You Can't Hide Your Glam Away, Get It Out For Christmas

Christmas is upon us and stockings fill with the melancholy of absent friends and family members perhaps no longer with us, faces of ghosts we thought we’d slain flicker in the lights and haunt our Christmas Eve dreams.

Yet for all of these reasons Christmas is beautiful and magical, other ghosts appear from nowhere, people remember and tell stories of those gone, and Christmas lights sparkle and make even the shadiest shithole shine.

So don’t cry yourself to sleep at Christmas, put on your finest threads, kife your grannies Baileys, download the Christmas mixtape, and get your Glam out for Christmas!

Don’t be glum, be Glam!!

Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin - Symphonika

Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes

Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops

Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons

Santa’s on his way - The Pipettes

Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman

Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music

The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman

And The Salvation Army Band Plays - Helen Love and Ricardo Autobahn

Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs

Don’t believe in Christmas - The Junior Varsity

Winter on the Moon - Lucky Delucci

I Took Some Time for Christmas - Belle and Sebastian

We Dress Up Like Snowmen - The Wave Pictures

Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance - Sufjan Stevens

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Other Day - Glam Chops

Boogie Woogie Santa - Swing Republic

Outer Space Santa - The Lennon Sisters

Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon

Stop the Revelry - Shrag

Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans

Its Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas - Half Man Half Biscuit

Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl

 

Fishin' Rod Reel Handle

A new magazine has surfaced from the underworld and they had the privilege of having me to do a mix for them. The zine contains stories of drinking, fishing, music, sex, parties, sex parties, friendships, drinking, and any other shenanigans that the hardcore fishermen and fisherwoman get up to along the banks.

They might come crawling back for a Christmas mix soon so stay tuned.

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Those Days Are More Than Just Days

As I head for the exit at the Green Man festival I pass the dying embers of last nights fire, the seating logs appear empty, but I can see the ghosts of the weekend, I can hear the stories and the laughs and Richman dancing in the lesbian bar, and I can feel the sorrow setting in as the time to say goodbye sneaks up with the fading smoke.

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and its good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”

There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye - Television Personalities 

How to Say Goodbye – Magnetic Fields

We Already Said Goodbye – The Broken Family Band

Everytime We Say Goodbye – April Showers

The Ghost of New Orleans – Ballboy

Fly Into the Mystery – Jonathan Richman

Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes

Saying Goodbye – Frida Hyvönen

Farewell – Soda Shop

I Was Running – Alpaca Sports

Sorrow – Life Without Buildings

Those Nights Are More Than Just Nights!

The Comet Returns

I woke up to a comic sized package waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs, but when I opened it to read about the latest escapades of Booster Gold and his Justice League International I was in for a shock. For lurking inside the package wasn’t a comic, it was something far stranger and magical; the sound of a ghost train slithering through a spaghetti western with eerie ad-libs and shouts spewing over the sides like Bonejangles and his Bone Boys doing “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. 

Of course, it’s the new epic Flipron single “The Comet Returns”, the ad-libs and shouts coming from the legendary Specials front man Neville Staple. It will be released 10th September via Tiny Dog Records with the new album Firework Shoes following in October, so save your pennies to get a seat on the ride!

Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by...

She'll Come Back For Indian Summer - Alpaca Sports
Mates - Race Horses
We Are Past Our Dancing Days - Ballboy
Heaven Knows I Miss Him Now - Acid House Kings
Time Has Been Going By So Fast - Jonathan Richman
First of May - Bee Gees
Goshen - Beirut
Kid - Tally Ho!
Syrup of Tears - Daniel Johnston
New Directions - Jens Lekman
The End of Time - Computer Magic
Heywood Lane - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Heart on Fire - Hedgehog
Take Your Time -  Love is All
Pale Green Eyeshadow - Eiscafe
Back in Time - Au Revoir Simon

Them faces they're not the same 

Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by... from PopMiwsig on 8tracks.

Blue Tack Baby!

Stumbled upon this nugget via Eddie Argos, gonna play this at least 3 times at my next shindig! Providing I win my appeal against my worldwide Discotheque ban for crimes against ‘trad’ that is. Wish me luck.

I Fucked The Queen

Back on the road tomorrow for some discotheque action at London’s finest indie night; If You Tolerate BIS, Kenickie Will Be Next. Neil and Anna are guest DJs and I might hit the decks for a hardcore Rick Astley session if i'm not spotted early on and end up being man-marked by a 7ft bouncer with a skinhead. If the latter applies you'll find me dancing like Dean Moriarty in a brothel to the sounds of sweet sweet Pop music.

