"Summer in Siam" is a single by The Pogues from their 1990 album, Hell's Ditch. Composed by enigmatic frontman Shane MacGowan, it charted in the UK Top 100 at Number 64. The accompanying music video was directed by Don Letts and produced by Nick Verden for Radar Films. The album was produced by Joe Strummer.
"Summer in Siam" was originally played by MacGowan to the rest of the band on a Casio synthesiser. While the final arrangement was greatly modified from the original demo, it reflected MacGowan's growing interest in acid-house music.[1] MacGowan claimed in 2022 that along with "Lorca's Novena" and "Hot Dogs With Everything", "Summer in Siam" is one of his favourite songs by The Pogues.[2]
^Balls, Richard (2021). A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan. Omnibus Press. p. 262. ISBN 978-1-78760-108-6. "Victoria vividly remembers Shane's acid phase. She says he became completely immersed in it and was writing new material for the record while tripping, something other members of The Pogues found difficult. 'He was listening to a lot of acid-house music and he was going to acid-house clubs all the time and taking acid all the time', she says. So, he started writing things that were very far out. Even "Summer In Siam", when he first did it, everybody thought, What the fuck is this pile of crap? because he was doing it on a little Casio thing, and he was off his face. He wrote the entire album completely off his face, but none of them were doing acid. So, I think they thought it was quite scary and weird and not The Pogues. They thought he was completely insane, which probably he technically was. He was wearing T-shirts that were all multi-coloured and his hair was grown, and he was just mental. He latched on to that because it was like, "Wow, this is really trippy". But they couldn't really handle it because they gave a shit. How did the performance come across[…]"
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^Thomson, Graeme (28 April 2022). "'I came, I saw, I scribbled': Shane MacGowan on Bob Dylan, angels and his lifelong love of art". The Spectator. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
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