He had been announcing it for days on his social networks and last night it finally saw the light. Iván Ferreiro’s new song is titled Fairy tale in Madrid and it is a tribute to what, for many, is the best Christmas carol in history, Fairytale of New Yorkfrom the Anglo-Irish band The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl, recorded in 1987.
“It became one of my favorite songs of all time,” the Vigo singer published yesterday on the social network X about the original song after the release of his version. To record it, Ferreiro has surrounded himself with many friends, well-known faces of music in Spain who appear in the song’s video clip, at the Pavón café in Madrid.
The Vigo native has publicly thanked them all, starting with his partner in the interpretation of the song, the Galician singer Guadi Galego. Both take the reins of this Christmas story as they did in the 1987 song Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, giving life to an unforgettable duo of losers who bare their miseries on the streets of New York. They are joined by Pablo López, Leiva, Rozalén, Mike Erentxun, Ferrán Pontón, Edurne Aruzu, Amaro Ferreiro, Ricky Falkner, Vega, Angie Sánchez, Santi Balmes and Julián Saldariaga.
Fairy tale in Madrid It is published a few days after the first anniversary of the death of the leader of The Pogues. Shane MacGowan, who, as EL PAÍS journalist Miguel Ezquiaga told us at the time, is remembered as Ireland’s punk poet, spent his life immersed in alcohol and drugs and provided the soundtrack for a generation of immigrants in the United Kingdom.
Now Iván Ferreiro revives his rebellious figure in a carol that is very far from other ways of interpreting Christmas: “(…) in Vigo we have Abel Caballero with the lights: go shopping at Christmas and you will see the fucking hell that is that,” the singer from Vigo told Nacho Sánchez in an interview for Icon last July.