Shane MacGowan just died today... I love this song and this performance in particular, it is raw and authentic. That sentence in the beggining "This is called dirty old town" chills me everytime. Rest in peace poet of the people - you'll be missed!
It’s a sad, sad day. Sent my dad this video who raised me on the pouges. He texted back “I lost a family member today”. The pouges have a deep root in my family. Thankful for shane’s life ❤️
I returned from my first trip in the Merchant Navy as a Marine Engineer Officer Cadet and paid off in my home port of Hebburn. After 4 months away at sea I hoped that the girl I loved wouldn't have fallen out of love with me while I was away. I had sent a telegram telling her what time the ship would dock. I walked towards the white Lead pub and the foul smell of the Lennox chemical factory. I saw a familiar figure walking towards me. I dropped my suitcases and ran to meet her. That kiss was something I'll never forget. Christine passed away last year, 2 months after our 40th wedding anniversary. I love her so much and will only stop when my mind and body follow hers.
And Can’t carry a note (though if he were ever caught sober he probably sang like a bird . Lol ) , but he is a freakin legend. Not many can pull that off.
@richardalexander261 Shaw said that alcohol is the anaesthesia that gets u through the operation of life. He obviously agreed and to a lesser extent, so do I.
Shane Macgowan is still alive at June 4th, 2021. At this point nothing can beat this man EDIT: unfortunately Shane MacGowan died today aged 65, may he rest in peace.
It's a memory I'll never forget, a Pogues concert in Germany. Shane was stoned out of his mind, he stumbled on stage, lit a cigarette, drank a whiskey. Then he had to hold on to the microphone stand. The music started to play.Shane celebrated all his musical skills. The moment is deeply etched in my mind. An incredible performance. That was over 30 years ago. I love and adore the Pogues.
Had an Irish friend who I used to work with many moons ago in the mid eighties, he said you've got to come and see this band at Nottingham Rock City The Pogues. It's still a great memory, the love and friendship in the crowd was amazing great gig. Farewell Shane Legend.
Mad to think this was only 10 years ago and Shane is completely on point! What a difference a few years makes. The whole band is so underrated, after all they went through the music is absolutely out of this world. Pure fucking talent 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
You know what mate, well said, I'm only 38, and have known this song and the band all my life, dad and his girlfriend always have the pogues playing at their legendary house parties. So now even though me and dad haven't spoken in years, due to him being a money grabbing bastard, now I listen to them on my own, and enjoy their talent, and the waterboys, and levellers, the rolling stones, led zep, and pink floyd, atleast for my age I enjoy real music , so I'm happy for him to of imparted that to me, even though in the long run he was a let down.
Shane wrote some beautiful songs, but not this one. This was written by James Miller of Salford. Born to Scottish parents and better known as Ewan MacColl. The song is about Salford and one of the group actually dedicates this song at the beginning, saying "this is for anybody here from Salford"....(0.15).
It seems like everything Shane sang was raw and authentic. I had forgotten just how much I love The Pogues. Thank you Shane for 30 years of helping me get thru life.
RIP Shane. All you have to do is watch and here the crowd in this video. I would have loved to have been there amongst that crowd. What a performance! What a band! Thanks for all of your music that still touches us all. RIP ☘️
This song, this performance would rouse you no matter what nationality you are. Heard it for the first time a week ago , listened 100 times since. RIP Shane.
I saw pogues in finsbury park london. 2000 i think, shane appeared to be drunk and staggered about the stage , but when they started playing he somehow morphed in to something beyond incredible! You have to have seen him live to understand.sad day. ❤😢
Oh my frikn god, this is the first time I've ever listened to the Pogues. Why oh why didn't anyone tell me how great this band is. I'm 51 yrs old now and I've just listened to this track 4 times in a row
He didn't write this song but he did write Fairytale in New York, I always thought he wrote this but just found out Kirsty McCoy's father wrote it, I had no idea McGowan was born in England either, gotta love google.
So much energy and brilliant... I saw the Pogues several times in the 80s and this is as full of life as they were then. What a lovely thing to find this after we have lost Shane
As good as it gets brought a smile to my face watching this and tears from my eyes , absolute genuine performance and of course the audience played their part as well great interaction , thank you Shane and Band ! ❤
R.i.p.Mr.Shane. I went through life many times with your songs, be it hard or good times... But with your songs and your voice I always felt calm and peaceful. Where you are now I wish you to give everyone a part of yourself through your songs...with a cigarette and whiskey❤🙏
Shane, a gentle and talented soul who brought joy to millions with his immense talent. Always will be remembered and never forgotten. Rest peacefully dear boy.
I used to work by the docks in Salford in the 70s. It was a bit rough at that time but I was hooked on the place. I then went to New Zealand in 2018 and was in a bar on the South Island and requested a band to play this. Not sure if it would go down well as it was a young , very diverse crowd. The place absolutely erupted - everyone knew it!! I couldn't have been happier. I love Salford and I love this rendition of the song.
