Love it or hate it (and lately I'm still tending towards the latter), The Pogues' Fairytale of New York is still the only "seasonal" song I can hear these days that doesn't make me want to kill people. And only just, at that.

I guess it seemed only natural (wha?) for Ronan Keating, formerly of Boyzone, to cover the song. He is aided and abetted on this debacle by Maire "Moya" Brennan, out of Enya, who sings the female part in the duo.

Ronan Keating - Fairytale Of New York (feat. Maire Brennan) (4.16 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download)

I really didn't want to spoil the surprise, but I can't resist: witness the politically-correct alteration of the second line of the original couplet "you scumbag, you maggot / you cheap lousy faggot" to "you're cheap and you're haggard". And weep.

PS. Please stop emailing me to ask if Duncan Bruce is single.

Labels: Friday farce, music