The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
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Containing the Irish legend's biggest hits spanning 1984 to 1996. Included among the 30 tracks is the nation's favorite Christmas song and 1million seller 'Fairytale of New York,' the top10 single 'Irish Rover,' as well as the classic 'Whiskey in the Jar' and fan favorite 'Fiesta.'
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RIP Shane, a unique talent. Hope they have Guinness in heaven
He loved a Dublin Guinness.
Met him a couple of times down Camden Town, a boozer just down from McDonald’s used to sell it. All from Park Royal now…
And wiskey in the jar
A pint of the black and a shot of J.
YOU BET THEY DO! ❤ 😊
It wouldn't be heaven without Guinness!
Rest in peace, sir. Thank you for giving us this song 🙏
Wasn't written by him, though.
@@DanCoffeehe didn’t say it was… he sang it though
They as in the band brought this amazing song to a much larger audience
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Old_Town @@Kevo9t9
another popular voice, who made this song worldwide known, who passed away R.I.P
I've been crying all day. The Pogues music literally altered the course of my life, sent me on a journey that saw me taking up mandolin and learning traditional Irish music, inspiring me to move to Cork City, Ireland for a spell, to learn more about my ancestral homeland. None of that would have happened without Shane's brilliant music. RIP Shane.
I started listening to traditional Irish music and loving my heritage because of them too. I haven’t made it over there yet, unfortunately. So sad about the news today. 😓💚🙏🏻
Same with me - played the accordion again from my youth 😢
Welcome home Angela 🍻
Good luck hope all goes well 💚
Hope all goes well for you ❤
This song was played at my grandads funeral last week 😢 you are so loved and truly missed. RIP my beautiful grandad ❤❤❤
Bless you mate
@@leetushingham5277 thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Your very welcome chin up mate 👍
This song will resonated in the worlds dirty old towns forever. Thanks Shane , you did bloody well .
So so true! He is immortal.
@@cryptolights6879öiököooo
True. for me it is Dresden 1993.
God damn right
My favorite Pogues song
30.11.23 Tonight I wil get some whisky, play your records, sing aloud, cry with joy, and get drunk in your honor. Thanks for all the poetry and music, Shane. Rest in peace
A pare of brown eyes❤
I already started with two or three....
Sláinte! I'm the same and I'm sure we certainly won't be alone tonight in saluting this legend.
I start at 10:00 this morning😢
Trink einen für mich mit, ich bin weg davon
Mum passed away recently and this was played at her wake. Everyone was singing along. Rip mum rip Shane x
May your mum rest in peace mate x
Sorry for your loss ❤
May your mum rest in peace, God has an angel back in heaven! xx
This song makes me cry. All the lives lived, the aspirations, the romances, and the mundane everyday doldrum - all of it lived out in forgotten and neglected corners of the world... it all rings clear in my mind when this song plays. God bless.
Nicely stated couldn’t agree more you must have an Irish soul
Aye....
@@41corsairthis is an English folk song about an English city, Salford.
I am a 49 year old french person. When I was a teenager I was a fan of The Pogues. When I started making my own money by working during holiday periods, Rhum, Sodomy and the Lash was one of the very first CD I ever bought. Rest in peace Shane.
For me, it was one of my first cassettes! And still one of my favourites.
47 year old German. My first boyfriend played this song for me in 1992, in Dresden, former East Germany. Then it was a dirty old town. And I felt the change in my body, in my town and in the world. RIP Shane.
Je suis vosgiens et j habite en irlande et cette chanson m a fait rever Avant d etre ici.... Merci macgowan
Les ravages de l'alcool...
@@walcibiade1635 so what ...
A true Irish man that sang songs with heart. RIP 💚
I believe he was English.
@@patrickfarrell5092only by birth
R.I.P God bless.
Legend!!
@@patrickfarrell5092English by birth, Irish by blood. Both parents were Irish.
@@patrickfarrell5092 Shane was born in England, the son of Irish immigrants.
Meny good nights in your company god bless you will ❤
Someone who’s voice made you extra proud to be Irish🍀RIP Shane🍀
Unlike that certain gentleman who is your country's boss man.
Not bad coming from London eh!!!!
