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«Sexo, Pájaros, Vida, Muerte»: Razones Por Las Que Shane Macgowan Dice Cosas Importantes «Sexo, pájaros, vida, muerte»: razones por las que Shane MacGowan dice cosas importantes Shane MacGowan. Foto: Getty. Para acompañar la lectura del artículo, nuestra lista en Spotify: Enterrada bajo botellas de whisky, pintas de cerveza, la tradición musical de una pequeña isla atlántica, lecturas intempestivas de Joyce y O’Casey, y la furia de la generación posterior al punk, la voz de Shane MacGowan todavía inquieta, todavía conmueve. Todavía dice lo importante. El que fuera una vez armandanzas deThe Pogues, la auténtica insurgencia (ebria) de Irlanda, se explicaba en entrevista no hace mucho: sus canciones, como las canciones folk y como la vida en general, tratan de «temas recurrentes». En concreto, de «sexo, pájaros, vida, muerte, sexo, pájaros, vida, muerte». MacGowan, irlandés nacido en Londres,folkie pervertido por el punk, poeta rebelde y bebedor ilustrado, también ha contribuido a «crear una nueva expresión poética» dentro de una «gran tradición de la canción». En su caso, la canción de la tierra de William Butler Yeats y Brendan Behan. | 1 «Sexo, pájaros, vida, muerte»: razones por las que Shane MacGowan dice cosas importantes El año pasado Shane MacGowan recontruyó su dentadura. Desaparecía un icono, la boca desordenada de pirata que escupía letanías de amor y desesperación, historias de vencidos y peripecias al margen de la ley burguesa. Aquellos dientes se habían ido pudriendo a medida que avanzaba la década de los ochenta y The Pogues, segunda banda de MacGowan trasThe Nipple Erectors, hacían buena la máxima de su líder: «El alcohol es el camino a la sabiduría». Escritor beodo, el autor de «Fairytale in New York», tal vez su composición más radiada, afirmaba que sus canciones a menudo aparecían de la mano de Dioniso. Lo que, a todas luces, resulta admirable, dada la complejidad, riqueza y elaboración de su lírica. Tal vez su apología de la bebida y el exceso la compense con sus orígenes. «En términos irlandeses, no soy un gran bebedor», confesó a la revista Playboy en 2001. A casi dos décadas de The crock of gold, su segundo disco con The Popes —la banda que reclutó al ser expulsado de The Pogues en 1991 debido a su aficción a… sí, la botella—, MacGowan apenas graba ya temas propios. Pero continúa desfilando por los escenarios, apoyando causas perdidas, incluida la de cantar un himno para la selección irlandesa de fútbol basado en el «Je t’aime moi non plus», e insuflando otras vidas a un cancionero de rebelión, gracia y abrazos. Estas son nada más que cinco de las muchas razones que existen para escuchar atentamente lo que dice Shane MacGowan. Canciones sobre beber, disparar a los ingleses… y follar MacGowan es una consecuencia del pospunk. De cuando la negación inicial de los hijos de los Sex Pistols se metamorfoseó en apertura del campo de batalla. Y un mundo entero, deldub al rockabilly, del free jazz al funk, de la polirritmia del África occidental a la electrónica germana, desarticuló la férrea ley de los tres acordes de guitarra eléctrica. The Pogues interpretaron esta licencia como permiso para reutilizar la música tradicional irlandesa, acelerarla, subrayar lo que de «ron, sodomía y látigo» había en ella. «Yo toco música popular irlandesa. Es una tradición viva», comentaba MacGowan en 2003. De la que forman parte, según él, Planxty y Christy Moore, The Chieftains y Thin Lizzy, The Undertones y Van Morrison. «Hay algo en la música irlandesa», declaraba al semanario Melody Maker, «siempre grandes canciones, grandes melodías, y sus letras… Es energía cruda que te golpea en el corazón y en las entrañas y en el sentimiento. Cortocircuita tu intelecto. Es música emocional. Básicamente, tiene alma». The Pogues destilaron su visión del mundo en canciones que, como le gustaba presumir a su jefe, se afiliaban a esa tradición. «Si escuchas un disco deThe Dubliners o de los Clancy Brothers», | 2 «Sexo, pájaros, vida, muerte»: razones por las que Shane MacGowan dice cosas importantes teorizaba, «las canciones que no van de beber o de dispararle a los británicos, van sobre follar». Ya Red roses for me (1984), el primero de sus discos y cuyo título homenajeaba al dramaturgo socialista irlandés Sean O’Casey, las contiene aproximadamente de los tres tipos: «Streams of whiskey», en la que saluda a otro de sus autores de cabecera, Brendan Behan; «Poor Paddy», el relato de un obrero explotado en Liverpool; y «Kitty», una melodía tradicional con letra reformada por MacGowan —así avanza la tradición musical; esta estrategia la usaría en más ocasiones, por caso en «The Broad Majestic Shannon»— y en la que amor y política, pasión y cárcel, se entrelazan. «Por supuesto, entonces había una guerra en Irlanda, como casi siempre», acertó a resumir una vez la historia de su país. Setecientos años de opresión y resistencia «The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn» abre Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, el