If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story Page #6

what we do is Irish music you know

rural Irish music

you know emotional guts dance music

we got that... bypasses the end like

and hits you in the gut...

and hits you in the heart...

and hits you in the soul

oh. . . I am

I've been a babe magnet

for quite a while you know

I gave up trying to impress girls

you know what I mean

and they started getting

interested in me yeah

just think now...

is there a hot tub?

well I mean with ??? the tub's gone yeah?

there's a sauna and swimming pool yeah?

I told you I'm going to

put a jacousi in the barn yeah?

you cannot become a babe

magnet if you're no good

know what I mean?

because girls tell other girls

what you're like you know what I mean

and like you might be really dishy

which I'm not you know what I mean?

but that wasn't my attraction

you know what I mean? like you know

girls said to other girls yeah?

- do you want to come in the Merc Shane?

- what?

- do you want to come in the Merc?

- yeah

- right I'll go get it

-I'll get my car though

- come in a decent car

- come in the Merc right

- come and try a piece of the Merc

- yeah come on and have a shot of the Merc

- first decent f***ing car we ever had

- absolutely i quite agree

i quite agree... i couldn't agree more

you mean the last decent car

I've been reading all this stuff about you

this very public row between

you and Sinead O'Connor

she said she was going to shop you

for heroin... isn't that so?

and she did

I think it's bloody obvious that she's

out only for publicity

and like... at this stage of the game like

she doesn't... she doesn't even view it like

you know what I mean like

she'll do anything for publicity

you know what I mean?

I do believe she did do it

because she genuinely felt that

our relationship was worth saving

and she saw that I love Shane

and that Shane loves me

and she could see that very clearly

even though I couldn't really

at that point... see it

I was like ready to give up

I thought right, well you know I

cut my losses and see if I can find

some more satisfactory relationship

it may well have helped because

I think it did force Shane to think

even if he didn't want to think...

about what was going on and what...

you know and what I was unhappy about

and what he was doing and stuff

she's friends with

friends of my missus Vickie

she seems to believe

that she whatever did

with the best intentions you know?

so I don't give a f*** or anything

she's like you know

well she's got no right to

it's my life you know

I'm a f***ing adult you know

I'm not the one to take a moral

high-ground about drug-taking

umm... in any way

umm... and what... Shane

feels is right for him is right for him

umm... myself I... I guess uhh...

I don't know... two years ago

I had to make a... a choice really

whether I was going to continue to

write and be an artist or whether

I was going uhh... to be a junkie

and that was pretty much the

choice that was being made

a year had gone by when the piano

just sort of sat in the corner of the room

staring back at me blankly

I wasn't doing anything

I wasn't able to a put a line on... on paper

and for me it became necessary to stop

and for me since I've stopped

I've been able to write with

much more energy

much more dedication

and much more concentration

than ever before

what Shane does is completely up to him

and has every right to do whatever he wants

and believe whatever he wants

that sounds like a sheep innit?

people often ask what Shane would be like

if he didn't drink but umm... it's funny

I don't ever really wonder about it

I don't ever really think about that

it seems to be so much a part

of what he's like

it seems almost as though that's

his purpose in life

is to write about drinking

I'm not saying that he only

writes about drinking

but to write about the type of things

that he does write about

and he encompasses quite alot

when I was young I washed the cars

when I was older I drank in bars

I don't know if he could

do it in the same way

if he was a different kind of person

and he lived his life differently

I don't know whether Shane terms

himself an alcoholic or not

Phil Chevron certainly ended up saying

I am an alcoholic and getting out of it

Terry Woods ended up saying

I am an alcoholic and getting out of it

Spider ended up saying

I am an alcoholic and getting out of it

Shane exhibited all of the characteristics

of the other three but just kept on going

- Joey

- what?

don't tell me they haven't

stuffed the olives for you

there's no gin... there's martini

we've survived... we survived the Pogues

you know I have been... I could easily be

dead now if there hadn't come a point

where I realized that

that was my next option

to decide whether or not

that was going to happen you know

you wanna go onstage? let's go

let's go... let's go here

you don't have to spend very long

on the road to know that you know

like you... you.. you can't be worried

about things like your health

and f***ing like... like... uhh...

your parents being worried or like

you know what I mean? or like uhh...

the papers telling lies about you

whatever... you know what I mean?

you've got to say sh*t to all of that

you know what I mean?

I was just... what do I want to do?

I wanted... I want... I wanna be a mu...

what I always wanted to do was be a

professional musician you know

thank God I've ended up being

a professional musician

if he was out playing and wasn't

called in... for the rosary

there'd be... a bit of a row with him

Shane... whoever you were like...

you know John Jim George... you know

you know uhh... Bridget whatever

you know Maggie... Ryan you know

uhh yeah... you know?

it's the rosary... it's the rosary

and it's over the bed or

ahhh... it's gone away

and he's coming up... he's coming up

and aww... he went out

ahhh... almost there

oh yeah... he's coming up

he's coming up... he's coming up

ahhh... it's gone away

- what's the panic?

- ??? it's on in f***ing Limerick

you know what I mean?

she's... two hours ago it's f***ing starting

she was supposed to be coming

??? here... and you're speaking like that

well it's the cinma vrit you know?

I mean that's what they call it

as the french say

that means realistic cinema

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