's latest project, Yeti. O'Boyle, who returned to Ireland to work in the family auctioneering business after he sold Filthy's, has also resurrected Vox'n'Roll and has plans to open at least two more jukejoints in London. Recently, a rumour arose that the principled O'Boyle turned Coldplay frontman Chris Martin away from The Boogaloo for being too boring. An undimmed belief in the importance of passion and excitement, however, does not mean O'Boyle wants a return to the hedonistic days of Filthy's, a venue famously described by Loaded magazine as "the pub of the century". "I don't miss Filthies," insists O'Boyle, a regular at another feted celebrity haunt The Groucho Club in Soho. "I started Filthy's when I was 24. We were all wild and reckless then, but it's not what I want out of life now. We were young men: what harm was that, you know?" None whatsoever, as the lucky punters who swayed merrily to Shane MacGowan will undoubtedly agree. Here's to the first great London pub of the new millennium. Fleeting Encounters "I ran into shane last night at a gig, in the darkest corner of the bar there he was with his shades on dripping in attractive women. A complete absence of molars and wild jumpy eyes seems to have done nothing to diminish the man’s sex appeal! Anyhow regarding the Pogues reunion, if anyone out there still has any doubts, Shane himself has none. “We’re doing it, definitely, yeah I’m in!” So book holidays, book hotels, book flights, the singer is definitely in. Of course he’s far too rock ‘n’ roll to know whether the London gigs are at the audience-friendly Brixton Academy or some oppressive arena. “They’ll just point me at the stage on the night, Krssshh!” I had his new football charity single, which he attempted to buy off me, having not seen it yet. We failed to reach a deal (sign over the royalties to Fairytale Of NY, Shane, and it’s yours!) So he pulled it to pieces looking for a photo of himself (there isn’t one) and scrawled illegible poguetry all over it … Now the song isn’t going to trouble any Shane greatest hits cds, sure enough, but the man himself seems – if this can be said about Shane MacGowan – to be very well indeed." C, (originally reported to forum @ www.shanemacgowan.com) Shane with Bob Geldof and David Johansen at the recent New York Dolls show in London at: http://www.bobgruen.com/potda/0604/Dollsweb/DollsReunion.html RESPECT 2004 ETHNIC FESTIVAL 12th June, Prague, Czech Republic. FANS' REVIEWS: The gig took place as planned and was absolutely great! Shane appeared only half an hour later and played for one hour and a half. He was obviously relaxed, in a good mood, smiling a lot, full of energy. Visiting this forum for a while, we had come there prepared for literally everything, and the more terrific our surprise was. All those who are sceptical about Shane’s future should have seen him on Saturday! By they way, we guess that some of you – in Pogues’ T-shirts – actually might have been there, standing just next to us! This was the first time we saw Shane performing live, so we have nothing to compare the gig with… maybe some of you who happened to be there could do that? The gig was a part of an open-air festival of world / ethnic music and took place on a meadow on a island in midst of Vltava River. The atmosphere was warm and friendly, very relaxed, with lots of nonconformist people around, a mix of various generations. Shane played all his good old numbers (except Fairytale), including Dirty Old Town, IISFFGWG, Streams Of Whiskey, Donegal Express, Pair Of Brown Eyes, Broad Majestic Shannon, Rainy Night in Soho... Well, while Shane was absolutely great, the Popes resembled wax puppets. In Czech, we have the word „kutalka“ for this. It’s impossible to translate to English but it refers to a group of amateur musicians that play mostly at weddings or funerals, those who are not that much enthusiastic about music, for whom playing is more a matter of a rather boring routine than a hobby. On top of that, no tin whistle, no accordion, guitar that lacks spice… Shane’s songs deserve better. Pogues, come back! Hana and Zuzana, Prague, (originally reported to forum @ www.shanemacgowan.com) just got back from prague this morning and it was fantastic indeed. though the beginning was quite sad in my eyes, shane