Cheap and haggard is fine

Welcome to an unusual runup to Christmas. We’ll keep an eye on that singles chart for you . . . currently at No. 59 in the midweek chart after entering at 63 at the weekend — which also registered the song’s 100th week in the Top 100.

. . . and chill . . .

Still Life Goes On

Kirsty MacColl - Still Life [BBC Session]

The first of Kirsty’s BBC radio sessions later compiled by Hux Records.

November 8, 1989. ‘Don’t come the cowboy with me, Sonny Jim!’, ‘What do pretty girls do?’, ‘Don’t run away from me now’, ‘Still life’.

Pete Thomas (drums), Phil Rambow (ac. guitar), Martin Belmont (el. guitar), Pete Glenister (el. guitar), Bobby Valentino (violin), Gavin Povey (piano), Paul Riley (bass). Later released on ‘What do pretty girls do?’