Robert Sheehan has revealed that Shane McGowan once got him unbanned from a London pub.
The Love/Hate star explained on the latest episode of Doireann Garrihy’s Laughs of Your Life podcast that he “didn’t behave himself very well” on a night out, and that the Pogues frontman came to his rescue.
The Irish actor said: “I got barred out of this pub a few years ago in North London – unjustified. The Bugaloo, which is very synonymous with the Irish community over in London. Brilliant pub in Highgate, loads of Irish sessions going on in there.”
“Myself and Greg were involved in a lock-in one night there. We were sat talking to the barmaid. I had about a third of a pint left and it was three o’clock in the morning and they were fixing to kick us out.”
“She nicked my pint and I was like ‘C’mon! Give us that back’ and just as we started arguing over the pint, the owner walked past and because it was with the barmaid and he was not in a good mood, he went ‘Right, you…out!'”
“Then there was some name calling that went on. I’ll put my hands up, right, I was a bit drunk. I was like ‘Yeah butter bean, don’t want to be in your s*** pub anyways’. I didn’t behave myself very well.”
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Robert continued: “Then I met Shane MacGowan a year and a half later, we were doing this gig in Dublin Castle about history and songs.”
“I was telling him how I got kicked out by the owner and Shane was like ‘Ah we can sort that out, we’ll rectify that’.”
“So me and Shane left an answering message on Gerry’s phone and Shane was like ‘Ah he’s a nice kid, let him back in the pub’. And sure enough Gerry sent back a message going ‘Ah listen Shane, it was just a misunderstanding, he’s welcome back anytime’.”
“So yeah Shane MacGowan got me unbarred from a pub.”
