Ah. Is it from covid or something that there’s no audience
They got ridd of the audience for Covid. Made it better so they never brought them back. It’s a good watch most weeks
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Or did they get rid, bring them back and then get rid of the audience again? Think there was an audience when Roy Keane was on.
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You could be right. Better without anyway
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I thought that last season was very poor in terms of guests.
There were some excellent interviews previous to that though.
Back tonight on RTE1, first interview with Pete Doherty is incredible
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Seems to be a lovely man
That was an extraordinary interview.
He is but he’s obviously fucked up and will never be normal, like an English Shane McGowan. He was Britain’s last great rock star. He could only be interviewed by somebody like Tiernan who behaves like a therapist.
He still looks cool. When he was younger he was beautiful, outrageously beautiful.
This is one of the great songs of the 21st century. It should have featured in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
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Agree with most of that. I’d say he’s not doing too bad now though. He is coherent and capable of proper introspection . I can never recall McGowan being capable of either
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Irvine Welsh is a good character too.
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There’s a real drugs theme to this show. Perhaps Michael Van Gerwen will be the third guest.
He’s turned a corner. Obviously messed up from all the drugs but doing well. I know a lad (cc: Flatty) who owns a record label and he said that it’s remarkable Doherty is alive and also back touring.
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He does have a few dodgy incidents in his past following him around including running away from the death of a lad ‘falling’ off a balcony in London that has never been solved.
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He surely is but I thought that was a disappointing interview. Tommy didn’t really draw him out, or maybe Irvine just didn’t want to be drawn out.
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McGowan was well capable of introspection but he did most of it in his songs. Doherty has an addict’s face. He’s still relatively young. But the addict’s face never leaves. The demons are always there and the body doesn’t hold up forever. When you’re “well” you’re only ever five minutes away from the next problem. He’ll be like that for the rest of his life, he’ll only ever be winging it.
I thought he was about to opine about whether Rory McIlroy would win a major this year.
He certainly was but Shane didn’t write a decent song for the last 20s years of his life. I don’t remember him being too coherent in those years either.
He’s 45 apparently. When he took off the hat he’d pass for 65.
Without putting a hex on the lad he’ll do well to break 50.
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I once had avcouple of afternoon drinks with welsh…probably in sandy bells in Edinburgh, might have been the royal oak. I didn’t know who he was until his mates arrived, then i half surmised that he was a reasonably big deal. It was post trainspotting, which I’d neither seen nor read…bit i did get mad into it soon afterwards. I was drinking Caledonian IPA, he said ipa stood for “i pish out af my arse”. I’d a habit of reading a novel associated with a city that i was visiting, he hadn’t read it, but was very keen on hearing about it. I’m fucked if i can remember what it was called, but i told him it was like some victorian scotch Presbyterian version of American psycho.
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