Mark Radcliffe
Radcliffe as DJ Mahone at the Cropredy music festival 2008
Born	(1958-06-29) 29 June 1958 (age 53) Bolton, Lancashire, UK
Show	Mark Radcliffe's Music Club & Radcliffe & Maconie
Station(s)	BBC Radio 2 & BBC Radio 6 Music
Time slot	Tuesday 11pm to midnight & Monday to Friday 1pm - 4pm
Country	United Kingdom

Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English broadcaster who has worked in various roles for the BBC since the 1980s and remains one of Britain's most recognised DJs. He is currently a presenter on BBC Radio 2, where he presents Mark Radcliffe's Music Club every Tuesday 11pm - midnight. He is also a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music, where he hosts an afternoon show five times a week (Monday to Friday 1pm - 4pm) alongside Stuart Maconie, called the Radcliffe & Maconie. The pair had previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2.

Personal life[link]

Radcliffe was born in Bolton, Lancashire and educated at Bolton School and The University of Manchester, where he studied English and American studies and classical civilisation. He took an interest in music from a young age; playing drums in numerous bands while at school and university and into his working life. As of 2007, he lives in Whitley, Cheshire is married with three daughters and became a grandfather in October 2008. Radcliffe is a supporter of Manchester City Football Club. He has a pet Cocker Spaniel called Toto. In July 2011 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Bolton.^[1] He is a Patron of the Cheshire charity The Joshua Tree, which provides respite care for parents of children with special needs.

Radio and music[link]

Radcliffe was the drummer for the band Skrewdriver before their transformation into a White Power outfit^[2]. Radcliffe's radio career began in late 1982 at Piccadilly Radio, where he hosted a Friday night show called Cures For Insomnia. He later hosted Transmission, an eclectic show playing local and nationally recognised New Wave and Post-Punk bands as well as European avant-garde and electronic music.^[3]

Radio 5 career[link]

He came to prominence as a DJ on BBC Radio 5's Hit The North in 1990 but also appeared on other shows such as Cult Radio. Nearly twenty years later in 2009 he briefly stood in as a presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live, the station that replaced it, to cover the Simon Mayo afternoon show.

Radio 1 career[link]

Radcliffe joined BBC Radio 1 in 1991, presenting the one-hour Monday evening show Out on Blue Six. Starting in early 1993, he presented the arts programme The Guest List on Thursdays. Also in 1993, Radcliffe presented Skyman, an odd show which he presented in character as a visiting alien, and all the records played were space-related. This half-hour show aired immediately before Out on Blue Six on Monday evenings.^[4]

His most famous work was as part of the act Mark and Lard (with Marc "The Boy Lard" Riley) on Radio 1. The duo began in a 10pm-midnight slot on Mondays to Thursdays in October 1993. This show was unique for Radio 1 because it was based around non-playlist music and featured live music sessions, poetry readings and comedy. Having taken over the 'graveyard shift' from October 1993 onwards, Radcliffe and Riley hosted a show of unprecedented variety incorporating poetry readings from regular guest Ian McMillan, off the wall, irreverent comedy, bizarre quizzes 'Fish or Fowl', 'Bird or Bloke', 'Bard or Blake' (amongst others), and a play list that rivalled John Peel in terms of eclecticism. The show also held some of the best sessions from up and coming and alternative bands of the time, including Throwing Muses, Moloko, Nick Cave, Pulp, Baby Bird, The Divine Comedy and Mice. He is also credited with the success of White Town's Your Woman in January 1997.^[5]

Following Chris Evans' sudden departure from Radio 1 in early 1997, Radcliffe and Riley were moved to a brief and unsuccessful position on the breakfast show.^[6] Their style of music and broadcasting was not a success in this slot, which catered for a more mainstream audience, and they were soon moved into the early afternoon slot where they resided for the next 7 years. This show was a success and saw them win three Sony Gold awards for Best Daily Music Show.^[7][8]

Radio 2 transferral and 6 Music[link]