On my last trip to Manchester, I took - I think - two buses to get to Salford just to remember Shane MacGowan, this song, and its author/playwright/committed Socialist ... Can;t call his name now. Well, the Lowry museum is good, great, but it wasn't the Salford I came to love in Shane's singing. G B Hopkins - Texas Up the Iristh!
Love The Pogues. Thank you for all the beautiful, meaningful songs. Such great talent. Can listen to their music all day. Rest in peace Shane McGowan 💜
I have commented on this before brilliant how many lives has this man made so many connections with people God bless I can only hope I have made a meger contribution to this world when I go Lee
Absolutely beautiful - such a voice - the artist at his best after decades of work- you can really hear his life - thanks so much for sharing - such a sad loss for us all
My mum is from leitrem my dad from Armagh I'm from belfast my wife from ukraian my daughter in law from Wales my kids and grandkids Australians love this song
Shane, j'ai pleurai ce soir ! parce que tu ai parti ! Et je pleure encore ! Tu m'a bercé pendant des années sur tes rythmes ! J'arrête la et je chiale encore ! Merci l'ami et VIVE L 'IRLANDE !
Yes! This is what it's all about. It doesn't need to be "perfect" with a great show with fire and light and staged beautiful singers. The music needs to bring joy, and look at the joy they are bringing the crowd! Excellent, this is what music is about for me.
Such a sad loss to this brilliant performance with the pogues dirty old town what an artist hay what a legend we will never forget such an awesome songwriter and singer 🏴
The Clash with Stay Free and The Pogues with Dirty Old town is what my life was when I was young... This is my own "madeleine de Proust" for sure. RIP Shane, we will miss you 4ever.
"This is called dirty old town" chills everytime. What a performance. Wishing Shane and the rest of the band a merry Christmas. This song brings back so many memories.
Don't know how he is still alive......sings from the soul......he pened the best Christmas song EVER.....long life Shane.....💕💞💘💝🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Absoutley Luv This Tune .. Luv Shane Luv The Whole scene ..Old guy's Dubliners So many playing enjoying every note & every String their playing..🎸🎸🎺🎺 .. Keep Rockin guys ... 🤟🤟👌... 🎼🎼
From a drunk Aussie sitting on his lounge at midnight ..... love the Irish pride .... be proud of wherever your born . I get goosebumps hearing this ball tearer song !
Of the 8 members of The Pogues on stage, 6 were born in England. The Pogues were/are a London based English band. PS. and they're singing a song written by an English born and raised writer, about an English city. :-)
@@paul479 Luke Kelly (of the Dubliners) learnt Dirty Old Town directly from his contact with Ewan MacColl (the write/composer). English folk clubs and MacColl were the main conduits for the English and Scottish songs that Kelly sang with the Dubliners. Your "Irish version" of the song makes no sense in this context. btw. MacGowan does not sing all the words that Kelly sang, because he gets them wrong.
@@paul479 OK, you've strutted your stuff, attempted to insult me (that was a laugh), pretended some "facts" and spelt Ewan MacColl's name incorrectly. I'll give you some notes further below about the song "Dirty Old Town" that I put in the comments on another video. If you actually knew me, or much about me, then you'd realise that I'm the one that stresses the interconnectedness of the folk music, song and dance traditions in Britain and Ireland. The various traditions are also really regional rather than being based upon a nation state or political subdivisions. This is the reason that I mention the English traditions when others seem loath to acknowledge them, deny they really exist, play them down as unimportant, or claim English traditions as "Irish" or the half-baked "Celtic". Your comment saying "England has some good trad songs" whilst then stating "Scotland has lots and Ireland probably the most" is a case in point. Please educate yourself before making stuff up. What do you think English people were doing? There are literally thousands of folk songs that were collected by folklorists in England, in a population that was many times larger than that of Ireland (look it up). Your opinion was pulled out of your fundament. Have a look at the website of the Vaughan Williams Memorial library and adjust your prejudices: www.vwml.org/ What you clearly wrote disingenuously, I state with conviction ... it's not a competition. And it's also not some kind of zero-sum game. Understanding and acknowledging the variety and history of folk music, song and dance traditions in England, or Britain as a whole, does not diminish anything. Understanding the distinctiveness of different traditions in Britain and Ireland, but also their similarities and deep connexions doesn't diminish anything, in fact it enhances them. So, on to the song. ####################### ### Dirty Old Town #### Ewan MacColl (the writer of this song) was a playwright before he was a significant song writer or song collector and singer. He was born (in 1915) and brought up in Broughton, Salford (that's a city next to Manchester in Northwest England). At home his Scottish parents (especially his mother, Betsy) sang folk songs so he had a very good background in these songs and their form. Shortly after WW2 he wrote and staged a play called "A landscape with chimneys" in which he found there was a rather awkward scene change. MacColl quickly wrote a song to fill the time; this song was "Dirty Old Town." The song is a kind of updated envisioning of those old English and Scottish folk songs about courting, set in the countryside. Maybe in some valley or pleasant glade, with