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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gczt?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile&fbclid=IwY2xjawLzIedleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBKbWV1Tld3ekw4T3Jlb2tkAR5nHn81rQFPTMjurrlQ6Eo9xE_bWtkXjPe9rAg52GCYO90afpkDFHzOtRbVGg_aem_tk9AM9BohXaRp7RKUPyiOA

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Jude Montague uploaded her cover of the song on Tuesday 15th.

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Dave Caruso uploaded his wonderful piano cover of ‘They Don’t Know’ on Sunday 13th.

2 days later, Marcus Austin uploaded a video of 0800 Rodeo performing the song on 18th January at The Hope & Ruin in Brighton.

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‘Fairytale Of New York’ is part of the shortlist for ‘Your Ultimate 80s Duet’. You have 5 votes, you can use all of them for 1 song or 5 different songs. Voting closes on Monday 21st at 12pm.  Please note: you can only vote within the UK or using a VPN.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3ZF2hCtXqftFMhK7MyvSvr7/vote-for-your-ultimate-80s-duet

BBC Radio 2 will be revealing ‘Your Ultimate 80s Duets’ Top 40 in a show hosted by Sophie Ellis-Bextor. It will be available first on BBC Sounds from 1st August. The programme will also be broadcast on Radio 2 on 9th August from 1-3pm.

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Demon/Edsel will be releasing a 2CD edition of  ‘Free World: The Best Of Kirsty MacColl 1979-2000’ on 3rd October.

Tracklisting

CD1:

1. A New England
2. Innocence (Single Remix)
3. They Don’t Know
4. There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis
5. Don’t Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim!
6. Can’t Stop Killing You
7. England 2 Colombia 0
8. Walking Down Madison (7” Mix)
9. Free World (Radio Edit)
10. Terry
11. Don’t Go Near The Water
12. No Victims
13. You Just Haven’t Earned it Yet, Baby (from ”She’s Having A Baby”)
14. Fifteen Minutes
15. Mother’s Ruin

CD2:

1. Mambo De La Luna (Single Edit)
2. Angel (Single Edit)
3. In These Shoes?
4. My Affair (Single Edit)
5. Treachery
6. Caroline
7. Days
8. He’s on the Beach (Single Version)
9. Soho Square
10. Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby
11. All I Ever Wanted (Single Version)
12. Perfect Day
13. All The Tears That I Cried
14. You And Me Baby
15. Fairytale of New York

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

https://kirsty.lnk.to/FreeWorld

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On Saturday 12th, Rudy Adad uploaded a short video of Chong En Yu playing drums to a different cover version of ‘Days’.

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On 30th June, Dean Taylor uploaded his cover on the ‘State Of Mind’ YouTube channel. He also changed some of the lyrics in the first verse:

“I was 21 years when I wrote this song I’m 55 now, but I won’t be for long. People ask me when will I grow up to understand, why the girls I loved at school are already nans and grans”

A guitar tutorial video by Alan Robinson was uploaded on Thursday 10th.

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On Tuesday 17th, Sarah Collins uploaded her great versions of ‘Days’ and ‘Chip Shop’.

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On Saturday 14th, Kirsty’s promo video for ‘A New England’ was featured on ’40 Hits Of 1985 At The BBC’. She appears at 1 hour and 50 minutes into the programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dsny

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