philipchevron wrote:
Actually, it was just me ("he wasn't sacked") and Cashman ("he was fucken sacked - I was there") in individual interviews skilfully jump-edited. At the London premiere, I was sat beside Joey and when the scene came, we spontaneously high-fived each other. Gotta keep the mystery intact.

Cashman's "He was fucking sacked"-performance always gives me the creeps. Boy, can the man sound sinister....

Tipsy McSwagger wrote:Yeh I felt he contradicted himself in the book quite a bit, but then again don't we all? I also thought it was interesting in the DVD that other members of the band insist he wasnt sacked but other people are like, he was fucking sacked, I was there...hmmm, curiouser and curiouser.. In regards to a few mesages back, I also am finding myself growing more attracted to Shane I think its his lovely blue eyes.and hes very intelligent.

Actually, it was just me ("he wasn't sacked") and Cashman ("he was fucken sacked - I was there") in individual interviews skilfully jump-edited. At the London premiere, I was sat beside Joey and when the scene came, we spontaneously high-fived each other. Gotta keep the mystery intact.

Yeh I felt he contradicted himself in the book quite a bit, but then again don't we all? I also thought it was interesting in the DVD that other members of the band insist he wasnt sacked but other people are like, he was fucking sacked, I was there...hmmm, curiouser and curiouser.. In regards to a few mesages back, I also am finding myself growing more attracted to Shane I think its his lovely blue eyes.and hes very intelligent.

I'd call it a fun read. I got near the end but have been sidetracked by Barstol Boy, by Behan. I am really enjoying that.

its a great read, one of my favorite books to come back to. Also, the DVD is a good watch too, I love the time he is on the Ferry and gives the english teenager an autograph...

He was not under oath after all...

Well, my copy came in the mail yesterday and as usual, I started leafing through it, appreciating the doodles, scrawl, and pictures .... and then turned to somewhere around 1/3 of the way through and began reading. I'm now about from the 1/3 mark to the 2/3 mark. I'll finish it this weekend by reading the first third. Quick read. Very entertaining. I'll have more to say on it this weekend. So far I think its interesting how Shane tells this in a stream of conciousness way.... but he almost always comes back off of his tangents, bang on. I also noticed some inconsistencies where it comes to certain members of the Pogues, his artistic motivations, and his perception of himself as a person. Nothing I could put my finger on at the moment, but I just remember sitting there last night saying to myself... "well he seems more ..." (dare I say it and not get jumped on here?)... "drunk, in this section than he did a few pages ago, and what he just said doesn't sound like what he said before... he sounds cocky because he's drunk, and embellishing." But anyway, a great read so far. Thanks for the suggestion.

MacRua has to admit together with numerous "aha!"s there are another two passages he enjoys extremely

as for Wilde - yes, in my opinion his plays are better than Portrait... Tastes differ.

It´s a great book! The story of his life being the obvious things, but it´s a very freely written book since it´s in interview form, so there´s alot of sidetracks.. and alot of laughs, and alot of "aha!"´s (Which I bet MacRua enjoys )
Im reading it right now, for the second time. And where Im at Shane is discussing irish litterature, strangely enough he doesnt seem very fond of Oscar Wilde though. Which puzzles me.

Funny... I just ordered it from Amazon 15 mitutes before logging in here.

great book that.

K,thanks.
Oi'll get the book by all means!

DVD version if the book?! Nah, i am afraid... But there are cupla extracts online, kinda free trial

MacRua...tis a great shame oi still don't have A drink with Shane...as oi've heard thats a book? is there a DVD version?

I have watched the movie... probably more than any DVD I own. It isn't tremendously well done, but its wonderful to just amble along with the series of interviews, Nips, Pogues, and Popes footage, and some real unusual... probably staged, to some degree, stuff. Like Shane taking a piss in the countryside... giving money to a begger.... mixing it up with people on a ferry... giving some fairly old women his phone number. Probably the best interview footage was himself holding an unlit fag, with a lighter burning away, with bulging eyes (so he looked like he was on something), speaking from the gut about his writing with the Nips, and the impression teh Sex Pistols made on him, and .... at the end there are a few sentences about wanting to be a musician, and how he felt lucky to be one, as they show footage of Lonesome Highway at a concert. I always walk away with the feeling that I'm lucky that there are still some great music personalities out there that actually live one of my favorite aspects of the punk movement -- elimination of the space between the performer and the audience, both spatially and figuratively. Shane is obviously a regular guy with regular problems, and is tremendously talented at what he does. And he knows it, and isn't full of himself. And I would say the same about the Pogues in general -- as you can probably see in this forum. Cheers!