gentlemen out walking or with a plough-boy etc. MacColl took this bucolic scene and transferred it to the city environment he knew. With Gasworks, wasteland (the croft mentioned in the song), factories, railways, smoke ... and the old, small cramped housing. As an example, my own father grew up in a "one up one down, back to back" in the shadow of Lister's Mill, Bradford (another Northern English industrial city, this time in Yorkshire). "One up one down" meant there was one living room at ground level, and one room above. "Back to back" meant that the rows were built directly against each other with no path/garden or any space between. How many people? In this case 6 children, parents and grandmother. So, a young man courting would have done it outside of his crowded home. "I found my love by the Gasworks croft" is referring to "love" as a verb as well as maybe a noun ... that's poetry for you. "Spring's a girl in the street at night" seems an odd line, until you realise that he's talking about the season when it was becoming warm enough to for couples "walk out" together in the evenings. Spring (the season) is a girl in the street at night. MacColl used his considerable poetic skill to paint a seemingly evocative scene, but his attitude to this life is quite clear in the last verse. He wants to chop down this "old dead tree" and replace it with something better. This of course would have been a reference to the slum clearance schemes at the time, but as a Communist, MacColl was also meaning something more systematic. That is chopping down the society and economic system that leads to poverty and dirty old towns. As an aside I'll mention that Silk Street (the site of that "one up one down" mentioned above) was demolished and rebuilt as a council housing estate in the 1960s. My Grandmother ended up in a nice 2 bedroom semi-detached house with gardens front and back. #######################
@@paul479 Any possible further conversation is at an end since this character simply refuses to learn anything. btw. many of the songs are the Pogues sing are not Irish, but of course this character wouldn't know this because he can't see beyond his own little prejudiced world. Farewell and blocked to this wilfully ignorant berk.
Hi there down under, aren't you Aussies all Irish and Scottish anyway? 😜 Anyway, Shane is and always will be a legend even though only a few of the young generation will ever appreciate him!!
We all have a dirty old town in our past, in our memories... not the worst, not the best memories, but they cling with us. This song manages to revive it all in a very vivid manner. Amazing...
I was driving in my car once, and this song popped up on my CD player. My friend asked me “what town are they singing about”. I told him that it is about a place which I used to work in, Sun Valley, CA. /s
Guys a legend…..also just want to add without backlash..I’m a fan …..I admire Shane..I love his work….I want to add….anyone with drive and spirit and dedication can reach the top without having a great voice
Lost my father a few weeks ago and this brought a lump to my throat as he used to play The Pogues all the time when I was growing up, and this was one of his favourites - he was from Irish stock and brought up in Manchester
My condolences. My Mum ascended on September 23rd. Born in Lurgan, Armagh. I made sure we both acquired Irish citizenship nearly three years ago. Ma had British as well. Not by choice.
Ich kenne dieses Lied seit einer Ewigkeit. Gute alte irische Musik. Ich liebe es. Hier hat man auch beim Betrachten der Menge das Gefühl, dass die Iren ihr Land wirklich lieben, so wie sie sich geben. Gott, ich beneide euch Iren.
what memories i do have being a youth in germany and partying dancing and singing and loving to the pogues.. this band and this man will forever have a place in my heart!!
he probably have lived a life that most of us only can dream about... and his love to the music world is incredible,dosen`t matter how drunk ore tired he would be,just give him a guitar and a microphone,and he would be in ship shape no matter what... :)
There was an Irish pub (Ireland's Own) in my old home town of Alexandria, VA. The summer this song came out, whomever was playing at the IO that night was sure to play it at some point during the evening. The bar would be jam-packed, shoulder-to-shoulder, on those sweltering, sultry, summer Saturday nights and the place would erupt when the band started playing it. It was truly magical and more than a bit bittersweet for me as it perfectly caught the emotion of being 21 and dating a beautiful girl (a professional ballerina by day and a bartender by night) in Old Town, Alexandria. I used to wait for her to get off work on those crowded, raucous, hot summer nights when we had the whole of our lives stretching out in front of us. As I leaned up against the wall outside the bar, the bricks still warm from the summer's sun, I could hear the patrons at Ireland's Own just up the street and together we would walk hand-in-hand bar-hopping up King Street until we were part of the crowd, singing our lungs out. Then we would climb into our cars and race home down the Potomac River, redolent with the rich aroma of mimosa and honey-suckle, and make love in her bedroom. God bless you Tina. I'm sorry I let you slip through my fingers but, in the end, leaving me was the smartest thing you ever did.
Shane MacGowan just died today... I love this song and this performance in particular, it is raw and authentic. That sentence in the beggining "This is called dirty old town" chills me everytime. Rest in peace poet of the people - you'll be missed!
Yeah, mate, it's a sad day.
This performance showed the mutual love and understanding he and fans shared. A very special thing. Ah, Shane.
