by usualdog Fri May 18, 2007 8:49 am
Big fans of Shane. Anyone heard them?
http://www.secondsupper.com/Music/Artic ... icleID=247
for those too lazy to read the whole thing here's the bit about Shane . . .
SS: I know you guys were very heavily influenced by the Pogues and Shane McGowan. Who else do you look for as influence, or who do you idolize?
K: Well, collectively there’s not going to be any single band. The Pogues are the most obvious collective influence. It’s going to be a wide range of things. If you ask any band member, you’re going to get a different answer. I’ll try to represent everybody’s taste: The Pixies, Nick Cave, to straight-up rock like Tom Petty. We like a lot of the newer bands that have those middle-eastern sounds like Devushka, The Decemberists, to various bands from the funk and hip-hop genre which you don’t really hear in our music very much. But for some people, that’s kind of where they’re coming from, and that may present itself a little bit more in the future I think.
SS: So I think it’s a miracle that Shane McGowan is still even alive.
K: Yeah, he was supposed to be dead fifteen years ago.
SS: I have a picture of him in my wallet. When do you think he’ll drink himself to death?
K: I don’t deem to speculate on the lifespan of Shane McGowan because so many people have come up wrong when he was supposed to die every year that they said he was supposed to die. He is a musical genius. Lyrically and musically, he’s pretty much a pioneer as far as melding the two genres of rock and Irish music. I would essentially credit the entire modern “Irish rock” scene to Shane McGowan and The Pogues. As far as a lifestyle goes, he’s not a model. What can we say?
SS: It’s really kind of sad, have you seen his DVD, “If I Should Fall From Grace”? It’s sad to see how deteriorated he is as a person, physically not mentally.
K: I agree, but I do question mentally. Because granted he’s 50 now, but as far as I know, he hasn’t put out any new music in at least five years if not more. And his two albums with The Popes I thought were pretty good. They weren’t at the level of The Pogues, but he was almost cutting back and simplifying, especially in his last album “Crock of Gold.” But to me that’s the main tragedy, because obviously I don’t know him personally, I met him and I of course wish him a long life and good health, but I really like his music.
Big fans of Shane. Anyone heard them?
http://www.secondsupper.com/Music/Artic ... icleID=247
for those too lazy to read the whole thing here's the bit about Shane . . .
SS: I know you guys were very heavily influenced by the Pogues and Shane McGowan. Who else do you look for as influence, or who do you idolize?
K: Well, collectively there’s not going to be any single band. The Pogues are the most obvious collective influence. It’s going to be a wide range of things. If you ask any band member, you’re going to get a different answer. I’ll try to represent everybody’s taste: The Pixies, Nick Cave, to straight-up rock like Tom Petty. We like a lot of the newer bands that have those middle-eastern sounds like Devushka, The Decemberists, to various bands from the funk and hip-hop genre which you don’t really hear in our music very much. But for some people, that’s kind of where they’re coming from, and that may present itself a little bit more in the future I think.
SS: So I think it’s a miracle that Shane McGowan is still even alive.
K: Yeah, he was supposed to be dead fifteen years ago.
SS: I have a picture of him in my wallet. When do you think he’ll drink himself to death?
K: I don’t deem to speculate on the lifespan of Shane McGowan because so many people have come up wrong when he was supposed to die every year that they said he was supposed to die. He is a musical genius. Lyrically and musically, he’s pretty much a pioneer as far as melding the two genres of rock and Irish music. I would essentially credit the entire modern “Irish rock” scene to Shane McGowan and The Pogues. As far as a lifestyle goes, he’s not a model. What can we say?
SS: It’s really kind of sad, have you seen his DVD, “If I Should Fall From Grace”? It’s sad to see how deteriorated he is as a person, physically not mentally.
K: I agree, but I do question mentally. Because granted he’s 50 now, but as far as I know, he hasn’t put out any new music in at least five years if not more. And his two albums with The Popes I thought were pretty good. They weren’t at the level of The Pogues, but he was almost cutting back and simplifying, especially in his last album “Crock of Gold.” But to me that’s the main tragedy, because obviously I don’t know him personally, I met him and I of course wish him a long life and good health, but I really like his music.
