Get set for the Bells with Cory and Dad’s cover of Kirsty’s Tracey Ullman song. We love it.
There’s A Guy …
A cover of Kirsty MaColl’s classic by Caroline Gower, ‘a rusty old bird with a tenor ukulele’.
Honey Badgers
The Honey Badgers cover ‘In These Shoes?’
The New Year Starts Here
With apologies for not getting the festive ‘coverfest’ up and running sooner, here is Samuellificationable to get us rolling into January with her lovely garden take on England 2 … more tomorrow!
BLEEP
Via twitter, writer Shane MacGowan explains why nobody should be getting all excited about the F word in Fairytale. Which is fairly obvious really.
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/shane-macgowan-discusses-fairytale-of-new-york-controversy
Kirsty back on the BBC News Site Home Page (always good to see)
According to this BBC article,
The Daily Mail suggested in 2016 that the song could “bring in as much as £400,000 a year.”
Asked in 2008 by the BBC whether the song had provided him with his pension, Finer said: “I don’t know because I’m not of pensionable age. I’ll let you know when I’ve got my bus pass.”
Not exactly topical news, but then the real topical news is too depressing :o)
Source: NB
Us Amazonians (a fanzine)
We present the impressive Us Amazonians fanzine.
Courtesy of Milo Miller, so-founder of QZAP (the Queer Zine Archive Project). If you would like a paper copy please contact Milo.
Don’t Ask Me What’s Going On!
A recent YouTube upload from Alan Lee Shaw reveals the demo mightiness of 1981’s Don’t Ask Me. Thanks to Nick for alerting.
Square Head in Limbo Ends in Tears
Thanks to Paul Chinniah for adding FOUR new chord pages –
Soho Square in C, transposed into C for easier handling!
Don’t forget to drop in to Soho Square on Sunday 7th October 2018 for fun and frolics.
‘England 2 Colombia 0’: the story behind Kirsty MacColl’s classic song
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