Updates: 28
December -- added "Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway," to the
Snake page; added "Minstrel Boy," "She Moves Through the Fair" to the
Shane Singles page
27 December -- added "Hippy Hippy Shakes" and "Man Called Horse" to
the Shane Singles page; updated "Fairytale"
20 December -- added a new page, "Shane & the Popes Singles," and
kicked it off with "Christmas Lullaby"
15 December -- added "My Baby's Gone" and "Four O'Clock in the
Morning."
14 December -- added a reference on the title to "Fairytale of
New York."
11 December -- added some more info to "Boys from the County
Hell," "Wildcats of Kilkenny," and "Rock and Roll Paddy"
24 November -- added another entry to the "sightings"
page
20 November -- added some new info to "Waxie's
Dargle"
16 November -- added some new info to "Billy's Bones;" and added
another song mentioning Shaney Mac to the "Pogues Sightings"
page.
5 October -- added info on the "universe" page (found another
band covering some Pogues tunes)
15 September -- added some info to "Paddy Public Enemy #1" on
Crock of Gold.
28 August -- corrected lyrics on "Six to Go"
2 August -- updated "Fiesta"
27 July -- added some info on "Sunnyside of the Street,"
corrected lyrics to "Waitress" on the Popes page.
19 July -- added "Sea Shanty"
14 July -- added "In and Out" to the Singles page; updated
"Blue Heaven," and added another entry into the Pogues sighting
list
4 July -- added a pic to "Drunken Boat," a link on the "Band in
the Pogues Universe" page
30 June -- updated Rain Street
26 June -- added a few bands to the bands page
24 June -- updated "London, You're a Lady."
22 June -- updated "Holloway Boulevard"
21 June -- updated "Dark Streets of London," "Old Main
Drag," "B & I Ferry," and the opening explanation for the title
on "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash" (added more info from A Drink with
Shane MacGowan)
19 June -- updated "Hot Dogs with Everything" (added more info
from the A Drink With Shane MacGowan memoir), "Curse of Love,
" "Train of Love," "Eyes of an Angel" (revised lyrics), "Smell of
Petroleum;" added a link for songs/writing that mentions the
Pogues
16 June -- updated "Sick Bed of Cuchulainn," "Shanne Bradley,"
"Rock and Roll Paddy." Basically I've incorporated some of the info
culled from the new Shane/Victoria Clarke memoir, A Drink with
Shane MacGowan.
9 June -- updated "Wake of the Medusa," fixed the link to
Picadilly Circus in "Old Main Drag"
8 June -- updated "White City," "Rock and Roll Paddy."
7 June -- fixed some dead links (actually my coding for the links) on
"Grace;" updated "London You're a Lady," and "Sally MacLennane;"added
another section on the "Bands" page for bands that have covered
Pogues/Shane tunes.
3 June -- updated "Drunken Ship," "Paddy Rolling Stone;"
corrected some technical glitches in the links on the opening
page.
31 May -- fixed a link to "Hells' Ditch," corrected some typos in
"Haunting"; added "How Come," "When the Ship Comes In"; updated
"London You're a Lady."
30 May -- completely revamped the look of the page; added "Curse of
Love" lyrics; updated "More Pricks than Kicks," "A Pair of Brown
Eyes"
16 May-- added "More Pricks than Kicks," updated "Down all the
Days."
5 May -- Not really an update, more of an apology/explanation
for the lack of updates and other technological problems. My
father-in-law suffered a heartattack and died on 28 February, and the
past few months have been brutal on the homefront. I have quite a few
contributions from fans to add that I should have up within the next
two weeks. On the technology end, earthlink is my host, and they have
a pretty ridiculous policy on web traffic; to whit: when a site
generates "too much" traffic, they shut it down. The way it was
explained to me, sites with "too much" traffic are generally
for-profit sites and they want you to pony up some extra bucks to
become a business client. I've tried to explain to them that this
isn't a commercial enterprise, but to no avail.
22 February -- updated "Sick Bed of Cuchulainn"
19 February -- added "Pistol for Paddy Garcia," and some info on
"Gartloney Rats"
18 February -- some corrections to "Billy's Bones" and "Waltzing
Matilda."
17 February-- added "Gartloney Rats"
16 February -- added "USA;" updated "Cotton Fields."
5 February -- added a reference to "Streams of Whiskey"
31 January -- added some more info on "Drunken Boat."
20 January -- added a pic of the James Clarence Mangan statue in
Stephen's Green in Dublin plus a link to some biographical info on
Mangan.
19 January -- added "Drunken Boat," the section in the Pogues
universe (plus the accompanying link); updated "B & I Ferry," and
"Muirshin Durkin."
16 January -- added "Turkish Song of the Damned," updated "Fiesta"
(again!)
12 January -- added "London Girl," a few new references to
"Transmetropolitan."
11 January -- added new reference for the "green queens" in "5 Green
Queens," some new info (a quote from Shane) to "Kitty" and "Hell's
Ditch," a reference or two added to the "Popes" page.
8 January -- added an MP3 file of "The Lichtensteiner Polka," the
original source for "Fiesta," added some info on
"Transmetropolitan."
5 January 2001 -- some additions to "Hot Dogs with Everything"
on the Pogues singles page; clarified lyrics on "Holloway Boulevard,"
"Pump Action Paddy," and "Waitress" on the Popes page; added some
info on "Holloway Boulevard."