Shane MacGowan and The Pogues - 3 Abums from URBANASPIRINES
Wow well Kostas doesn’t hang about and here comes this from his desktop after the passing of the poet and iconoclast of punk and folk tradition, the mercurial Shane MacGowan who we lost on Thursday!
Kostas begins :
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023) was an English-born Irish musician best known as the lead vocalist and songwriter of Celtic punk band the Pogues.
And Kostas continues:
The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as Pogue Mahone – an anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic phrase póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse". The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s, recording several hit albums and singles. MacGowan left the band in 1991 owing to drinking problems, but the band continued – first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals – before breaking up in 1996.
Looking at three of the main contenders for their best albums ever, comes his look at Red Roses for Me of 1984, Rum Sodomy and The Lash, 88’s If I Should Fall From Grace With God if you do anything buy these three as they cover all the most classics of the bands work and Shane’s songwriting and selection at its very peak!
Really check it out
This one for Kostas! The Nips (formerly The Nipple Erectors! just as The Pogues were formerly Pogue Mahone [trans:”Sit on My Face!”] here with ‘Gabrielle'
What a pity my friend. A great loss. He was only 65.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kostas. Yes indeed, although to be fair many (like me) had expected him to pass away an awful lot earlier given his level alcohol abuse. Like many an Irishman poet before him he seemed to have lived in Irish poet years something like 300!!!
ReplyDeleteTerrible loss of a fine writer poet songster