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| 28.09.2007 Shane leads a regular High Life: with Victoria at Berkeley Square Ball, annual the end of Summer Ball in support of the Prince's Trust. - 27 Sep 2007 with Victoria at the V&A Golden Age of Couture Gala, official opening of the museum's new exhibition "The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957" - 18 Sep 2007 And much more at isifa.com How this Cinderella met Prince at the ball You don't need to be dressed in Dior to stand out in a crowd, even at the fashion party of the century, writes Victoria Mary Clarke Sunday Independent 23 Sep 2007 Into every woman's life a Cinderella moment eventually comes. That moment when she has been invited to an outrageously posh and fancy ball and she says to herself, "Oh My God, I really, really want to go to this ball, but unfortunately I can't because I am only a poor relation and I haven't a thing to wear!" MORE >>> with Frank Murray at dentist's ;) Pauline fails to go on, go on... People In Need got Shane McGowan to a dentist but couldn't lure Mrs Doyle Irish Independent 30 Aug 2007 Watching the ads for the upcoming Telethon bonanza, you could be forgiven for thinking no feat was beyond the event's organisers. After all, they got hurling hero Sean Og O'Halpin to take up a cricket bat, they got rocker Shane McGowan to surrender his legendary teeth to the dentist's chair, and they got TV's Lucy Kennedy to share a bed with Podge and Rodge. All in the name of "how far will you go for this year's People in Need?". MORE >>> Shane's smile is on show HE was once dubbed the man of many words, but few teeth. The Irish World By staff reporter 5 Sep 2007 But now that’s a thing of the past - Shane McGowan has got himself a new pearly-white smile!The former Pogues frontman gave himself up to the dentist’s chair and opened his mouth wide all in the name of charity to get rid of his trademark gummy look. And, although we’ll leave you to judge on whether the new look is an improvement on the old, we think Shane’s new teeth are in a glass of their own! MORE >>> The video itself (Starring: Frank Murray as a dentist, Shane MacGowan as a victim) 09.08.2007 Conservation of energy in action: Lichfield is cancelled - long live Bilbao? (keep your eyes on pogues.com front page) 07.08.2007 Up-coming event: The Flatlake Literary Festival - Hilton Park, Clones, Co.Monaghan, Ireland - 25/26 Aug 2007. Among its participants: VICTORIA MARY CLARKE All round Godess type person. Talks to angels. But not at the bar, like Packy Fitzpatrick.... She will be doing a workshop based on the information that the angels have given her ...stay with us here ... and are designed to help clear and banish any stuck and negative energies and patterns in all areas of your life, and to work with the angels to bring new, fresh, vibrant energy in their place. Essentially to transform your life with light and bring everything up to a new level of vibration! She will channel the angels & will give them a chance to speak for themselves and say whatever they feel they want to say. We have no idea what that might be, but I trust that it will be whatever we all need to hear! Victoria will also request that they help us to examine where we are right now in our lives in all the relevant areas, such as health, relationships, career, finances, home environment, family life etc, and to look at what areas might need a boost! Once she has cleared the negative energy from these areas, she will look at where we would really love to be in our lives and what we would love to have going on, and we will direct energy to creating these things. She will also ask them to give some guidance as to how you all might contact them for yourselves at home, or in the shed ...or the garage. Victoria lives with her husband on Mars. This alone is surely worth the 90.00 Euro entrance fee. SHANE McGOWAN Following the theme of celtic genius & deliquency even further, this icon of iconic iconicalismic emerald Isle iconography will be giving cut-price singing lessons from a platform of freshly cut hay. And a bit of high life chronicle: GAZE - gay and lesbian film festival at the IFI cinema in Temple Bar, Dublin, 2-6 Aug, 2007 Official report: Shane Bottles Out of Movie Daily Mirror 4 Aug 2007 By MIRROR REPORTER POGUES legend Shane MacGowan is in vintage form as he shares a drink with his journalist partner Victoria Mary Clarke. Clutching a bottle of wine, the 49-year-old Fairytale Of New York singer was helping to launch the 15th GAZE gay and lesbian film festival at the IFI cinema in Temple Bar, Dublin. Special guest, writer and actor Mark O'Halloran, introduced the four-day event which ends on Monday. An onlooker said: "Shane was back to his best - despite the invite, he skipped the movie and went for dinner and a drink instead." Unofficial