Radcliffe left Radio 1 in March 2004 and moved to an evening slot on BBC Radio 2 in June of the same year, with Riley moving to BBC Radio 6 Music. The new show was reminiscent of the graveyard shift he had previously occupied on BBC Radio 1; with live music and studio guests and ran between 10:30 pm and midnight. The respect Radcliffe had garnered as a broadcaster was cemented when he successfully scooped a major interview with Kate Bush in late-2005, her first in several years. For many months prior to this, he had been running his own 'Bush-O-Meter' on his show, questioning the possible whereabouts and activities of the elusive singer-songwriter and adding a photo of the day's guest or the 'Blessed Kate' to the chart until she appeared on the show. Radcliffe also won a Sony award for this show. Starting on 16 April 2007, Radcliffe joined forces with Stuart Maconie to present a new show on BBC Radio 2 on Mondays to Thursdays from 8-10pm to much critical acclaim, including winning the prestigious Sony award for best Radio show of 2009. From April 2010, the show was reduced to three nights a week, Mondays to Wednesdays.

He is a frequent stand-in in partnership with Emma Forbes or Liza Tarbuck during the 2pm-5pm slot when Steve Wright is away on holiday, thus taking him back to afternoon radio, and has also stood in for Simon Mayo on Five Live.

In 2009, Radcliffe reunited with Marc Riley to make a series of radio adverts for Manchester City F.C. that were broadcast in the North West of England.

In Spring 2011 his show with Maconie moved to 6 Music, weekday afternoons. Radcliffe now also has his own solo show on Radio 2 called Mark Radcliffe's Music club (1 hour per week).

Band member[link]

Radcliffe experienced brief commercial success with Shirehorses, a parody band (its name based on the short-lived band The Seahorses) spawned from his Mark And Lard antics. Earlier in his career, he had played in other bands, including the punk rock band Skrewdriver (briefly, before their reincarnation as a white power skinhead band, in which he played no part). Mark has written about his part in this band in his book Showbusiness. As of 2007, Radcliffe was a member of the more folk-oriented The Family Mahone and the Four Counts. He also fronts the Doctor Feelgood tribute band, The Big Figures.

Television[link]

Radcliffe presented a live music TV programme, The White Room, for Channel 4 in 1995, and has regularly appeared in the BBC's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Along with Marc Riley, he presented a music-based quiz programme, Pop Upstairs Downstairs, for the BBC/Flextech digital TV channel UK Play in 1999 and 2000. He also presented the BBC 1 football retrospective show Match Of The Nineties, which aired in summer 1999. In 2006, he won the ITV1 singing competition Stars in Their Eyes with an appearance portraying The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan singing "The Irish Rover". In 2009 he took over from Steve Wright as the presenter of TOTP2.

The Shirehorses were due to appear in an episode of the sitcom Phoenix Nights as the folk band Half a Shilling, but had concerns about the potentially racist content of the part they were to play. They were replaced at the last minute by Tim Healy.

Writing[link]

Radcliffe wrote the autobiographical Showbusiness: The Diary Of A Rock 'N' Roll Nobody; a critically acclaimed history of his attempts at a career as a musician, including his exploits with Shirehorses. His novel Northern Sky — based around a folk music club in an imaginary northern English city — was published in 2005. A book of anecdotes about his life, Thank You For The Days was published in 2009.

Producing[link]

Radcliffe is the producer of Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show for BBC Radio 4.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Radcliffe & Maconie at BBC Programmes (BBC Radio 6 Music)
• Mark Radcliffe's Music Club at BBC Programmes (BBC Radio 2)

Stuart Maconie (born 13 August 1960)^[1] is an English radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture. He is currently a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music, where he hosts an afternoon show five times a week (Monday to Friday, 1pm - 4pm), alongside Mark Radcliffe, called Radcliffe & Maconie. The pair had previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2. He used to present his own solo show on Saturday afternoons from April 2006 until 29 March 2008, and is a frequent stand-in for holidaying presenters on Radio 2. He also hosts BBC Radio 6 Music programmes The Freak Zone, on Sundays from 5.30-8 pm and The Freakier Zone, on Friday night/Saturday mornings from midnight-1am.

