Sally Mac and The Slaughter Man

[JohnG]

Don't know whether detective novels count in this section.

Anyway, I've just started reading "The Slaughter Man" by Tony Parsons and came across this in Chapter Two:

"....in the flat above one of them, music was playing. Fiddles and flutes and drums played at a mad pace. A song about a girl called Sally MacLennane. Irish music. Happy music. Probably the Pogues, I thought.....It took them a while to hear me ringing the bell, what with Shane MacGowan singing about his Sally MacLennane...."

Nice piece but not so sure about the "fiddles" and "flutes" and the author used to write for the New Musical Express!

[Low D]

Nice piece but not so sure about the "fiddles" and "flutes" and the author used to write for the New Musical Express!

To be fair, though, "Sally Mac" appeared on Rum, Sodomy & The Lash, and there is a guest fiddler (Henry Benagh) on a couple tracks for sure (just not on "Sally Mac").