Happy Xmas from Radio Clash – and have a Perfectly Reasonable New Year, ok? We say goodbye to Shane MacGowan the only way we know how – with a TikTok meme, play lots of silly Christmas tunes, mashups, covers, and even some non-festive stuff like some selections from Mashed At The Sock Hop Vol 2 and Hallmighty’s 100% Fresh album. Even a new ‘Xmas single’ from The KLF (sorta).

Xmas Metal, punk, electro, drum and bass, reggae, ska, pop, indie, new age, electronica, folk and The Indescribably Ungenred, this podcast has a gift for everyone! And oddly. no Wham’s Last Xmas this year, so safe for Whamageddon (Mariahpocalypse maybe not, almost – it’s an edge case).

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Hello, Welcome to Radio Clash 391, it is the Christmas episode.

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Which is the Mameless Christmas episode, because it doesn’t have a name.

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That was God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Wat Tyler.

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We had both sides of the Christmas debate there.

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I must sound leaning towards the Tankard Fuck Christmas Wat Tyler approach to the festivities.

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Before that was Tankard Fuck Christmas from 1995 and that was God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

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Wat Tyler from 2009’s A Damaged Christmas Gift To You.

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We like punk and metal festive songs on this podcast we play them quite often.

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As it started we had a mashup with iWillBattle, that’s Shake God It’s Christmas, Queen

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vs Taylor Swift and that’s a leftover, a reheated leftover, How Christmasy from 2022

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from now the Christmas Bootlegs album which apparently has been uploading onto YouTube

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this year.

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Not so many Christmas festivities from iWillBattle but then again it goes through

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cycles I know I’m surprised I did one this year which we’ll hear later in the podcast.

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I wasn’t intending to so I added it to X-Mash rather than doing multiple Christmas albums

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because I didn’t do that many.

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I do maybe one or two maybe I did three last year which is quite a lot for me and you might

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hear another one of those as well.

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More reheated leftovers some years I do noms so I just add it to the band camp and you

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find that on the finger treble band camp it should be realityengine.co.uk should direct

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that.

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This is a Nameless Christmas episode I couldn’t think of a name so it’s called the Nameless

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Christmas episode.

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Maybe we’ll find a name along the way maybe the names will be the friends we make along

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the way or maybe the friends will be names we make.

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I don’t know I really don’t know I really don’t care actually.

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As I said I’m not just not in the mood this year in a way.

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I had stockpiled all of this Christmas shit so I feel like I’ll use it.

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Over the last 12 months suddenly he’s literally started in December, November last year and

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weren’t used and some of them were like oh yes yes but this is a good one it’s Cuckooland

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again from a Damaged Christmas gift to you and this is Silver Bells which is something

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I love anyway.

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“Torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck

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off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off…”

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Ah yes, that’s the anthem of this year for me, and actually it came out at the end of

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last year.

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But sadly the torys are still there, and I really do want them to fuck off.

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That is Grace Petrie, I Just Want The Torys To Fuck Off (A Christmas Song).

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Very helpful.

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From her YouTube post just before last year, and I didn’t hear it about that enough, I

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was like, “Oh I wonder what Grace Petrie’s doing because of Fairytale?”

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I didn’t mention at the start.

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We had a little bit of a meme that’s doing the rounds, Censoring Christmas with Holland

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and Barrett, or New Season of Taggart for that section, because we had the sad death

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of Shane MacGowan.

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But unfortunately that’s brought out the people going, “I don’t like the snowflake version!”

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I just watched the version played at the funeral.

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Luckily one of the comments tipped me off before I got to that section, because I was

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just like, “Oh I do hope at a funeral they didn’t leave the F-word in?”

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Apparently yes.

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I even saw someone on TikTok, I know TikTok, I don’t need to go to TikTok, but I was actually

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looking for that meme itself, the Holland and Barrett New Season of Taggart, which I think

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is genius, thanks to iWillBattle for introducing me to that.

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And so I was looking for that.

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Unfortunately I stumbled on all the people moaning about the censorship of Fairytale

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of New York, and one was going, “Queer people don’t care.”

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And I’m like, “This queer person does.”

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And it was a woman who was saying it, and F-word, and I don’t mean fuck, is directed

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at male gay men, or it’s directed at men.