He lives in and broadcasts from Birmingham,^{[citation needed]} though the Radcliffe and Maconie show is broadcast from BBC's studios in Manchester.

Musical career[link]

Maconie was born in Whiston Hospital, Lancashire.^[2] While still at St John Rigby school in the sixth form, Maconie formed a band named (after several iterations) "Les Flirts", featuring Maconie on guitar/vocals, Nigel Power on bass and Jem Bretherton on drums.^[3] They performed at Wigan venues like the BierKellar and 'Trucks'. Performance style was influenced by the early Elvis Costello school of delivery. Set highlights included the self-penned "Little Flirts" and a crowd-pleasing cover of "Satellite of Love".

Maconie (right) with bassist Nigel Power

Writing career[link]

In his career as a writer and journalist he has written for Q, Word Magazine, Elle, The Times, The Guardian, the Evening Standard, Daily Express, Select, Mojo, Country Walking, Deluxe and was an assistant editor for the NME. In September 2008, he began a new monthly column for Cumbria Life magazine. Maconie previously worked as an English and sociology teacher at Skelmersdale College, Lancashire for one year in 1987–88.^[4] He has written screenplays for television and films. He is also the author of Cider With Roadies, an autobiography of his experiences as a music journalist. Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North, a humorous book that discusses the modern reality of the North of England (as opposed to the popular myths), was published in February 2007, with an audio version following in March 2009. Maconie, himself a 'northerner', uses his own childhood experiences alongside anecdotes from recent visits to illuminate the book. A third book, Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England was published in March 2009. Maconie's March 2012 book, 'Never Mind the Quantocks', is a collection of more than 50 humorous essays from his monthly column at Country Walking Magazine.

Maconie also is credited with starting the urban legend that Bob Holness, UK host of the game show Blockbusters, played the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty's hit single "Baker Street".^[5] The rumour first appeared as a blatant joke in a spoof NME 'Believe It or Not' feature, but has since been repeated elsewhere as if it were true.^[5] He also claims to have coined the well used phrase Britpop in the 1990s. "I'm sure someone must have used the expression before me about the Hollies, or the Beatles, back in the '60s. But I was the first person to use it about bands like Oasis and Blur".^[6]

Broadcasting career[link]

Radio 1[link]

He was a music reporter for Mark Goodier's Evening Session on BBC Radio 1, alongside Andrew Collins. Also on Radio 1, from 1995 to 1997, Maconie joined forces with Collins presenting a music review called Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade, which originally went out on Monday nights from 9-10 pm and then on Sunday afternoons from 3-4 pm. From 1994 to 2001, he presented the satirical news review The Treatment, on BBC Radio 5 Live.

In addition to this, in October 1996, Maconie took over a weekly album show on Radio 1 on Sunday nights, until late 1997.

Radio 2[link]

Maconie joined BBC Radio 2 in 1998, with shows such as All Singing, All Dancing, All Night, a northern soul music show, and, for several years, Stuart Maconie's Critical List on Saturday evenings. He also presents documentaries and deputised for Johnnie Walker on Radio 2's Drivetime programme.

From April 2006 to 29 March 2008, Maconie presented the Saturday afternoon show previously presented by Chris Evans.

In addition to his Saturday show, on 16 April 2007, Maconie joined forces with Mark Radcliffe to present a new show on BBC Radio 2 which was broadcast between Monday and Wednesday (Monday to Thursday up to April 2010) from 8-10 pm. As of spring 2011 this show was transferred to 6 Music in the afternoon slot, 1-4pm weekdays.

BBC Radio 6 Music[link]

He also joined BBC Radio 6 Music from its inception in 2002 where he presents The Freak Zone radio show. It is described as "the weird, the wonderful and all that's in between", and is very diverse in musical content. This show is broadcast every Sunday from 6-8 pm, and has been supplemented in 2010 with The Freakier Zone, aired from midnight–1 am every Friday night/Saturday morning. As of Spring 2011 his Radio 2 show with Mark Radcliffe was moved to 6 Music, weekdays 1-4pm.