Yes mate very sad day for us here in Ireland he was a true legend 😢💔💚🤍🧡🙏🙏
It’s a sad, sad day. Sent my dad this video who raised me on the pouges. He texted back “I lost a family member today”. The pouges have a deep root in my family. Thankful for shane’s life ❤️
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I returned from my first trip in the Merchant Navy as a Marine Engineer Officer Cadet and paid off in my home port of Hebburn. After 4 months away at sea I hoped that the girl I loved wouldn't have fallen out of love with me while I was away. I had sent a telegram telling her what time the ship would dock. I walked towards the white Lead pub and the foul smell of the Lennox chemical factory. I saw a familiar figure walking towards me. I dropped my suitcases and ran to meet her. That kiss was something I'll never forget. Christine passed away last year, 2 months after our 40th wedding anniversary. I love her so much and will only stop when my mind and body follow hers.
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Sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing your story
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RIP Shane, see yo on the other side.
Legend never will be forgotten, this song will be heard for hundreds of years to come. RIP SHANE 😪
You know he didn't write this right?
@@kernowarty who wrote it?
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OUI....c'est le CRI DU COEUR POUR SA TERRE ET SA PATRIE....❤❤❤
@Josh_Green44 Ewan Mcgregor, Kirsty's dad.
About his home town of Salford in Northern England.
Hence the dedication to the people of Salford.
Call him a alcoholic call him wasted talent I call him a incredible human being with a talent RIP IN PARADISE ❤
And Can’t carry a note (though if he were ever caught sober he probably sang like a bird . Lol ) , but he is a freakin legend. Not many can pull that off.
The drinking was only one part of his genius
No was drugs too @@richardalexander261
He had his time and used it well!
I'll never forget!
Fairwell Shane! ❤😢
@richardalexander261 Shaw said that alcohol is the anaesthesia that gets u through the operation of life. He obviously agreed and to a lesser extent, so do I.
Shane Macgowan is still alive at June 4th, 2021. At this point nothing can beat this man
EDIT: unfortunately Shane MacGowan died today aged 65, may he rest in peace.
And I hope nothing will legend
How lucky are we the “older generation “to appreciate this ? When the young get older so will they!
Macgowan is superlative
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May God Watch Over Him !
It's a memory I'll never forget, a Pogues concert in Germany.
Shane was stoned out of his mind, he stumbled on stage, lit a cigarette, drank a whiskey. Then he had to hold on to the microphone stand.
The music started to play.Shane celebrated all his musical skills. The moment is deeply etched in my mind. An incredible performance.
That was over 30 years ago.
I love and adore the Pogues.
Amazing memories ❤️
Is right 1 of the memories you WANT TO HAVE AND KEEP
Shane looks like a cross between Phil Ochs and Liam Neeson!
Glad you got nice memories ❤
Great story man 😎
No cellphones, just singing and dancing, a real crowd!!!!!!!! R.I.P Shane!!!!
yes
Thank you for music Shane.
Had an Irish friend who I used to work with many moons ago in the mid eighties, he said you've got to come and see this band at Nottingham Rock City The Pogues. It's still a great memory, the love and friendship in the crowd was amazing great gig. Farewell Shane Legend.
I was taught guitar lessons by a Irishman in Canada 🇨🇦 he taught me , the irish folk songs ...as a Canadian limey , I love it
R.I.P to the legend.. he will be missed by us all.. he was a light in a gloomy life :(
Shane, byłeś jedyny i niepowtarzalny. Poeta, chuligan, Irlandczyk… Mistrz.
So wahr. Du sprichst mir aus der Seele. ❤
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Mad to think this was only 10 years ago and Shane is completely on point! What a difference a few years makes. The whole band is so underrated, after all they went through the music is absolutely out of this world. Pure fucking talent 🇬🇧 🇮🇪
You know what mate, well said, I'm only 38, and have known this song and the band all my life, dad and his girlfriend always have the pogues playing at their legendary house parties.
So now even though me and dad haven't spoken in years, due to him being a money grabbing bastard, now I listen to them on my own, and enjoy their talent, and the waterboys, and levellers, the rolling stones, led zep, and pink floyd, atleast for my age I enjoy real music , so I'm happy for him to of imparted that to me, even though in the long run he was a let down.
with love and a happy christmas from Salford
Totally agreed! What’s Shane been up to since they split again? Anybody have video links. He’s got his gruff here, but it sounds better than ever.
@@johngreen7085 all United aren't we?
@@technomickdocumentalist2495 Well your no Fxxk up! And you great taste in music regards from Ireland Eire32
This has been on repeat all day in memory for this absolute legend!💙
R.I.P. Shane - Classic Pogues song - Dirty Old Town 😊👍
This song is human kind heritage. It is directly linked to our souls. Thanks for that masterpiece Shane. Your one of a kind.
The word is you're NOT your.
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Shane wrote some beautiful songs, but not this one. This was written by James Miller of Salford. Born to Scottish parents and better known as Ewan MacColl. The song is about Salford and one of the group actually dedicates this song at the beginning, saying "this is for anybody here from Salford"....(0.15).
