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BP Fallon on his photograph of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, 1988

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Haunted, recorded by Shane and Sinead in 1995, has become a classic

One time use only for Shane obitsBy BP Fallon

Ever since I brought Sinéad O’Connor round to Shane MacGowan and Victoria’s flat in London, new magical friendships blossomed. The record Haunted, sung by Shane and Sinead in 1995, is now a classic, Shane’s gnarly vocals embraced by Sinead’s voice of an angel.

Here, Sinead and Shane are in the Netherlands at The Pink Pop Festival in 1988: two of the greatest artists in contemporary music having a vibe together. I call this photo “Doc Martens & slippers”.

In early Pogues days I invited the whole group to take part in my radio show The BP Fallon Orchestra. The RTÉ Guide trumpeted “The BPFO Presents The Pogues In Conversations With 40 People (Often All At The Same Time)“. Shane and company fielded questions from the audience,.and the sometimes heated exchange was reported in the Irish papers. I like to think of it as The Pogues’ “Bill Grundy moment” – when The Sex Pistols swore at an idiotic Grundy on his Thames Television show – and it helped make The Pogues a household name in Ireland.

Shane had worked in Ted Carroll’s superb London record shop Rock On – namechecked by Phil Lynott in the Thin Lizzy song The Rocker – and had an exceedingly wide taste in music. He guested as a DJ in my club Death Disco in Dublin several times, and in Belfast too. Shane played everything from Elvis to the Sex Pistols to Margaret Barry. He was a one-off; there has been nobody quite like him.

Source: BP Fallon on his photograph of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, 1988

Banned BBC horror documentary comes back to life on Shudder, after causing national British panic in 1992

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Ghostwatch was created by screenwriter Stephen Volk, but British audiences didn’t quite get the joke, leading to lawsuits and even a suicide

While it’s rare to hear of a movie in 2017 leaving audiences running out the door in panic or to the ER after deliriously passing out, 1992 was apparently a vastly different time. It was still in the early days of the faux-documentary style horror movies we’re used to now, a la The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity.

So when, on Halloween night in 1992, BBC premiered Ghostwatch, a 90-minute “news report” claiming it had real evidence of supernatural activity in a haunted London house, audiences quickly went into an uproar. There had been no warning that the show was fictional [ . . . ]

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