just watched that flick this past weekend. cillian murphy is incredible. i'm sure there were close similarities as kitten was slipping through london during crazy times, never signing a lease or working a 'real' job. when you're floating around from bed to bed like that every night, you're bound to be living the kind of life described in the song.

have read mccabe's "the butcher boy" and saw the film, too. rarely is a film as good as a book, but it was fun to watch in this case. need to dig a little deeper into mccabe's body of work as TBB was incredible.

BelfastsLittlesHobo wrote:I watched Neil Jordan's, Breakfast On Pluto last night and couldn't help but notice the similarities between the film and The Old Main Drag and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed the parallel's. For anyone that hasn't seen it Breakfast On Pluto is a film about a young man who leaves the troubles of 70's Ireland and comes to London in search of his long lost Mother.

I haven't read the book or seen this, but it sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip!

Not a bad film version of Patrick McCabes book of the same name.
Patrick is a great writer with a dark sense of hummor.
I have read and would recomend The Bucther Boy and Emerald Germs of Ireland
As two of his best.

I think The Pogues Old Main Drag is a much more realistic and deply sadening version of the lives of those on London streets.
I remeber first hearing it BBc radio and the hum at the end seem to last an age and hit some sad home truths.Powerful stuff.

I watched Neil Jordan's, Breakfast On Pluto last night and couldn't help but notice the similarities between the film and The Old Main Drag and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed the parallel's. For anyone that hasn't seen it Breakfast On Pluto is a film about a young man who leaves the troubles of 70's Ireland and comes to London in search of his long lost Mother.