Shane's teeth

[BottleOfSmoke1957]

hahahahaha well funy

its not real is it?

because that looks like a while ago or maby its just the new teeth

[GunsOfBrixton29]

Hahahaha, Shane at the dentist:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CoDmN58NtE8

[Simon Maguire]

Hahahaha, Shane at the dentist:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CoDmN58NtE8

Er, unless I'm mistaken thats the same video that the thread was started about??

[GunsOfBrixton29]

Hahahaha, Shane at the dentist:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CoDmN58NtE8

Er, unless I'm mistaken thats the same video that the thread was started about??

Yeah, I started another thread in "In the Media" (not seeing this one), and it was moved here.

[Fr. McGreer]

Am i mistaken or is that Frank Murray as the dentist?

[Noel Kenny]

I think it is Frank Murray too.


What part of Tipperary are you in?

[Fr. McGreer]

I'll give you a clue..... I used to work for a German company in Nenagh with a beautiful, intelligent, warm and witty girl who made me so welcome as a blow-in. She introduced me to her partner one night in The Kiwi where we stayed until the early hours drinking with his good friend Mr. MacGowan. Does that ring any bells?

I've tried PM'ing you to get in contact, but i don't think they got through. How are Mary and the girls?

Colm.

Templemore, by the way.

[Noel Kenny]

Jaysus, Colm. How's it going? That was a long time ago. Mary and the girls and the boys are great.

I'll PM you my email address

[MacRua]

Pauline fails to go on, go on... People In Need got Shane McGowan to a dentist but couldn't lure Mrs Doyle
Irish Independent
30 Aug 2007



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Watching the ads for the upcoming Telethon bonanza, you could be forgiven for thinking no feat was beyond the event's organisers.


After all, they got hurling hero Sean Og O'Halpin to take up a cricket bat, they got rocker Shane McGowan to surrender his legendary teeth to the dentist's chair, and they got TV's Lucy Kennedy to share a bed with Podge and Rodge. All in the name of "how far will you go for this year's People in Need?".

But there was one scenario that was just a step too far. "We asked Pauline McLynn to revitalise Mrs Doyle [from Father Ted], she didn't want to do that, she wanted to distance herself from Mrs Doyle," says Dave Murphy, head of TV at McConnells which organised the ad campaigns.

McLynn's refusal was a disappointment, but it was by no means the end of the road for the creative team charged with putting together the media campaign around this year's Telethon, as O'Halpin, McGowan and Podge and Rodge were only too happy to help out with the TV ads, along with Senator David Norris, who lends his services for the radio ads.

"Telethon hasn't been on for a few years so we really needed to raise the awareness to make sure it works well this time round," says Murphy. "We'd worked on the campaigns in the late 1990s and used everyone from Bob Geldof to the Corrs. This time round we drew up a list of celebrities that we thought we could get, and then worked out a set of scenarios they could be in."

McGowan was the first one approached. "We got in touch with him through Frank Murray, who used to manage The Pogues," says Murphy. "We got word back that he was interested and we knew he'd be in town for a book launch.

"We designed the commercial so that Shane only needed to be there for half an hour and we shot the rest with a stand in, Frank actually plays the dentist for the whole thing."

O'Halpin was the next candidate but unlike McGowan he had to put in a whole day's work in "lashing rain" for his cricket game ad.

"He was very good, and members of the Irish cricket team gave their services as bowlers," says Murphy.

The Dillon hotel gave us the run of the hotel for free and we took it over as film crews tend to do," says Murphy. "We had Podge and Rodge up in the bed and Lucy going round half naked..."

All three ads were shot in a three-week period and edited in Windmill Lane which lent its services at knockdown rates. "Eircom are the sponsors and they put money towards the ads, RTE gave free promo time to run the ads, and once we mentioned 'People in Need' to anyone we approached everyone just rowed in brilliantly," says Murphy.

"People in Need is one of those things that just gets everyone behind it, because all of the money that's raised locally stays local so people can really see it working in their community."

This year's Telethon is on Friday, October 26.




Shane's smile is on show
HE was once dubbed the man of many words, but few teeth.
The Irish World
By staff reporter - 05/09/07
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But now that’s a thing of the past - Shane McGowan has got himself a new pearly-white smile!The former Pogues frontman gave himself up to the dentist’s chair and opened his mouth wide all in the name of charity to get rid of his trademark gummy look.

And, although we’ll leave you to judge on whether the new look is an improvement on the old, we think Shane’s new teeth are in a glass of their own!

The singer was persuaded to go in for the makeover in aid on next month’s charity telethon to be broadcast on RTE1.

The theme of the event this year is "how far will you go for this year's People in Need?".Head of TV at Dublin-based ad agency McConnells, Dave Murphy explained: "Telethon hasn't been on for a few years, so we really needed to raise the awareness to make sure it works well this time round.

"We'd worked on the campaigns in the late 1990s and used everyone from Bob Geldof to the Corrs. This time round we drew up a list of celebrities that we thought we could get, and then worked out a set of scenarios they could be in."

Murphy explained that McGowan was the first one approached to see if he would be willing to help.

"We got in touch with him through Frank Murray, who used to manage The Pogues. We got word back that he was interested and we knew he'd be in town for a book launch.”

Murphy continued: "People in Need is one of those things that just gets everyone behind it, because all of the money that's raised locally stays local so people can really see it working in their community."

This year's Telethon is on Friday October 26.

[Reborn A Snail]

I really don't mind him not having teeth...but when I hear how fucked up the ssshongs sssshound I wish he would at least have dentures for when he's sssshinging.

[body-of-an-american]

I really don't mind him not having teeth...but when I hear how fucked up the ssshongs sssshound I wish he would at least have dentures for when he's sssshinging.

FUCKED UP!!!??? You cant be a very good fan then. I love the way his

ssshongs sssshound

Doesnt everybody?? And anyway i love his teeth.

[Antoine]

With or without teeth, Shane is a genius.
His songs (poems I should say) are simply brillant.

Even if he couldn't sing anymore, he would be a clever man, only for his writing...

[body-of-an-american]

hes a clever man for everything...well i think so anyway.

[Zuzana]

I was wondering what is the deal with Shane's teeth?

Some people seem to have uncovered the shocking answer...

Where The Fecking Hell Are Shane Macgowan’s Teeth?
"We at Blogbovine believe his lost teeth are the true source of his strength. They will, one day, return to the formerly great man, to rejuvenate him and restore him to his full powers, like a drunken, Irish Voltron—all-powerful, unstoppable..."

[Jon]

Jerry Dammers had a similar problem back in the days of the Specials, and it didn't get questioned as far as I recall.