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Today would have been Kirsty’s 66th birthday.
Here’s a video of Ellie Goulding performing ‘Soho Square’ at the ‘Concert For Kirsty’ gig at Shepherd’s Bush Empire 15 years ago today.
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The bass player of the Kirsty covers band, Kite, Chris Brown uploaded a video of him playing bass to Caroline. Three members of the band will be attending Kirstyfest on Sunday. I’m looking forward to seeing them for the first time.
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On 3rd August, Keith Boudreau uploaded a video of himself playing bass to Tracey Ullman’s version.
Stephen Barstow uploaded his wonderful version of the song, two weeks later.
An acoustic guitar cover version was uploaded by Campfire Acoustic Song Lessons. Guitarists can play along to this as the lyrics and chords come up.
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On 27th July, Spanish company, Miium uploaded a video of the ‘Days’ strip paper music box being played.
A cover of the song with a different arrangement from the original version was uploaded a day later.
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Kirsty would have turned 66 on 10th October 2025.
Friends, family and fans will gather around her bench in Soho Square at 12pm on Sunday 12th October for a few songs. Afterwards, we will be going to The Spice Of Life for more celebrations that include singing, music, a quiz, food, drinks and lots of fun!
Like the last two years, there will be an auction. It is a polystyrene aeroplane Kirsty gave to Chris Winwood after he went to see her at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry on 27th October 2000. As many of you may know, Chris came up with the idea of the bench in Soho Square and organised the first few years of Kirstyfest. To accompany the item, there will be a copy of a piece Chris wrote, detailing the background story. The proceeds from the sale will go to The Music Fund For Cuba.
Places downstairs at The Spice Of Life are limited to 100 people. There is a bar upstairs as well.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
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Carte Blanche performed ‘England 2 Colombia 0’ at the Winters Farmers Market in California on 14th September.
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The results are in! BBC Radio 2 listeners have been voting for their favourite duets from the 1980s and now it’s revealed that the winning song is ‘Fairytale Of New York’.
Jem Finer, who wrote the classic with Shane MacGowan, said “A huge thank you from us to the Radio 2 listeners for voting A Fairytale Of New York your Ultimate 80s duet. It’s amazing the song’s had such a life, such longevity. It took a long time to come together with about three years of endless revisions before we successfully recorded it with Kirsty MacColl and it became the version you know now. Then it took much good fortune and actually got to be heard by enough people to find its way into the charts and onto enduring popularity. So, thanks to you all, thanks to everyone through the years, thanks for listening.”
The full Top 40 results are also in this article.
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Stephen McNamara uploaded a video of Billy performing ‘A New England’ with the extra verse dedicated to Kirsty at The Piece Hall in Halifax last week.
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Actress Monica Dolan chose ‘Us Amazonians’ as one of her ‘Desert Island Discs’ broadcast today. You can listen to it in the link below.
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Jude Montague uploaded her cover of the song on Tuesday 15th.
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Kirstyfest 25 takes place at her bench in Soho Square - meet at 12 for some songs, then Spice of Life basement for open mic. It’s always a terrific event
Keep an eye on Kirsty MacColl Fan Gang
Edsel Records released a 2CD edition of ‘Free World: The Best Of Kirsty MacColl 1979-2000’ on 3rd October, Cat No. EDSL0257.
If you want to pre-order a copy, go to https://kirsty.lnk.to/FreeWorld
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Now reissued as an expanded 2CD edition housed in deluxe 7” gatefold packaging. You can head to YouTube to watch the official music video for Days, now in HD!
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Electric Landlady is now an expanded 2CD edition housed in deluxe 7” gatefold packaging. You can watch the official music video for Walking Down Madison, now in HD!
Visit the Kirsty Guest Book to leave your thoughts and memories about Kirsty.
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