The gift or the whip
Oct 24, 2021
2 minutes
by GRAHAM REID
Truman Capote wrote, “When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.” Three documentaries in this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival look at musicians who gripped that whip of self-flagellation. Two didn’t survive, the other is Shane MacGowan.
CROCK OF GOLD: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan
His reputation rests on the
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