Other broadcasting[link]

Maconie has also presented musical specialities for BBC Radio 4 and has appeared on television and in films. In 2007 he presented Stuart Maconie's TV Towns for ITV3, six one hour shows about TV and film locations in Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool and London.

Other projects[link]

Maconie had his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2001, collaborating with fellow BBC 6 Music presenter Andrew Collins, and with writer and pundit David Quantick, in Lloyd Cole Knew my Father, which has been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 2. The two also collaborated on the late night movie review television series Collins & Maconie's Movie Club in 1996 for ITV.

He wrote Folklore, the official biography of long-standing Manchester band James, and 3862 Days, the official biography of Blur.

In 2001, Maconie was the winner of the Sony Radio Academy Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year. He also won a silver Sony Award 2007 for the Freak Zone.

He also guest starred in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights as the presenter of a spoof version of Crimewatch called 'Crimetime' and appeared as himself in Monkey Dust, becoming a victim of retro-obsessed serial killer Ivan Dobsky.

Maconie is also a keen fellwalker having completed, on 20 June 2009, all 214 Wainwrights^{[citation needed]} (in the county of Cumbria). He is an honorary member of the Wainwright Society, and gave their Memorial Lecture in 2006. In late 2009, Experience Northwest released a series of short stories he wrote about the Hidden Gems in England's Northwest.^[7]

On 28 December 2009, he won an edition of BBC's Celebrity Mastermind by answering questions on his specialist subject of British poetry of the 20th Century.

Personal life[link]

Maconie is a supporter of Wigan Athletic.^[8] Married, he lives in the Midlands.

In December 2009 Maconie was awarded an honorary Masters Degree by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk.^[9]

In July 2011 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Bolton.^[10]

Bibliography[link]

• Maconie, Stuart (1999). 3862 Days: The Official History of Blur. London: Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0287-7. 
• Maconie, Stuart (2000). James – Folklore: The Official History. London: Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0494-9. 
• Maconie, Stuart (April 2005). Cider with Roadies. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-189745-1. 
• Maconie, Stuart (February 2007). Pies and Prejudice. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-191022-8. 
• Maconie, Stuart (March 2009). Adventures on the High Teas. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192650-2. 
• Maconie, Stuart (October 2009). Short Stories for Short Breaks. Warrington: North West Regional Development Agency. 
• Maconie, Stuart (March 2012). Never Mind the Quantocks. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-1-4463-0165-4. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone at BBC Programmes
• Stuart Maconie's Freakier Zone at BBC Programmes
• Radcliffe & Maconie at BBC Programmes
• Wainwright Society Memorial Lecture 2006
• Stuart's Short Stories on England's Northwest

• Stuart Maconie at the Internet Movie Database

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Shane MacGowan
Shane MacGowan early 1990s Womad festival Yokohama, Japan
Background information
Birth name	Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan
Born	(1957-12-25) December 25, 1957 (age 54)
Origin	Pembury, Kent
Genres	Folk rock, folk punk, Celtic rock, Celtic punk
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Guitar, harmonica, banjo, bodhrán, piano
Years active	1977–present
Associated acts	The Pogues, Shane MacGowan and The Popes, The Nipple Erectors
Website	ShaneMacGowan.com

Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born 25 December 1957) is an Irish^[1] musician and singer, best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues.

History[link]

MacGowan was born in Pembury, Kent, England in 1957,^[2] to Irish parents. MacGowan spent his early childhood in Tipperary before his family moved back to England when he was six and a half. He lived in many parts of the south-east, including Brighton and London.