You were one of our own we love you Shane ❤🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪😊
I'm portuguese and I thank you for this amazing hymn. Kind of a therapy for a fucked up week. RIP Shane.
Lovely comment
Boas e que viva la música
Feliz Navidad
RIP Mr.McGowan! May you flow with rivers of whiskey to heaven. We lost a poet🥃
It seems like everything Shane sang was raw and authentic. I had forgotten just how much I love The Pogues. Thank you Shane for 30 years of helping me get thru life.
Whenever the Irish sing it's always raw and authentic, just as God intended.
Shane McGowan was brilliant There will never be anyone like him ever 🇨🇮 RIP Shane You were a One off 💚Xx
RIP Shane. All you have to do is watch and here the crowd in this video. I would have loved to have been there amongst that crowd. What a performance! What a band! Thanks for all of your music that still touches us all. RIP ☘️
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Me too - they were having fun.
Absolutely
May he rest in peace
Totally agree with everything you say
RIP Shane - Thank you for the music written for all of us from those dirty old towns - God Bless you are home now.☘☘☘
RIP Shane, thank you for all your fantastic music you gave us, you'll always be remembered❤
Shane Macgowan is still alive at 17th November 2022. At this point nothing can beat this man
This song, this performance would rouse you no matter what nationality you are. Heard it for the first time a week ago , listened 100 times since. RIP Shane.
Shane you will ever life in our hearts. Germany love`s you forever. Thank you for your presence, for your wonderful music.
I saw pogues in finsbury park london. 2000 i think, shane appeared to be drunk and staggered about the stage , but when they started playing he somehow morphed in to something beyond incredible! You have to have seen him live to understand.sad day. ❤😢
I know what you mean. Saw them in Las Vegas in 2006, and just the same. Shane the Immortal!
I was there too...RIP Shane
Oh my frikn god, this is the first time I've ever listened to the Pogues. Why oh why didn't anyone tell me how great this band is. I'm 51 yrs old now and I've just listened to this track 4 times in a row
I am English and the pouges are fking awesome
all things come to those who wait :)
I'm 63 same I've been in a bubble
Where you been?
But at least you know now ❤
Fantastic song, fantastic song writer, best car music you can get. RIP Shane. You were one of the best. 👍👍👍
He didn't write this song but he did write Fairytale in New York, I always thought he wrote this but just found out Kirsty McCoy's father wrote it, I had no idea McGowan was born in England either, gotta love google.
So much energy and brilliant... I saw the Pogues several times in the 80s and this is as full of life as they were then. What a lovely thing to find this after we have lost Shane
i love the little old boy,his smile is electric and u can see hes enjoying every minute.. what a song this is
That old boy is Phil Chevron and he's only aged 55 in this video. He was very ill and passed in October 2013.
@@raseru79 do you know were this concert was ? thanks
Recorded 2012 live at the Olympia in Paris and later released as a DVD/CD/LP @@michaelburnett7809
September 2012 at the Olympia in Paris. There's a recording of the full show available as a movie and also as an album@@michaelburnett7809
@@michaelburnett7809 filmed live in Paris and released as the album "Pogues in Paris the 30th anniversary concert at the Olympia"
The Pogues , Shane , ma jeunesse qui s’éteint petit à petit 🥺🇮🇪🇫🇷🙏
Honestly, I could listen to The Pogues all day. Shane, you will never be forgotten.
This is even better when your actually born in Salford like me ,must of heard it a 1000 times played live back in the 80s in every pub in Salford .
Best song of all time!! RIP Shane ❤️
It's not his song,rod Stewart sang it before the pogues
As good as it gets brought a smile to my face watching this and tears from my eyes , absolute genuine performance and of course the audience played their part as well great interaction , thank you Shane and Band ! ❤
Yes agree
I am absolutely broken hearted
May he rest in peace
R.i.p.Mr.Shane. I went through life many times with your songs, be it hard or good times... But with your songs and your voice I always felt calm and peaceful. Where you are now I wish you to give everyone a part of yourself through your songs...with a cigarette and whiskey❤🙏
Shane, a gentle and talented soul who brought joy to millions with his immense talent. Always will be remembered and never forgotten. Rest peacefully dear boy.
I used to work by the docks in Salford in the 70s. It was a bit rough at that time but I was hooked on the place. I then went to New Zealand in 2018 and was in a bar on the South Island and requested a band to play this. Not sure if it would go down well as it was a young , very diverse crowd. The place absolutely erupted - everyone knew it!! I couldn't have been happier. I love Salford and I love this rendition of the song.
No matter where you go in this world this song is loved
Did you hear him say this is for everybody from Salford?
On my last trip to Manchester, I took - I think - two buses to get to Salford just to remember Shane MacGowan, this song, and its author/playwright/committed Socialist ... Can;t call his name now. Well, the Lowry museum is good, great, but it wasn't the Salford I came to love in Shane's singing. G B Hopkins - Texas Up the Iristh!
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Great comment. Comments like these make the comment section a great place.
I can't stop listening to Shane since i went to his funeral i am obsessed in a good way RIP SHANE .