evidence: The night I out-drinked Shane McGowan.. or almost did. 2 Aug 2007 by Whigamore Imagine you have a really crap day; feck. You touch bottom. Kind of. The reasons don’t really matter…the consequence: you really feel like having a pint after a hard day at the office. So I head, alone and friendless to the Irish Film Institute -IFI- for a pint in the bar, or two. I look for a free table and bingo! There s one free in the mezzanine-like structure that grants you a view over the closed patio, where people are having drinks and buying tickets for the next movie. An awful lot of people really…something must be taking place. Yes, apparently it is the opening night of a Gay and Lesbian film festival or something alike. The place is therefore full of Gay and Lesbian looking people… all having drinks and gesticulating, laughing like hyenas and basically enjoying themselves. Shane Mcgowan of Pogues-fame, and famously a borderline alcoholic is sitting downstairs with some women. Some crap-photographer can’t get enough of them. I try to focus on my book and order a pint of black stuff and some garlic bread for dinner (yes, those are my self-destructive ways)… I’ve never really been impressed by celebrities, not that I have spotted many in my lifetime. I remember trying to talk to an immersed Will Oldham in a bar in Madrid, but he wasn’t really a celebrity then, and he isn’t now anyway. And from this same mezzanine a friend and I saw Hollywood legend Angela Lansbury of Murder She Wrote fame, not too long ago. She looked pale like snow and wrinkled like a raisin. Actually, Mr. McGowan looks quite alike… white like somebody has blown talc powder all over him, but a bit fatter than Ms. Lansbury. Still, a walking dead person. I read and read through my book but keep a close check on Shane, and on what he is drinking. He orders a pint of Bulmers, but seems disappointed by the look of it and doesn’t touch it. There is also a bottle of white wine being shared in the table (they are four of them), and by the end of the evening he is holding an empty glass of something else (whiskey?) Still, I’ve had my good three pints in the last hour and a half… and he has had a couple glasses of white wine and a whiskey… I win! In alcoholic units I do win! I have out-drinked Shane! Mcgowan! They leave. His girl enters the theatre (yes, they are going to the movies) and he stumbles (literally) to the bar, to pay (I imagine). I have won. But wait… he stumbles back again to the empty table and drinks half a pint of the cider (untouched till that moment) and empties a glass of wine… then heads for the movie. Damn it… in the end I think I haven’t out-drinked him. It’s been close. I can only but stumble back home myself. 20.07.2007 The Henry Rollins Show on IFC (episode #315): Shane MacGowan will be performing on "The Henry Rollins Show" JULY 20TH AT 11 PM ET and 8PM PT on the IFC network in the USA. Shane, along with his good pal, Joey Cashman on the Irish whistle, perform “Dirty Old Town.” Shane also performs “Irish Rover” exclusively for www.ifc.com This episode will also feature a totally uncensored interview with acting legend Christopher Walken to discuss "more cowbell," the oscar winning film “The Deer Hunter” and the rumors that Walken is running for President in 2008. "The Henry Rollins Show" is a weekly late-night talk show hosted by Henry, featuring high integrity guests, topics and uncensored musical performances. The show airs in America every Friday night on IFC at 11pm Eastern, 8pm Pacific. Interview & The Irish Rover Dirty Old Town Photos (by courtesy of Swift River Productions. Photographer: Mark Fellman) 09.07.2007 Photosession at The Boogaloo. Arty photos by Jenny Hardcore can be found here. 01.07.2007 How I learned to hold a tune and so survive the sing-song By Victoria Mary Clarke 01 July 2007 Irish Independent I often go to gigs and watch Shane and other friends performing, and I love it. It's just the sitting around while people take turns to sing that has always irritated me, maybe because I am too scared to join in, and therefore feel left out. Last week, Shane MacGowan took part in several concerts in which various people took turns to sing. The first one was the Meltdown festival in London, which involved a bunch of singers, including Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, Grace Jones, Gavin Friday and Pete Doherty all singing songs from Walt Disney movies. When it came to the time for Jarvis, Nick, Shane and Pete to do the howling dog chorus (which simply involves howling like a dog), it occurred to me that anyone in the audience could have done the howling. Some of the lads were good at it, admittedly. And some of them not so great. But nobody cared, because of who they were. MORE >>> 28.06.2007 HotPress is 30 and Shane is on one of two celebratory