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It’s a male thing.

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No-one has ever used that word against a woman, so it’s not her word to police, it’s not

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her word to say, “Oh that’s perfectly fine.”

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Well to you maybe.

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I was so glad when the news broke and Craig Charles played the Haggard version.

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I get it, the Haggard isn’t as good a rhyme, but I just know, just know.

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When that song comes on, I’m just like tense up, it’s just, “Oh what version is it?

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What version is it?”

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You know it’s always going in my brain, I was like, “Oh I just don’t want to hear that

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word.”

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I don’t want to hear that bit.

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Unfortunately, the death of Shane McGowan was brought out by those people, and so I really

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love that censorship, you know, and New Season of Taggart, which is not actually invented

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by that meme.

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It was someone, 2018 I think when the first debate of this, someone came up with that,

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somebody on Twitter.

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But I hadn’t heard the Holland and Barrett, it was very funny, very funny.

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So Grace Petrie, I know, long anecdote, did another version where she changed it, “I love

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Diane Abbott.”

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I posted that on the blog two years ago, and of course they got a long green ink comment

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from someone telling me how I was wrong and how they constitutionally have the right to

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say that word.

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And it’s like, “Mate, are you even gay?”

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I’ll accept it if you’re gay.

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You know, if you’re a male gay man, then yeah, I will accept it as a thing, but don’t tell

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the people what words that they can be offended by please.

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It makes me so angry.

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And so do the Tories, so yes, we want them to fuck off.

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I think it would be good for the country at this point.

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They’re driving the country into the ground.

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I mean, spending all that money, sending people to Rwanda.

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Why?

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And then before that, we had Logan Lynn, 2021’s It’s Christmas Motherfucker.

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I think dealing with the American version of this, from what I remember him saying about

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it, it’s about COVID and Christian right and how they just didn’t care.

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But in 2023, when I hear body bags under the tree, I’m thinking, well, not just the AIDS

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pandemic and COVID, but also what’s going on in Gaza.

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So yeah, that section was a bit of a Gaza section.

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Yeah, happy Christmas.

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Because before we had the anti-war song, which weirdly never gets marked as an anti-war song.

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It always gets put into compilations when people don’t listen to the lyrics.

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I Believe in Father Christmas by Hannah Peel, (REBOX) from 2014, a single called Find Peace

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very appropriately.

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She gets it.

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Greg Lake wrote that as a criticism of the war that was going on at the Middle East, the

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time.

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I can forget which one it was.

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Was it the Yon Kippur?

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It was ’74, ’75.

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And it’s like time just repeats itself, doesn’t it?

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Depressingly.

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Before that, we had William Maranci with For Whom the Bell Tolls, But It’s All I Want

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for Christmas, Metallica versus Mariah Carey.

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I was going to go No Mariah Carey, but doesn’t use the vocal.

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And I can’t remember if Mariahpocalypse, where the, I think it’s like Whamageddon,

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Remixes and Mashups are Fine covers.

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I think it’s just the original.

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But there’s no Maria in that, apart from a little bit of backing box.

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So I thought it was all right.

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I thought it was all right.

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Because yeah, I know, I get it.

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I feel the same way about the original, but I love how it just turns into a song about

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bells.

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We had a bell section there, because before we had For Whom the Bell Tolls, a cover by

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Santa Claws And The Naughty But Nice Orchestra.

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They do sound like complete cash ins.

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They do like Christmas themed albums.

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The faces is randomly put in sleigh bells over the top.

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But that one is a bit more electro swing, a bit more different.

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And the Christmas Frawl, a holiday tribute to Metallica.

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So it’s like how they do change the genre somewhat.

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There’s like this weird goth swing thing going on.

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I don’t know how to describe it.

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It’s like goth electro swing.

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I like that part.

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And then at the start of the session we had Cuckooland with Silver Bells.

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One of my favourites.

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And so we’re going to continue the Mashupage.

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Is that a word?

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Mashupage?

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This is the Kleptones

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And this is a classic one.

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I didn’t know about this one until fairly recently, I think the last year or so.

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Or I found it and then lost it.

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It does happen with my collection.

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I find I lose things all the time.

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This is Bling Crosby, Bing Crosby Bootleg, White Christmas Christmas.

