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31 July 2006

"I've been a lover and a hater of beetroot all my life..." →[More:]
A few choice quotes from Shane MacGowan...

"Then you've got the other fans who wanted to give you their girlfriend. I wouldn't take them. They'd say. 'Here you go, you can have her for the night', the girlfriends never minded. They were usually into it. That was a very strange scene, it was one of the really mad things I noticed, you know, people giving you their girlfriend. I'd never dream of giving anybody my girlfriend, I don't care who the fucker is."

Shane on Samuel Beckett being a "miserable fat old bastard" because he "wanted to play cricket for Ireland when he was a kid."

"And like, if I wanted to play cricket... If I had to shoulder the ambition of wanting to play cricket for Ireland, I'd be a miserable, fucked up old cunt like Beckett as well."

post by: Divine_Wino at: 13:49 | 5 comments

That last quote made me laugh. And I know nothing about cricket. Or Ireland. I do like Beckett, though.

posted by occhiblu 31 July | 13:59

Me too.

posted by Divine_Wino 31 July | 14:09

Here's a great NME interview with MacGowan, Nick Cave, and the Fall's Mark. E. Smith from 1989.

posted by item 31 July | 14:10

There's nothing bad about beetroot. Shane's obviously fallen over again.

Re: "the other fans who wanted to give you their girlfriend." You know I've heard about this - can't remember where - and every time I do, I still have the worst trouble processing this. I just can't get my head around the "wow, you're famous, have sex with my GF" thing. Where does it come from? What the hell are they thinking? Is it at all connected to this verse from Lush (British shoegazer band)...

Here we go, I'm hanging out in Camden
Drinking with my girlfriends on a Saturday night
This guy says, "come and meet my girlfriend"
She's sitting in the corner looking rather uptight
So I say "hello" and I try to be nice
But I see he's feeling itchy
Trying to play us off each other,
"Girls, girls, please don't fight" (you get the picture)

Ok, no, I don't get the picture. What is this? Pathetic prelude to asking for a threesome? Some weird power play for no readily apparent reason? I just don't know. I bet Shane'd know, but he'd never tell me. Cos he's a bastard.

posted by Zack_Replica 31 July | 15:36

I love beetroot, but fail to see the connection to all this other stuff you are saying.

posted by dg 31 July | 16:40

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