The Medusa Fora

Who here has met MacGowan?

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

At a show in NYC, can't remember the name of the venue, a few blocks down from Grammercy. My wife and sis was with, wife was preggers, so the bouncer put them up in the vip, which was a good thing, because it was insane on the floor.

Best time I ever had on the floor, swinging, so poonch-ups nice and soft, and tossing blokes around and round.

After the mayhem, I went up into the vip to be with wife and sis, one of his bouncers was like "why do you want to meet him?" and I'm like "to give this little baby in my wife's belly a good blessing." That reason was obviously good enough.

So we went in, and the man himself was surrounded by a bunch of seemingly coked-up bikers. He told us about his son in London that he doesn't see anymore, and he seemed very nice, honest, decent. He touched wife's belly, said a little something and we headed out, it was too smokey for my wife, she didn't think it was a good idea to stay.

Baby turned out to be a girl, we named her Lilly Starr. She's Irish enough, and then we had another baby girl, named her Willow, and she's more irish than her big sister because she cries when her feelings get hurt, but she's got a left hook like nothing I've ever seen, the little three-year-old can take out her da pretty easy. When things don't go her way he fists do the talking first.

I'm proud of them both.

Thanks Shane, I think you gave a good blessing. http://www.galaxygauge.com

Shane has a son?

From The Guardian article from 2001:

"As a Catholic, doesn't he [Shane] feel bad about not having children? 'I've got children!' How many? 'I don't know. I only know about one. He's a young man. He lives in Scotland. He knows where to get hold of me. I saw him once, when he was three. He knows I'm his father. Years ago, me and Lesley agreed that any time he wanted to come and see me he could come and see me and I'd take him out for a drink, get him whatever he wants. But she married a good man, and he seems to be satisfied with him as his father.'"

Full text here.

It’s sad that they didn’t get married in the end, the poor old journalist always seem to get the short end of the stick don’t they?

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad that they didn’t get married...

More likely it's very, very lucky.

I don't think Shane had written as many songs as that if he had been changing diapers

1. Shane would not bother to change it as he rarely bothers to change his own trousers
2. If he had - he would mix babe's head and arse up

On the other hand it would be a great excuse.. That "writer's block" has got well used by now.

Very true

MacRua wrote:On the other hand it would be a great excuse.. That "writer's block" has got well used by now.

Your right there MacRua, the old have a kid, can't write songs trick, it's classic. It would be a lot more bearable then, "I'm 100% doing another album, just not now" which we've been hearing since the Crock came out.

MacRua wrote:1. Shane would not bother to change it as he rarely bothers to change his own trousers

Point taken

Don't know if any of you lot feel this, but cause I've been a follower of Shane's music etc. I feel like I know him without actually meeting him. This may have a lot to do with Victorias book, also.

Mick Molloy wrote:I don't think Shane had written as many songs as that if he had been changing diapers

- Would you like to have kids?
- Naah, I don t like kids. It s not just that they're smelly and noisy but unfortunately you have to have them in the same room as you, otherwise they'll hurt themselves. I'm not the kind who'd just farm them out to whatever unlucky woman might have happened to bear them for me. I wouldn't be prepared to change a single nappy or babysit for even one night, that's not the kind of attitude to have kids with, is it?
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27 Jul 1989

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!