I remember first coming across Kirtsy MacColl when her song ‘There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis’ was in the charts and I loved it as I love all songs that mention ‘the chip shop’ which is such a quintessentially English institution that I am glad it has been immortalised by such a great artist.
I never bought ‘A New England’ at the time but I remember hearing it on the radio and thinking it was a great song, little knowing that it was a cover of a Billy Bragg song. Kirsty MacColl was a truly inspirational English artist and her untimely death in 2000 came as a real shock, as I would so have loved to listen to the music that she might have been producing today. Her Christmas song ‘A Fairy Tale of New York’ with ‘The Pogues’ is another classic and it seemed to me that everything she turned her hand to was truly inspirational from ‘Days’ and her various collaborations with other artists.
‘A New England’ is my favourite Kirsty MacColl song. I love the song and the line ‘It’s wrong to wish on space hardware’ when referring to a satellite confused with a shooting star….
Now listen to the song…..
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