Feb 21 2008
still: “a wonderful world”
If this two guys are still convinced, there must be some truth about it:
It still is a wonderful world.
Until I just discovered this video on youtube I was not aware that Shane McGowan and Nick Cave ever performed together. Here they celebrate the old Louis Armstrong Classic in a unique way.
I do not know why I was in London. I only remember that the venue was quite out of town and that I was on my own that night many years ago to see Shane McGowan and his new Band “The Popes”. The very second they started to perform the entire crowd wildly jumped up and down dancing Pogo. I was really afraid to get severely hurt. So in probably a funny and strange way I jumped myself to the sidelines of this concert hall.
I will never forget this evening. McGowan was completely drunk but in a unique way of dignity performing his songs. Traditional Irish ones mainly.
I lived quite close to alcoholics in former years. I can not stand to be to close to them today. But I love if they try to stay public and do not hide. Even if they have lost the fight against the bottle. You can see this very dignity in the video. Same dignity to be watched in the Interview with Edith Piaf in this blog on April 20th 2007.
Ein Louis Armstrong Hit, in unbekannter Interpretation. Hatte keine Ahnung, dass Shane McGowan und Nick Cave je gemeinsam aufgetreten sind. Mc Gowan habe ich vor vielen Jahren life in London erlebt. Ein praktizierender Alkoholiker voller Würde. Ich glaube den Text kennt oder versteht jeder. Deshalb hier: keine lyrics.
