Mark is the best radio presenter of his generation. He loves the music, has great empathy with his audience, a great sense of humour and can, erm well, er, speak quite well usually.
Have recently picked up a 2nd hand copy of Radcliffes book Thank you For The Days and in it he mentioned this episode in his life. Had to check it out for real. Great stuff!!!
Loved reading about this in Mark's book 'Thank You For The Days' and, given that Mark has met and interviewed Shane a couple of times and quite hit it off, I'm sure Shane would find this hilarious. Big fan of Radcliffe, what a lovely bloke.
Just read the chapter "The Day I Was On Stars In Their Eyes" from Mark's Thank You For The Days autobiography so I had to look this up. (Cracking read by the way)
....'Set the controls for..wherever you are' ...orrghh yeshh.....Mark Radcliffe is a big hero of mine, though he looks more like Dennis Pennis in this clip....
Is it just me or does Mark make a very subtle change of lyrics. The original has a line that goes "And a man from Westmeath called Malone" and i'm sure that in this version he sings "And a man from Westmeath called Mahone" Sounds like a shameless plug to me Mark!!!! Seriously though if you can check out The Family Mahone, awesome live performance and a great laugh. Just don't drive.
@MissAlabaster Yeah, I was reading his book, which is a very good read, and I read that he was Shane MacGowan on Stars In Their Eyes, and I thought, 'This I have to see.' and he doesa brill impression :)
