If I Should Fall From Grace
As a part of the annual EU Film Festival at The Gene Siskel Film Center this weekend, I had a chance to watch a documentary about The Pogues called If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story. I had heard a few of their songs before (Summer In Siam and A Fairytale of New York were used in Basquiat) but didn't know much about the band or MacGowan. He might be hard to look at (in the UK, you can have bad teeth and still be a rock star/sex symbol) and even harder to understand (he makes Ozzy seem well spoken). But the documentary tells a very ironic story about how an Irish band playing Irish folk music became one of the biggest bands in the UK during not only the height of the punk scene, but during the height of the IRA terrorist violence. Actually, I don't think I could imagine a better way of being anti-establishment in the UK than being Irish.
I was just listening to Perry Farrell - Song Yet To Be Sung
