Shane Mac Gowan / Electric Gypsyland / Future World Funk /
Sidi Goma / Sister India / Joaquin Diaz / Des Voix Des Deserts /
Khac Chi Ensemble / Deman / Senor Coconut

SHANE MacGOWAN &THE POPES

Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957 in Kent, England. Within months, his family returned to their native Ireland. When MacGowan was six, the family moved to London, where he won a number of poetry contests prior to his expulsion from school at the age of 14 for possession of drugs. In 1976, he attended his first Sex Pistols concert. Soon he formed his own band, the Nipple Erectors. Later with the Pogues, MacGowan was hot-wiring traditional Irish music with the energy and passion of punk, the Pogues quickly developed into one of the most respected and colourful bands of their era, recording such superb LPs as 1985's Elvis Costello-produced Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.
However, as stories of MacGowan's voracious appetite for alcohol and drugs swelled to mythic proportions, he grew increasingly unreliable, often missing live performances. The other Pogues had finally had enough, and he was dismissed from the band.
In 1994 he silenced critics by pulling himself together to form a new band, the Popes; the group entered the studio to begin recording their first LP, dubbed The Snake. "Haunted," a gorgeous duet with Sinead O'Connor, later became a minor hit; McGowan's follow-up, Lonesome Highway, appeared in 1997.

Discography:
The Snake (1995, ZTT)
Crock of Gold (1997, ZTT)
Rare Oul'Stuff (2002, ZTT)

Web:
www.shanemacgowan.com
allmusic.com

Music:
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