Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Kirsty MacColl - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1994-2000

I recently posted Volume 1 of Kirsty MacColl's BBC sessions. You may notice this skips to Volume 3. That's because it turned out I already posted Volume 2 a while back and just didn't realize it. That's her Glastonbury set from 1992. So that's been renamed Volume 2. This, meanwhile, is another bunch of BBC studio sessions, just like Volume 1. And to add to the confusion, Volume 4 is another concert from 1995 that I recently renamed to make it part of this series.

To help you out, here's what I now call Volume 2, with changed cover art and mp3 tags and so forth:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/kirsty-maccoll-bbc-in-concert.html

And here's the renamed Volume 4:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/kirsty-maccoll-london-fleadh-festival.html

Anyway, let's get to this album. Like Volume 1, this is mostly a mix of BBC studio session performances taken from the 20023 box set "See That Girl" (tracks 1, 2, 3, and 8) and the older archival album "What Do Pretty Girls Do" (tracks 4 through 7). However, the last four tracks are genuine BBC studio session songs that somehow were overlooked by both of those releases and remain officially unreleased. 

Note that a version of "Soho Square" also appeared on Volume 1. But that version was with a band and this version is acoustic. In fact, many songs here are done in acoustic mode. A version of "My Affair" also appeared on Volume 1, but that version was six years earlier, and is different. I removed a couple other cases where the same song was played twice, but there were only one or two of those, as I recall.

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 Can't Stop Killing You (Kirsty MacColl)
02 Soho Square (Kirsty MacColl)
03 Miss Otis Regrets (Kirsty MacColl)
04 Caroline (Kirsty MacColl)
05 Free World (Kirsty MacColl)
06 A New England (Kirsty MacColl)
07 He's on the Beach (Kirsty MacColl)
08 In These Shoes (Kirsty MacColl)
09 Nao Esperando (Kirsty MacColl)
10 England 2 Colombia 0 (Kirsty MacColl)
11 My Affair (Kirsty MacColl)
12 Celestine (Kirsty MacColl)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15998484/KirstyMacC_1994-2000_BBSessonsVolum3_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a concert at the Forum in London, on May 23, 1995. The red lighting was in the original.

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