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This is turning out to be the Nightmare Podcast before Christmas.

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I might call it that.

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I just had a first thing ever, a complete crash of Traktor.

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That’s never happened.

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It’s had freezers, literally just like BAM!

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And for a while there I thought I’d lost an hour’s worth of recording.

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Looks like thanks to Reaper and VLC being able to read it.

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I got it back, but yes, the ghosts of Christmas present.

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That was Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, the Inokasira Rangers, a Japanese Ska group, and

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that goes out to Ryuichi Sakamoto, who we lost this year.

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One of my favourite songs of all time.

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I used that as a bed, but it deserves more.

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It deserves so much better.

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And before that we had a bit of a reggae ska, Christmas ska, Christmas reggae.

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Yes, Christmas reggae is a thing.

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Trojan did a whole album of it.

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That was a very strange album actually from 1980.

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Christmas album by Jacob Miller and Ray I.

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But that’s actually from the Christmas reggae box set I mentioned.

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And that’s Deck the Halls.

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I think it’s 1980 it came out originally.

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It’s a completely demented.

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I mean Deck the Halls with Bows of Collie.

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How could I not?

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The other ones are brilliant as well.

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Then before that we had Granville Williams Orchestra with Santa Claus Ska-Ing to Town.

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And then we had some new shizzle from the KLF.

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All the KLF Kare Foundation, or KLF Kare, or the K2 Foundation, or whatever they are

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this week.

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And that’s the turn you thought. Remix of Everybody’s Talking at Me, the KLF and Ricardo

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Da Force.

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That was just posted up on their KLF Kare website.

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Yeah, they’re getting into doing old folks’ homes for raving people.

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I like that.

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The sort of the Christmas intro is going to be appropriate.

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And the idea is called the far name is some like Christmas number one or some like, you

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know, Christmas, top Christmas thing or something.

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Yeah, maybe they hope.

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Maybe they hope.

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But I don’t know if Nilsson’s estate would agree.

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And before that we had DJ Paul V with an update of his Just Can’t Get Club Action, 23 Edit,

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that’s Yo Majesty and Enya versus Depeche Mode.

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Yo Majesty and Enya.

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I don’t think Yo Majesty approached Enya and went, “Oh, can we have a collab?”

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No.

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And before that, a classic from last year that IamJstncrdble with Fe-Kneesh Navidad.

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That became the Bootie anthem of last Christmas, I remember.

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That’s Megan Thee Stallion versus Aquadrop.

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He was like, “Ehh, eh, eh, I can’t do that.

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I can’t do that.”

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That noise that Megan Thee Stallion makes.

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But yeah, it was all about Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B last year, obviously.

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And I did Christmas Wapping as well.

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So that was…

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And then before that we had a silent section.

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We had the Kleptones with Bling Crosby, Bing Crosby Bootleg.

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It’s called White Xmas Christmas.

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I’m not exactly sure why this two Christmases is in there.

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Double the fun from 2003.

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So I’m going to play some more Rock at You, because I can.

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And maybe some Drum and Bass.

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Just maybe, if you’re good.

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If you’ve not on the naughty list.

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Yeah, in the background you’re hearing some more.

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I mentioned earlier the Santa Claws.

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I’m not sure if I used this as a bed before on a previous Christmas, but yeah, Boulevard

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of Broken Dreams.

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Because I sometimes do this.

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This one I’m just using Christmas beds.

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Well, almost made it into the podcast, but didn’t.

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But so before something else goes wrong, which is probably about five minutes from now,

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I’m going to play a track by the Dollyrots.

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The Dollyrots do a lot of Christmas stuff every year.

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I’m not sure what they’re doing this Christmas, but this is from 2014, Because I’m Santa.

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And I don’t know if it’s a piss-take of a Riot Girl song, but it’s very Riot Girl.

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That was iWillBattle with Disconnected From Your Collar, Connie Francis vs. Chase & Status,

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and that’s from the new album Mashed Up at the Sockhop Vol 2.

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There’s a couple of mashups from that in that segment.

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And yeah, not everything in this podcast is Christmas related.

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I get mad if everything was Christmas related.

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I mean, it’d be like, what?

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There has to be a bit of a palate cleanser from all the sugary, candy cane nonsense.

