If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story Page #4
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and to just build confidence
in what the band were doing
there was... uhh... energy in
in the way that the way that he wrote
uhh from my point of view
i was... i was writing very different
sorts of lyrics I think
and for a lot of different reasons
from... from as early on as I
can remember actually
umm I was trying to make an effort
in some way... to show that I could write
and that was the difference
between I think me and Shane
and that's what made
Shane such a great writer
was his complete effortlessness
umm... it just looked like it
just sort of dropped out of him
and uhh... and there wasn't
a bad line amongst it
it's just... just beautiful stuff
what? has Mickey gone home?
this is where Francis Bacon used to drink
he was Irish and queer
hello there!
Pascal
C'mere you bastard
[speaking Greek?]
this is Michael this is the
uhh... proprietor and
and this is Pascal...
the beautiful proprietoress
hostess from... uhh... from Greece
what do you want?
I should never stop telling you
the drinks are incredibly
wonderful... sorrowful
- shut up you a**hole
- uhh
like singing acting... like they invented
tragedy they invented comedy
and tonight's tragi-comedy
is just about to commence
when I was a sponge-diver
the sea to pick up a sponge
and did you use it?
I sold it to an American
his music is very spontaneous
and it comes... it seems
to just flow through him
when he's writing music
it seems that he has music in his head
and it sort of comes through...
and I think that the state of mind
he's in when hes when he's writing
a normal day-to-day way of functioning
he's not logical... he doesn't umm
he doesn't try to write music
to come through him
I mean I think... I think Shane is a
kind of master at... uhh
the opening lines of songs... are
always you know uhh... unbelievably good
you know Christmas eve babe
in the drunk tank
every piece got completely erased
beginning to end by the media
every note okay? like I mean apart
from a few notes by Jim
I mean a little riff
by Jim you know... okay?
but I'm saying like the orchestral
arrangement was by me... yeah? you know?
Steve Lilywhite was talking about using us
you know what I mean?
I said, "No way!"
it's gotta be the real thing yeah
we almost had a number one single with
Fairytale of New York... yeah
but the Pet Shop Boys had other ideas
with their Elvis Presley cover
uhh... but even they would
have to have conceded I think
that morally we were the
number one record that week
uhh... it's the greatest Christmas
song since White Christmas you know uhh
and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
those three... they're the alltime greats
I still think it's an extraordinary record
coming as it did out of nothing
albums had primed people for kind of
what to expect with the Pogues
I don't think anyone for a second
expected the riches of
Fairytale of New York
I loved the boat... yeah?
you don't get treated like a piece of sh*t
like you do on an airplane
unless you're a f***ing executive
you know? like... yeah?
I liked that boat quite a lot... yeah?
there or there or over there?
no... how about there or there?
double gin and tonic
lots of ice slice of lemon
glad to meet you
I'm so glad you made it
how you doing? how you doing man?
you got your hair... your beard cut off
aye... sort of... yeah
the impression I think a lot of people get
is that... you know...
it's Shane MacGowan... crazy guy
the crew as well
we fell around the world
I don't know how we got from A to B
we were all piss drunk
all of the time
Cashman's job as tour manager
I thought that was...
that must be...
what's the worst job you ever had?
I was the Pogues tour manager
yeah... great
there's no such thing as the good old days
oh no... that's not true... Joey no
that's not true
rooms and that at reception
and uhh guys who were particularly drunk
so I asked them to stay outside
so that the hotel people wouldn't see them
our keys and get into the hotel
so... I was in the middle of doing that
and there were quite a few bands staying
there and I heard a bit of a commotion
Shane was being umm... helped in
by Big Charlie and somebody else
they had an arm each over their shoulders
and he had uhh... his leather
trousers were down around his knees
he had no underpants on
and they were dragging him along
his feet were just going like that
and uhh... I just said to
the receptionist you know
"What kind of a hotel is this?"
you know... what are these people
as if I had nothing to do with them
do you want to hear what it says?
Shane MacGowan and the Pogues
and the Pogues is in the same size
letters as my name for some reason... right?
you know Shane MacGowan's influence on
Irish music cannot be overestimated
I don't think it's true to say
that all of us were drinking too much
but certainly for some people in the band
alcohol had become a major problem
MacGowan's deceptively simple songs
I'd like to know what's
try and play them... c*nt
and lifetimes of experience
and he compresses all manner
of human passion into his work
desperate DESPERATE to communicate
everything he has lived and found
down to the last ounce of
commitment and urgency
if you had issues with alcohol
there was no better... trust me
there was no better place in the world
to bury them and hide them
than in the Pogues you know?
because the whole culture
uhh... positively you know... demanded it
a couple of nice ones
when you're that age
that's what you want to do
you want to um...
you want to drink too much
and take too many drugs
and stay up all night
and behave badly
and of course you... know they
were just having a good time
I knew he drank alot
but it wasn't so much that he drank alot
but that he seemed to be doing it
more out of desperaton at that point
more as a way of avoiding people
than as a way of joining in
whereas when I first met him
he was a very sociable sort of person
and he would drink umm... with people
you know with me or with whoever
when it got really bad
I could see him like...
put down a bottle of gin
before he went on stage just to umm
just to make himself feel
able to get on stage I think
I love Them
I love the dance stuff
I love the dance stuff... Astral Weeks
- I like all the albums
- I love Them stuff
- I like all his music
- Astral Weeks
I think it was a pivotal moment
because they made that
move from being in control
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