The Medusa Fora

"I don't drink too much. I drink the right amount, however, I think the best amount to drink might be slightly less that the right amount."

IrishRover wrote:"The British press have been giving me six months to live for the past twenty years - they must be getting pissed off interviewing me by now."

That was a good one alright.

"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does."

this is another great shane quote

"Fight and you may die. Run and you
will live at least awhile. And dying in your bed many years from now,
would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for
one chance, just one cahnce, to come back here as young men and tell
our enemies that they may take our lives but they will never take
our freedom!"

Shane was Gibson's speech writer?

From the cover of the "The last temptation of Elvis" double-LP:

Q.: "Have you ever rhumba´d in the back of a sports car ?"

Shane: "No ! But I´ve thrown up in a transit!"

I remember reading/seeing something about Johnny Rotten seeing Shane for the first time. He said he saw him in the front row of a Sex Pistols gig, dressed in a Union Jack suit with 'IRA' written on his forehead. Classic.

I also met Shane outside Whelan's in Dublin a little while ago. I said hello and had a few words, but he was too trolleyed to speak (still managed to stand though, fair play). He seemed to register what I was saying and smiled, but could only do that slurred hissing thing he does. Never seen someone so out of it but remain vertical. It was midnight so I presume he'd been on the batter all day.

One quote I loved from fall from grace, when speaking about his dad's job,victoria corrected him about what his dad did for a living and Shane says" Its the same fucking thing," I am nowhere now and I will be nowhere when I die, Yeah its a fuckin job" Brillant, I have used that one quite often

At the Way out west festival in Sweden he said: "Khzisssone'shcallddhessshhhhunnyshideoffdestriiissh, khkhkhkhkhkh."

While in Vegas for the HOB show last October I asked the guy sitting next to me if he had ever seen the Pogues before. He told me he went to a show where Shane came out and said something like "Fuck you and fuck your Batman" right before he passed out. They drug him backstage, then Spider came out and said Shane was "too pissed to sing". He got to see the Pogues minus Shane that night.

from if i should fall from grace

"i am goin, i am goin, were the streams of whiskey are flowing,
kkkkkkkrrrrrrrrrhhhhhh"

" it's not exactly in arab moor, in the county gallway, one sumer's eveanin in the month of may, i met a damsel, both fare and hansum, she nearly took my breath away, kkkkkkkrrrrrrrrrrhhhhh, is it, kkkkkkkrrrrrrhhhhhhhh"

" i'm what stands betwwen the life of irish coulture and like.....the death of irish coulture kkkkkrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhh"

the next quote he siad jus before singing dirty old town, this one i think is the best

"fuck bush"

"j'arrive...krrrrshhhhh" - a classic as well !

BottleOfSmoke1957 wrote:" it's not exactly in arab moor, in the county gallway, one sumer's eveanin in the month of may, i met a damsel, both fare and hansum, she nearly took my breath away, kkkkkkkrrrrrrrrrrhhhhh, is it, kkkkkkkrrrrrrhhhhhhhh"

Who does a good version of the Galway Shawl, by the way?

the one of the dubliners is very good...sean cannon singing...on the "30 Years a Greying" for example !


tooraloo,
robin

Shane was asked recently if he was a reformed alcoholic, Shane responded. "No, but I'm doing my very best to stay alive as long as possible."