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So yeah, there’s a bit of drum and bass, Connie Francis.

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I think there needs to be more Connie Francis bootlegs in the world.

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My tip, Stupid Cupid, go check her out.

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And then before that, we had Hallmighty with Rhiannon’s Time,, Fleetwood Mac vs. Chase &

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Status, so we had a Chase & Status section.

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I’ve been checking out their last mixtape, Dunproofin, mentioned it, so I was like,

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oh, and also their previous album.

01:18:17.600 –> 01:18:20.920
There was almost going to be an album track from their previous album and they have a

01:18:20.920 –> 01:18:23.600
time, I’m trying to reconnect with Chase & Status.

01:18:23.600 –> 01:18:25.920
I haven’t really checked out their stuff for a while.

01:18:25.920 –> 01:18:31.040
Then before that, we had, again, from the Sock Hop Vol 2, there’s like two parts.

01:18:31.040 –> 01:18:33.360
There’s iWillBattles, Rock ‘n Roll mashups.

01:18:33.360 –> 01:18:39.640
It’s like music that you would hear in a rock ‘n roll diner, something pre-1960s.

01:18:39.640 –> 01:18:45.320
There’s also a mixtape section, which I’m very proud that DJNoNo opens with the swinging

01:18:45.320 –> 01:18:52.080
cymbals, killed the Radio Star, I think it’s called, swinging cymbals vs. Buggles, and ends

01:18:52.080 –> 01:18:56.120
with Patsy Cline vs Olivia Rodrigo.

01:18:56.120 –> 01:18:59.000
So I was very proud that it’s sort of top and tail that.

01:18:59.000 –> 01:19:05.240
But that’s reconthuse with Runaway Love Fool, and again, we need more Del Shannon,

01:19:05.240 –> 01:19:06.640
mashups in the world.

01:19:06.640 –> 01:19:09.880
iWillBattled it one, and that one.

01:19:09.880 –> 01:19:13.320
And that’s Cardigans vs. Del Shannon.

01:19:13.320 –> 01:19:20.920
Then we had a rock section with a mashup from last year from me, Santa Still Breathing.

01:19:20.920 –> 01:19:21.920
It’s a bit weird.

01:19:21.920 –> 01:19:26.320
I think I made some of them a bit late, but they all were earmarked for the podcast and

01:19:26.320 –> 01:19:28.800
I don’t play them.

01:19:28.800 –> 01:19:29.800
I do that sometimes.

01:19:29.800 –> 01:19:33.440
I make stuff for the podcast and go, “Oh, I must play this.”

01:19:33.440 –> 01:19:35.440
Something else comes on there.

01:19:35.440 –> 01:19:36.440
Nope.

01:19:36.440 –> 01:19:38.520
I have a harsh in my own music sometimes.

01:19:38.520 –> 01:19:40.360
So that’s Santa Still Breathing.

01:19:40.360 –> 01:19:47.280
Still Breathing at Christmas, Sia vs. Green Day, that’s a V2 version from Instamatic.

01:19:47.280 –> 01:19:49.680
And you can find that on the XMash compilation I mentioned before.

01:19:49.680 –> 01:19:52.200
For free, you’ll donate or whatever you want to do.

01:19:52.200 –> 01:19:53.200
It’s pay as you want.

01:19:53.200 –> 01:19:58.200
Who knows how long it’ll be up there for, because Bandcamp changed their management

01:19:58.200 –> 01:20:00.240
to a company that’s into DRM.

01:20:00.240 –> 01:20:03.840
So I think it runs DRM software or something like that.

01:20:03.840 –> 01:20:07.720
I’m suspecting my account to be cancelled any day soon.

01:20:07.720 –> 01:20:11.600
And then at the start of the section, we had the Dollyrots with Because I’m Santa from

01:20:11.600 –> 01:20:14.600
2014’s a Dollyrots Christmas mini album.

01:20:14.600 –> 01:20:19.720
As you might have guessed, I really do like my old school, early synthesizers, organ synthesizers.

01:20:19.720 –> 01:20:20.720
I love those.

01:20:20.720 –> 01:20:23.040
This is by Pedro Morquecho.

01:20:23.040 –> 01:20:25.320
I probably said that wrong.