covers... The Hot Press 30th Anniversary issue hit the shelves today <14 Jun 2007> and "is set to be the biggest issue in the magazine's history." Actually, you'd better leave that out. That's off the record! HotPress 28 Jun 2007 by Olaf Tyaransen Shane MacGowan interviews Sinead O’Connor for hotpress, with Olaf Tyaransen acting as referee. On the day, Victoria Clark also sat in. What followed turned into a wide-ranging and often hilarious exchange of almost Beckettian dimensions. When you spot the big blue Virgin Mary statue by the front door, there’s no doubt that you’ve arrived at the correct address. “Come on in!” says Sin?ad O’Connor, greeting your hotpress reporter with a friendly peck on the cheek. “Shane’s running late, but he should be here in a little while.” Well, there’s a surprise! It’s midday of the 9th of May, and Shane MacGowan is running late. Actually, given Mr. MacGowan’s notoriously decadent lifestyle, it’s far more likely that he’s staggering late. “No, no,” Sin?ad laughs. “Victoria just rang from the cab. They’re definitely on their way.” MORE >>> 22.06.2007 Hoping Foundation Benefit Evening Ronnie Scott's, London, UK, 21 Jun 2007 Shane took part in the Hoping Foundation Benefit Evening at Ronnie Scott's yesterday. Search gettyimages.com for pics HOPING FOUNDATION KARAOKE EVENING: With the help of our friends, the HOPING foundation is planning an evening of "Karaoke with the Stars" at Ronnie Scott's on June 21st 2007, hosted by Russell Brand, in order to support our projects for Palestinian refugee children. Guests will be able to bid for themselves or for a friend to either perform a song with, or be serenaded by, one of the celebrity performers. Confirmed participants so far include Chrissie Hynde, Jools Holland, Sharleen Spiteri, Bryan Adams, Nick Cave, Lulu, Mick Jones, Shane MacGowan, and other surprise guests. All reports are concentrated on sir Elton John naturally but Shane got mentioned too: Sir Elton is king of karaoke at ?385,000 celebrity sing-song Daily Mail 22nd June 2007 "... ?30,000 was bid to hear former Pogue Shane McGowan perform what was described as "a somewhat unique interpretation" of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire. Second highest bid was for Nick Cave's version of Destiny's Child's Bootylicious, which went for ?70,000. He was accompanied by the winning bidder.... " That's one Elt of a fee for karaoke by Luke Blackall with Jessica Barrett. The London Paper 22 June 2007 "... Wealthy guests, knocking back William Grant spirits and Rothschild champagne, even went wild for toothless Irishman Shane McGowan, who raised a hefty ?35,000 as he belted out We Didn’t Start the Fire. But despite joining a distinctly A-list crowd McGowan showed he still hasn’t lost his naughty streak as he swiped a traffic cone as he staggered along the street on his way home..." 19.06.2007 Forest Of No Return - Vintage Disney Songbook Royal Festival Hall, London, UK Why Disney looks set for a rock and roll makeover Jarvis Cocker, Baaba Maal and Shane MacGowan aim to give Disney songs a new edge this weekend Independent By Tim Cumming 15th Jun 2007 The music of Disney is a world Willner has explored before, though not on stage. His 1988 tribute album Stay Awake combined Sun Ra and his Arkestra with Tom Waits, Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr and Sin?ad O'Connor, each injecting a wild strain of adult content into Disney's presumed innocence. It was Disney all right, but seen through a glass darkly. "I wound up taking my childhood out on the whole world, since cartoons affect me very personally," Willner says, "but now I've got a two-and-a-half-year-old child, I don't need to spread my unhappy childhood out to people so much." Twenty years on, Forest of No Return draws on that same illicit thrill of artists breathing a very different kind of life into Disney classics. Think of Pete Doherty doing "Chim Chim Cher-ee", Shane MacGowan ripping through "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", or Cocker himself taking on a song from The Jungle Book. There's Baaba Maal paired with "When You Wish Upon a Star" and Grace Jones, Bryan Ferry and Beth Orton have also been booked. MORE >>> Zip-A-Dee Doo Dah itself REVIEWS: Cocker's cast create night of Disney magic Telegraph co.uk by Tom Horan 18th Jun 2007 Jarvis Cocker launched his curatorship of the South Bank's annual Meltdown festival at the weekend with shows by the deafening Motorhead, 60s songbird Melanie, and an all-star line-up performing songs from the films of Walt Disney. You certainly can't fault the spindly Yorkshireman for variety. MORE >>> FANS SAY: Jarvis Cocker enters the Forest of No Return by Intermezzo 18th Jun, 2007 So it kicked off an hour later than it should have, and started with chronic sound problems, but this was Disney, so everything