Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 05:53 AM

Don't get me started again on links! ;-)

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 07:00 AM

I'll do another one then

RTE isn't streaming the funeral but there are
Live updates Shane MacGowan funeral

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 07:19 AM

I'd like to be there just to see if sticks his head back out and shouts "We'll have another round".

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 11:24 AM

The BBC News (radio) this morning was talking about the possible big names from the US who might be in attendance. Sounds like there could be quite a wake to follow!

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 11:42 AM

Ah sure, big names, if you're into that. Nick Cave sang 'Rainynight in Soho', Depp was there, Gerry Adams and AIden Gillen did readings, as did Boni, albeit a recorded one. Imelda May and Mundy did the Fairytale. Lot of other stuff as well. Michael D was there (the president, for those unfamiliar). Friends turned out for the funeral, in other words. Thousands were out in Dublin along the touted of the procession, perhaps more telling.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 12:10 PM

A bit more, Geldof, Depp, Liam O Maonlaoi and others read the Prayers of the faithful, Cait O Riordan sang 'A man you don't meet every day, Sean O Sé and Cór Chuil Aodha sang 'Ag Chriost an Siol'. No good funeral without the lads from Cuil Aodha, I imagine they finish up with 'Mo ghile mear', it's not over until they sing that

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Thompson
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 01:30 PM

Not to mention the wave of song passing along the crowds as his funeral passed through Dublin, two horses drawing the glass hearse. Take a look at Reddit Ireland today.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Dec 23 - 02:47 PM

I could have sworn I saw four horses! I stand to be corrected. We had an afternoon's shopping in Truro today (a 75-minute drive), so this morning I rustled up a hasty Spotify playlist of Pogues songs which we played in the car both ways. Jollity, reflection and tears all in good measure, but mostly jollity. Brown eyes, NYPD choir, sick bed, summer in Siam, rainy night, Sally's boozer, Almería once again (a place we love!). Sad to say, I must be on my way, said the heart-shaped sign. Shane, I love you, baby!

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 08:47 AM

Just thought of this, but
it must have been pointed out during media coverage.

December 8, the date of MacGowan's funeral, is the same date as
Sinead O'Connor's birthday.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues leader Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 10:20 AM

We watched the ceremony on Sky News (simulcast with BBC News 24 iirc). One thing that annoyed both of us was the outbreaks of applause, which more properly belongs in a performance venue than in a church .... but methinks the wake wouldn't have been televised, and not everybody could have attended it, so perhaps it leaked backwards in time into the ceremony.

Mind you, one thing Herself very definitely approved of was them using the unexpurgated full-fat version of Fairytale. The lad got a proper send-off.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 12:34 PM

Sineád O Connor's birthday AND the Immaculate conception. All rolled into the one day.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 23 - 12:36 PM

Both the priests and the musicians put on a performance, don't they. Applause at a funeral is not all that unusual in my experience, or the dancing, for that matter. It's about the person and the life being celebrated.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Thompson
Date: 10 Dec 23 - 04:22 AM

Yeah, I always feel applause at a funeral is ewww, but it has happened at virtually every funeral I've been at in recent years; the soft patter of palms is kind of a supportive gesture to the grieving.
So sad to see his poor wife, clearly in the kind of stark shock that leaves you in utter denial, and his white-haired old father, stunned with grief.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: GUEST,paperback
Date: 14 Dec 23 - 01:14 AM

Shane MacGowan vs Bill Grundy (page 2) 'Bondage'

Source: Bondage No. 1
Date: December 1976
Author: Shane MacGowan

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Felipa
Date: 20 Dec 23 - 03:20 PM

announcement from EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum https://epicchq.com/explore/history-and-vision/, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1 (<10 min walk from main bus station, Busárus)

"In collaboration with Hot Press, we have created special temporary exhibition dedicated to The Pogues and the late, great, Shane MacGowan.

" ‘They Gave The Walls A Talking’ illuminates the evolution of The Pogues, the rise of punk rock, and the role of the Irish diaspora on the British music scene - as well as the genesis of the marvellously iconic ‘Fairytale of New York’.

"This exhibition runs until January 31st, 2024."

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 07:03 PM

Condolences to the city of London for this Christmas without Shane MacGowan.
Fairytale of New York will be especially poignant there.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Neil D
Date: 25 Dec 23 - 01:28 AM

Happy Birthday and RIP Shane.
Merry Christmas to the rest of yous.

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 09:26 AM

An author named Darran Anderson published his appreciation of the Pogues in
the Christmas Day edition on the op-ed page of the New York Times.

New York Times: "Fairytale of New York" isn't like any other Christmas song, Darran Anderson

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: Rain Dog
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 09:36 AM

From The Observer

Shane MacGowan remembered by Nick Cave

Subject: RE: Obit: Pogues member Shane MacGowan (1957-2023)
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Apr 24 - 10:07 PM

From Mojo magazine:

Shane MacGowan remembered by Spider Stacy