January 2004 - Updated tour dates, added exclusive Interview and pix, updated artwork gallery, added new poll (Best Shane MacGowan album)

December 2003 - Updated tour dates, added Shane MacGowan best song poll, added new forum

November 2003 - Links checked, tour dates, artwork and gallery pictures added, redesigned the Nips discography, more to follow very soon

April 2003 - Shane Goes to Prison!

April 2003 - Updated Tour Dates

April 2003 - Band Biographies updated

April 2003 - I.I.S.F.F.G. DVD Finally Available

March 2003 - New Recent Articles Added

February 2003 - Guestbook Added

11th September 2002

• Shane as DJ at B.P. Fallon's "Death Disco Dublin" in wheelchair with cigarette & drinks at hand
• Canadian magazine features Shane prominently (in colour! and apparently pre-paunch) on the cover

24th June 2001 Updated the news and the following articles:

• A man of many words and few teeth
• Death In Shane's Orbit
• Saturday, March 31, - Vic Theatre, Chicago
• Drinking in Shane's words
• Shane MacGowan gets the drinks in
• Extract from 'A Drink with Shane MacGowan'
• The sound and the fury
• Shane MacGowan gets the drinks in
• Double Shot of Celtic Soul
• A journey down Vatican Row
• THE POPES - Holloway Boulevard (Snapper Music)
• A Man You Don't Meet Everyday
• La Zona Rosa, November 2000
• Kiss the Pope's Ring
• Pals' Fears For Stars Health After Concert
• Sinead Shops Shane
• Punk rings true, renewed
• Ex-Pogue rogue gets upstaged
• Shane MacGowan and the Popes, The Snake, 4 Stars
• Irving Plaza, N.Y. December 2000
• MacGowan's St. Pat's Return
• Playboy.com Bellies Up to the Bard
• Irving Plaza (November 2000)
• The Forum, London December 99

20^th January 2001 - Added more news and a few more links.

21^st December 2000 - As well as moving the site to this new location, I have updated many pages including the news, links and band pages. A lot of work has gone into relaunching this site, and I would like to thank the two Michaels for all their patience and help. More updates coming soon!

25th October 1999 Updated the news, added new pics and the following articles:

• Shane on Wine (Stuff, June 1998)
• The Mighty Mac (The Irish Voice, June 1999)
• Mean Fiddler (FOS, September 1998)
• Junkyard Angels (IISFFGWG) (Hot Press, October 1999)
• Singer's fightback fails to disguise his fall from grace (The Guardian, March 1999)
• Guinness Fleadh Concert Serves Up Intoxicating Sounds (SonicNet, June 1999)
• Eire Apparent (Fleadh 99) (Village Voice, July 1999)
• Guinness fest taps Irish sound (Fleadh 99) (Boston Herald, June 1999)
• Even sans Van, Fleadh was great fun (Fleadh 99) (Boston Globe, June 1999)
• House of Blues 1999 (LA Times, June 1999)
• Fleadhless performances in Finsbury (Irish World, July 1999)
• Lazy, sunny afternoon (Fleadh) (The Guardian, July 1999)

16th September 1999 Visit our new merchandise page, which sells official CDs and T-shirts.

31^st October - Added the latest news, including details of Shane's charity Christmas Party. Also interviews were added from: Sunday Tribune 1987, Sunday Independent 1993, and The Irish Post 1998.

18^th September - Been a while since the last update, but I've added plenty of new articles today, including the following: interviews from The Sunday World 1991 (Spider Stacy), an extract from The Dark Stuff, Beat (Norway), the RTE Guide 1997, and The Irish Voice 1998; reviews from The Independent 1990, The Sunday Tribune 1989, WOM (German) 1994, and Philadelphia Inquiror; news headlines from Evening Press 87 and 1989, The Star 1993, The Irish Voice 1998, Cybersleaze 1998; and gig reviews from Evening Press/1993, ZILLO magazine/1994 (German), Beat (Norway)/Feb 1995, Bergens Tidende/Feb 1995, another from Beat/Feb 1995, another from Bergens Tidende/Feb 1995, yet another from Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian)/Feb 1995, Hot Press/October 1997, , SF Chronicle/June 1998, and LA Times/June 1998.

29^th June - Updated the news page and added the following: an interview from the latest Rock n Reel, another from the Irish Post, a London Fleadh review also from the Irish Post, a review of the March tour from the FOS newsletter, and album reviews in German from Bild, Magascene, Rolling Stone, and Kölner Stadtanzeiger.