Not many factories left anymore. I worked in some as a young man. It was deafening, brutal and dirty for the most part, but there always seemed to be one or two pretty young girls about to notice. One winter's late afternoon day I got up the nerve to ask a certain girl if I could walk her home. It was getting dark by then. Somewhere along the way she took my hand and held it until we got to her door. Nothing ever came of it, but holding that sweet girl's hand, whose life was no better than mine, was one of the greatest thrills of my long life. This song reminded me of it.
I worked in factories all my stinking brutal places with hard work and harder men they suck the life out of you then cast you out your youth and hopes gone forever fuck them forever
God bless you brother
God bless you all
I worked in factories in Coventry as a young man your right they were dirty smelly brutal places you had to grow up quickly or get stomped on I saw it all accidents fights there was no such thing as health and safety you took your chance and you carried if you didn't you got no money at the end of the week when your wages were paid in cash we all queud up like robots waited for your weekly wage
Beautiful story
This song is about my grandad's hometown, Salford, and it's meant a lot to me over the years. Shane made it his own. We've lost a beautiful poet. May his rest in peace.
Am pretty sure it's a song about Glasgow, but it's irrelevant RIP Shane 😢🍀
Salford 👍 Rest now, Shane and thank you ❤
I didn't know that it was a cover. It's one of my favorite Pogues songs.
@@abraxasjinx5207 i didn’t know it was a cover either!
Nous avons tous notre dirty old town… Thanks dear Shane
I named one of my guinea pigs Pogue Mahone, for reasons good; had to have him put to sleep yesterday. Id sing this song while holding him, sang it for him one last time yesterday. Pogue, hope wherever you are in the hereafter you meet up with Shane McGowan and he can sing it to you in my place!!! A great song.
Sorry to hear that. I have to put my dog down tomorrow. It sux.
@R_Arizona sorry for you, losing a good pet is never easy.
and another one sign I'm old,,,shane gone, I'm 74,, one of the best songs I've ever heard 😢😢😢😢
My mom sang this to me almost every night growing up. RIP Shane
That's brilliant 👏🏼
RIP Shane MacGowan (December 25, 1957 - November 30, 2023), aged 65
You will be remembered as a legend.
Rest in Paradise Shane. An enlightening human to say the least. Great talent.
"May the wind that blows from haunted graves
Never bring you misery
May the angels bright
Watch you tonight
And keep you while you sleep
Definitely shedding some tears today. I feel like I grew up with Shane and the Pogues during my college years. Making beer every week and getting fluthered listening to the Pogues with friends. Saw them at the Wiltern in LA when Joe Strummer stood in for him. I finally got a chance to see him in San Francisco many years later. He didn't disappoint. May his soul rest peacefully.
Amazing mate! Hold those memories, I'm jealous!
That's such a cool story Strummer standing in and then and Shane at a later date? Imagine something like that today, impossible, they don't do it for the fans like that anymore.
I’m a grown ass 45 year old man and cried like a baby listening to this song. Found them in the early 90s. RIP brother. This is music!
I gave up the booze 6 months ago, but I'll be raising a zero alcohol Guinness for Shane tonight.
This is my boys favourite song. They always ask me to play it. They're 2 & 3 and are currently bopping around my living room to it.
RIP 🕊 you were a legend!
Fair play for giving up the alcohol pal
Keep sober buddy.nearly 2 years sober myself now.i know it's not easy.good luck.
The zero alcohol Guinness is brilliant
Any tips brother? Cocaine addict here, and fucking hate it and myself.
@@kristofermontgomerie144 it will change so much.Quiting.For me it was,stop lying to myself.Takung responsibility for every moment from now.But you stop hating yourself.
Love this. It could be about any town during the deindustrialisation of the late 70s to early 90s and those of us who grew up in that era. Pure genius.
I"m french, but really, i"m so, so , so sad.... ...RIP Shane , now you are an angel in paradise ! Long live Ireland as free as you always wanted!
I always felt this was about my dirty ol'town of Belfast... but I'm sure many people feel it's about their home towns. Rest in Peace Shane, ye'beautiful ol'poet ye.
It’s written about Salford
Sometimes, during a family meal my father was taking his harmonica and me my guitar ... he has been gone since 2017 and every time I listen to this song , my throat tightens and tears come ... Life is only memories ...
