Kirsty MacColl - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1981-1994

One month ago as I write this in November 2023, a Kirsty MacColl box set called "See That Girl" was released. It was a big one, consisting of eight CDs. I'm going to have to make some minor changes to a bunch of her albums I've posted here due to newly released songs on that.

Thanks to that box set, I feel this is a good time to post all her BBC material. It turns out that two concerts I've already posted were broadcast by the BBC, so I'm renaming them as Volume 2 and 4 in this series. That leaves this one and Volume 3 for all the BBC studio sessions.

In 2003, a compilation album of BBC studio sessions was released, called "What Do Pretty Girls Do." That's pretty much made obsolete by the box set. However, there are a few performances on that album that didn't make it to the box set. Most songs here are from the box set, but three are from "What Do Pretty Girls Do." In addition, one song here, "Soho Square," was done on a BBC TV show but was somehow overlooked by both of those albums.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 I Don't Wanna Play House (Kirsty MacColl)
02 Queen of the High Teas (Kirsty MacColl)
03 You Can Have My Husband (Kirsty MacColl)
04 Don't Come the Cowboy with Me (Kirsty MacColl)
05 What Do Pretty Girls Do (Kirsty MacColl)
06 Don't Run Away from Me Now (Kirsty MacColl)
07 Still Life (Kirsty MacColl)
08 A New England (Kirsty MacColl & Billy Bragg)
09 There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (Kirsty MacColl)
10 Walk Right Back (Kirsty MacColl)
11 Darling, Let's Have Another Baby (Kirsty MacColl & Billy Bragg)
12 Soho Square (Kirsty MacColl)
13 Angel (Kirsty MacColl)
14 My Affair (Kirsty MacColl)
15 Bad (Kirsty MacColl)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15984074/KirstyMacC_1981-1994_BBSessonsVolum1_atse.zip.html

The cover is a publicity photo from 1981.