Kirsty McColl is dead

Bard

R.I.P. Kirsty McColl

A fine singer, - probably best remembered for the Christmas song, "Fairytale of New York" with Shane McGowan.

Full story: http://www.nme.com/NME/External/News/News_Story/0,1004,11543,00.html

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Canaboid

Thats a shame. I quite liked her work.

Lucutus

Never listened to her stuff, not a nice way to go tho...

Shinji

Struck me as a very rock and roll way to go, tbh

Shame though, she was superb; and of course, Fairytale of New York is one of the best festive songs ever written. Strange really - most Christmas songs get on my nerves very quickly (I swear, I'll take a blowtorch to that Frosty the f*cking Snowman myself), but the chorus line of Fairytale of NY ("The boys of the NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay, and the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day") still sends little shivers down my spine. Great stuff altogether.

I heard someone say that Ronan Keating is doing a cover of the song with the insult-trading verse "toned down". I bet now he releases it as a "tribute" to McColl, w4nkah! >

efb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJcd1pTaL0

14 years RIP

Gael23

14 years later you dig this up?????????????????????????

efb

I just like her singing voice and songs

Sound of Silence

Attack of the zombie threads.

miece16

necro. please lock

Birneybau

miece16 wrote: »

necro. please lock

Are you a mod?

blastman

efb wrote: »

14 years RIP

Kirsty or this thread?

Gael23

efb wrote: »

I just like her singing voice and songs

Then start a new thread remembering her

6541

randomly on that note Elvis is also dead.

AnonoBoy

Saw this thread pop up on the main page and thought, "Oh no! Not again!"

groovie

ryanf1 wrote: »

14 years later you dig this up?????????????????????????

Beats digging her up, just sayin'

groovie

groovie wrote: »

Beats digging her up, just sayin'

Wasn't she cremated? Just sayin....

Glebee

This is an impressive bump in fairness..

Gael23

Deleted User wrote: »

Wasn't she cremated? Just sayin....

Even if she was buried there wouldn't be much left after 14 years underground...

blindsider

Birneybau wrote: »

Are you a mod?

You don't need to be a mod to express an opinion re the resurrecting of a 14 y.o. thread.

I've seen this a bit recently, where someone suggests not resurrecting a thread, or staying on topic, only to be met with a "Are you a mod?" type accusation, dressed up as a question.

i) The answer is obvious from the poster's profile

ii) There are some standing regulations on boards - no zombies; and stay on topic

...and no, I'm not a Mod.

I don't need to be a Mod to see that it's just common sense.

seamus

As chance would have it, Bard is right now DJing on Xmas Fm...

Gael23

Can a mod lock this?

Celly Smunt

RIP such a shock coming up to Christmas.


Jaaaaaysus some brown nosers here.

groovie

Celly Smunt wrote: »

RIP such a shock coming up to Christmas.


Jaaaaaysus some brown nosers here.

New England is class, fair play.

Beaner1

blindsider wrote: »

You don't need to be a mod to express an opinion re the resurrecting of a 14 y.o. thread.

I've seen this a bit recently, where someone suggests not resurrecting a thread, or staying on topic, only to be met with a "Are you a mod?" type accusation, dressed up as a question.

i) The answer is obvious from the poster's profile

ii) There are some standing regulations on boards - no zombies; and stay on topic

...and no, I'm not a Mod.

I don't need to be a Mod to see that it's just common sense.

How sad are you? Why would you even care?

groovie

Beaner1 wrote: »

How sad are you? Why would you even care?

Can we stay on topic puhleese

Into The Blue

Never understood why people would be against resurrecting threads..

tayto lover

Always liked Kirsty's songs.
You can bump this thread as often as you like.

groovie

tayto lover wrote: »

Always liked Kirsty's songs.
You can bump this thread as often as you like.

Yesterday was the anniversary of her untimely and tragic demise. Days is especially poignant. She had a lovely voice, and while Fairytale.. occasionally makes me vomit, I tolerate it for the sale of her memory.

Borzoi

efb wrote: »

14 years RIP

She still dead then? After 14 years I thought her condition might have improved

Triboro

Into The Blue wrote: »

Never understood why people would be against resurrecting threads..

Yeah,what's the deal with that?No big thing you'd imagine!

Dan_Solo

Necroing an RIP thread... there must be some clever joke in there that I'm too thick to get.

groovie

Dan_Solo wrote: »

Necroing an RIP thread... there must be some clever joke in there that I'm too thick to get.

I shan't keep you in suspense...

harney

Beaner1 wrote: »

How sad are you? Why would you even care?

Somebody is dead, we're all a little sad

*shakes head at the lack of empathy*

fryup

Borzoi wrote: »

She still dead then? After 14 years I thought her condition might have improved

this is no place for sick jokes, bit of respect

she was a fine singer, still sadly missed

miece16

Birneybau wrote: »

Are you a mod?

you must be new to the internet

NIMAN

Got to be a world record for oldest thread still going?

As for Kirsty herself, not a fan of her per se but anyone who had anything to do with Fairytale of New York is alright in my book.

monkeysnapper

A six year old thread being dug up ..... I'm really impressed , was she related to davina ?

HeidiHeidi

monkeysnapper wrote: »

A six year old thread being dug up ..... I'm really impressed , was she related to davina ?

Six?

Try fourteen! I didn't even know Boards was in existence for fourteen years :eek:

Delighted to be reminded of the wonderful artist that Kirsty McColl was - apart from that awful dirge with Shane McGowan which has to rank as the worst Christmas song ever. Well, maybe apart from Slade.

OldeCinemaSoz

She was killed by some FOXROCK F*cker lest we not forget,
going about his BIG BOAT off the coast doing what IT DOES BEST.

RIDING the REST OF US into THE. GROUND.

RIP.

OldeCinemaSoz

That's RIP that FOXCOCK thing...not CHIRSTY.....

HeidiHeidi

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

That's RIP that FOXCOCK thing...not CHIRSTY.....

What? Who?

OldeCinemaSoz

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

What? Who?

Read A BOOK. it's all existential. :eek:

monkeysnapper

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Six?

Try fourteen! I didn't even know Boards was in existence for fourteen years :eek:

Delighted to be reminded of the wonderful artist that Kirsty McColl was - apart from that awful dirge with Shane McGowan which has to rank as the worst Christmas song ever. Well, maybe apart from Slade.

Maths was never my strongest point but that's pretty disgraceful , I'm going to hang my head in shame!!!!!!