The brand new 8CD box set celebrating the career of Kirsty MacColl brings together 161 tracks recorded between 1979 and 2000, featuring 47 previously unreleased tracks including her 1983 unreleased second album ‘Real’. It also includes album favourites, extended versions, unreleased demos, live sets and a 60-page hardback book with new sleeve notes from her family and previously unseen photos. Pre-order now.

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Release date according to Amazon is 27th October.

The live tracks were recorded:

• “Something Else” BBC TV appearances on 23 October 1981
• BBC Radio 1 Session 1 was for Nicky Campbell on 8 November 1989
• BBC Radio 1 Session 2 was for Nicky Campbell on 26 June 1991
• at Glastonbury Festival on 26 June 1992 (this set has been widely available as a bootleg previously)
• Later … with Jools Holland, 1st appearance for BBC TV on 19 November 1992
• Solana Beach live in California at the Belly Up on 1 December 1993
• BBC Radio 1 Session 3 was for Simon Mayo on 7 March 1994
• GLR – BBC Greater London Radio session 1 for Peter Curran on 7 March 1994
• Later … with Jools Holland, 2nd appearance on 31st December 1994
• GLR – BBC Greater London Radio Session 2 for Peter Curran was on 16 February 1995
• BBC Radio 1 Session 3 was for Kevin Greening on 20 February 1995
• Live at The Fleadh was in Finsbury Park, London on 10 June 1995
• Jazz Café live in London on 12 October 1999 (a couple of tracks were previously available on a B side but this is the first time this full set has been released – Kirsty played 2 nights at the Jazz Café to get back into performing as she was fine tuning her Tropical Brainstorm return
• Later … with Jools Holland, 3rd appearance on 14th April 2000