segundo elepé de The Pogues y pieza de resistencia de su obra, producido por Elvis Costello en 1985. Por esa canción circula un personaje, uno de los muchos personajes que circulan por las canciones de MacGowan,Frank Ryan. En la erudita web The Parting Glass —la poesía anotada de la banda— explican quién era. Militante de ala izquierda de los republicanos irlandeses, compañero del legendario socialista James Connolly —uno de los dirigentes del Levantamiento de Pascua en 1916—, se enfrentó a los partidarios del Estado Libre y de la partición del norte durante la guerra civil irlandesa. En 1934 fundó el Congreso Republicano, una organización anticapitalista. Dos años después viajaba a España al mando de doscientos voluntarios de la isla dispuestos a defender la República contra Franco y el fascismo. «Frank Ryan te invitó a un whiskey en un burdel en Madrid / Y golpeaste a unos putos camisas negras que maldecían a todos los judíos (…) / Ahora cantarás una canción de libertad para negros y paquis y moros», dice «The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn». La épica de la liberación nacional irlandesa, su grandeza y su miseria, la resistencia a los setecientos años de opresión británica sobre la isla, recorre la discografía del grupo. Poética de marginales, piratas, amantes de la libertad y solidarios, la de The Pogues, especialmente en las canciones firmadas por MacGowan —una gran mayoría—, es también una narrativa. «Streets of sorrow/Birmingham Six», de su elepé de mayor repercusión —If I should fall from the grace of god (1988)—, por ejemplo, relata el arresto y tortura de seis hombres a manos de la policía británica. Acusados de pertenecer al IRA, pasaron dieciséis años en prisión y solo fueron liberados en 1991. En el nombre del padre. El tema, prohibido en la BBC —a lo que el mánager de la banda respondió | 3 «Sexo, pájaros, vida, muerte»: razones por las que Shane MacGowan dice cosas importantes así: «Estoy encantado de saber que somos una amenaza para el Estado»—, recuerda los talking blues del Bob Dylan imberbe. La CNN de los irlandeses: «Había seis hombres en Birmingham / En Guilford hay cuatro / Fueron detenidos y torturados / E incriminados por la ley / Y la suciedad ascendió / Pero ellos todavía están en prisión / Por ser irlandeses en el lugar equivocado / A la hora equivocada (…) / Maldición para los jueces, los polis y los carceleros / Que torturan inocentes, acusados en falso / Por el precio de un ascenso / Y de la justicia en venta / Pueden los juzgados ser sus jueces cuando se pudran en el infierno». La casa familiar de MacGowan, en Tipperary, Irlanda, fue refugio de los soldados del IRA durante la guerra anglo irlandesa conocida como The Black and Tan War, entre 1919 y 1921. Los consejos de Brendan Behan En los años cincuenta, el escritor irlandés Brendan Behan pasaba temporadas en Francia. Uno de esos veranos más o menos salvajes decidió, junto a una cuadrilla de amigos, viajar en coche a España. Al llegar a la frontera iban ya medio borrachos. El guardia del puesto fronterizo, cuenta la anécdota relada en el documental Brendan Behan. The Roaring Boy, preguntó a Behan, el menos afectado por la ingesta alcóholica, si le podía explicar «la razón de la visita». Y este respondió: «Venimos al funeral del general Franco». «Pero el Generalísimo no ha muerto». «Ah, tiene usted razón. Esperaremos», replicó. No pasaron la aduana. En 1939, con apenas dieciséis años, Brendan Behan fue detenido por la policía británica acusado de pertenecer al IRA. De los tres años que pasó en el reformatorio nacióBorstal Boy, bildungsroman bukowskiana y antimperialista. Izquierdista insobornable, disidente casi profesional, preso de los ingleses otras dos veces, enConfesiones de un rebelde irlandés argumenta a favor de blasfemar contra su propia patria: «El deber primordial de un escritor es desacreditar a la madre patria, si no lo hace no es un escritor de verdad. En el nombre de Jesús, ¿cómo va un escritor a impugnar la patria de los demás si no arremete primero contra la suya propia?». Es este el Behan al que MacGowan escucha en «Streams of whiskey», de Red roses for me. «Y me voy, y me voy / De cualquier modo el viento debe estar soplando / Y me voy, y me voy, / A donde fluyan torrentes de whiskey», reza el estribillo de una composición que celebra así al autor de la obra de teatro El Rehén (1957): «Las palabras que dijo / Parecían la más sabia de las filosofías / Nunca una cosa húmeda llamada lágrima / Ha ganado nada / Cuando el mundo es demasiado oscuro / Y necesito una luz en mi interior / Entro en un bar / Y bebo quince pintas de | 4 «Sexo, pájaros, vida, muerte»: razones por las que Shane MacGowan dice cosas importantes cerveza». Pero Behan no solo comparece como personaje en las letras del grupo —también lo hace en «Thousands are sailing», de If I should…, escrita por el guitarrista de la banda Phil Chevron—.
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