Love The Pogues. Thank you for all the beautiful, meaningful songs. Such great talent. Can listen to their music all day. Rest in peace Shane McGowan 💜
We need to start thinking about what state our kids will leave the earth for Shane MacGowan..
I have commented on this before brilliant how many lives has this man made so many connections with people God bless I can only hope I have made a meger contribution to this world when I go Lee
Toujours le même frisson quand je l'écoute.... merci beaucoup MONSIEUR 😢
Absolutely beautiful - such a voice - the artist at his best after decades of work- you can really hear his life - thanks so much for sharing - such a sad loss for us all
wow from
Newfoundland and Labrador Canada you are the best RIP Shane MacGowan.
Will never forget your brixton performance . What an amazing gig. RIP Shane Irish hero and poet 🇮🇪
He sure was a true legend our loss is now heavens gain im sure Shane will keep on playing his music for everyone above 🥺💔❤️
My mum is from leitrem my dad from Armagh I'm from belfast my wife from ukraian my daughter in law from Wales my kids and grandkids Australians love this song
Yeah, Shane was from Kent, England. He too loved the song. Thanks Ewan, you are a largely forgotten talent.
Ich flüchte mich in eine andere Welt....So schön ist das. DANKESCHÖN
Rest in Peace Shane, thank you for bringing light and joy into the world.
Unvergesslich! Musik für die Ewigkeit! Ruhe in Frieden!!
Shane, j'ai pleurai ce soir ! parce que tu ai parti ! Et je pleure encore ! Tu m'a bercé pendant des années sur tes rythmes ! J'arrête la et je chiale encore ! Merci l'ami et VIVE L 'IRLANDE !
Yes! This is what it's all about. It doesn't need to be "perfect" with a great show with fire and light and staged beautiful singers. The music needs to bring joy, and look at the joy they are bringing the crowd! Excellent, this is what music is about for me.
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To my dad rip great song
I love this song
Dirty old Town dirty old Town
I'm gonna replay it
I heard a siiiiiiiiiiiren from the dock
When the brass instruments enter... it always gives me chills
Brilliant version billy
me 2
Le peuple irlandais j'adore vive les Celtes 👍🏽🙂
Eu também sinto o mesmo
Maybe use more lube
Shane...großartig, das du gewesen bist und uns deine irischen Seele zum Teil geöffnet hast und uns teilhaben hast lassen...❤️
Mexican guy here enjoying Irish music....and McGowan's iconic voice.
Respect and admiration!
Enjoy my friend love from ireland 😎
@@whatyalookingatmelikethatf3986 Thanks man. All the best to you. From Mexico.
Rest in peace Shane McGowan, musical genius ❤️
Never to be seen again a once off singer,poet,lyricist,way ahead of his Tim was Shane a tipp legend you will live on forever🙏🎤🎸
Such a sad loss to this brilliant performance with the pogues dirty old town what an artist hay what a legend we will never forget such an awesome songwriter and singer 🏴
Best song ever! We love this in our social club and always finish the night with it. Rest in peace Shane ❤❤
The Clash with Stay Free and The Pogues with Dirty Old town is what my life was when I was young... This is my own "madeleine de Proust" for sure. RIP Shane, we will miss you 4ever.
"This is called dirty old town" chills everytime. What a performance. Wishing Shane and the rest of the band a merry Christmas. This song brings back so many memories.
❤️❤️❤️🍻
Reminds me of Swindon?
Juste énorme... Ce tube tube indémodable à pas fini d'enterrer des générations
Et le chanteur alcoolo a enterré beaucoup de fans....
😅
Farewell Shane...danke für die schönen Songs die du mit uns geteilt hast♥
Thanks for the great music Shane. One of there best songs. A unique talent . RIP Shane. Thanks for the memories.
Born and raised in a coal mining town. This song brings me back home every time I hear it. God Bless The Pogues.
Agree absolute classic
Every time for me too x
When I put this on the duke box in the pub everyone gets up and has a good old dance
Brought up surrounded Pits,Slag Heaps,trains belch ot black smoke,loved it ,working class ,no surrender
Me too 3 cement factories around it
Gracias por tu sensibilidad, 😢😢😢
Don't know how he is still alive......sings from the soul......he pened the best Christmas song EVER.....long life Shane.....💕💞💘💝🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
I CANNOT get enough of this song and performance. CANNOT! LONG LIVE THE POGUES AND MACGOWAN.
+John Taft e same
Same here, love Shane McGowan and this beautiful song.
Absoutley Luv This Tune .. Luv Shane Luv The Whole scene ..Old guy's Dubliners So many playing enjoying every note & every String their playing..🎸🎸🎺🎺 .. Keep Rockin guys ... 🤟🤟👌... 🎼🎼
Good English song
The pogues split up years ago ya tool lol
This song is playing constantly in pubs in my home province of Newfoundland Canada but no band can ever do better than this
Amazing words and vocals. I could listen to this song/singer forever...
