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@tregeagle That #NME interview is a classic. I read it in print after the standard fortnight delay getting it via air-freight in the #Sydney record shops (high-latency connections in those days). https://thequietus.com/articles/09277-mark-e-smith-nick-cave-shane-macgowan-nme-interview
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I still swear Shane contributed a two-word cameo to #MES's "German song" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcI7YROuHE "the windowsill!"), released not long before this interview. "You can't just go into a hotel and write your name, you've got to fuck around on a bloody computer," is another plug for the #Fall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5zav2yrC7M "Computers infest the hotels")
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#RIP MES; your work-shy demise made the world is much less dark, sadly. Shane Patrick Lysaght #MacGowan hasn't written so much as a shopping list for twenty years, and his thrice-broken hip plus the passing of the indispensable Philip Chevron has put an end to #Pogues nostalgia gigs. For all I know, Nick Cave is playing Las Vegas.
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#MacGowan says to Cave "Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them the way you do, I couldn't – making nightmares into living daylight...", but I've had "Rake at the Gates of Hell" going through my head for the last couple of weeks: "I'll be with them asleep and dreaming I'll be there when they wake with screaming At the hour …
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