The James Fearnley Dave Fanning Interview 2012

23/05/2012

[@Amsbary11]

Amazing book. James is as high class of a writer as he is an accordion player. I really hope he does a follow up novel, picking up at Shane's sacking and ending at the 30th anniversary show in Paris.

[@ecasey4216]

Very informative on the early Pogues. I love James' laugh

[@bogman192]

great book indeed - reading a second time at the moment.

[@tombombadil66]

Great he got to write his book.cant wait for the novel.

[@joannehack7588]

Make Accordion Cool Again. Amen

[@user-lz5wf]

Love the Lancashire accent

[@sarahkalokerinos2921]

So do I 😊

[@neilevans4352]

nobody wants to know that fairytale wasn't shanes idea which is plain wrong, the band is the band and should celebrate everything.

[@revol148]

To be fair none of the Pogues interview well - Fearnley comes across almost as boring as Jem Finer !

[@cathalhogan9481]

Way harsh man

[@revol148]

@@cathalhogan9481 read his book "here comes everybody" - the fact that MacGowan WAS the Pogues annoys him no end.

[@maxvolmue99]

Symbiotic relationship it was... no Pogues no MacGowan, vice versa. The Pogues gave Shane an environment and group motivation to produce what he did. Once the split happened you see both going down... MacGowan had good live act with Popes but his best songs there were written in Pogues days..... pogues were all decent musicians but MacGowan brought the x factor....and paid the price.

[@revol148]

@@maxvolmue99 Shane MacGowan WAS the Pogues - the sheer audacity of the band both sacking and carrying on without him amuses me no end. I saw the Joe Strummer incarnation (1991) and (even worse) when Spider Stacey tried to sing when Strummer realised it was going no-where - both were embarrassing. If it wasn't for a diet consisting at one time of 20 tabs of acid for breakfast MacGowan would have gone on to greater things - as it was the Popes were a bunch of wasters (witness them trying to cover Pogues songs in their setlist), they wrote nothing and the two albums they produced went no-where critically nor commercially. The Pogues were great musicians - I agree with you there.

[@neilevans4352]

it wasn't a one man band mate@@revol148