Tuna Day

I’m starting to get into the Christmas spirit now the decorations have gone up so I had a go at trying to play Fairy Tale of New York on the mandolin, badly.

I shall spare you my version although there is a karaoke version performed by a group of us at a wedding a couple of years back that lurks on Facebook if you know where to look.

Mind you there’s worse versions about.  Katie Melua seems to have stepped in a few times to sing Kirsty’s part and does a fair job although it doesn’t invoke anywhere near the same emotional response in me, and Shane McGowan is way past his best.  A trawl of YouTube will turn up a version or two if you are so inclined.  The biggest travesty though that turned up as the version on my wife’s Now…Christmas album featured Ronan flipping Keating.  Now… that’s a shite version.

Everybody knows that the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s version is the best Christmas song ever.

The BBC did showed a great documentary about this last year and it may well be on again this year.  I suggest you keep an eye out on BBC4.
If not though you can find it in 6 parts on YouTube starting with part 1 here.

(oops I really did write this on the 15th honest but then left it in draft.)