For anyone in Salisbury, the Kirsty covers band, Kite along with The Sky At Night will be performing at Woodfalls Village Hall for free this Saturday the 29th. Doors will open at 7:30pm and the show will start at 8pm.

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Louis has been interviewed for the Express about his mum Kirsty as the 25th anniversary of her tragic death approaches.

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/2136113/my-pop-star-mums-tragic-death

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Here’s Kirsty performing ‘In These Shoes?’ at Festivalbar in 2000. It starts at 5:36 in the video. Afterwards, she does a short interview in Italian.

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‘Fairytale Of New York’ will be released as a limited edition 12″ vinyl EP on 12th December featuring zoetrope imagery based on the music video. The EP includes the original studio recording, an instrumental version and a rare live performance of ‘Dirty Old Town’ from Glasgow Barrowland in December 1987. Also featured from the same Glasgow gig is a previously unheard and unreleased live version of ‘Fairytale Of New York’, which captures the first time The Pogues ever played the song live. It was also Kirsty’s first performance with the band and is remixed with additional production by Steve Lillywhite especially for this release.

Here’s a video of Steve talking about the live version. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CMup8x5uB/

It’s also now available to listen to on all platforms. A fantastic version and I love how the crowd chants Kirsty’s name at the beginning.

Tracklisting:

1. Fairytale Of New York
2. Fairytale Of New York (Live at Glasgow Barrowland, 1987)
3. Dirty Old Town (Live at Glasgow Barrowland, 1987)
4. Fairytale Of New York (Instrumental)

If you want to pre-order a copy, you can click the link below.

https://thepogues.lnk.to/FONYZoetrope

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This month, Greg and Lisa reacted to and shared their thoughts on ‘A New England’.

They also reacted to the 1987 Top Of The Pops performance of ‘Fairytale Of New York’.

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Rhett Holland uploaded his version of ‘They Don’t Know’ on Friday the 14th.

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Irish singer-songwriter, Colin Lee recorded a version of the ‘Tropical Brainstorm’ track for his 2020 album, ‘Reminisce’.

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On Wednesday 12th, Tom Antell uploaded a video of him playing bass to Kirsty’s studio recording of ‘Chip Shop’.

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2 weeks ago, Elspeth uploaded a video of her performing ‘Days’ on the 12-string acoustic guitar.

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Square Disc did a edit where they synced the studio recording of ‘Caroline’ (with the odd blip) to the video of Kirsty performing the song on Scottish TV in 1995.

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