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"Not a lot of people know" but this is about Manchester not Dublin 😔


I always thought it was specifically about Rochdale or maybe Oldham. Is there a reason it’s about that town, isn’t McGowan from Kent and then moved to Ireland? I always presumed the other members of the band were Irish and born/raised there
 
I always thought it was specifically about Rochdale or maybe Oldham. Is there a reason it’s about that town, isn’t McGowan from Kent and then moved to Ireland? I always presumed the other members of the band were Irish and born/raised there
If you want to be specific it is probably about Salford, McColl's home.

Shane was born in Kent alright, to Irish parents but they moved to Tipperary where he lived his very early years - his Da is from Nenagh and lives there. Shane's mother was also from Co Tipp and sadly died in a car accident in 2017.

They moved back to England when he was 6 or 7.

Not sure when he moved to Dublin, possibly sometime between 'noughties' and 2015. He died in Dublin.

As for the band there was a large turnover in members over the years, but some were born in Ireland and others in UK of Irish parents.
 

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