Nochmals die Pogues, yeah. Ich mochte die Musik der Pogues und die Stimme des Sängers Shane MacGowan sehr gerne, ihr Celtic Punk war wirklich sehr erfrischend. McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed / There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head / There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands / You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands. Die Band bestand beim zweiten Album "Rum Sodomy & The Lash" aus Shane MacGowan (Vocals), Spider Stacy (Tin Whistle, Vocals), James Fearnley (Accordion), Jem Finer (Banjo), Cait O’Riordan (Bass, Vocals), Andrew Ranken (Drums) und Philip Chevron (Guitar, Mandolin), als Gastmusiker waren bei den Aufnahmen noch Henry Benagh (Fiddle), Dick Cuthell (French Horn), Tommy Keane (Uileann Pipes) und der Multi-Instrumentalist Terry Woods mit dabei. When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in cologne / And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone / Frank Ryan brought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid / And you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the yids / At the sick bed of Cúchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer / And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair. Das Album schaffte es auf Platz 13 der britischen Charts und der erfolgreichste Song des Albums war "Dirty Old Town", der in Irland auf Platz 27 kam. And in the Euston tavern you screamed it was your shout / But they wouldn't give you service so you kicked the windows out / They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains / So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again / At the sick bed of Cúchulainn we'll kneel and say a prayer / And the ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil's in the chair. Am erfolgreichsten waren die Pogues in Irland, yeah, dort hatten sie mit den Songs "Haunted", "The Irish Rover" featuring The Dubliners, "Fairytale Of New York" featuring Kirsty MacColl, "If I Should Fall From Grace With God", "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah", "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge" und "Jack’s Heroes" featuring The Dubliners große Hits. In Großbritannien schafften sie es nur mit den Songs "The Irish Rover" und "Fairytale Of New York" in die Top Ten. You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl / There was lousy drunken bastards singing billy is in the bowl / They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch / So you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church. Shane MacGowan hatte bald ein beachtliches Alkoholproblem und die Band warf ihn wegen unprofessionellen Verhaltens raus. Im Jahr 1994 gründete er dann mit Paul McGuinness (Guitar, Vocals), Bernie France (Bass, Vocals), Danny Pope (Drums, Percussion), Tom McManamon (Banjo), Kieran O’Hagan (Guitar, Vocals) und Colm O’Maonlai (Whistles) die Band Shane MacGowan & The Popes. Mit den Popes nahm Shane MacGowan die beiden Alben "The Snake" 1994 und "The Crock Of Gold" 1997 sowie die EPs "The Church Of The Holy Spook" 1994, "My Way" 1996 und "Christmas Party" 1996 auf. Im Jahr 2005 verließ Shane MacGowan die Band, die ohne ihn als The Popes weitermachten. Shane MacGowan kehrte zu den Pogues zurück und 2010 gründete er mit John Daly (Guitar), Joey Cashman (Whistle), John O’Hara (Keyboards), Jack Dublin (Bass) und Paul Byrne (Drums) die Band Shane MacGowan & The Shane Gang. Now you'll sing a song of liberty for blacks and paks and jocks / And they'll take you from this dump you’re in and stick you in a box / Then they'll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground / But you'll stick your head back out and shout 'We'll have another round' / At the graveside of Cúchulainn we'll kneel around and pray / And god is in his heaven, and billy's down by the bay. Seine musikalische Laufbahn startete Shane MacGowan ursprünglich bei der Punkband The Nipple Erectors, irgendwie ist Shane MacGowan sicherlich ein Sack, ich denke aber, ein durchaus hörenswerter Sack. Shane MacGowan: The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks - they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does. Okay, viel Glück Shane!

15.10.2021