Shane MacGowan

2022 - 10 - 23

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Pogues' hard-living former frontman finds success as an artist (The Guardian)

Shane MacGowan has no studio and draws on 'sick bags' with his wife's lipstick, but Kate Moss has bought his art.

I am in the later stages now of recording the album with a new band and we have amazing chemistry.” The singer believes he had a great childhood “in spite of the violence”. I am an animal and an animal has a soul. It was shortly followed by the sudden death of his mother: “He’d thought he’d go on for ever taking risks and nothing would get him. I don’t feel the need to confess my sins.” His visual influences, he says, include Caravaggio and the impressionist school, but he sees himself as “a realist who can’t draw very well”. “I am not a mythical creature though,” he says. “And the band “He has no studio and no discipline. “It was a laugh over there [in London], but it was hard to get the simplest things, like a decent breakfast. Back in his flat in Ireland, MacGowan is candid about the violence that surrounded him in childhood and its place in his art. Shane MacGowan is bemused and amazed by the positive response to his first London show.

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Shane MacGowan's art: in pictures (The Guardian)

Main image: Shane MacGowan aged 19, as editor of punk rock magazine Bondage in his office at London. Photograph: Sydney O'Meara/Getty Images.

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The Pogues' Shane MacGowan has new music and art (LADbible)

The Pogues are best known for two things: their controversial festive hit 'Fairytale of New York' and frontman Shane MacGowan's notorious drink and ...

I drew them to amuse myself on boring journeys on pieces of paper and sick bags and things. But MacGowan has previously attempted to shut down the controversy, having argued in favour of the song and performing it live with the slur included in a 2019 episode of The Late Late Show. He said: “I am in the later stages now of recording the album with a new band and we have amazing chemistry.” However, the publication noted that while his art sells for between £2,000 and £28,000 each, they are in short supply, as the singer mainly worked on the pieces in the 80s. [art skills](https://www.ladbible.com/art), after having almost sold out all of his work at his gallery exhibition in Knightsbridge, London, The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold. She told the Irish Independent: "It looked as though it was the 100 tabs of acid that were the problem and not the gin and tonic."

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