Shane McGowan may have been born on Christmas Day in
Pembury, Kent, but I consider him to be among the literary greats of Ireland along
with the likes of Shaw, Yeats, Behan, Beckett and Joyce.
If there is any
opportunity to see McGowan performing with the Pogues then the opportunity
should be grasped in much the same way that you’d drop in to see Michelangelo
paint a small section of the Sistine Chapel, witness Dickens write the first
paragraph of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ or see Shelley compose the first stanza of ‘The
Masque of Anarchy’.
McGowan and the Pogues are appearing this very night at the
O2. Me? Oh, I’ll be in High Wycombe with the Good Lady B watching ‘Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs’ with bloody Ann Widdecombe and ******* Craig
Revel-Horwood! Bitter? Pah!
This is a bit of an unsung classic, composed by the man in his stint with the Popes. 'Tura lura luray / Tura lura lie' Indeed!
This is a bit of an unsung classic, composed by the man in his stint with the Popes. 'Tura lura luray / Tura lura lie' Indeed!
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