These people drain the spirit from Ireland, turning it into a flat, conformist country, like a little Canada on the coast of Europe, and then think they can say Shane’s name? Please. If he was the spiritual heir to Behan and Flann O’Brien and Ronnie Drew, they’re the spiritual heirs to the Committee on Evil Literature, the psychotic censorship body set up by the Irish Free State in 1926. Posted on July 13, 2024 by nails
MacGowan will be praised to the hilt by people who would have cancelled him in a heartbeat if he emerged today Posted on July 12, 2024 by nails
Wikipedia: In a filmed interview he said, “I was ashamed I didn’t have the guts to join the IRA, and The Pogues was my way” Posted on July 12, 2024 by nails
Asked why his punkish Irish outfit enjoyed so much success, he said ‘because we weren’t a faggot and a guy with a synthesiser’ Posted on July 12, 2024 by nails