One quick YouTube search later and I discovered that yes, the Boston group had covered the Christmas classic, and posted it online
Closing out the year with Dropkick Murphys covering Fairytale of New York.
— tetsujin1979 (@tetsujin1979) December 31, 2019
You're welcomehttps://t.co/cYdPZWrIzf
An idea formed in my head, if this cover existed, how many others did? Was there enough to post a new one for each of the 12 days of Christmas?
Back to YouTube, and a search of "Fairytale of New York cover" yielded multiple versions of the song: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fairytale+of+new+york+cover
The idea expanded with the results of the search - were there enough to post one version of the song for the month of December? Indeed there was, from acts as diverse as folk singer Christy Moore and punk outfit No Use For A Name.
Thus was the plan finalised - post one version of the song online, using each of the 24 hours of the day, in the 24 days leading up to Christmas Day, December 2020
Fortunately twitter has a "schedule tweet" option, so I didn't have to be awake at 3am to post Lauren Paige and Henry Newbury's version on December 14th.
Lauren Paige and Henry Newbury - Fairytale of New Yorkhttps://t.co/L9W8yFJ3E3
— tetsujin1979 (@tetsujin1979) December 14, 2020
Unfortunately, facebook reserves the "schedule post" option for company pages, so not all versions were posted there. Thanks, Mark.
I've listened to around 40 versions in choosing the ones that were posted, from a drum and bass remix to a heavy metal version that Megadeth would call "heavy on the bass"
And so, twenty four versions posted on each of the twenty four hours in a day, on each of the twenty four days before Christmas, later, the original, the classic
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
PS Here's a table with the full list of covers posted, with the hour it was posted on