MacGowan's mother, Therese, was a singer and traditional Irish dancer, and had worked as a model in Dublin. In 1971, after attending Holmewood House School at Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, MacGowan earned a literature scholarship and was accepted into Westminster School, a renowned English public school close to the Houses of Parliament. He was found in possession of drugs and was expelled in his second year.^[3]

MacGowan got his first taste of fame in 1976 at a concert by English punk band The Clash, when his earlobe was damaged by Jane Crockford, later to be a member of The Mo-dettes. A photographer snapped a picture of him covered in blood and it made the papers, with the headline "Cannibalism At Clash Gig".^[4][5][6] Shortly after this, he formed his own punk rock band, The Nipple Erectors, later renamed "The Nips".

Fame[link]

MacGowan drew upon his Irish heritage when founding The Pogues and changed his early "punk" voice for a more authentic sound with tutoring from his extended family. Many of his songs are influenced by Irish nationalism, Irish history, the experiences of the Irish in London and the United States, and London life in general. MacGowan has often cited the 19th-century Irish poet James Clarence Mangan and playwright Brendan Behan as influences.

Between 1985 and 1987, he co-wrote what is perhaps his best-known song, "Fairytale of New York", which he performed with Kirsty MacColl. In the coming years MacGowan and The Pogues released several albums successfully. After The Pogues threw MacGowan out for unprofessional behaviour, he formed a new band, Shane MacGowan and The Popes, recording two studio albums, a live album, three tracks on The Popes "Outlaw Heaven" (2010) and a live DVD, and touring internationally.

In 1997, MacGowan appeared on Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", covered by numerous artists in aid of Children in Need. It was the UK's number one single for three weeks, in two separate spells. Selling over a million copies, the record contributed £2,125,000 to the charity's highest fundraising total in six years.^[7]

In 2010, MacGowan offered a piece of unusual art to the ISPCC (Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) to auction off to support their services to children. ^[8] It ended up fetching €1,602 for the charity.^[9]

Shane MacGowan of The Pogues in 2006

The Pogues and MacGowan reformed for a sell-out tour in 2001 and each year from 2004 to 2009 for further tours, including headline slots at Guilfest in England and the Azkena Rock Festival in Spain. In 2005, The Pogues re-released "Fairytale of New York" to raise funds for the Justice For Kirsty Campaign and Crisis At Christmas. The single was the best-selling festive-themed single of 2005, reaching number 2 in the UK Charts. In the autumn of 2010, he played a number of shows with a new five-piece backing band, including In Tua Nua rhythm section Paul Byrne (drums) and Jack Dublin (bass), with manager Joey Cashman on whistle. This line up went to the Spanish island of Lanzarote in November 2010 to record a new album.^[10]

Boy From The County Hell by Brian Whelan

In 2006, he was voted 50th in the NME Rock Heroes List. He has been seen many times with The Libertines and Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty. MacGowan has joined Babyshambles on stage. Other famous friends include Johnny Depp, who starred in the video for "That Woman's Got Me Drinking", and Joe Strummer, who referred to MacGowan as "one of the best writers of the century". Strummer occasionally joined MacGowan and The Pogues on stage (and briefly replaced MacGowan as lead singer after his sacking from the band).

His sister is Siobhan MacGowan, a journalist, writer and songwriter, who released her album Chariot in 1998, and published a children's novel, Etain's Dream. In early March 2007, MacGowan announced plans to marry his longtime girlfriend, Victoria Mary Clarke.

Shane is the subject of a number of books and paintings. In 2000 Tim Bradford used the title Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? for a humorous book about Ireland and Irish culture.^[11] "Shaman Shane-The Wounded Healer" by Stephan Martin brands Shane as a latter-day London-Irish spirit-raiser and exorcist. This commentary is found in the book "Myth of Return - The Paintings of Brian Whelan and Collected Commentaries, 2007". London Irish artist Brian Whelan paints Shane, his works are featured on Shane's official website, and is also the illustrater of The Popes "Outlaw Heaven" cd (see above). ^[12]

When not touring with The Pogues, Shane plays with his new band, The Shane Gang. The band features John Daly (guitar), Joey Cashman (whistle), John "Sarge" O'Hara (keys), Jack Dublin (bass) and Paul Byrne (drums).^[13]

Substance abuse[link]

Shane MacGowan is known for his prolific use of legal and illegal drugs, and his erratic, intoxicated behaviour has often been reported on in the press. MacGowan claims to have been introduced to alcohol and cigarettes by his aunt on the promise he would not worship the devil. In a 2007 interview with the Daily Mirror he told a reporter: "I was actually four when I started drinking. I just remember that Ribena turned into stout and I developed an immediate love for it."^[14] MacGowan says he tried whiskey when he was 10 and continued to drink heavily thereafter.

