Leonard Hatred 6:32 Thu Feb 11
Shane MacGowan
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Genius or pissed up twat?
Discuss.
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Replies - In Chronological Order ( Show Newest Messages First)
Northern Sold
6:33 Thu Feb 11
Re: Shane MacGowan
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Concerned for the fella... I mean you can't see a dentist thanks to Covid for love or money....
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pulhampete
6:38 Thu Feb 11
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A pissed up genius and an absolute poet.
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billywhitehorse
6:39 Thu Feb 11
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Once came into a Kilburn pub I worked in for a lunchtime drink.
Of sherry.
In a pint glass.
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
6:44 Thu Feb 11
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billywhitehorse 6:39
I'd heard he was partial to a pint or 3 of Martini.
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simon.s
6:44 Thu Feb 11
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Sold0 - he got his Hampsteads sorted a while back. Well he gets enough royalties every year.
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MTC
6:45 Thu Feb 11
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Saw him once at Dublin airport and he was so pissed he couldn’t even do up his jeans and belt when he came out of the toilets,his son had to come over and do them up for him.He was on a flight to Paris and they allowed him on the plane,even in that state.
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Nurse Ratched
6:48 Thu Feb 11
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billywhitehorse
That pub - The Cock?
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Leonard Hatred
6:54 Thu Feb 11
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arsene
Shut up you cunt.
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Alfs
6:56 Thu Feb 11
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Both
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geoffpikey
7:13 Thu Feb 11
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Born on Christmas Day. Apt FACT.
Both.
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violator
7:19 Thu Feb 11
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Born in KENT
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Side of Ham
7:26 Thu Feb 11
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...and the only gift he'd want off Jesus, is turning water into wine......
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ray winstone
7:26 Thu Feb 11
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I am francisco vasquez garcia
I am welcome to almeria
We have sin gas and con leche
We have fiesta and feria
We have the song of the cochona
We have brandy and half corona
And leonardo and his accordione
And kalamari and macaroni
Come all you rambling boys of pleasure
And ladies of easy leisure
We must say adios! until we see
Almeria once again
There is a minstrel, there you see,
And he stoppeth one in three
He whispers in this one's ear
"will you kindly kill that doll for me"
Now he has won cochona in the bingo
All the town has watched this crazy gringo
As he pulls off the dolls head laughing
And miraldo! throws it's body in the sea
El veinticinco de agosto
Abrio sus ojos jaime fearnley
Para el bebe cinquante cincampari
Why se tendio para cerrarlos
Why costello el rey del america
Why suntuosa cait o'riordan
Nor vompere mis calliones
Los gritos fuera de las casas
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lowermarshhammer
8:05 Thu Feb 11
Re: Shane MacGowan
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https://youtu.be/FkzRoFW-BJM
Shame MacGowan eating an apple and getting a round of applause for doing so...
When I was 18 and in Kentish Town to see a band I saw him at the Bull and Gate. I was pissed, hobby and obnoxious and pinched his drink (poorly made g +t, at least a treble) out of his hands and downed it. He called me a cunt. Rightly so.
I kept that glass for a year or two. Maybe I picked up.some kind of life long immunity from his germs.
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Faux Bare
8:13 Thu Feb 11
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Oh look, the loser with the Thai bride is a fantasist.
Colour me shocked.
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southbankbornnbred
8:39 Thu Feb 11
Re: Shane MacGowan
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Definitely a pissed-up twat, but also a damn fine songwriter.
I wouldn't use the word 'genius', which is over-used these days. But a fecking good writer.
He was probably the zenith of the plastic paddy. Born in Kent, short period in Ireland, raised in middle-class areas of the south-east of England from the age of six, went to a public school, came out pretending to be as working-class Irish as boiled bacon and cabbage.
He is of that generation who, for whatever reason, denied the reality of his upbringing in search of a more interesting back story/identity. That's fine - couldn't give a monkeys what people think they are, personally. I'm more concerned with what people actually are.
But boy can he write. Very talented, drunken fella!
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southbankbornnbred
8:40 Thu Feb 11
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I still go to his pub once in a while - when the damn thing is open!
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happygilmore
8:54 Thu Feb 11
Re: Shane MacGowan
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Genius, destroyed by drink.
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