01:20:25.320 –> 01:20:29.600
And you’ll hear more of them in a little bit, but as I say, this section was more about

01:20:29.600 –> 01:20:35.280
newer music or newer things that aren’t Christmasy necessarily.

01:20:35.280 –> 01:20:42.120
And I’ve been really digging the album Tresor by Gwenno, which there was a Peggy P challenge

01:20:42.120 –> 01:20:44.320
talking about Breton music.

01:20:44.320 –> 01:20:45.920
And I was like, oh, Cornish music.

01:20:45.920 –> 01:20:49.640
And I never got into actually making the mashup, but it’s a beautiful album.

01:20:49.640 –> 01:20:55.160
She’s a Welsh artist, but writing in Kernow or Cornish.

01:20:55.160 –> 01:20:56.400
So this is Tonnow.

01:46:07.140 –> 01:46:10.740
That was Santa Cloud with Chrismurfingland.

01:46:10.740 –> 01:46:13.900
It goes on for another three or four minutes.

01:46:13.900 –> 01:46:17.140
A lot of people would rebel at that point.

01:46:17.140 –> 01:46:21.340
That’s St Allio from 2018’s Christmas Spirits for all three.

01:46:21.340 –> 01:46:27.160
I don’t know if there’s any more Santa Cloud last year or so, I haven’t checked very recently.

01:46:27.160 –> 01:46:33.600
Then before that we had Bruce Haack and Ted Pandel from 1976’s Ebenezer Electric that’s

01:46:33.600 –> 01:46:36.680
I Like Christmas, which I was like, oh is that a cover?

01:46:36.680 –> 01:46:38.240
But I think they wrote that.

01:46:38.240 –> 01:46:42.000
Or Ted Pandel, I don’t know who wrote that, but there’s no credits to who is.

01:46:42.000 –> 01:46:44.920
And a little bit Ms Esther Nelson in there as well.

01:46:44.920 –> 01:46:47.440
It was on her label, Dimension 5.

01:46:47.440 –> 01:46:53.140
And before that we had Pedro Moquecho, who you’re hearing in the background as well.

01:46:53.140 –> 01:47:02.060
That’s Campanas Navadinas, Jingle Bells from Noche De Paz Mexican Organist and Bandleader.

01:47:02.060 –> 01:47:07.460
And then before that we had CSE Art Project with I Played This Cassette Till I Broke It

01:47:07.460 –> 01:47:09.500
with a bit of John Peel in there.

01:47:09.500 –> 01:47:13.740
I don’t know if that made the Festive 50 on Dandelion Radio, that’s where I first heard

01:47:13.740 –> 01:47:14.740
it.

01:47:14.740 –> 01:47:19.320
I had to plug the Festive 50 that they do on the station.

01:47:19.320 –> 01:47:24.240
And it’s interesting that actually that’s the early Festive 50 where it was all time.

01:47:24.240 –> 01:47:31.200
It had to change it because one of the Festive 50s, the lost Festive 50, it was so disheartening.

01:47:31.200 –> 01:47:33.120
It just stopped doing it.

01:47:33.120 –> 01:47:38.480
It came out a little bits after, not during Christmas.

01:47:38.480 –> 01:47:43.840
And partly the reason why I changed it was the same records we’re getting in the top

01:47:43.840 –> 01:47:45.700
10 or top 20 every year.

01:47:45.700 –> 01:47:49.740
And so he made it so it had to be released during that year to stop that.

01:47:49.740 –> 01:47:51.580
Because there used to be these rants.

01:47:51.580 –> 01:47:57.020
I’ve heard them on some of the Festive 50s, like him going, “Oh, that’s the same record

01:47:57.020 –> 01:47:58.020
again.

01:47:58.020 –> 01:47:59.700
Was there no other records?”

01:47:59.700 –> 01:48:05.060
And then before that we had Clannad with Almost Seems Too Late To Turn.

01:48:05.060 –> 01:48:06.300
That’s not very Christmasy.

01:48:06.300 –> 01:48:11.100
I think it was released around this time of year as a single.

01:48:11.100 –> 01:48:13.200
And that’s from 1985’s Macalla.

01:48:13.200 –> 01:48:18.040
And probably the reason we’re playing Clannad, and there might be some more Clannad in a

01:48:18.040 –> 01:48:19.040
second.