Cherish these memories. Beautiful scottish highlands
a fraction of life is memories. The ratio of old to new grows larger with every day. I remember my 70 year old grandmother scanning the obituaries... which she had stopped by her death at 99 still sharp as a tack, she just didn't know anyone outside family anymore. I am sorry for your loss
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greetings from Mexico, we thank the brave Irish that fought and died with us defending my country against American invasion.
I feel for you my dad looked like the legend lol and it always gets me merry Christmas
“Life is only memories” well said my friend🤝
This mans voice brings out emotions I didn't know I had. RIP Shane.
RIP, a punk a poet and an Irishman 💔🕊
Počivao u miru i svjetlost vječna neka ti svjetli! Hvala za pjesme kojima si uljepšao svijet! 🇭🇷
Who gives a shit about looks or teeth when you can evoke this emotion and sing with such beauty
His teeth are great now ... who cares most underated poet i can think of his lyrics are unreal on some songs
I think he s fucking great Bad teeth and all xx
I wish the fella would look after himself better
So right love from IRELAND🍀🍀🍀🍀🙋
i hear thet song every day when i drive to work
I was Punk,Gothic,Skinhead in the 80s but on every party we played this song.
Farwell i will never forget you.
R.I.P.
I'm a Dutchman and a big fan Shane, will never forget him, he turned things upside down during his concerts. RIP.
RIP Shane MacGowan, and thanks for all of the wonderful music.
This song means so much to me, more than I could ever confide or express. When I was a young man with a full-head of hair and a straight spine i would pick up my girlfriend after she worked her shift as a bartender at a local bar in Old Town, Alexandria, VA. This was back around 1984. On those torpid, steaming-hot summer nights, i would lean up against the red-brick wall while I waited for her and let the still-warm bricks warm my back and whistle this song. Oh, to be 24 again, with life strung out ahead of me like an endless highway, mom and dad there to confide in if things went askew and Tina, my precious bartender/ballerinia waiting for me after work.
You're a poet!!
That's very kind of you, but I doubt if Tina or anyone else shares your opinion! Still, thank you all the same.
lived in dc, van doren st, area as which spoke of you did....many a great times, & fun Music nights back in the day, was there bout the same time, & there is only 1, old-town Alexandria....was there I was.....good post,...:)
Thanks Steve. Looks like I'll be seeing OT again, sooner than I expected when I wrote that comment. My wife and I are going back to visit family for Xmas and I think I'm going to stay there (my wife's company transferred her down to Houston two years ago and I've been out of work ever since so I figure if I'm going to be unemployed, it ought to be someplace where I can find work). Really looking forward to drinking a beer at Murphy's, or a bowl of Seafood Stew in the Fish Market. Winter in Old Town, friggin awesome!!!
Brilliant memory. What ever happened to you and Tina? I have to know.
This song always gives me chills. R.I.P, you fine Irish trabadour! We will never see his like again.
A Poet, Writer, Lyricist, Singer, Rebel, and all round man of his convictions .......... God Bless you mate
Just a highly talented unique Singer, they dont make them like him anymore. RIP Shayne ♥
Definitely, and sounded like where he came from. Rare breed.
Had an half hour chat with shane in 1995 at window rock, belgium, I will never forget this
I'm having a Guinness in Shane's memory!! R.i.p. A celtic punk legend. You are missed. Rest easy my friend!!
Memories of my trip to Ireland when I was 15. A Frenchman who loved the Pogues. RIP Shane
Rest in peace Shane lad...Being born in a mill town in Lancashire (now greater Manchester for some reason) I can relate to this song so much. Wonderful version by Shane and the lads. Gods Speed.
I’m a Lancashire lad. Born in Oldham.
@@leeclarke2317Same, a Lancashire Lass, born and bred in Oldham.
My grandfather was born and raised in Salford before shipping off to France at the age of 17 to fight in the second world war. After being captured by the Germans twice and escaping twice he was hidden by the French and Belgian resistance for more than 4 years, at great expense to themselves. The town he was hiding in was eventually liberated and he was sent back home to Salford. Maybe being back home was too much for him after the war but he moved to Australia shortly after and raised a family over here. He passed away last year at the ripe old age of 98. I can't hear the opening harmonica of this song without immediately tearing up thinking about him.
