Somebody had to write a song called the Fairytale of New Cross, and Greg McDonald has. Here he is performing it on Xfm earlier in the year:
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2 comments:
The cherry reds, a london based pop punk band made an ep called fairytale of new cross a few years back if I recall
Yes, you're right in fact it was a whole album of that name. But I don't think they actually had a song called that. They did have a song called Lager Daleks though, the sometime name for the Goldsmiths Tavern in the 1990s.
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