In 2001, Sinéad O'Connor reported him to the police in London for drug possession — in what she said was an attempt to discourage him from using heroin.^[15] At first furious, MacGowan later expressed gratitude towards O'Connor and claimed that the incident helped him kick his heroin habit.^[1]

Speaking on BBC Four's Folk Britannia television programme in early 2006, Robyn Hitchcock recalled: "I remember going to the Hope and Anchor [a punk venue in London]. The Pogues were all on stage and ready, it was a full house, but they hadn't started yet. Then this character shambled in through the door and shambled downstairs. I thought, 'Jesus, you're not letting that guy in are you?'. Then he walked on stage. That guy was Shane MacGowan."

On 7 September 2002 MacGowan became so intoxicated before a performance at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin that he stopped singing and threw up over fans in the front row. Fiona Wynne wrote in the Daily Mirror that the consequent criticism of MacGowan's behaviour, "who was in a wheelchair after breaking his leg", led Sinéad O'Connor to call Joe Duffy's RTÉ Liveline programme three days later to defend him, saying: "He is an angel near the end who needs support. He's too far gone to stop drinking; he has an illness that cannot be cured, and as far as I can see, the end is near for him".^[16]

MacGowan has suffered physically from years of binge drinking. He often performs while drunk and has been impaired in interviews. In 2004 on the BBC TV political magazine programme This Week he gave incoherent and slurred answers to questions from Janet Street-Porter about the public smoking ban in Ireland.^[17]

MacGowan's fiancée, Victoria Mary Clarke, blamed his alcoholism for an earlier split, but in a 2007 interview, she said, "[Shane] loves a drink and he probably always will. But he drinks less than people think and I haven’t seen him drunk for quite some time". She blamed his problems with drink on fans ("it became difficult for us to get from A to B without being dragged into bars by well-wishers desperate to buy him a drink") and social anxiety. ("To cope with his social anxiety, he began drinking more and more")^[18]

Reality show[link]

In 2009, he starred in the RTÉ reality show Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own, as he and Victoria Mary Clarke endeavoured to grow their own food in their own garden.

Selected discography[link]

The Nips/Nipple Erectors

• Bops, Babes, Booze & Bovver (2003 Archived Compilation)

The Pogues singles

• "Poguetry in Motion E.P." (#29 UK)
• "The Irish Rover" (featuring The Dubliners) (#8 UK)
• "Fairytale of New York" (featuring Kirsty MacColl) - #2 UK; Reissued in 1991 (#24 UK), 2005 (#3 UK) and 2007 (#4 UK)
• "Fiesta" (#24 UK)

Solo singles

• "What a Wonderful World" (with Nick Cave, #69 UK)
• "The Church of the Holy Spook" (with The Popes, #74 UK)
• "That Woman's Got Me Drinking" (#34 UK)
• "Haunted" (with Sinéad O'Connor, #30 UK)
• "My Way" (#29 UK)
• "I Put a Spell on You" (with Nick Cave, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, Johnny Depp, Bobby Gillespie, Glen Matlock, Paloma Faith and Eliza Doolittle)

Guest appearances

• "Perfect Day" (Children in Need single, #1 UK)
• "The Wild Rover" (with Sinéad O'Connor) - Soldat Louis, album Auprès de ma bande, 1993
• "The Wild Rover" and "Good Rats" (with Dropkick Murphys)
• "Ride On" and "Spancill Hill" (with Cruachan)
• "What a Wonderful World" (with Nick Cave, 1992)
• "God Help Me" (with The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stoned & Dethroned, 1994)
• "Suite sudarmoricaine", "Tri Martolod", "The Foggy Dew" (Foggy Dew) (with Alan Stivell, Again, 1994)
• "Death Is Not the End" (on Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads LP, 1996)
• "Waiting 'Round to Die" (on The Mighty Stef's 100 Midnights, 2009)
• "Four Leaf Lover Boy" and "Full of Sh*t" (on Galia Arad's Ooh La Baby, 2010)
• "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" (on The Priests' Noel, 2010)