God Love 'em.
May he rest in peace.
nice story Mark, my grandpa was in Wehrmacht and he also loved Pogues, he died almost 30 years ago but I guess no one likes to hear his side of the story
@@golem3080 i would like to hear it.
My gand dad was in th the first foreign cavalry regiment , 5th armored div, 1st free french army, from 1942 to 46', and he had a lot of respect for german soldiers.
May we never be at war again.
And now the people he fought for want to delete old towns and replace them with globo-topias.
J'ai 51a et je viens aussi d'une Dirty Old Town d'un bassin industriel "John Cockerill" en Belgique...
J'étais ado dans les 80s et heureux d'avoir vécu ces années avec tous ces artistes comme The Pogues !
Ce 02 Décembre 2023... R.I.P Shane 🕊️
This was a staple at my teen culchie discos. R.I.P Shane, a true Irish legend. Your music never did and never will let us forget to be proud of who we are. We will never forget you ☘️🇮🇪
We're not culchies just because we're not from the pale and don't forget it, people like us built the world.
Just had this song in my dads funeral because he loved this song so much it means so much to me this song does
Lashy YT sorry for your loss...hugs
i had in my dads too mate.... brings back so many memories. R.I.P dad x
Rip
Rest in paradise🙏🙏
God bless you all
One of the most beautiful songs ever. Love from Sweden.
Written by Ewan MacColl and it's about his home town Salford, Lancashire in 1949.
A poet from his heart and to the bone. It's a painful loss for us, but I hope you can feel our love from the other side❤️😢❤️
Many tears will be shed for you Shane. Thank you for sharing your beautiful mind and lyrics with us
What's marvelous about this song and the Pogues is that they could rise up to sublime quality out of misery and the mundane.
RIP Shane MacGowan. One of the very few who weve lost to have made me shed a tear 🍀
RIP Shane and thank you for your music!
RIP You absolute legend.
Christmas will never be the same knowing the man who sang the single greatest Christmas song is no longer with us.
As much as I love The Pogues, one of my greatest fears is to be bitten by Shane MacGowan.
haha
He does? post a pix please! I love him & 1 of my wishes is that he would get the balls to get his teeth fixed!
He certainly has bad teeth.
He certainly has bad teeth.
+Johnny Black not any more. all gone.
Memories of this.... stationed in Belfast as British soldier, and dating a Catholic girl who lived in Holywood. This would always be on the jukebox in the Seaside Tavern and we'd sit inside listening, drinking, cuddling whilst the mayhem of Belfast went on outside a few miles away in the wind and rain. I associate Belfast with this song. Great memories.
Glad you enjoyed it lol
Free the monk
Ha ha been there mate with a prot from Black Mountain Way ... My Grandfather was from Cork City, did his bit in 14 - 18, stayed on as the Army of Occupation in Germany till the early 20's, came home saw what a load of BS the Civil war and Free State created, including acts by his younger brothers , kissed his Ma Goodbye ' and moved to London 2 RGJ - S & B
Actually a song about Salford, gtr Manchester
What has this song got to do with ireland? It's about salford.
In the eighties as a poor student I bought the Pogues album "If I should fall from grace with God" purely based on seeing the album cover in a shop, reasoning that with all the musical instruments used it must be good value for money. And it was! I have been a big fan of The Pogues ever since
My BEST live music memory was seeing the Pogues @ LaZona Rosa, circa 2005 in Austin Texas. #1, Period. The scheduled beginning of the show started with the announcement that they had just located Shane in Dallas (175 miles away) and were getting him on the next flight. He took the stage two hours late with a pint glass full of red wine. “Hello San Francisco!” He then called Davy Crockett a cross dresser. Drunk as a skunk, spilling wine all over his shirt, he put on the best performance I've ever witnessed. We watched him stagger to the drum set to beat the cymbals in perfect time, then stagger back to the leed microphone 🎤. You wondered if he would make it in time. He did, and whaled. Kinda like watching a boxer who was a bloody mess but couldn’t be stopped for 13 rounds. I remember seeing very sober musicians, taking themselves very seriously shortly after. No comparison. He was the artist. He only needed to open a vein, and let it bleed.