ended happily ever after. Few of the songs were done straight - some were almost unrecognisable - but it all worked pretty well, though there too many instrumentals for my liking MORE (with loads of great photos) >>> Hal Willner's Forest Of No Return. Music from the films of Walt Disney @ The Royal Festival Hall Let's Kill Music 18th Jun 2007 Other high points of the first half included Nick Cave performing Hi Diddle Dee Dee (Pinocchio), Gavin Friday - Siamese Cat Song (Lady & the Tramp) & one of the best lineups on stage you'll probably ever see during home sweet home (lady & the tramp) consisting of Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, Shane MacGowan & Pete Doherty howling like dogs for three minutes (it has to be seen to be believed) Unfortunately the performance had reached a high to early in the show & the second half at times became quite tedious with to many instrumentals & saxophone parts however at times it did almost reach the previous highs with Pete Doherty's version of "Chim Chim Cheree" (mary poppinns), a punked up version of Zip-A-Dee Doo Dah (song of the south) by shane MacGowan & an alternative take on Snow White's "Heigh Ho" which was turned from a cheerful sing along song into a dark, fearful song by Nick Drake & David Thomas. MORE >>> The gig was running late, over an hour late, so I was really filled with anticipation when they got going. Roger McGough read a poem over the orchestra then, David Thomas doing "I'm Late", then, Skye Edwards and Ed Harcourt "Little April Showers", then Howie B "Little Wooden Head", then all 6' of Beth Orton doing a wonderful rendition of "Baby Mine" then ... On comes Jarvis, little preamble before he says, "I'm here to tell you something you already know", and we're into a superb version of "King Of The Swingers"; he swung. Nick Cavbe next, "An Actor's Life For Me", wonderful, high kicks all over the place and serious face furniture to the fore. He stayed on stage be joined by Jarvis, Shane McGowan (!) and Pete Doherty, who all proceeded to howl like wolves. I can safely say that I will never see that again. A couple more instrumentals and a song by the remarkable Leafcutter John and the rather wonderful Baaba Maal and the action pauses while a riser and a fan are brought on stage. Slinking on stage in sparkly tights, a black body, a black corset, and huge billowing cape and a bizarre purple hat that framed her face like a cobra's hood and with horns was ... Grace Jones. "Trust In Me" was delivered with serpentine grace (sorry) while the fan blew her cape out behind her. End of first half. No-one else could possibly follow that. Fenella Fielding started the second half with "Feed The Birds", Nick Cave gave a seriously dark version of "Heigh Ho", and Junkie Poet Doherty rattled rather well through a chirpy "Chim Chim Cheree" before I had to slip out at twenty to eleven. The gig would carry on till half eleven, having started so late, and even leaving early I didn't get home until long after one o'clock with very gritty contact lenses and a feeling that I'd been part of something truly unique. by Sarah King of the swingers By farquhar 18 Jun 2007 Well, Shane MacGowan did make it onto the stage… just. Along with all the other performers at last night’s music of Disney concert at The Royal Festival Hall, he lurched onto the platform an hour later than scheduled. This had nothing to do with Shane’s long-term love affair with glass and bottle but was down to electrical problems that delayed the proceedings, giving the Irish troubadour a little longer to indulge his liquid excesses in the hospitality room. <...> Nick Cave managed to turn Heigh-Ho into a Zola-like incubus, swapping coal for precious stones with miners trapped in a brutal capitalist regime of endless toil and exploitation: ‘We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig from early morn till night, we dig dig dig dig dig dig dig up everything in sight, we dig up diamonds by the score, a thousand rubies, sometimes more, but we don't know what we dig 'em for, we dig dig dig a-dig dig’. An adult nightmare indeed, old Nick's way. <...