Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Andy Partridge wins an award!

"All You Pretty Girls", written Andy Partridge which appeared on XTC's 1984 album, "The Big Express" album has won the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards best original song for 2009, as performed by Jim Moray.

Here's the Jim Moray video which bears more than a passing resemblance to XTC's original.

You can find the rest of the winners plus more video at the Radio 2 Folk Awards site.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

the concept of "original song" is not that the song is newly written, not a cover?