3^rd May - Updated the news page with the transmission dates for the What's Another Year video, and a link to CD Ireland, where you can buy Siobahn MacGowan's new album over the internet. The following articles (in English) were added: a 1994 interview from Rock 'n' Reel (latest one coming soon), a short interview from the latest Q magazine, a Crock of Gold review from Spinal Column, news of Shane at the Hot Press music awards from the Evening Herald and the Sunday World, news from Germany from Reuters Ltd, and a short review from the recent gig in Cork. The following articles in German were added (and can be read in English using AltaVista Translations): Ingrid's recent interview from ZILLO magazine, and reviews of The Crock of Gold from Einblick, Plärrer Stadtmagazin, Cocktail, Hotline, Coolibri and Intro.

1^st April - Updated the news page with tour dates, and added the following articles: a recent interview from The Sunday Business Post, NME headlines about FLEADH '97 and Liverpool, NME's review of The Crock of Gold, and Q magazine reviews of Red Roses For Me / Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Hell's Ditch. and The Best Of The Rest.

8^th March - Updated the news page, and added the following articles: a highly unreliable account of the recent Manchester gig from the News Of The World (trust me, I was there!); a Dutch review of Crock of Gold (in Dutch!); three 1995 gig reviews courtesy of DzM from the Denver Post, The Vancouver Sun, and Los Angeles Times; and many reviews of The Snake (again courtesy of DzM) from The Irish Times, The Vancouver Sun, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Newsday, Asbury Park Press, The Austin American-Statesman, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Dayton Daily News, The Village Voice, The Courier-Journal, and the Star Tribune.

16^th February - Added the following articles: Another Crock review from the Irish Voice, interviews from 1984 and 1985, news headlines from NME about banning the Birmingham Six and The Star about Shane's aborted chat show, a review from the Olympia Theatre, Dublin 1994 and an interview with Alex Cox about making Straight To Hell.

28^th January - Re-organized the Photo Gallery with many new pictures, and added the following articles: Papal Indulgence (Rock 'n' Reel, Winter 1997), Question and Answer (The Band, January 1998) and Wall of Sound (Irish Post, January 1998).

12^th January - Updated the news and links pages. Also, take a look at a review of this site (amongst others) from this week's Irish Post. Thanks Jim!

4^th January - Added the following: an article by Shane about Christmas, a superb biographical article from VOX (recommended), another interview detailling Shane's diverse musical tastes, the Q magazine album review, recent gig reviews from Newcastle, Nottingham, Reading and Norwich (from The Times). Also there more older articles: Melody Maker in Paris 1991, a gig review from Toronto 1995, a review of The Snake from People magazine and an interview with Spider Stacy in German from 1990.

4^th December - Added the following articles: Gold Bars (review of The Crock of Gold) (Hot Press, November 1997), Shane MacGowan Interview (The Irish World, November 1997) and Shane MacGowan - neuer Start mit neuer Band (November 1994, ZILLO magazine - in German).

30^th November - Added the following article: One more for the road (Daily Telegraph, November 1997)

27^th November - Added the following articles: Shane's Gonna send 'Em Home Sweatin' (The Irish Post, November 1997), Review of The Crock of Gold (Boston Globe, November 1997), and Review of The Crock of Gold (The Times, November 1997).

16^th November - Added the following articles: Give 'Em Enough Pope (NME, November 1997) and Letter (Irish Post, November 1997).

13^th November - Added the following articles: Paddy's Got A Brand New Bag (The Irish Voice, November 1997), Out of it in a world of his own (The Irish Times, today!), Ex-Pogue Revives A Dismal Career (The Snake) (The Record, August 1995), and Shane MacGowan back with sound and fury (Boston Globe, August 1995).

9^th November - Meet the band: Danny, Tom, Paul, John, Bob, and Kieran.

6^th November - Added the following articles: "The Grand", London, St. Patrick's Night 1994 (May 1994, ZILLO magazine - in German), In Praise of Shane (Irish Newspaper, November 1994), Yes, he's still alive (The Guardian, October 1997), Review of The Crock of Gold (Daily Telegraph, October 1997), The Genius of Mad Dog MacGowan - a review of The Crock of Gold (Jim McCool, October 1997), Lonesome Highway - a review (Melody Maker, November 1997), and Lonesome Highway - a review (NME, November 1997).

27^th October - Added the lyrics to the new album, this month's Loaded interview, and an FOS review with photos from the recent Dublin gigs.

19^th October - Added this month's Q interview, albeit not entirely accurate.

7^th October - Updated the discography with more entries, cover art and lyrics. The Pogues section has been sub-divided and should now download a lot faster. I have also added the lyrics to some of The Nips songs (thanks to Ingrid). If anyone can fill in the blanks, or supply lyrics to more songs then please get in touch.

7^th September - Added more scans to the Photo Gallery and loads more articles to the Press Archive, including: Roamin' Catholic (Time Out, September 1994), ADDER FEW DRINKS - Shane and Johnny Depp (NME, October 1994), "I've always been a Johnnie Walker fan" - Shane's diary (Q magazine, December 1994) , Here Comes A Regular (Spin Magazine, October 1995), Kick Asp Rock 'n' Roll (NME, October 1994), Serpentine Gentlemen, Please (Melody Maker, October 1994), and Review of The Snake (Q magazine, December 1994).

