Kirsty MacColl - The End of A Perfect Day | jt1674

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Birthdays | Kirsty MacColl . . . . Soho Square on Her Birthday

 Kirsty MacColl was born in Croydon on this day in 1959. 

There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis.

Kirsty MacColl - There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (TOTP 1981)

but he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you!

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but she was serious too . . . . 

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Soho SquareKirsty MacCollTitanic Days

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PassionateFriend says

Just a quick one today. This is just to commemorate the annual Soho Square gathering that's going on today. Unfortunately not everyone (myself included) could make it, but we're still thinking of her. My videos are still a touch lacklustre, but the music's there and that's my priority. As always, requests are welcome, just shoot me a line. Here's to Kirsty - a real angel.

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Kirsty MacColl performing Ray Davies (The Kinks’) ‘Days' on Top Of The Pops. Kirsty suffered crippling stage fright all her performing life and so film of her is scant and few and far between

We miss her

MONICA DOLAN - DESERT ISLAND DISCS July 2025

 The wonderful Monica Dolan was on Desert Island Discs this week and a suitably eclectic list she made of it . . . . a favourite was this from Butch Cassady and The Sundance Kid which she recalled she and her family (friends) sang in her garden once! I am sure this is true!

As an actor there is seemingly nothing she can’t do from the comic Welsh woman on W12 to killer Rose West! She should be in EVERYTHING!

DISC ONE: The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) - The Banana Splits   

DISC TWO: That's Entertainment - The Jam   

DISC THREE: Nothing - Priscilla Lopez (as Diana Morales), A Chorus Line Orchestra, conducted by Don Pippin   

DISC FOUR: Love and Affection - Joan Armatrading   

DISC FIVE: MacArthur Park - Richard Harris   

DISC SIX: The Night - Diane Chorley   

DISC SEVEN: Us Amazonians - Kirsty MacColl *  

DISC EIGHT: South American Getaway (From "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid") - Burt Bacharach   

 

BOOK CHOICE: Encyclopaedia of Flora and Fauna   

LUXURY ITEM: A walk-in wardrobe with cool glass of champagne every time it was opened!) CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Love and Affection - Joan Armatrading 

She also chose a Kirsty MacColl song and it really moved me to hear it again . . . . . 

not the obvious Kirsty choice but then there is nothing OBVIOUS about our Mon! 

if you play one song today - PLAY THIS!

Kirsty MacColl - Us Amazonians

Kirsty MacColl ‘There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis’ | Route

Kirsty MacColl was born in Croydon on this day in 1959. 

There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis but he’s liar and I’m not sure about you!

sorely missed

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Kirsty MacColl - Dancing In Limbo | Le Ramasseur De Mégots

 

Dancing in Limbo

Dancing in Limbo // Kirsty MacColl  

He said, ‘baby don’t go’

So she sat down again

And they said they’d be friends

Her mother said

She’d told her so

She’d made her own bed

Now she’d have to lie in it, and the

Time goes

Summertime slow

And the world stops turning

And they’re dancing in limbo, limbo, limbo

Took my pills today

But I don’t feel better

In a funny sort of way

When it’s too hot for anything

It’s too hot to sleep

Your mind runs down to where

The river runs deep, and the

Time goes

Summertime slow

And the world stops turning

And they’re dancing in limbo, limbo, limbo

His dream, peaches and cream

A cheesecake betty from the celluloid screen

So close he holds out his hand

But she sleeps like a woman

When he wakes like a man, and the

Time goes

Summertime slow

And the world stops turning

And they’re dancing in limbo, limbo, limbo

mellow pop with a deceptive edge 

awww miss Kirsty!

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This from Albums That Should Exist | KIRSTY MacColl - REAL (1983) : ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

Kirsty MacColl - Real (1983)

Paul at ATSE says:

"I already posted a version of this Kirsty MacColl album back in 2018. But in the next few days, I plan on deleting that version in favor of this one. The reason is, this is a true "lost album" that has finally emerged in full.

In 1983, Kirsty MacColl's music career wasn't going so well. She'd had a minor hit in Berlin in 1981 with the song "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis." That led to a 1981 album, "Desperate Character." But four following singles failed to set the charts on fire. So the release of this album in 1983 was cancelled at the last minute.

Some of the songs came out of the time, especially "Berlin," which was one of those failed singles, in 1983. "Rhythm of the Real Thing" was the B-side. Two more songs, "Annie" and "Roman Gardens," came out on a 1985 compilation. Then, much later, in 2005, two more songs, "Sticked and Stoned" and "Camel Crossing," came out on another compilation. 

So that still left five songs unreleased. Back in 2018, I tried my best to make a version of this album by using some other stray songs she did from around the same time. It wasn't "Real," but at least it was in the ballpark. 

Then, last month as I write this in November 2023, the box set "See That Girl" came out. That included the missing five songs. So the full album can now be properly heard, in the intended song order. 

Actually, "See That Girl" included one more song they said was part of the "Real" album, the extended version of "Berlin." I didn't include that though, because I don't believe that would have been included. This album is already fifty minutes long without it. That would add another six minutes to the album, which is way longer than any album could be made in those days, back before CDs were even a thing. Furthermore, it would have been musically pointless, since the extended version of "Berlin" is just a longer version of "Berlin," which was already on the album.

Anyway, is "Real" some kind of lost masterpiece? No. I would consider it one of her weakest albums. Some of the songs are just okay, and at times it suffers from 1980s production techniques that haven't dated well. But in my opinion MacColl set a high standard. Virtually every song she did was good, so even a "just okay" song from her is pretty good by the standards of the era.

The new version of this album, and other goodies from the box set, means I need to update some of my other MacColl albums. So look for more changes in the next few days."

As mentioned, this album is 50 minutes long.

01 Bad Dreams (Kirsty MacColl)
02 Time (Kirsty MacColl)
03 Sticked and Stoned (Kirsty MacColl)
04 Annie (Kirsty MacColl)
05 Camel Crossing (Kirsty MacColl)
06 Berlin (Kirsty MacColl)
07 Man with No Name (Kirsty MacColl)
08 Lullaby for Ezra (Kirsty MacColl)
09 Up the Grey Stairs (Kirsty MacColl)
10 Roman Gardens (Kirsty MacColl)
11 Rhythm of the Real Thing (Kirsty MacColl)

More sounds for Christmas :: A Fairy Tale of New York - THE POGUES (LIVE) 2012

Wouldn’t be Christmas with Shane MacGowan and The Pogues from ten years ago (although we send this one out to Kirsty MacColl and her family . . . . . . )

Song of The Day - KIRSTY MacCOLL :: Fifteen Minutes

Fifteen Minutes // Kirsty MacColl // Kite (1989)

check the art reference . . . . . . . .we miss Kirsty 

original . . . . . the single . . . . . .AND 'There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis' 
but this one was written by Ray Davies . . . . .so this!


 . . . . .  favourite and we miss Kirsty . . . . .