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I've been meaning to ask this but kept forgetting. What happened to those guys who beat up Shane? Also, how was his recovery? A friend told me about it when it happened, but I never heard anything else.

For a second then I thort this was gonna be a story about a drunken MacGowan literally jumping into the lavatory! Anyone else think this when they saw the title of the thread?

TheKing wrote:For a second then I thort this was gonna be a story about a drunken MacGowan literally jumping into the lavatory! Anyone else think this when they saw the title of the thread?

That's exactly what I thought as well.

Eric V wrote:Mirror.co.uk

I've been meaning to ask this but kept forgetting. What happened to those guys who beat up Shane? Also, how was his recovery? A friend told me about it when it happened, but I never heard anything else.

Only one of reported attackers (namely Liam McInerney) was jailed for three years, and that happened in August of 2004.
As for Shane, according to innumerable evidences of impeccable witnesses he is in a great form and enjoys himself. God bless him!

MacRua wrote:As for Shane, according to innumerable evidences of impeccable witnesses he is in a great form and enjoys himself. God bless him!

Didn't Danny Clifford just mention that he took him into hospital for an abscess? After taking the pictures, naturally.

You think such trifle lika an abscess can prevent Shane from enjoying himself? You think Maurice misinforms us, loyal fans, regarding current Shane's form (which is, according to Maurice's words, better than ever during last years) ?!

MacRua wrote:

Eric V wrote:Mirror.co.uk

I've been meaning to ask this but kept forgetting. What happened to those guys who beat up Shane? Also, how was his recovery? A friend told me about it when it happened, but I never heard anything else.

Only one of reported attackers (namely Liam McInerney) was jailed for three years, and that happened in August of 2004.
As for Shane, according to innumerable evidences of impeccable witnesses he is in a great form and enjoys himself. God bless him!

Thanks MacRua. Yes, I knew it was in 2004, but at the time my friend said he was beaten up pretty badly, and with something large and metalic to the face. When I stumbled onto the article and saw that Shane had a fractured bone in his face, it must have been a rough recovery, and though I could see by all accounts he was in great form this Christmas season, I had no insight into the year and a half leading up to it. Yes, God bless him, real good!

He was attacked on the 20th (or 21st ?) Apr, but just in ten days - on the 30th of Apr - he put on a 40 minutes long performance in Budapest (as a part of a huge concert to celebrate Hungary's entry into EU).
Next gigs (in Holland on 20th and 21st May, in Spain on 22nd May) were cancelled: doctors had advised him to rest completely for at least 3 -4 weeks, without working at all. Early in June Shane and Victoria had a nice holiday in Malta. On 12 Jun he showed up in Prague, at Respect ethnic festival. And then <i>Road to Paradise</i> single company was launched so later Shane had no time to be down. The rest of 2004 was busy

MacRua wrote:The rest of 2004 was busy

you mean he was busy being creative, writing and looking forward to future projects?

I reckon MacRua's Joey Cashman!!

Times and dates and all..

Spookey.

Eyeball_Kid wrote:

MacRua wrote:The rest of 2004 was busy

you mean he was busy being creative, writing and looking forward to future projects?

I mean he was busy

MacRua wrote:He was attacked on the 20th (or 21st ?) Apr, but just in ten days - on the 30th of Apr - he put on a 40 minutes long performance in Budapest (as a part of a huge concert to celebrate Hungary's entry into EU).
Next gigs (in Holland on 20th and 21st May, in Spain on 22nd May) were cancelled: doctors had advised him to rest completely for at least 3 -4 weeks, without working at all. Early in June Shane and Victoria had a nice holiday in Malta. On 12 Jun he showed up in Prague, at Respect ethnic festival. And then <i>Road to Paradise</i> single company was launched so later Shane had no time to be down. The rest of 2004 was busy

To add to MacRua's almost perfect macgowan diary there was a May festival gig in Belgium, (Arlons?) which the Popes made it to, but Shane didn't. Doctors orders.

MissWalshy wrote:I reckon MacRua's Joey Cashman!!

Times and dates and all..

Spookey.

I was thinking the same. Or maybe the butler.

TheKing wrote:For a second then I thort this was gonna be a story about a drunken MacGowan literally jumping into the lavatory! Anyone else think this when they saw the title of the thread?

trainspotting

thats a movie you wanna watch unintoxicated - that scene had me grabbin the sides of my head