This fine synth version from ten years back, freshly uploaded to YouTube by the band’s Moon Trent. We revive it here for your added festive enjoyment! Good to have this back on YouTube.

This one is from Feather and Down, released by Irma Records (Japan) this week in 2013. This was an acoustic project by Swedish singer Karin Maria Andersson, also a singer with circus group Cirque du Soleil.

It’s chart watching time, and the official UK chart is now showing Fairytale of New York at No. 67 (up from 80 last week and 137 the week before). Place your bets on how high it will climb in 2014!

The latest cover of Fairytale of New York features Alex James Ellison & Natalie Amanda Gray. Here is the link to donate to The Passage Charity – they help the homeless in London.

Thanks to Paul Chinniah, who has submitted a chords sheet for the song Titanic Days.

Check them out here.

Rose Melberg filmed at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, CA, on 6th February 2013. This is another recently discovered YouTube clip, which we humbly bring to your attention.

… she’s something else!

Some fabulous YouTube clips have been uploaded this week, including Kirsty’s first live outing of ‘Mambo de la Luna’ and the legendary ‘Something Else’ 1981 TV clip of ‘I Don’t Wanna Play House’, fresh from the joys of the legendary Irish road trip. Brought to you by Ruby Pepper, from the collection of Peter Checksfield.

Thanks to Paul Chinniah, who has sent in chord sheets for three more songs: Dear John, Don’t Run Away From Me Now and I Want Out. Dust down that guitar in the corner now!

Published on 6 November 2014

“The short life and tragic death of Kirsty MacColl – Kirsty MacColl led a dazzling life – tender, creative, heroic and full of love. This book, by her mother Jean MacColl, charts with moving insight Kirsty’s early years, and celebrates her brilliant career at the front rank of the music business in the 1980s and 1990s, with such hits as the Pogues collaboration ‘Fairytale of New York’. It mourns her tragic and untimely death – killed by a speedboat in Mexican waters in December 2000. It also tells, with heartfelt truth, the shocking story of the elaborate cover-up and gross miscarriage of justice that followed and appeals for justice to be done in her name.”

This is a republished version of ‘Sun on the Water’, which was first published in 2008. Highly recommended!