Film And TV
17 Dec 19

Music News of the Year: The Pogues' Shane MacGowan to hit the big screen

NO REPRO FEE Pictured are Victoria Mary Clarke, Shane MacGowan, Johnny Depp and President Michael D. Higgins celebrating a poet of modern music and one of the great international songwriters Shane MacGowan at the National Concert Hall on the occasion of his 60th birthday and presentation of a special Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the power and poetry of his work and his singular contribution to Irish music. PHOTO: Mark Stedman

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Having conjured up such music docs as the Sex Pistols' The Filth And The Fury, Dr. Feelgood's Oil City Confidential and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, Julian Temple announced in June that he's turning his directorial gaze towards Shane MacGowan.

Temple has put out the call for any interviews (audio/video/print) that the Nipple Erectors/Pogues/Popes/Priests man has given down through the years.

The doc will be up against a new biopic featuring Barry Keoghan as Shane, which will focus on his love affair with Victoria Mary Clarke.

From having part of his earlobe nibbled off in the 100 Club when he was the Union Jack-blazer wearing Shane O'Hooligan to last year's star studded 60th birthday bash in Dublin, his is a story that absolutely has to be told!

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