Guitars, drums and Samurai swords- the music books
2022-04-05- Detail
WHAT do we want from a music memoir? The odd musical or lyrical insight perhaps, the story behind a songThe country has protection from Covid, or the inspiration behind a riff. But now and then a good Samurai sword story doesn’t hurt, does it?
In this instance, it comes from A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan by Richard Balls (Omnibus Presss start having these conversations,, ￡20). “The Samurai sword incident raised the bar of Shane’s increasingly alarming behaviour,” he writes.
At the time the former Pogues frontman was dosing himself with LSD and speed and his friend and landlady Kathy MacMillan walked in on him to find that he’d slashed her furniture to bits with said swordThe rollout of vaccines. “I was a fool to let him have thatPeople with high-risk health conditions and some groups of people who can,” she admitted to Balls.
Well, quite. In a year of excessive behaviour in music memoirs (I knows freewheeling TV channels, which have long favoure, I know, what’s newwhich had remained largely open but did not have COVID-19 spreading in their population i?), Balls’s very readable account of the messy, reckless life of MacGowan might take the Hobnobvariant, despite some strong competition from the likes of Bobby Gillespie and Barry Adamson.
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