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I\'m a hedonist.
I believe in going with the flow.
I\'m a Catholic Taoist.
I don\'t agree with dogmatic morality....
There\'s no bigger bastard than an Irish bastard.
There are some glaring exceptions to that rule...
That\'s a bit of a generalisation of course.
I think women are attracted by the fact that Irishmen are so much more intelligent than Englishmen.
And women always find Irishmen attractive.
Nobody loves like an Irishman.
Great sportsmen, great soldiers, great musicians, great lovers, great artists.
I\'m proud to be one of them.
What a talented race.
I\'m proud of everything the Irish do well....
A good musician has to put music before everything.
You\'ve got to have this welling up inside you, like wanting to be sick, you know? Then you\'ve got to scream it out, you\'ve got to sing it out, you\'ve got to play it out, you\'ve got to make music, you know what I mean? That\'s what a musician is.
You\'ve got to have a strong urge to be heard.
I took the opportunities.
In their own different ways both places offer plenty of opportunity to get in trouble.
I was brought up on a farm and then in London.
I\'m a lucky guy, as a general rule.
Shane MacGowan You know, some people are lucky, and some people aren\'t.
The book provides an intimate view on 40 years of music, mayhem and magic, capturing MacGowan in many unique situations...
Shane was in fine form the next day - this image is one of several great pictures from that shoot.
The cover picture for the book was Andrew\'s first portrait of Shane, shot in a Liverpool hotel room after an evening of drinking that ended with the whole band, the crew, publicist and journalists, all passed out on the floor of the bar.
The pictures used for the projections during the 60th birthday concert in Dublin were all from Andrew\'s archive.
More recently he shot the first portrait since Shane got his new teeth, and was featured in the documentary telling the story of their reconstruction.
He continued to work with Shane, photographing him with the Popes and shooting pictures for many of the record sleeves, as well as for Victoria\'s book, A Drink with Shane MacGowan.
Andrew Catlin has been photographing Shane and the Pogues since their first London gigs, through till Shane left the band.
This is by way of a celebrating the story so far...
At the end of 2018 he\'s done it again.
For forty years journalists predicted Shane wouldn\'t live to see the end of the year