01:48:19.040 –> 01:48:20.040
I got those albums at Christmas.

01:48:20.040 –> 01:48:24.240
So it kind of feels Christmasy to me, even though it’s not really Christmas music.

01:48:24.240 –> 01:48:28.160
And then another song, which is not Christmas music, but has become Christmas music a bit

01:48:28.160 –> 01:48:35.120
like I believe in Father Christmas, is River by Joni Mitchell, as covered by Tracy Thorn

01:48:35.120 –> 01:48:39.240
there in 2012 for her Tinsel and Lights album.

01:48:39.240 –> 01:48:40.240
It’s a beautiful song.

01:48:40.240 –> 01:48:44.080
I love River so much, but it’s said at Christmas, but it’s not really a Christmas song.

01:48:44.080 –> 01:48:50.040
It seems like any song that’s some motley tangentially said at Christmas or as a sort of thing at

01:48:50.040 –> 01:48:54.480
Christmas just gets sort of shoehorned into Christmas compilation land.

01:48:54.480 –> 01:48:55.920
It’s bizarre.

01:48:55.920 –> 01:49:00.960
Then before that we had Tonnow by Gwenno from 2022’s Trezor.

01:49:00.960 –> 01:49:02.440
I really recommend checking it out.

01:49:02.440 –> 01:49:04.920
It sort of, it might be a bit of Broadcast actually.

01:49:04.920 –> 01:49:12.400
It’s like Broadcast, Belbury poly, but Cornish, a bit more real instruments rather than electronica.

01:49:12.400 –> 01:49:16.360
But bits of it made me think it’s a bit more jazzy, a bit more funky version of some of

01:49:16.360 –> 01:49:17.360
the Broadcast stuff.

01:49:17.360 –> 01:49:23.720
So yeah, it has that quite spooky mystical, neolithic feel, which I love.

01:49:23.720 –> 01:49:25.120
Hey, hey, Clannad.

01:49:25.120 –> 01:49:29.320
But also I’ve been editing the video of me hanging around on Chanctonbury rings.

01:49:29.320 –> 01:49:32.080
So that’s Justin Kraus territory and all that sort of stuff.

01:49:32.080 –> 01:49:35.600
That’s probably where it’s coming from in my head.

01:49:35.600 –> 01:49:42.200
So I’m going to play a song from the Low Christmas EP from 1999.

01:49:42.200 –> 01:49:44.760
And this is because of the sad loss of Mimi Parker.

01:49:44.760 –> 01:49:47.040
Just over a year ago we lost Mimi Parker.

01:49:47.040 –> 01:49:50.080
So yeah, I’m still not over it really.

01:49:50.080 –> 01:49:54.880
One of the best, if not the best Christmas single EPs or I would say in that series.

01:49:54.880 –> 01:49:55.880
Really it’s an album.

01:49:55.880 –> 01:49:57.880
I think there’s six tracks on there.

01:49:57.880 –> 01:50:02.400
Of all time, is that low EP?

01:50:02.400 –> 01:50:04.400
So this is Long Way Around The Sea by Low.

02:07:32.820 –> 02:07:36.940
That was Written in the Snow by Bruce Haack and Ted Pandel.

02:07:36.940 –> 02:07:46.740
Again from the 1976 Ebenezer Electric album, Beautiful Song, very much Ted Pandel singing.

02:07:46.740 –> 02:07:54.100
I’ve seen him interviewed about Bruce Haack before, and then before that we had Christian

02:07:54.100 –> 02:07:57.740
Chevalier with Deuce Knight, Silent Night.

02:07:57.740 –> 02:08:01.700
That isn’t dated, but I think it’s early ’82s.

02:08:01.700 –> 02:08:04.140
Christian Chevallier, yes, him.

02:08:04.140 –> 02:08:05.140
That gets name-checked.

02:08:05.140 –> 02:08:12.140
Boards of Canada he did a Christmas album called Noëls D’hier Et De Demain, which I’ve totally

02:08:12.140 –> 02:08:16.180
ruined, but you know, I don’t speak French.

02:08:16.180 –> 02:08:19.940
Then before that in Irish, we had Barra MacNeils with…

02:08:19.940 –> 02:08:21.940
Ah, here we go.

