Film, Media & TV0 min ago
Just Wondering …
is ynna watching Shane MacGowan's funeral 😉
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//That's how funerals for people who have had a life should be.//
Lol. I recall the story my father told me when his mother ,in Wales,,was dying during the 2nd W.W. He was a Police officer in London and made the mistake of arresting a Tom when he heard the news of his mothers dying state. His Super wouldn't allow him to get the train to the Valleys before he attended Marlborough St Court to prosecute the Tom.
He eventually got a train from Paddington but it was shunted into sidings regularly because of air raids. 3 days later he was walking up the Street in Caerau Maesteg to his family home to be met by raucous jollity from his parents home.He was too late. His mother had died and she was laid out in her coffin in the front room. His brothers and the Catholic priest were all seriouly inebriated and the priest had put his biretta on his Mums head.He laid out the priest in one punch and instructed his brothers to drag him out the house. He told them not to come back until they sobered up. Not suprisingly he was kicked out the Catholic Church which worried him NOT one jot.
Like a number of other groups and artists lauded to the hills by fans, and my music press colleagues alike, the 'magic' and appeal of Mr McGowan and his friends has utterly eluded me.
I am unfamiliar with most of his work, but I have always thought 'Fairytale' was the most horrible turgid cod-Irish pap, and grimace every time I play it at discos this time of year.
Still, each to their own as always.
RIP.