always announced the wrong songs and mcguinness had to correct him, he seemed pretty drunk and the audience just stood and stared, i think for many of them it was the first time they saw shane and it was quite a change of course after some carribean merengue music before. the longer the concert lasted the better shane became. i saw him 3 times before in the last two years and he never gave a longer and more energetic and joyful performance. encore was among others the beautiful angel of death, cashman did not appear on tin whistle. what i?m sad about is as mentioned many times before the lack of some instruments (what the hell do you need 2 banjos for??) and the lack of interest and power of some certain bandmembers. these great songs deserve more spirit but that sould be up to shane, it?s his band. Rene, Austria, (originally reported to forum @ www.shanemacgowan.com) CZECH PRESS ON SHANE: „Respect Festival Marked With Contrasts“ by Jaroslav Riedel MF DNES daily (the most widely read Czech serious daily), 14th June 2004 translated by Zuzana: „(…) Shane MacGowan, the biggest star of the Respect Festival, was a bit disoriented. When he staggered on the stage, he didn’t even know in which country he was and, even worse, at times he obviously had no idea which song he was singing. Since only unitelligible mumbling and inarticulate shouts spilled from his toothless mouth, it didn’t matter anyway. As the concert progressed, the music got better; MacGowan learned from his more sober partners from The Popes where he was (obviously he was genuinely surprised) and from time to time he emitted sounds which – with a little good will – resembled singing. There were a few rather good moments during the show (such as Dirty Old Town or Streams of Whiskey), but otherwise the performance came up to general expectations. The saddest thing is that MacGowan currently draws public attention more for his notorious alcoholism than for the dim remains of his once unique talent. If he had arrived sober, it would probably have been a disappointment – at least for the bunch of fans closest to the stage that hedonistically spilled beer over one another. From all the musicians who performed on Saturday, MacGowan met with the greatest success, he had to give a long encore. However, the question arises whether this was a success for the Respect Festival as well.“ (originally reported to forum @ www.shanemacgowan.com) MacGowan lights it up Respect appearance by Ex-Pogue shows he still has his stuff By Jonny Tennant For The Prague Post (June 24, 2004) By the time Shane MacGowan and The Popes took the stage at the Respect festival Saturday, June 12, a silent anticipation hung in the air. The smell of roasting meats and a hefty amount of smoke combined with the presence of various peddlers selling their wares to give Stvanice island the atmosphere of a Celtic village. All this set a suitable scene for the night's entertainment. MORE >>> COUPLE OF PICS (by courtesy of Zuzana again): http://www.freemusic.cz/clanky/3196.html http://images.freemusic.cz/koncerty/respect2004macgowan/12.jpg http://www.freemusic.cz/clanky/3229.html http://www.respectmusic.cz/2004/fotogalerie copy/popes3.JPG http://www.respectmusic.cz/2004/fotogalerie copy/popes2.JPG http://www.respectmusic.cz/2004/fotogalerie copy/digi- copy/2004_~79.JPG http://www.respectmusic.cz/2004/fotogalerie copy/digi- copy/2004_~83.JPG http://www.respectmusic.cz/2004/fotogalerie copy/popes1.JPG http://www.respectmusic.cz/2004/fotogalerie copy/popes5.JPG MALTA HOLIDAYS HAS she no Shane? Irish Independent (?) It would appear so. Victoria Mary Clarke - spiritualist, babe and author - spent last week holidaying in Malta with her ex-boyfriend Shane MacGowan. She denied that a reconciliation was on the cards with the former Pogues demi-god. "We are not back together but we are having a good time anyway in Gozo," she told me. They visited churches and went to mass together on the famous old island in the middle of the Med. CLEAN BREAK Sunday Independent 27 June 2004 Holidaying in Gozo with Shane MacGowan, her brilliant beloved, beleaguered ex-boyfriend, Victoria Mary Clarke hears why he has given heroin at last... PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 |
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