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New Thu 30 Nov 23 12:38 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - smokie
for Shane MacGowan

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67546785

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New Thu 30 Nov 23 13:01 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Bromptonaut
That's both of them gone.

If it's going to be played over and over at Christmas as a tribute please can we have the version with the proper words.
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 14:20 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Zero
Can we please not have it at all.
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 16:16 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - legacylad
Don’t hear it much in ( proper) Spanish bars in the interior. Thank goodness.
Or Slade or C Richard
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 16:35 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Bromptonaut
>> Can we please not have it at all.

They were going get kids to do it for the Xmas concert at the youth music place where Mrs B volunteers on a Saturday. They didn't after a stushie between staff members over whether 14 year olds could sing about faggots...
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 16:41 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Bromptonaut
I love it.

There's humour, emotion, strings and whistles and a proper Gaelic rhythm.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkN4EXhBR8

It'd be a funny old world if we all liked the same stuff.
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 17:51 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Robin O'Reliant
My own favourite

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAbQuCIyilQ




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New Thu 30 Nov 23 17:53 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Bromptonaut
>> My own favourite
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAbQuCIyilQ
>>

Roger Whittaker....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-43xTseM1U
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 18:32 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Robin O'Reliant
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>> Roger Whittaker....
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-43xTseM1U
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I find that one a bit bland, personally. Though Dirty Old Town is probably one of the most covered songs of all time so there's room for all tastes. Doesn't sound bad on a Ukulele either -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiz21wokHu0
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 18:50 
 Other deaths - sooty123
Henry Kissinger dies age 100

news.sky.com/story/former-united-states-secretary-of-state-henry-kissinger-has-died-aged-100-13019308

Alistair Darling dies age 70

news.sky.com/story/alistair-darling-westminster-stunned-by-shock-death-of-canny-chancellor-who-steered-uk-through-financial-crash-13019654
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 20:39 
 Other deaths - Robin O'Reliant
Neither of those covered Dirty Old Town.
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New Thu 30 Nov 23 21:25 
 Other deaths - Bromptonaut
And Jimmy Corkhill too:

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/30/actor-dean-sullivan-jimmy-corkhill-brookside-dies
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New Fri 1 Dec 23 00:05 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Bobby
Back in the late 80s my brother and I used to do DJing at functions, weddings etc.
used to trail around boxes and boxes of albums in the back of his Maestro with the decks and speakers.
Nowadays they just turn up with a laptop and USB drive!

Anyway there was a pub in Coatbridge that we got a regular Saturday night gig in and every Saturday without fail, we had to play Dirty Old Town. I remember once joking with a guy that we didn’t have it this week and he stood up with his solid ashtray from the table, filled with dowts and ash and told me that unless it got played, both me and the turntables were getting hit with this ashtray.

I played it.
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New Fri 1 Dec 23 10:54 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - VxFan
>> They didn't after a stushie between staff members over whether 14 year olds could sing about faggots...

Obviously no brains **


(** Brains Faggots)

I'll get me coat.
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New Fri 1 Dec 23 10:55 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - Bromptonaut
>> I'll get me coat.

PLease...

That said I'd forgotten Brains Faggots. One of us used to do them for dinner in a shared house I was in c1983. Quite nice actually. Canned?
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New Fri 1 Dec 23 11:01 
 No Fairytale Of New York this year - VxFan
>> Canned?

I've only had the ones in a foil tray. £1.19 for 6 in Tesco.
www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/282049626
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