by philipchevron Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:41 pm
gerrybhoy wrote:it hurts me to say this but i agree with the above posts, as much as i adore shane for his music i recall i was at the first gig he did with the popes in nottingham only days after kirsty was tragically killed and not once he did he mention her name or even dedicate a song to her, another dissapointed fan
Look, when you, and the rest of the piranhas, realise that Kirsty MacColl was our beloved friend first and only then our esteemed musical colleague, perhaps you will consider permitting myself, Shane and the rest of the Pogues to honour and remember her in a way that she, and we, would have understood. Any old pillock can get up on a stage and satisfy some morbid need for public affirmation of his grief. It makes me gag just to think about how Kirsty would have viewed this misjudged attempt to regulate her memory.
Personally, I applaud those friends and colleagues who both commemorated her 51st birthday and raised useful funds for her charities, but if everyone who loved, admired or merely respected Kirsty and/or her work, were to appear at every memorial, the gig would still be going on a week later. The Pogues do not
own the memory of Kirsty MacColl. Kirsty herself gave up her career for several years to devote her time to her lovely sons Jamie and Louis because she insisted that private lives come first.
As Paul McCartney said when informed of Lennon's death, "it's a drag, isn't it?"
[quote="gerrybhoy"]it hurts me to say this but i agree with the above posts, as much as i adore shane for his music i recall i was at the first gig he did with the popes in nottingham only days after kirsty was tragically killed and not once he did he mention her name or even dedicate a song to her, another dissapointed fan[/quote]
Look, when you, and the rest of the piranhas, realise that Kirsty MacColl was our beloved friend first and only then our esteemed musical colleague, perhaps you will consider permitting myself, Shane and the rest of the Pogues to honour and remember her in a way that she, and we, would have understood. Any old pillock can get up on a stage and satisfy some morbid need for public affirmation of his grief. It makes me gag just to think about how Kirsty would have viewed this misjudged attempt to regulate her memory.
Personally, I applaud those friends and colleagues who both commemorated her 51st birthday and raised useful funds for her charities, but if everyone who loved, admired or merely respected Kirsty and/or her work, were to appear at every memorial, the gig would still be going on a week later. The Pogues do not [i]own[/i] the memory of Kirsty MacColl. Kirsty herself gave up her career for several years to devote her time to her lovely sons Jamie and Louis because she insisted that private lives come first.
As Paul McCartney said when informed of Lennon's death, "it's a drag, isn't it?"
