You beat me too it!
I was going to write about Shane!!!

My mum is an artist, and very good friends with fellow artist Marcia Farquhar who happens to be married to Jem Finer (other founding member of The Pogues, and who writes the songs).

So, I have been to many a Christmas/New Years party chez Jem/Shane since I was about 14.

Shane is a great bloke! Eccentric, yes, but a standardly decent guy. He's really into discussing music and having a laugh.
One of my favorite memories of him is at a Christmas party when I was about 15 and everyone had those cracker-prize whistles that all have a different pitch, the point being to stand in a line and have a director with the 'music' point in turn for people to blow, and so a tune emerges (this is really hard to explain...)
Shane was director and got frustrated at the lack of melody, so he took all the whistles, shoved them in his mouth and made what can only be described as avant-garde noise for a few minutes, then exclaiming 'that's how you do it you useless wankers'.

Yes he does like a drink, but in recent years I think he's actually calmed down a lot. And his lack of teeth is caused by a bacterial thing, he's always had problems even before the skag. The lack of dentures is just an aspect of his eccentricness I think!

And by the way, his wife is mint. She really does love him and she's successful in the arts in her own right too so pffftt to gold digging comments!
(little fawn, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 1:01, Reply)