> In Act 2, Peter Doherty, as he was billed, turned in a touching and heartfelt version of ‘Chim Chiminee’, for once in his life, choosing to do it straight. Bravo young man. Then, there was Shane. He shambled to centre stage; each step planted uncertainly, as if to make sure that the floor was still there, the walk of a man blind drunk. With glass in hand, black suit rumpled, white shirt shining, he somehow managed to roar his way through ‘Zip-a-dee dooh dah’ from beginning to end. The crowd roared back, encouraging him through it and he took his exit, blowing extravagant kisses our way. MORE >>> Or Blow Me a Kiss, Because That's Lucky Too... By inkognitoh 18th Jun, 2007 Jarvis Cocker is directing this years Meltdown festival at the freshly refurbished Southbank Centre and what an absolute delight it is turning out to be. For last night's Forest of No Return, Disney tribute concert, le Jarv managed to cobble together the worlds most insane collection of emotionally, chemically and mentally damaged artist's to perform on one stage. It was a wonderfully colourful melange although we were taking bets on who would and wouldn't show up and which chemically dependent artist would have to be rushed to hospital first. MORE (with set list) >>> PICTURES: London FEATURES INTERNATIONAL By aymiderham100 (at Flickr.com) Victoria on Deirdre's funeral: Saying goodbye to Deirdre with laughter, tears, songs and stories is as it should be Sunday Independent By Victoria Mary Clarke 17th Jun, 2007 "LAST Monday, Shane MacGowan and I attended a particularly sad funeral, that of Deirdre Drew, late wife of Ronnie Drew. Of course the death of anyone is a sad occasion, but Deirdre's was particularly shocking, because Ronnie had just got the all-clear from cancer, having been lovingly nursed through the illness by Deirdre, when she was diagnosed with it herself, and six weeks later she was dead. " MORE (with pics) >>> 12.06.2007 Irish Independent: 12th May 2007 Deirdre (The Dubliner Ronnie Drew's wife) passed away following a short illness last Thursday (7th June) at St Vincent's Private Hospital in Dublin. And yesterday those who loved Deirdre Drew paid their last respects and offered words of comfort to her husband, Ronnie, as she was laid to rest. The Church of the Holy Rosary in Greystones, Co Wicklow was packed with hundreds of mourners. She was buried at Redford Cemetery following a funeral Mass concelebrated by family friend Fr Brian D'Arcy. "It was appropriate that the funeral Mass of Deirdre McCartan should have a lot of music and poetry and song because this was the world in which Deirdre and her husband lived in, and indeed, excelled in," he said. Some of the biggest names in Irish music were present at the funeral, which featured music and song by musicians including Barney McKenna, Phil Coulter and Finbar Furey. Singer Shane MacGowan and his fiancee Victoria Clarke, Paul Brady, Joe Dolan, and Red Hurley were present at the service as were film director Jim Sheridan and actor Niall Tobin. Photos of Shane and Vicky taken on 7th of June 2007 in Dublin (before reading and signing session at Readers Cafe? Or after it?) Shane was spotted in Irish Film Institute (at screening of Scott Walker: 30 Century Man ?) on 8th of June: "Funnily enough, we were quickly greeted by an uncharacteristically haggard Shane McGowan meandering down the building's corridor entrance. Two staff members were helping him to the toilet. It's disappointing to see somebody whose work is not unworthy reduced to such a state of confident and unashamed inarticulacy. And it's frustrating, really, to see it happen so much." 08.06.2007 Hal Willner presents the Vintage Disney Songbook: A live performance of Willner's reinterpretations of classic Disney tracks from films such as Pinocchio, Dumbo, Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book sung by special guest artists ... "Pete Doherty is donning his flat cap to perform the Mary Poppins tune Chim Chiminey at the South Bank Centre as part of a starry tribute to the Disney Songbook. Doherty, the scruffy urchin with the million pound record contract and supermodel girlfriend, will join drinking pal Shane Macgowan and Meltdown festival curator Jarvis Cocker to pay tribute to classic Disney songs as part of the South Bank's annual music jamboree. Nick Cave, Baaba Maal, Ralph Steadman and Bryan Ferry will also perform. " The concert is being billed as a follow-up of sorts to Stay Awake, a celebration of Disney hits that Willner produced in 1987. The album featured artists such as Ringo Starr, Sun Ra, Tom Waits and Sinead O’Connor. Forest Of No Return - Hal Willner presents the Vintage Disney Songbook. Royal Festival Hall, 0871 663 2500, Sunday 17 June, 7.30pm. 04.06.2007 Shane's certainly no Brad Pitt, but he is my sweet pea and I'm marrying him Daily Mail By VICTORIA MARY CLARKE 2nd June 2007 Victoria has stopped trying to change Shane's lifestyle She's attractive, practises yoga and takes vitamin supplements. He drinks port at breakfast, has no teeth and makes Worzel Gummidge look smart. Author Victoria Mary Clarke explains why she's marrying Pogues lead singer Shane MacGowan. MORE >>> Victoria Mary Clarke signing WRITER Victoria Mary Clarke, author of Angel in Disguise, will be reading extracts and signing copies of her book on Thursday, June 7, 2007, at The Readers Cafe in Waterstones Bookshop, 7 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. Singer Shane MacGowan will also make a special appearance. 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