Original Albums

Tropical Brainstorm

Released in 2000, Kirsty was back, grinning and unleashing her Latin soul, includes faves such as In these shoes?, Mambo de la Luna, Us Amazonians and England 2 Colombia 0. Making heavy use of Cuban samples spun masterfully together by Kirsty, Ruffy & Glenister, augmented by live players such as James Knight, Ben Storey, Chucho Merchán, Joe de Jesús and Roy Dodds. Tropical Brainstorm reached No. 39 in the UK Charts, lasting 9 weeks. Kirsty's swansong just might have been her best.

Titanic Days

Released in 1994, the so called "divorce album" was largely co-written with Mark Nevin who had similar problems at the time, it includes no chart hits but classics such as Can't stop killing you, Soho Square and the title song. Nevin is featured throughout, supported by Glenister, Gary Tibbs and Dave Ruffy amongst others. Titanic Days reached No. 46 in the UK Charts on 12th March, lasting 2 weeks. Unavailable for many years, the album was reissued in February 2005 as a Remastered 2 Disc Edition by ZTT.

Electric Landlady

Released in 1991, a real mix of styles, includes the hit singles Walking down Madison and My affair alongside favourites such as Halloween, Children of the Revolution and All I ever wanted. Expanding the cast with a more Latin feel at times, Sal Cuevas, Oscar Hernandez, Milton Cardona, Elliot Randall and Mark Nevin were amongst the debutant players here. Electric Landlady reached No. 17 in the UK Charts on 6th July, making it Kirsty's most successful chart album, lasting 8 weeks. The album was reissued in February 2005 with bonus tracks.

Kite

Released in 1989, a strong power pop set which includes the hit singles Days and Free World alongside favourites such as You and me baby, Innocence and Don't come the Cowboy with me, Sonny Jim! A host of musicians on this with stalwarts Pete Glenister, Johnny Marr, Pino Palladino, Mel Gaynor, even Dave Gilmour, and even Steve Lillywhite joining in on bass. Kite reached No. 34 in the UK Charts on 20th May, staying for 12 weeks. The album was reissued in February 2005 with bonus tracks.

Real

The abandoned "second album", recorded in late 1981. There are rumours of this album being exhumed from the Polydor vault, remastered by Steve Lillywhite and given a new lease of life at some point, but don't hold your breath .... About half of the tracks have already seen the light of day, particularly with the box set in 2005, but there are more songs as yet unheard by the general public. We now have sufficient information about this lost release (and we wouldn't hail it as a "lost classic" by the way) to justify giving it it's own page in Kirsty's album history. (sleeve design by freeworld)

Desperate Character

Released in 1981, this was a mix of 60s pop hits and early Kirstysongs, including the radio favourite Chip Shop amongst a batch of fairly well crafted songs. Backing ably supplied by top session men of the day including Lu Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Gavin Povey and the Rumour brass section.

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