Of knots and knighthoods
What an average week for Irish rock. Shane MacGowan in marriage rumours, Brian McFadden explains why he refused to squirt all over Kerry and Bono gets it from the Queen.
Sam Snort, 12 Apr 2007
Greetings dear readers, and welcome to the very first sentence of what will hopefully become 1,000 or so words of pure literary genius from the pen of Ireland’s greatest undying rock columnist, Samuel J. Snort.
Actually, I’m pretty hungover as I write this so I’m afraid I can’t guarantee pure genius this week. I can’t even promise impure genius. In fact, I’ll be doing fucking well if all the words out come in the order right. Shit!
Despite my many years of alcohol-fuelled carousing, Sam Snort doesn’t normally get hangovers. Usually I just do a Shane MacGowan on it and simply keep on drinking. Last night, though, I got so hammered that I forgot to keep on getting hammered and, well, I’m sorry is all I’ll say.
Speaking of Shane MacGowan, I believe that some congratulations are in order. After years of breaking up, getting back together and breaking up again, he and the lovely Victoria Mary Clarke are apparently planning on finally tying the knot.
The Strife of Brian
By all accounts, those vacuous dead-eyed types at Hello! magazine have expressed an interest in buying their wedding pics. Hardly surprising given the calibre of the couple’s celebrity friends. Pete Doherty, Kate Moss, Matt Dillon, Johnny Depp, Michael McDowell, Grainne Kenny – everyone who’s anyone will be there.
However, they’d want to be careful. Recently in the Sindo, former Westlifer Brian McFadden told Joe Jackson about his Hello! nightmare: “Do you know what I hated, hated, hated?” he asked Joe, Joe, Joe. “Hello! doing our wedding album. She [Kerry Chipshop] loved it. I detested all the ‘arms around each other’ or ‘sitting at piano’ photos. And I remember one day in Spain the guy gave us two water pistols and said, ‘Can you run around shooting each other?’ and I said, ‘I’m not doing this, you can keep your money, I’m fucking done with it.’
“We’d a massive falling out over this, me and Kerry, and I said it was the last time I’d do anything like that, and we never got the money from Hello! Because we didn’t give them what they wanted, even if they did use the photos.”
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