LPs

• Red Roses for Me (with The Pogues, October 1984)
• Rum Sodomy & the Lash (with The Pogues, August 1985)
• If I Should Fall from Grace with God (with The Pogues, January 1988)
• Peace and Love (with The Pogues, 1989)
• Hell's Ditch (with The Pogues, 1990)
• The Snake (with Shane MacGowan and the Popes, June 1995)
• The Crock of Gold (with Shane MacGowan and the Popes, October 1997)
• Across the Broad Atlantic: Live on Paddy's Day - New York and Dublin (with Shane MacGowan and the Popes, February 2002)

Filmography[link]

• The Punk Rock Movie - 1979 (archive footage appearance as himself)
• Eat the Rich - 1987
• Straight to Hell - 1987
• The Pogues - Live at the Town & Country - 1988
• The Ghosts of Oxford Street - 1991
• Shane MacGowan & The Popes: Live at Montreux 1995 - 1995
• The Filth and the Fury - 2000 (archive footage appearance as himself) ^[19]
• If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story - 2001
• Westway to the World - 2002 (archive footage appearance as himself)
• The Libertine - 2005
• Harry Hill's TV Burp - 2007
• Harry Hill's TV Burp - 2010

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Shane McGowan

• Official Shane MacGowan website
• http://www.myspace.com/thenippleerectors
• Official Pogues website
• Official Brian Whelan website

Steve Coogan
Holding a producer credit for The 1 Second Film in January 2005
Born	Stephen John Coogan (1965-10-14) 14 October 1965 (age 46) Middleton, Lancashire, England
Occupation	Actor, stand-up comedian, writer, producer
Spouse	Caroline Hickman (m. 2002–2005; divorced)
Relatives	Brendan Coogan, Martin Coogan (brothers)

Stephen John "Steve" Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is a BAFTA-winning English actor, comedian, writer, impressionist and producer. Born in Middleton, Lancashire, he began his career as a stand-up comedian and impressionist, working as a voice artist throughout the 1980s on satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early 1990s, Coogan began creating original comic characters which he presented in stage shows, this led to him winning the 1992 Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, for his show with long-time collaborator John Thomson. The most prominent characters he developed at this time were Paul Calf, a stereotypical lower class Mancunian and his sister the promiscuous Pauline (played by Coogan in drag).

Working with Chris Morris, Patrick Marber and Armando Iannucci for On the Hour and The Day Today, Coogan developed his most popular and most developed character; Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality, who developed to feature in his own eponymous television series, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I'm Alan Partridge, which were well received and were nominated for five BAFTAs in total. Outside the UK, Coogan is better known for his roles in films including 24 Hour Party People, The Wind in the Willows, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Night at the Museum, Tropic Thunder, Hamlet 2, A Cock and Bull Story, The Trip and The Other Guys.

On 22 November 2011, Coogan, along with Hugh Grant, gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on phone hacking, favouring regulation of the press.

Early life[link]

Coogan is one of seven children born to Kathleen (née Coonan), a housewife, and Anthony Coogan, an IBM engineer.^[1][2][3] He was born in his parents' house and brought up in Alkrington,^[4][5] a suburb of Middleton, north of Manchester, in an Irish working class family.^[6] Coogan was brought up as a Roman Catholic.^[7][8][9] He had a happy childhood growing up with four brothers and two sisters, and in addition his parents fostered children on a short-term basis, sometimes accommodating two or three foster children at a time.^[4] Coogan had a talent for impersonation, and wanted to go to drama school, despite being advised by a teacher that it could lead to a precarious profession.^[4]