Monday
Well, that was one hell of a send-off. I’ve been thinking about it all weekend and Shane MacGowan’s funeral surely set the benchmark for all of us. A procession through Dublin with spontaneous singing and applause followed by a service-cum-carnival in a packed church in Tipperary. It felt like it was almost worth dying just to get the party started. Almost. It almost made me feel that I needed to revisit my own plans and up my game. A couple of years ago, I wrote here that I would like the Webb Sisters to sing Leonard Cohen’s If It Be Your Will and for Ermonela Jaho or Lisette Oropesa to sing Richard Strauss’s Morgen!. A little less rowdy than MacGowan’s Fairytale of New York but still not a dry eye.