Good bye Shane ! This video is one of my favorites and the most beautiful tribute I can imagine!
From a drunk Aussie sitting on his lounge at midnight ..... love the Irish pride .... be proud of wherever your born . I get goosebumps hearing this ball tearer song !
Of the 8 members of The Pogues on stage, 6 were born in England. The Pogues were/are a London based English band.
PS. and they're singing a song written by an English born and raised writer, about an English city. :-)
@@paul479 Luke Kelly (of the Dubliners) learnt Dirty Old Town directly from his contact with Ewan MacColl (the write/composer).
English folk clubs and MacColl were the main conduits for the English and Scottish songs that Kelly sang with the Dubliners.
Your "Irish version" of the song makes no sense in this context.
btw. MacGowan does not sing all the words that Kelly sang, because he gets them wrong.
@@paul479
OK, you've strutted your stuff, attempted to insult me (that was a laugh), pretended some "facts" and spelt Ewan MacColl's name incorrectly.
I'll give you some notes further below about the song "Dirty Old Town" that I put in the comments on another video.
If you actually knew me, or much about me, then you'd realise that I'm the one that stresses the interconnectedness of the folk music, song and dance traditions in Britain and Ireland. The various traditions are also really regional rather than being based upon a nation state or political subdivisions.
This is the reason that I mention the English traditions when others seem loath to acknowledge them, deny they really exist, play them down as unimportant, or claim English traditions as "Irish" or the half-baked "Celtic". Your comment saying "England has some good trad songs" whilst then stating "Scotland has lots and Ireland probably the most" is a case in point.
Please educate yourself before making stuff up. What do you think English people were doing? There are literally thousands of folk songs that were collected by folklorists in England, in a population that was many times larger than that of Ireland (look it up). Your opinion was pulled out of your fundament.
Have a look at the website of the Vaughan Williams Memorial library and adjust your prejudices: www.vwml.org/
What you clearly wrote disingenuously, I state with conviction ... it's not a competition. And it's also not some kind of zero-sum game. Understanding and acknowledging the variety and history of folk music, song and dance traditions in England, or Britain as a whole, does not diminish anything. Understanding the distinctiveness of different traditions in Britain and Ireland, but also their similarities and deep connexions doesn't diminish anything, in fact it enhances them.
So, on to the song.
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Ewan MacColl (the writer of this song) was a playwright before he was a significant song writer or song collector and singer. He was born (in 1915) and brought up in Broughton, Salford (that's a city next to Manchester in Northwest England). At home his Scottish parents (especially his mother, Betsy) sang folk songs so he had a very good background in these songs and their form.
Shortly after WW2 he wrote and staged a play called "A landscape with chimneys" in which he found there was a rather awkward scene change. MacColl quickly wrote a song to fill the time; this song was "Dirty Old Town."
The song is a kind of updated envisioning of those old English and Scottish folk songs about courting, set in the countryside. Maybe in some valley or pleasant glade, with gentlemen out walking or with a plough-boy etc.
MacColl took this bucolic scene and transferred it to the city environment he knew. With Gasworks, wasteland (the croft mentioned in the song), factories, railways, smoke ... and the old, small cramped housing.
As an example, my own father grew up in a "one up one down, back to back" in the shadow of Lister's Mill, Bradford (another Northern English industrial city, this time in Yorkshire). "One up one down" meant there was one living room at ground level, and one room above. "Back to back" meant that the rows were built directly against each other with no path/garden or any space between. How many people? In this case 6 children, parents and grandmother.
So, a young man courting would have done it outside of his crowded home. "I found my love by the Gasworks croft" is referring to "love" as a verb as well as maybe a noun ... that's poetry for you.
"Spring's a girl in the street at night" seems an odd line, until you realise that he's talking about the season when it was becoming warm enough to for couples "walk out" together in the evenings. Spring (the season) is a girl in the street at night.
MacColl used his considerable poetic skill to paint a seemingly evocative scene, but his attitude to this life is quite clear in the last verse. He wants to chop down this "old dead tree" and replace it with something better. This of course would have been a reference to the slum clearance schemes at the time, but as a Communist, MacColl was also meaning something more systematic. That is chopping down the society and economic system that leads to poverty and dirty old towns.
As an aside I'll mention that Silk Street (the site of that "one up one down" mentioned above) was demolished and rebuilt as a council housing estate in the 1960s. My Grandmother ended up in a nice 2 bedroom semi-detached house with gardens front and back.
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@@paul479 Any possible further conversation is at an end since this character simply refuses to learn anything.
btw. many of the songs are the Pogues sing are not Irish, but of course this character wouldn't know this because he can't see beyond his own little prejudiced world.
Farewell and blocked to this wilfully ignorant berk.
Hi there down under, aren't you Aussies all Irish and Scottish anyway? 😜 Anyway, Shane is and always will be a legend even though only a few of the young generation will ever appreciate him!!
