Shane MacGowan
16 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1986
Pogues Shane McGowan and Jem Finer talk about traditional Irish music, the band, songwriting, touring, and Shane's fantastic laugh.
File format: mp3; file size: 60mb, interview length: 1h 05' 34" sound quality: **
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1986
Excerpt from Mat Snow's interview with The Pogues, recorded 1986. Pogues Shane McGowan and Jem Finer talk about traditional Irish music, the band, songwriting, touring, and Shane's fantastic laugh.
File format: mp3; file size: 14mb, interview length: 14' 41" sound quality: **
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Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan: The Three Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
Interview by James Brown, Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 25 February 1989
For its second pop summit of the year, NME lent SEAN O'HAGAN and JAMES BROWN £10 each to buy SHANE MACGOWAN, MARK E SMITH and ...
Shane MacGowan: Dark Side of the Hooligan
Profile and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, Vox, November 1990
Shane MacGowan has not been a happy man since the 'natural living' days of punk. Now he's disillusioned with the Pogues and a recent medical ...
Shane MacGowan: Crash Course To Oblivion
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, February 1993
Cancel the hearses! Desist with the obituaries! For Shane MacGowan lives, in spite of a heroic chemical intake and his ownership of the Western world's ...
Crowded House, The Cranberries, et al: Fleadh '94, Finsbury Park, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 18 June 1994
BLARNEY ARMY! ...
Shane MacGowan: Roamin' Catholic
Interview by Pete Paphides, Time Out, 22 September 1994
It's a long way to Tipperary. Ask Shane MacGowan, who staggered out of The Pogues to spend two years exploring his home town and re-examining ...
Shane MacGowan: Adder Few Drinks
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 20 October 1994
One of them's the stumbling genius who used to front The Pogues, the other's a chisel-jawed Hollywood superstar actor. They are drinking buddies SHANE MACGOWAN ...
Interview by Chris Heath, The Face, November 1994
When Shane MacGowan left the Pogues, it was not so much in a cloud of acrimony than a murky fog of drink and drugs. Against ...
Shane MacGowan: One More For The Road
Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 29 November 1997
THERE ARE THOSE who believe that Shane MacGowan is among the most gifted and singular singer-songwriters to have emerged in British music in the past ...
Shane MacGowan: It's A Long Way From Tipperary
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Vox, January 1998
AS PUNK PASSION dissipated and died, choking on its own irrelevance, a generation of serial venters were suddenly deprived of its primal, therapeutic effect. The ...
The Terrible State Of Shane MacGowan
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, March 2000
Skint, on drugs, walking a tightrope life, a young man dead in his flat: things could hardly have looked worse for Shane MacGowan. Then, astonishingly, ...
Shane MacGowan and Simon Napier-Bell: The Sound And The Fury
Book Review by Ian Penman, The Guardian, 14 April 2001
Black Vinyl, White Powder, Simon Napier-Bell (390pp, Ebury Press £16.99)A Drink With Shane MacGowan, Victoria Mary Clarke and Shane MacGowan (360pp, Sidgwick & Jackson £15.99) ...
Music at Sundance: Dylan, Atlantic and Shane MacGowan
Overview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, May 2003
Bob Dylan’s long awaited Masked and Anonymous debuts at Sundance ...
Exclusive: Pogues' Shane Tells How He Made It To 50
Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 24 December 2007
Smoking, drinking and partying keep me alive ...
Richard Balls: A Furious Devotion – The Authorised Story Of Shane MacGowan
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, December 2021
WITH HIS uncombed hair, rotten teeth and charity shop clothes, not to mention the obligatory bottle, Shane MacGowan presented himself to the world as a ...
see also Pogues, The
see also Nips, The (aka The Nipple Erectors)
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