MacGowan Songs
Tuesday 10 April 2018
The Old Main Drag
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The song starts with the sustained drone of an accordian note, sounding like a horn ringing out across the docks signalling that it's t...
Thursday 25 January 2018
The Body of An American
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The Body of an American by the Pogues is the sound of a great band at its peak. A masterpiece. In best Joycean fashion, it's a character...
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Thursday 18 January 2018
The Church of the Holy Spook
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In 1993, after some years of artistic and commercial decline, Shane returned to live performance. It had been two years since he had been sa...
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Monday 14 September 2015
Streams of Whiskey
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"[...I]ts blatant adulation of drunkenness. Its blatant adulation of an IRA man who became a writer, who made a lot of money, and who t...
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