Interview with Shane in Vice Magazine

[YumSodomyandthelash]

Site is occasionally NSFW. Good interview.
http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n5/htdoc ... country=us

[Jon]

He’s got our vote for best lyricist of the 20th century, and he’s a singer who can bring grown men to tears with just one well-turned phrase. Is he a drunk and a now-and-then junkie? Sure. But the fans that find amusement in that, the ones who hold him up as some kind of mascot of Irish debauchery, are missing the point entirely. That’s a simpleton’s way of looking at Shane. That’s how fucking Walt Disney probably saw the Irish.

What a fantastic opening paragrah, love the Disney quote!

[philipchevron]

He’s got our vote for best lyricist of the 20th century, and he’s a singer who can bring grown men to tears with just one well-turned phrase. Is he a drunk and a now-and-then junkie? Sure. But the fans that find amusement in that, the ones who hold him up as some kind of mascot of Irish debauchery, are missing the point entirely. That’s a simpleton’s way of looking at Shane. That’s how fucking Walt Disney probably saw the Irish.

What a fantastic opening paragrah, love the Disney quote!

Although it fails to take into account Disney's actually-rather-good cod-Irish movie Darby O'Gill And The Little People (1959) starring Sean Connery, Janet Munro, Albert Sharpe, Jack MacGowran and, especially, Ireland's greatest ever comic, Jimmy O'Dea.

[IrishRover]

Although it fails to take into account Disney's actually-rather-good cod-Irish movie Darby O'Gill And The Little People (1959) starring Sean Connery, Janet Munro, Albert Sharpe, Jack MacGowran and, especially, Ireland's greatest ever comic, Jimmy O'Dea.

oi have that moivoie oin me loist of OIroish moivoies to see, stoill haven't goit oit thoiugh

oi loike the ointroiduction oin the ointervoiew, oi too am soick of people speakoin' moire of
when Shane ois goinna doie rather than of the true values of hes lyroics and musoic

[DzM]

Vice Magazine has an interview with Shane:

http://www.viceland.com/germany/v4n5/ht ... ry=germany

[Mick Molloy]

Hahahaha "er war arschcool"

[meowhouse]

I thought that was posted here in English already? Or maybe somewhere else, but anyway if you don't speak German it's here in English.

Funny how they transliterate his laugh as "eeeeshshshsh" in English but "Iiiiiii Sch Sch Sch" in German. You'd think the one-long-word-no-spaces would be the way they'd write it over there.

[firehazard]

Funny how they transliterate his laugh as "eeeeshshshsh" in English but "Iiiiiii Sch Sch Sch" in German...

It'd be interesting to know how Shane's laugh is transliterated in other languages. Or is it a sound that transcends all language? Now there's a PhD dissertation topic for someone...

[Irishbookish]

Decent and fine article. He regrets no moment in his life - good nor bad. I occasionally think I'd like to go back (briefly) and tweak a few things or sit for a while in the reality of it, but then it's not about remembering it's more what you learned from it.

[Vagabond]

Hahaha, love the MES gibe.

I'm a Fall fan (not an obsessive one), but I've read that NME interview and he does come off as a heavy speed user. That Macgowan, what a rogue.

[Woody]

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