I haven’t heard this in ages, what a performance
RIP Shane❤ incredible LIVE version, greetings from Finland
We all have a dirty old town in our past, in our memories... not the worst, not the best memories, but they cling with us. This song manages to revive it all in a very vivid manner. Amazing...
Agreed
I was driving in my car once, and this song popped up on my CD player. My friend asked me “what town are they singing about”. I told him that it is about a place which I used to work in, Sun Valley, CA. /s
That's beautiful. Yeah.
Sadly, Shane will die some day. But Shane will never actually die. Memories. Music. A legend. Shared with the future.
RIP Shane McGowan, now performing with Angels. Thank you for the music.
I walked those streets and dreamed those dreams, the streets are gone but not the dreams. Thank you Shane
Lovely btw if you could checkout my super fun reggae take on this classic and subscribe I'd appreciate it
nice, I get a feeling but probably not the same as you
It gives me chills in the back every time I listen to this song ! Thank you Shane MacGowan, thank you The Pogues !
You don't think it had anything to do with Ewen MacColl then?
.me too
La même chose pour un français ! Superbe !
@@salerio61 was thinking the same🤔
Me too ..
Guys a legend…..also just want to add without backlash..I’m a fan …..I admire Shane..I love his work….I want to add….anyone with drive and spirit and dedication can reach the top without having a great voice
The world lost a true poet rip Shane
Having a wee night in Falkirk town to my lockdown self, God bless you all 💚💚💚
One of the tunes that gets the chills to go through the spine while listening to it and one just has to sing along too it
Lost my father a few weeks ago and this brought a lump to my throat as he used to play The Pogues all the time when I was growing up, and this was one of his favourites - he was from Irish stock and brought up in Manchester
My condolences. My Mum ascended on September 23rd. Born in Lurgan, Armagh. I made sure we both acquired Irish citizenship nearly three years ago. Ma had British as well. Not by choice.
I'm so very sorry for your loss.
Lost mine last year loved this type of music craigavon armagh
Lost my dad 5years ago its still 💔, I'm from Salford and our surname is from Ireland 💙
Ich kenne dieses Lied seit einer Ewigkeit. Gute alte irische Musik. Ich liebe es. Hier hat man auch beim Betrachten der Menge das Gefühl, dass die Iren ihr Land wirklich lieben, so wie sie sich geben. Gott, ich beneide euch Iren.
I am German and I met my wife in a dirty old town. You were my first concert ever and until we meet again- see you in Valhalla!
what memories i do have being a youth in germany and partying dancing and singing and loving to the pogues.. this band and this man will forever have a place in my heart!!
Irish punk-folk! Shane is the one of the best poets of all the times RIP legend! This band was never underrated, but loved by entire world!
I tried to see them quite a few times back in the 90's. Once I succeeded. Fantastic and legendary concert , they were only 45 minutes late that day.
😂😂😂😂😂
Goosebumps....Till the end. RIP Shane 💫 enjoy singing with the angels💖🕊️💫🙏🏻
Jheeze Shane can still get the crowd going! I'm amazed at his sheer resilience truthfully- He's been a hellraiser forever! Good for him!
How does he even remember the words? Do you think he is REALLY this loaded---or is it part of his mystique and charm???
@@TheSaint007 he's loaded!🤪
The Pogues lives forever!
that was awesome
the joy it's bringing to the crowd and the group is plain to see,a great night with the Pogues
he probably have lived a life that most of us only can dream about... and his love to the music world is incredible,dosen`t matter how drunk ore tired he would be,just give him a guitar and a microphone,and he would be in ship shape no matter what... :)
Yes! Yes!
There was an Irish pub (Ireland's Own) in my old home town of Alexandria, VA. The summer this song came out, whomever was playing at the IO that night was sure to play it at some point during the evening. The bar would be jam-packed, shoulder-to-shoulder, on those sweltering, sultry, summer Saturday nights and the place would erupt when the band started playing it. It was truly magical and more than a bit bittersweet for me as it perfectly caught the emotion of being 21 and dating a beautiful girl (a professional ballerina by day and a bartender by night) in Old Town, Alexandria. I used to wait for her to get off work on those crowded, raucous, hot summer nights when we had the whole of our lives stretching out in front of us. As I leaned up against the wall outside the bar, the bricks still warm from the summer's sun, I could hear the patrons at Ireland's Own just up the street and together we would walk hand-in-hand bar-hopping up King Street until we were part of the crowd, singing our lungs out. Then we would climb into our cars and race home down the Potomac River, redolent with the rich aroma of mimosa and honey-suckle, and make love in her bedroom. God bless you Tina. I'm sorry I let you slip through my fingers but, in the end, leaving me was the smartest thing you ever did.
WE HAVE TO FIND THIS MAN'S TINA FOR FUCK SAKE BOYS!
Beautiful written my Man
plus tu écoutes ce morceau...plus il te rentre au fond du coeur..
Das ist wahr.
encore ce soir....( 18 mars 2024 ❤) nationalisme pour toujours...OSONS !! 😊😊
Such experience to hear from them all good buddy just wanted to check the past so many different types for your pleasure