…how come, when they cover the huge public turnout for Shane McGowan’s funeral procession through the streets of Dublin, they focus on a bunch of street musicians playing a song about Salford written by a Scot – Ewan MacColl – and not a Shane original?
Have they no soul? Are they that slack at their reporting that they didn’t know who the song they featured had been written by? Couldn’t they be bothered to find some guys playing one of his own, rather than a song the Pogues could only be said to have perhaps latterly made their own for casual listeners? Where’s the Reithian rigour when you need it? Sloppy sods.
Harrumph
