Shane MacGowan is very much alive

Subject: Shane MacGowan and article links
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jul 19 - 02:44 PM

Well this might jinx the whole thing ...
every time somebody starts a thread
with Shane MacGowan's name in the thread title,
somebody out there presumes the worst,
reads the thread,
and then posts saying, "don't scare me like that!"


So will it offend or frighten anybody if I say he's very much alive?

Don't know if anybody has already linked to these articles.

MacGowan / Clarke wedding, 2018


more on the wedding


MacGowan sings Sonny and Cher duet with Chrissie Hynde live on stage

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Jul 19 - 03:02 PM

"together for 32 years and engaged for 11 years", you've got to admire that kind of circumspection, good old Shane.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Jul 19 - 12:39 PM

Who's Shane McGowan? Is that the drunk guy from Blind River?

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: meself
Date: 11 Jul 19 - 12:56 PM

Formerly, lead-singer & songwriter of Irish-punk band, The Pogues. Has had something of a solo career since. In/famous for his drunkenness and his creativity.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 19 - 12:57 PM

It's Mac, not Mc!

Have to be careful about these things,
as there is a
Shane McGowan
and a
Shane MacGowan.

As better Mudcatters than I have pointed out
on earlier threads than this one.

Shane MacGowan on his family and upbringing

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Jul 19 - 03:53 PM

he first thing that comes to mind when I think of him is "great songwriter", "famous tippler" is somewhere down the list. Christy Moore and others have said something like "In 100 years from now we'll still be singing his songs". I don't know if that's true but I'll be singing them
M as long as I'm able.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Jul 19 - 03:55 PM

Damn Kindle, you get the message.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 03:25 PM

A review of Julian Temple's Shane MacGowan documentary.

National Review review, "Crock of Gold"

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: Helen
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 03:57 PM

On Saturday night on Oz TV music programme Rage, there was a special on Julien Temple and Shane MacGowan. I annoyed my Hubby (how unusual!) by whistling or singing along to most of the songs by The Pogues. Unfortunately, there were *only* 15 video clips of Shane with or without The Pogues. I have all of their albums.

Shane MacGowan + Julien Temple Special

Some other people performing on the clips included The Dubliners, Kirsty MacColl, Nick Cave, Sinead O'Connor.

The Julien Temple part of the show was some of his music video clips which he has produced.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 05:30 PM

In the words of Christy, Shane, I love you, baby... :-)

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 02:16 AM

i think his out put as a songwriter of good songs is insignificant compared to MacColl.. Fairy tale of new York any others. As a singer he is niot someone i would listen too very much. i respect him for overcoming drink sand drug addiction

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 04:28 AM

Plenty others. Pair of Brown Eyes, Fiesta, Summer In Siam, Sally McClennane, Rainy Night in Soho (especially that)...Stop me somebody...

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 04:52 AM

matter of opinion

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 09:14 AM

There's a YouTube film, the trailer: Crock of Gold - A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: AnMal
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 10:04 AM

Hehe, OP said (back in 2019, I know)people would see a thread about Shane McGowan and instantly assume he was dead - I saw it and realised that "Wow, he's still alive!" I saw a documentary about him earlier this year (maybe the one mentioned by Jeri?) but thought for sure I had heard of him dying shortly after that. Glad to see I was wrong.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: Helen
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 02:27 PM

As Oscar Wilde once commented, the rumours about his death were greatly exaggerated.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: GUEST,Learaí na Láibe
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 03:49 PM

@ Helen, I think that quote was by Mark Twain. :)

Pedantic Learaí na Láibe

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: Helen
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 04:54 PM

Well there goes about 50 years of misinformation on my part!! I always thought it was Oscar Wilde but I'm happy to modify my internal memory-data to attribute it to Mark Twain instead. Thanks for correcting me.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 05:50 PM

Well Dave Swarbrick read his own obituary in the Daily Telegraph 17 years before he actually died.

Subject: RE: Shane MacGowan is very much alive
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 12:26 AM

Shane MacGowan now has an authorized biographer/author named
Richard Balls.

(You can't make this stuff up, I tell you.)

The press-released title of the biography is to be
A Furious Devotion.
The publisher is Omnibus Press and the scheduled release date is
7 October 2021.