Best drunken story ever mate!!
yeh great story
Shane did think about fixing his teeth. None other than Julie Andrews contacted him and told him NOT to do it. She had her teeth done, and it changed her singing voice. The mouth has its own acoustics.
Pogue mahone!
100 % CORRECT 👍👍
If I remember correctly, Joe Strummer from the The Clash (like there's another Joe Strummer!) had the same issue with his teeth. He had them fixed and couldn't get the same sound, I believe he had them "fixed" back
@@melcody5253 Makes sense. To put it into stereo terms...your mouth is the "room". Change the room...change the sound.
@jollytunes I think he had to. The bone was crumbling.
i had alcohol/heroin neglected teeth. not crooked but became gnarly early. had all of my teeth extracted at 35. it changed my voice for the better. I used to have an awkward, half-a-note-off, semi-deep voice that just rankled. now it's quite full and rich, but only with my dentures out. with them in it sounds worse than before.
So sorry to only have discovered Shane after his passing. Rest in Eternal Peace...love Dirty old Town.
Every time I drive to my hometown I sing this. I hated where I grew up. But it will always be my dirty old town🤍
I do the same thing every time I travel back "home"..
RIP Shane, one of the heroes of my youth, forever in my pantheon and in my heart and immortal through the art you have given us. Love from Italy.
I remember finding a Pogues CD in a car park when i was a kid. I took it home and cleaned it and this was one of the songs on it. Never thought I'd be able to find it again, but here it is.
Glad you found it.
Synchronicity! My mom used to say everything happens for a reason but at the time I was pretty skeptical about that
😊
This is a great album.
I heard this song in Dublin during St Patrick's Day this year. It was played in literally every pub and I falled in love with it. 💚🍀🇮🇪
I'm very sad to read in the comment section that the singer of this great song died some months before. R. I. P 😢
LEGEND❤
Absolute legend rip Shane your voice will sing forever
I feel drunk just listening to The Pogues ... Amazing.
This song tastes like Jameson.
I’ve never listened to them sober so i wouldnt know.
Murshed Choudhury , actually I have drank a lot of beer tonight, lol.
Lol
LOL
R.i.p.Shane.Hvala za sve pjesme lijepa Irska muzika.Blagoslov božji neka te prati .Croatia.
RIP to both Shane (1957-2023), and the writer of this song, Ewan MacColl (1917-1989).
May both of them be singing songs together in heaven.
Rest in peace to a legend.
thanks for lovely music, Shane.
Just heard about Shane's passing. RIP, sir. Thank you for the great music.
Rest In Peace Shane.Hope you are singing this song in heaven ❤❤
You will always bring tears in my eyes with your songs - tears of full love and happiness! RIP, a Giant!
Anyone whoever grew up poor, working and in love. Dirty old town. Merry Christmas. 2017
grew up poor and ate the best peanut butte and jam sandwiches
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
2019
YAYYYYY
@@ShanOakley i am today
Happy n warm n safe though lol
Yep. Still poor. Still working. Married and have a beutiful daughter.
Right there with you brother...
Shane has a voice like a freight train, pure raw talent, amazing.
I just heard and immediately came to see him sing this masterpiece. His voice will last forever!
God bless you and thank you for your music, max
Rest easy in peace man .
Great song , changed my life .
Thanks buddy 🙏
First time I heard from the Poques was that they would warm up for Bob Dylan in the Greek theatre, Berkely, CA, 1989. For some reason they had lost all their instruments. They borrowed what they could and started playing. Unforgettable! Their art remains wonderful after all those years! What a giants.
I graduated from high school in 1989. I think someone said they had a great old time and the great old time they had before the show led to instruments being lost. But they found others and played anyway.
@Fire TV So nice to hear about the "compassion" between our heroes.
They were probably totally wasted and lost them lol.
RIP ! Une pensée de terre Celte, sur le sol de France, la Bretagne ne t'oubliera pas Shane ! Vive l'Irlande et la musique Celtique !
Cried at his passing,RIP Shane...........💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
I grew up in Halifax, Yorkshire. We used to go into Manchester alot. Always thought it was a dirty old town, never went to Salford but couldn't imagine it's any cleaner than Manchester.
I love it though it's history. The north has a proud industrial Hertiage that drove the industrial revolution.