25^th August - Added a new Photo Gallery and a page introducing The Popes. I have also added more cover art to the The Pogues and Related Releases discography sections.

7^th August- Added Shane's Fairytale in Tipp (Evening Herald, December 1996) and Christmas Drinks with Shane (Evening Herald, December 1996).

30^th July 1997- A Q article from '96 about Shane's amazing constitution!

24^th May - Added an interview with Shane Macgowan, Mark E Smith and Nick Cave from NME, February 1989, an interview from January 1994 with Shane from ZILLO magazine (in German), and ZILLO magazine's review of the Christmas '96 concert (in German).

23^rd May - Added a a review of Shane's appearance at the Viper Room in Hollywood, May 1995.

22^nd May - Today I've updated the news, redone all of the logos, and added a review of Shane headlining the London/NY Fleadh.

6^th May - Well, loads has been added recently. The discography section now has a scan for every single, album, etc.... There are approx. 150 in total, so have a look. Today I added 4 new gig reviews, Review from the Chicago Tribune(August 1995) from a local paper, Review from the Boston Herald (August 1995) from a local paper, Review from a Norwegian paper of the Popes gig at the Echo, Bergen May 1997, and An FOS review of Shane headlining the Homecoming festival, Cork on 1st June 1997. I've also updated the news page with pictures from Holland last month.

28^th April 1997 - After a very quiet month, I can now unveil the new, highly detailed discography. Everything in it has been updated, so take a good look around.

28^th March 1997 - Completely re-did the links pages today with many new places to visit, so have a look! Also updated the news page earlier this week after meeting Shane - pictures coming soon. Finally, I added the cover art for the Soldat Louis album to the Related Releases section.

19^th March 1997 - Added cover art to 3 other Nips releases.

7^th March 1997- Been a few weeks, I know. I updated the News section last week, and added about 10 new articles to the In Print section. Today I've added the words to An Irish Airman Foresees his Death, an entry for the new Yeats CD in the Related CDs section, plus more cover art and details of compilation CDs to The Nips section.

15^th February 1997 - Hey, it's been a busy 2 weeks and I've hardly had time to do anything to the web pages. Anyway, I've finally got my ass into gear and added the information about FRIENDS OF SHANE. It would be nice if some of you dropped Ingrid a line to show her just what a friendly bunch of people we are on the net!

3^rd February 1997 - By popular demand, well DzM actually, I ditched the into sound clip (anyone sorry?) I've also finally gotten around to adding a bibliography section, as quite a few of you had sent in suggestions. BTW, thanks to Steve Kovar for letting me steal his scan of the cover to 'The Lost Decade.' I've also added the lyrics to NW3, Rake at the Gates of Hell, and King of the Bop. Can anyone complete the words to that last song?

31^st January 1997 - Added more release details to The Nips discography page, plus two Nips sound clips!

30^th January 1997 - Added details for the LILT and Soldat Louis CDs to the related releases with Shane section, plus a new bootlegs section.

29^th January 1997 - Spoken to Ingrid and updated the news page with album news, tour dates and broken hips....

23^rd January 1997 - Added lyrics to Christy Moore's version's of Fairytale of New York and Aisling, as well as redesigning this page!

21^st January 1997 - Going up in the world - became the official web-site for the 'Friends of Shane International Fan Club'.

20^th January 1997 - Added a Telegraph article about a CD of Yeats poetry featuring Shane. 19^th January 1997 - Added much more to the discography. Check out the 2 related releases pages, with Shane and without Shane!

18^th January 1997 - Busy week! I've added the lyrics to the whole of 'The Snake' and most of the singles. Just click on the song title. There's also 2 new newspaper articles under In Print.

10^th January 1997 - Finally completed the logo for the page by saving it as a GIF with a transparent background, and made the introductory sound clip much shorter.

7^th January 1997 - The cover art for 'Earthrise II' (Related Releases) and both releases of 'The Snake' (Albums) are now on-line. Also, there's a report from Shane's London gig last month with a set list which I got from the Popes' guitarist (the one with lots of hair) and some photos which we took there.

6^th January 1997 - The background is now smaller and neater, and the main logo blends in better too.

5^th January 1997 - Today I've tidied up the menus at the bottom of each page, and added sound samples for Alan Stivell's 3 songs with Shane to the Related Releases section. Who would have though it - Shane sings Breton!

3^rd January 1997 - Over the past month the Discography section has widely expanded, and other sections have been added.

9^th December 1996 - This page is born, originally titled 'Snake With Eyes Of Garnet', with sound clips and cover art for Shane's new Christmas EP.

1^st December 1996 - My homepage comes on-line.