02:08:21.940 –> 02:08:26.380
Sumhach An Oidhch’, probably.

02:08:26.380 –> 02:08:33.860
Silent Night in Irish from their 2006 Christmas album too, and Barra MacNeils are Canadian,

02:08:33.860 –> 02:08:38.780
but they were Canadian Irish, and they sing in Irish.

02:08:38.780 –> 02:08:47.140
Then before that we had a song that you probably know, but you do like, what is these lyrics?

02:08:47.140 –> 02:08:52.180
That’s Egg with Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and those are the original lyrics.

02:08:52.180 –> 02:08:57.300
I only learned that today, and I then had to hunt out and find a cover of the original,

02:08:57.300 –> 02:09:04.900
because Judy Garland was upset at the lyrics thinking it would really traumatise this young

02:09:04.900 –> 02:09:06.580
girl that she’s singing it to.

02:09:06.580 –> 02:09:10.740
This might be our last, but it’s 1944, you can see where it’s coming from.

02:09:10.740 –> 02:09:14.780
So it’s much more modern colline, and like a lot of Christmas songs, they tend to get

02:09:14.780 –> 02:09:19.820
sort of happyed up, and that sadly one has been so changed over the years, and the lyrics

02:09:19.820 –> 02:09:25.420
have been so mucked around that although I can see why it was changed because it’s very

02:09:25.420 –> 02:09:32.220
melancholy, I also think that given the film, the bit in the film, Meet Me in St. Louis,

02:09:32.220 –> 02:09:38.260
and the time, it kind of makes more sense, but yeah, it was changed and changed again.

02:09:38.260 –> 02:09:40.380
I feel sorry for it, and that’s from 2021.

02:09:40.380 –> 02:09:48.900
And then before that we heard Clannad again from 1980s Crann Úll with ‘La Coimhthioch Fan

02:09:48.900 –> 02:09:55.380
Dtuath’, A Strange Day In The Countryside, I probably murdered that completely.

02:09:55.380 –> 02:10:00.500
Then before that, it sounded quite Clannad-y actually if you think about it, and it’s low

02:10:00.500 –> 02:10:08.020
with ‘Long Way Around the Sea’, and there are not many people I will play Christian songs

02:10:08.020 –> 02:10:09.020
from.

02:10:09.020 –> 02:10:14.300
It’s like Low, and Daniel Johnston, that’s about it really.

02:10:14.300 –> 02:10:19.980
I’m not really a big fan of very Christian songs, but that’s about the Three Kings in

02:10:19.980 –> 02:10:21.140
the story in the Bible.

02:10:21.140 –> 02:10:24.260
I don’t know what the ‘Long Way Around the Sea’ is a reference to, maybe it’s something

02:10:24.260 –> 02:10:26.020
that we were told to do.

02:10:26.020 –> 02:10:29.300
Again, something that had been foretold, I don’t really know.

02:10:29.300 –> 02:10:31.540
I’m not up on that sort of stuff.

02:10:31.540 –> 02:10:37.980
It is a beautiful song, and yeah, it’s very sad that we lost Mimi Parker.

02:10:37.980 –> 02:10:38.980
Just over a year ago.

02:10:38.980 –> 02:10:42.380
I got all my Christmas stuff pretty much ready actually.

02:10:42.380 –> 02:10:49.060
Cards have mostly all sent off all the present support, and I’ve been doing lots of eBay

02:10:49.060 –> 02:10:50.060
stuff actually.

02:10:50.060 –> 02:10:53.780
I’ve been selling a lot of my stuff on eBay, so possibly sending out presents is nothing.

02:10:53.780 –> 02:10:57.700
A couple of days I’ve been sending out another parcel, another parcel, another parcel.

02:10:57.700 –> 02:11:01.780
Just sending a lot of old stuff, funny raising for the YouTube channel, just booked in for

02:11:01.780 –> 02:11:05.740
Christmas Day lunch, so luckily I don’t have to cook that.

02:11:05.740 –> 02:11:07.700
I like that a lot.

02:11:07.700 –> 02:11:14.460
I’m meeting up with Adriana, hopefully around the 21st/22nd, and also meeting up with my

02:11:14.460 –> 02:11:19.540
godson and his mother and his brother to give the presents.