You gotta be proud of these dirty places that changed the course of human history.
From brighouse myself
Salford was even worst than Manchester. In the early 70s, when I used to go there every summer from Southern Italy for some strange case of destiny, every single wall was totally smoked, red bricks were black, iron bridges ruined, many factories just abandoned. Empty spaces everywhere walking to Old Trafford from the Precinct, through Ordsall and the docks area. Just beautiful to me: I fell in love with Salford and Manchester. And United of course. Now I'm almost 60, the twin cities changed a lot, and I still love them. Dirty old town...
@@rinobisesto3705 SAlFORD! ❤️
It's great to have a song sung about your hometown, even better when it's a great song.
Lazy Spark I hope you live in Bradford.
oliver cromwell No Salford. Why would I live in Bradford.
Yup. Song's about Salford.
Merci pour tout ces bons moments à vous écouter que du bonheur 💓
Rip Shane
So beautifully Irish
Yes, but he was English
Sometimes the most creative and brilliant people drink a lot just to cope with life because they feel things so deeply. I love Shane and I love Brendan Behan... and on that note, I raise a toast to them both!
Karyn Grey Noah was a drunk and look what he did.😃
tytytyty
Sadly, this is true. Sometimes it's more than coping with pain or loss. I got sober 6 years ago, thinking things will get better. They rapidly became worse. I no longer write, I don't talk or leave the house except to work. My sense of humor is gone. Turns out I have extreme anxiety and ADHD, which most doctors and psych. will only treat one of the two conditions. One condition sets the other condition off. What really sucks is that there are millions of people out there that have it way worse.
I’m so sorry, John… I think you are right that so many people struggle with this.. and I feel badly in retrospect that I made such a flippant comment a few years ago when it is such a struggle.. I guess everyone is trying to find that balance of how to cope with life.. my best to you and all of us who are doing our best to get by xoxo
I didn't really view your comment in any harmful way. I used to be very creative myself and have about ten novels started that never got much further than character development, ideas and maybe a chapter or two. Hell, feelings I have trouble coping with in general as well. I made it sound as if getting sober was a bad thing. It's damn hard. I just was expecting slightly different results. In fact, Chris Cornell and Chester struggled with addiction, but something deeper was underneath. I believe studies have actually backed your point in the science world. I took no harm or even looked at your comment that way. I wanted to be a writer or journalist and never finished college due to alcohol, which was basically self medication, but I wasn't aware of the fact until decades later.
Thank you, Shane, for the amazing work you left & for all the good times spent listening to you. God speed!
I met Shane in NYC in 1998. He was one of the real ones. God rest his gentle soul. My heart breaks today. Much love, mate.
A standard for me at our folk club 1966
RIP, Shane. May the angels meet you. 👼 Condolences to his wife, sister, dad, and fellow bandmates.
Happy St. Paddy's day from Italy, I love you all! We're gonna make it
Happy New year 2021
Love from IRELAND🍀🍀🍀🍀🙋
Why, it's an English song
The perfect singer for this song no one can sing it like you did Shane... Rest in peace Man and may the Pints, and Whiskey poor eternally for you in Heaven. Rock and Roll never Forgets.
Their intro to this auld tune is the reason I picked up a harmonica, and can now pay the mortgage with a tune. RIP Shane, thanks for spreading joy.
Chanson mémorable ❤️
Quand j'entends cette chanson
Un sourire me vient aux lèvres
Le temps de l'insouciance
Le temps du bien-être
Un temps, vieux temps
Oh que oui 😢
pas facile de pas etre nostalgique...en effet.
it's simply perfect
damn ... WHAT a song
Pogues at their best, fantastic band in their day.
Beautiful, when my Mam Died and my Dad died 10 years before and you thought must I work in Dublin. Yes I did in a Hat Factory. and I became a Welfare Officer on the right side. Thank you all for your comments, so wonderful!
I'm from USA this is what real music sounds like
You got some epic music over there aswel though
Beautiful
This is just too good. Can't help but smile everytime I hear this tune
He got me through so much heartache and loneliness in my twenties. So strange. I have been listening to the Pogues for the last few weeks now and before that it had been over a decade and now I find out today he has passed on to the other side...Long live Shane..