Don't forget its jubilee weekend...

So get your t-shirts here, your gimp suites here and bring your best plans for the desturction of the monarchy!

The Peppermint Taste doesn't pass away for weeks

The Kiss - Patrick Wolf
Peppermint Taste - Hefner
I Wonder Who She's Kissing Now - TV Girl
Killing Time - Veronica Falls
The Art of Kissing - Ballboy
And I Remember Every Kiss - Jens Lekman
Just for Fun - Alpaca Sports
Emily Kane - Art Brut
Sometimes I think about You - The Pastels
Do You Remember the First Time? - Pulp
Glo ac Oren - Race Horses
Do You Ever Think of Me - Laura Cantrell
Thinking of You - Marissa Nadler
The Kisses at the end of his texts - Just Joans

You’re just as pretty as I remember you’d be

The Peppermint Taste doesn't pass away for weeks from PopMiwsig on 8tracks.

Good Weekend

Went to London for the weekend and came back with 17 new favourite pubs, 10 new favourite ales, a new favourite Indie Disco in 'If You Tolerate Bis, Kenickie Will Be Next', and a comedown worse than the one encountered after a week of eating rhino tranquiliser sandwiches.

Cover the Walls – Internet Forever

Good Weekend – Art Brut

Full Moon Reggae Party - Tigercats

Memorize the City – The Organ

Something for the Weekend – Super Furry Animals

Disco Song – Au Revoir Simone

All Night Disco Party - Brakes

Party Out Of Bounds – The B-52’s

Disco Girl – BMX Bandits

Weekend – Ladytron

Dance Stance – Dexys Midnight Runners

The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats

Disco – Pete and the Pirates

Come to the City – The War on Drugs

We Love the City – Hefner

Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes

Man in my Mind/In a Party near You – Race Horses

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Good Weekend from PopMiwsig on 8tracks.

Got Somebody To Dream About

Dream About The Future - The Apples In Stereo
Kim Thurston - Tigercats
Even In Dreams - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Got Somebody to Dream About - Summer Twins
In Dreams - Let's Wrestle
Dreams of Wealth and Power - Flipron
Fix It So She Dreams Of Me - Half Man Half Biscuit
Judy and the Dream of Horses - Belle & Sebastian
Sweet Dreams Sweet Cheeks - Los Campesinos!
Asleep and Dreaming - Magnetic Fields
California Dreamin' - Mamas & the Papas
Dreaming - Cat Power
Dreams in the Air - Ooberman
Magnificent Dreams - Television Personalities
Song for Today - Pete and the Pirates
The Impossible Dream - Carter USM

Got Somebody to Dream About

Valentine Without You Will Be Miserable At Best

Valentine without You will be Miserable at Best

She doesn’t laugh at My Jokes – Jonathan Richman

Cult of the Hopeless – The Notes

Lost Weekend – Art Brut

Hideous Accident – Just Joans

Benny and the Jets – TV Girl

Hymn for the Alcohol - Hefner

Goshen - Beirut

There All the Time without You – Kestrels

Another Bed – The Twilight Sad

Georgia - Yuck

Superglue – Everybody Was In The French Resistant… Now!

Sinking Hearts – The Organ

Heart in Your Heartbreak – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Misery – Veronica Falls

What Have You Done To My Heart? – The Bell Divers

Let’s Fall In Love and Run Away From Here - Ballboy

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I Guess Things Happen That Way

“It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.”

The subtle sadness of a childhood ebbing endlessly away lingers evoking melancholic nostalgia. Suddenly it seems the people you used to see everyday on the streets and in the parks are not there anymore, people change, friends drift apart and go separate ways where the road splits, some will never meet again and not feel a thing, others will remain eternally connected even if they no longer know where to find one another. Kermit the frog had it on lockdown: “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it”. I don't like it, but i guess things happen that way.

Your Own Religion – TV Girl

In the Hearts of Men – First Aid Kit

The Peacock – Beirut

Holes – Mercury Rev

Guess Things Happen That Way – Johnny Cash

What Do We Do Now? – Just Joans

All My Friends (Are Dead) - Island Twins

Brothers – The War on Drugs

Dance Floor – The Apples in Stereo

Don’t See the Sorrow – Au Revoir Simone

Getting Over You – The Bats

Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me? – Ballboy

Don’t Be a Stranger – Esiotrot

When We Were Still Friends – Herman Dune

December 1986 – Lucky Delucci

The Way It Is – Laura Cantrell