02:11:19.540 –> 02:11:22.580
So that’ll be good if those two happen.

02:11:22.580 –> 02:11:24.060
I’m looking forward to those.

02:11:24.060 –> 02:11:29.180
Yeah, I’ve had lots of eBay’s, it’s weird, all the high ticket items.

02:11:29.180 –> 02:11:30.940
Pretty much all of them are sold now.

02:11:30.940 –> 02:11:31.940
They haven’t been in trouble.

02:11:31.940 –> 02:11:36.060
What’s been trouble is the little five quid, couple of quid ones.

02:11:36.060 –> 02:11:37.460
And they’ve been no end of trouble.

02:11:37.460 –> 02:11:42.060
I had one today where the postage, I put it in his large letter and obviously the Royal

02:11:42.060 –> 02:11:44.660
Mail disagreed and tried to surcharge this person.

02:11:44.660 –> 02:11:47.700
And it’s so much faffed in here with refunds and things.

02:11:47.700 –> 02:11:49.620
And it’s all over a couple of quid.

02:11:49.620 –> 02:11:52.620
It’s like, what?

02:11:52.620 –> 02:11:57.260
I understand, but especially when the two I sent to the wrong, I switched the labels.

02:11:57.260 –> 02:12:02.420
And then one went to my old address up in North West London.

02:12:02.420 –> 02:12:07.020
If you remember when I used to live there, I need to now go there at some point and probably

02:12:07.020 –> 02:12:09.260
will do so on the days I’m in London.

02:12:09.260 –> 02:12:15.660
To pick it up, the woman that works at landlord is usually helpful as she was back then, which

02:12:15.660 –> 02:12:16.900
is not at all.

02:12:16.900 –> 02:12:20.180
And reminded why I was kind of relieved leaving that place.

02:12:20.180 –> 02:12:23.820
Although I didn’t want to leave, but that was one of the upsides, not having to deal

02:12:23.820 –> 02:12:24.820
with her.

02:12:24.820 –> 02:12:25.820
And just like, errr.

02:12:25.820 –> 02:12:32.260
So yeah, lots of faffy things, but I think I’ve mostly got it all sorted currently.

02:12:32.260 –> 02:12:35.900
So I hope you’re all having a good run up to Christmas and a good Christmas depending

02:12:35.900 –> 02:12:38.660
on when you listen to this or a good new year if it’s then.

02:12:38.660 –> 02:12:42.540
I’m playing out with a mashup of mine and this is new.

02:12:42.540 –> 02:12:45.540
This is posted as of anywhere a week ago.

02:12:45.540 –> 02:12:48.460
This is my Christmas mashup for this year.

02:12:48.460 –> 02:12:52.540
And Fast Car is having a moment because the Luke Combs cover, but it’s one of my

02:12:52.540 –> 02:12:54.460
favourite songs of all time.

02:12:54.460 –> 02:12:56.420
But it’s also incredibly sad.

02:12:56.420 –> 02:13:01.620
There’s a challenge on the Crumplbanger Discord of happy songs versus sad songs.

02:13:01.620 –> 02:13:02.620
You had to kind of contrast them.

02:13:02.620 –> 02:13:06.740
And literally I made this about an hour or two after that deadline closed.

02:13:06.740 –> 02:13:09.300
So it was obviously on my mind.

02:13:09.300 –> 02:13:15.660
So this is a Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car versus Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas.

02:13:15.660 –> 02:13:17.460
Driving A Fast Car Home For Christmas.

02:13:17.460 –> 02:13:18.740
And people seem to like this one.

02:13:18.740 –> 02:13:21.180
And when I came with the con bar, I was like, I have to do this.

02:13:21.180 –> 02:13:22.180
I have to do this.

02:13:22.180 –> 02:13:25.780
This is just, it just works.

02:13:25.780 –> 02:13:27.740
And it has the nostalgia factor as well.

02:13:27.740 –> 02:13:30.180
And I didn’t realise both eighties as well.

02:13:30.180 –> 02:13:31.180
Close in date.

02:13:31.180 –> 02:13:33.860
There’s a genre clash sort of.

02:13:33.860 –> 02:13:36.420
Not a age clash either.

02:13:36.420 –> 02:13:38.660
So anyway, I’ll speak to you soon.