I have just heard a quote by Steve Earle about a hang over after a session with Shane McGowan " it is structural and permanent "
I'm sure there are more , the Pogues must have the biggest output of London songs I was in London today and met with a mate for a couple of cheeky beers in the Marquis Cornwallis in Bloomsbury
I can't think of a band that I associate more with the London that I grew up in and my parents and grandparents lived in. My great grandad was a navvy, who dug the Edgware Road and my grandad was a publican - Irish, of course. He used to take me and my older brother to the dogs at The White City, when he could give our grandma the slip. I've got a fabulous picture of the pair of them and my dad behind the jump of their pub in Clerkenwell from 1953 (loads of Coronation stuff displayed), which would make a great album cover for a Pogues album... if you removed the Coronation stuff.... If ever there was a band that I was bound to love, it was them.
I was unfortunate enough to catch Rod Stewart on the TV last night ,backed by 6 blondes singing a very rehashed song , his first 5 albums and the Faces albums hold a special place in my heart but that last night .........oh dear
Yeah, I saw that. Needs to sit back and enjoy his money. Like Elton John, the voice has gone now, it is getting embarrassing.
I did it! I found the one GG Allin performance that Youtube doesn't age gate the second it's uploaded