Joe McCabe

Owner of the Pheonix Landing

Joe McCabe 1: We had an awful encounter with Shane McGowan from The Pogues. That was some fun. And the guy could drink. He could drink for Ireland. Well the funny thing was, in his drunkenness, his pure drunkenness, he’d stop for a minute and he’d write a small poem, you know, and he’d be just hammered. It’d look like it were leading to something else. In his stupor, the drunker he was getting the more artistic he was becoming, it was starting to come out of him then, he was telling stories and poems and singing songs, we actually had a great time with him.