Pogue’s gallery
Feb 18, 2022
2 minutes
SAM RICHARDS
“I’LL paint or draw on anything, with anything,” says Shane MacGowan, referring to the vast stash of torn-out diary pages, hotel notepads and sick bags he has decorated with feverish sketches and lyric fragments down the years. Many of them are collected in a new art book, , providing an unfiltered glimpse into the psyche of the famously dissolute folk-rocker. Among the pictures of hurling players, whiskey bottles and heads on spikes, you can see the lyrics to much-loved Pogues and Shane MacGowan songs taking shape. Here he explains the fuzzy logic behind some of his favourite scribblings.
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