Kirsty made the World Cup section of the Guardian this week!

See https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/02/england-2-colombia-0-kirsty-maccoll-song

June 15th sees the release of three new Kirsty reissues.  The hardback book style CD/DVD compilation includes the original Kite and Electric Landlady albums plus all the B-sides and remixes which were recorded at the same time, including all the promo videos.  Read the freeworld review.

The two albums themselves are also issued on coloured 180g vinyl, and sound great.    Read the freeworld review of Kite.  Electric Landlady is on pink vinyl!  Here’s the freeworld review of that one.

If you fancy them, you might buy them from Amazon using our links.  It costs you nothing extra, but we receive a small “signing bonus”!

• Days (1988 – 1991) CD/DVD box set
• Kite 180g vinyl
• Electric Landlady 180g vinyl

Freshly uploaded to YouTube, enjoy James’ cover.

One of the stars of Tropical Brainstorm, Sal Cuevas, died a year ago in Miami.  For many years part of the legendary Fania All-Stars, he added impossible bass imbellishments to Kirsty’s Latin ride.

Impossible no more?  Andrew Nelson has recently finished a transcription of the original album version’s bass break in My Affair – a bass tapping solo by Sal at 3:30 in the track.   Andrew’s transcription and performance of it can be found here:

http://andrewnelson.com/?p=291

Two vinyl reissues also on 15th June – on clear 180g heavyweight vinyl, in parallel with the CD/DVD bundle.

We like this release, read the freeworld review.  It’s on translucent clear vinyl.

Buy Kite vinyl from Amazon.

We like this pink vinyl edition too!  Here’s the freeworld review.

Buy Electric Landlady vinyl from Amazon.

This attractive looking new collection, titled “Days (1989 – 1991)”, is listed on Amazon.co.uk (ASIN B07BZBCX4X) for release on 15 June 2018 on Edsel Records.

There is no previously unavailable material, but it is a well packaged collection of all the Kite and Electric Landlady era material, including the videos from the Croydon to Cuba DVD.

Buy Days (1988 – 1991) from Amazon.

From January 2018.  Enjoy!

Head to Boogaloo Radio on mixcloud.

https://www.mixcloud.com/BoogalooRadio/ann-scanlon-presents-a-love-letter-to-kirsty-maccoll/

Thanks to NB for spotting.

It’s Philip Rambow!! It’s the Tex Pistols!!  And you thought we could leave this out …

That’s it for the daily updates, why not record a Kirstysong, post it somewhere and we’ll post it.

It helps if it’s a less common song, in tune, well sung and filmed, and someone to tell us … but we’ll go anywhere the mood takes us!  More at the end of ’18!

And so, 2018.  Let’s have it.