Christmas Advent #23 – All I Want For Christmas...

...is you via Salt Lake City’s finest Punks, Baby Ghosts.

... is a Dukla Prague away kit via the Wirral's finest, Half Man Half Biscuit.

That should be enough to see you through the slow hours of Christmas Eve Eve.

Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers

Merry Christmas to the Drunken Lovers.
Side 1      Side 2

1. Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
2. Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy
3. Little Baby Hefner's Xmas Song for Holland - Hefner 
4. Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops
5. Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight - The Ramones
6. I Mugged Santa Claus - The Thlyds
7. Hark The Herald Angel Sing - The Fall
8. All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
9. Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music
10. Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons 
11. Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman
12. Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes
13. Santa’s On His Way - The Pipettes
14. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
15. Outer Space Santa - Lawrence Welk and The Lennon Sisters 
16. December Boy - The Loves
17. The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman
18. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
19. Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans
20. Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon
21. I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith TOTP & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
22. All I want for Christmas is an Action Man - Jonny Cola and The A-Grades
23. Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs
24. Lonely This Christmas - Carter USM
25. Stop the Revelry - Shrag
26. Just Like Christmas - Low

The Star You Fell In Love To Comes Out On Christmas Eve (Christmas Mix)

Christmas is in the air along the frosty river banks, the grass sparkles like the stars with the morning frost, our mortality shines clearer and brighter than them all at this time of year. In the ice, reflections of Christmas’ past stare back; scalextrics with dodgy transformers, Frank Fish with his latex waders shagging that snow-woman he built after one too many candle-wax-whiskies, family members no longer swimming in our waters doing the rounds on Christmas day, pints of Baileys going down the hatch like cold cans of lilt, aching hearts wandering the streets searching for that feeling lost somewhere along the way as ever familiar landscapes whisper in the darkness.

I was young once
I was seduced by
The rebellion
Of youth

I was young once
I was seduced by
The rebellion
Of you 

String together some threads, sing, drink, and dance to the ghosts of the past and things that don’t last!

The Star You Fell In Love To Comes Out On Christmas Eve:

1. Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin - Symphonika
2. Pray for Murderers - Ballboy
3. Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
4. Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music
5. Mele Kalikimaka - Bing Crosby
6. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
7. Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops
8. I’m Getting Pissed for Christmas - Peter and the Test Tube Babies
9. Come Round Here On Christmas - I Like The Go Go
10. Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons
11. The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman
12. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
13. Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans
14. Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon
15. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl
16. Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman
17. Outer Space Santa - The Lennon Sisters
18. I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith TOTP & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
19. Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs
20. Don’t believe in Christmas - The Junior Varsity
21. Boogie Woogie Santa - Swing Republic
22. All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
23. Lonely This Christmas - Carter USM
24. Stop the Revelry - Shrag
25. This Town - The Thlyds

Deep Blue, in '97 I voted for you...

"Deep Blue, In ’97 I voted for you, As Sports Personality of the Year I thought at least, You’d get the Overseas ‘cos when all’s said and done you’re not like some of these Bad losers on Yahoo Chess"

Half Man Half Biscuit have just announced a long overdue return to Cardiff in the coming summer, scheduled for the 25th of August at the Cardiff Millennium Music Hall. The news sent me scampering back to the last release: 'CSI: Ambleside' with joy in my heart. I found out about the gig somewhat fortuitously, having stumbled upon this the other day (nice list but Bob Wilson Anchor Man has to be top of the league?) I decided to check the website and what do you know it’s been updated! With 6 fixtures announced a new album must surely be imminent?