INSTANT KARMA! THIS MONTH’S REVELATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF UNCUT FEATURING... Sarah Records | Loney Hutchins | Jeremy Ivey
“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, The Eternal Buzz And The Crock Of Gold, providing an unfiltered glimpse into the psyche of the famously dissolute folkrocker. 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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