Back Two performed their Elvis-style cover of the Kirsty classic at Ramsey Plough Day in September.

On Monday 21st November, Jacob Hackman posted his version, replacing ‘Chip’ to ‘Thrift’.

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YouTuber 43vasco did a very good acoustic cover of ‘Free World’, which he uploaded on Monday 7th.

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Happy Halloween to everyone out there with the costumes and the masks, but they don’t disguise with the presence in your eyes.

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Hello everyone,

I hope you are all having a lovely week so far. As most of you know, it was Kirstyfest on Sunday 9th, meeting in Soho Square at 12pm. I went with my Uncle and his girlfriend this year. My other Uncle and my Auntie came as well. I gave my first speech at the bench to everyone before we sang ‘Soho Square’ and ‘Don’t Come the Cowboy with Me Sonny Jim!’ with Paul Chinniah playing the guitar. Lee Harrison filmed the performances and uploaded them to the ‘Kirsty MacColl Fan Gang’ Facebook group.

Soho Square:

https://www.facebook.com/lee.harrison.39982/videos/506089004412393?idorvanity=191172489226

Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!:

https://www.facebook.com/lee.harrison.39982/videos/442819314625496/?idorvanity=191172489226

Afterwards, we went to the Spice of Life pub for more singing and fun. The event had less people compared to last year due to various reasons, but we still had a splendid time. I performed ‘Dancing In Limbo’, ‘The Hardest Word’, ‘They Don’t Know’ and ‘Chip Shop’ on the guitar.

Paul Chinniah performed ‘Camel Crossing’ and his own song about Kirsty before his wife Sue joined him for ‘Miss Otis Regrets’ and ‘Head’.

Singer-songwriter, Chloe Lorentzen performed ‘England 2 Columbia 0’, ‘Caroline’, her own song about Kirsty called ‘Stolen’ and ‘Titanic Days’ (which included audience participation with the ‘ahh’ bits.)

 

A guitarist called Dave did ‘What Do Pretty Girls Do?’ and ‘Still Life’.

Chloe came back on and performed ‘Can’t Stop Killing You’, ‘They Don’t Know’ and ‘Children of the Revolution’.

Steve Jacks put up a video consisting of extracts from all of the performances at the Spice of Life on the ‘Kirstyfest’ Facebook group.

https://www.facebook.com/steve.jacks.7/videos/1532426523866170?idorvanity=552711574916196

Chris Winwood and Jess Cully created the quiz for this year. Unfortunately, neither of them could make it, so I read out the quiz to everyone. Some found it challenging, but fun. The winning team got a respectable 24 out of 40. They won the Kirstyfest cup and a signed copy of ‘My Bass And Other Animals’, a memoir by musician Guy Pratt. He played bass on ‘Days’, the single version of ‘Innocence’, ‘No Victims (Guitar Heroes Mix)’ and ‘Walking Down Madison’.

If you want your own copy, you can order the book on Amazon.

Louis was also at Kirstyfest and it was great to see him again. He said that I always make him smile and he always makes me smile as well.

I had a fabulous time and I hope to see some of you next year!

From Ruby

Today would have been Kirsty’s 63rd birthday.

Here she is performing the classic ‘Soho Square’ at El Mocambo in Toronto, Canada on 15th November 1993.

 

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In this video, the band Squire visit Kirsty’s bench in Soho Square. As some of you may know, Kirsty sang backing vocals on their songs, ‘My Mind Goes Round In Circles’ and ‘Does Stephanie Know?’ in 1980.

I hope to see some of you at the bench tomorrow!

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Paul Chinniah has painstakingly transcripted the “Camel Crossing” song and his chords sheet is now available here!

The song

The chords

Hello everyone,

Kirsty fan, Trevor Pugh has wrote a song called ‘Angel Singing’ as a tribute to her.

“I wrote this a few years ago in memory of dear Kirsty. Please excuse naivety of guitar playing and vocal!”

I hope you enjoy it!

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In May 2022, Enoma reacted to and shared their thoughts on ‘England 2 Columbia 0’ which you can watch below.

A couple of months later, they reacted to ‘Last Day Of Summer’.

They did a video for ‘A New England’ in September 2020. Alan has posted it before, but here it is again for your enjoyment.

Ruby