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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:31 am
by Guest
Met Shane at a Pogues gig at the Queen Margaret University in Glasgow in 1985.I asked him for change for the cig machine but he got Spider to give him 2 cigs then gave them to me and told me if i did that 10 times i wouldnt have to buy a packet.
Very astute guy.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:41 am
by Paddy Rolling Clone
Guest wrote:Met Shane at a Pogues gig at the Queen Margaret University in Glasgow in 1985.I asked him for change for the cig machine but he got Spider to give him 2 cigs then gave them to me and told me if i did that 10 times i wouldnt have to buy a packet.
Very astute guy.


Fuckin classic. 8)

PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:20 am
by MacRua
dublinrambler wrote:met shane in the porterhouse,dublin in 2001 before he was to play a gig at UCD...it was 11.40pm by the time cashman got him out the door!

Did you have a chat with Shane then?

PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:11 am
by Irishman
Planky wrote:Met him late eighties before a gig at Southampton Mayflower, top bloke, asked him wether they were playing boys from county hell that night to which he said no, we asked him if they could play it and say its was for the lads from Marlborough, when it came to the encores they duely played the boys and he said it was for the lads from Marlborough


Shane MacGowan sounds like such a nice guy...Screw anyone who puts him down!