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Extract from 'A Drink with Shane MacGowan'
Source: The Guardian
Date: Sunday March 11, 2001
Author: Victoria Clarke and Shane MacGowan
Copyright: © The Guardian 2001
'The first horse I ever bet on was called Maxwell House and he came in at 10-1. I was five years old. So I was a regular gambler after that. And the way my Auntie Nora taught me the gospel was we used to do the Irish Sweepstake together and she used to buy me packets of cigarettes. She was a heavy smoker, she didn't drink but she allowed the men to buy me drink, she told me there was no crime in having a drink, she told me the crime was in worshipping the devil. So with one hand she was dishing out cigarettes and the Irish Sweepstake, which we used to win again and again because it involves a crossword puzzle, and then when she had me pissed and smoking like a chimney, she'd start teaching me the gospels. Hideously devious. Jesuits couldn't touch it. So I became a religious maniac at the same time as becoming a total hedonist. And it worked because I'm still a religious maniac and a total hedonist.
It nearly tore me apart when she died. Auntie Nora died a reasonably dignified death, but unfortunately she was getting out of bed and she was in the process of putting her knickers on when she had a heart attack which killed her immediately. They found her lying on her bed with her knickers around her knees. When I heard, I cried for a week. Just like Hendrix all over again. I'm a very emotional person, however cold I appear on the exterior. A lot of people think I appear cold, but why shouldn't I be, with strangers? I don't know them, they don't mean anything to me. I'm always warm with people I know, if I like them. I'm not a hypocrite.
Stealing and killing were all right. I didn't have to steal. I mean, what do you steal for when you're a kid? You steal to get cigarettes, you steal to get booze, you steal to get sweets. I was given all the sweets and cigarettes and booze that I could fucking handle.
I suppose, originally, I got drunk. But you soon get used to two bottles of Guinness a night. I remember the first time I got drunk on whiskey. I used to spy on Tom and Auntie Monica. In the parlour. So Tom bought me a bottle of whiskey, a baby Powers, one day, in Hannigans, in Kilbarron, the town my mum and dad were married in. And, he said, "Don't tell anybody I gave that to you!" A baby Powers, right, it's two Irish doubles, and I was about eight, I think, when that happened. I wasn't still living here, I was on my school holidays. But I suppose as far as I was concerned I was still living here. School was just an interruption.
I don't know why he did it. I asked him, that's why. And he worshipped the ground I walked on. So I kept it for a while, thinking about drinking it. I was keeping it for a special occasion, know what I mean? 'Cos I had this whiskey in my pocket, and I was just a kid. And I thought I'd never have another bottle of whiskey in my pocket. But that's the way you think when you're a kid. A bit like an animal. I hoarded it, but then one day I said, "What the fuck!" I drank it in the middle of the day, and I went out in the farmyard, and the geese started talking to me. They were just talking gobbledegook, but I was thinking gobbledegook, know what I mean?! I was out of my fucking brains. I had one belt and I went, "God almighty!!!"... I got a fantastic rush! And then I went, "Fucking hell!" and had the rest of it. And got another fantastic rush! I think they all thought I'd gone a bit loopy, 'cos however drunk I was, I couldn't say that I'd just I'd had some whiskey, and that I'd got it off Tom. I wasn't that sort of kid. That's why he bought it for me, he wouldn't have bought it if he thought I'd split on him. But the farmyard animals were talking to me, and I was talking back to them. And my Uncle John actually showed some interest in something, for once. He was carting a bucket across the yard, and he sort of looked at me, and he said, "What the fuck!?!?" I think he sussed it out actually, you know. Well, I was laughing my head off for hours. I remember that really vividly, the first time I got drunk on whiskey.'
• From A Drink With Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke and Shane MacGowan.
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