Hello, partygoers! Ho, ho, ho! And a merry holiday season to you!

For this whole month, we’ve handed over control of the old gramophone to our friend David M. – whose band No FUn has been featured a couple of times on the Listenig ng Party. David, a true-blue Christmas music maniac, has put together two mixtapes of some of his favourite holiday songs.

So, if you love Christmas, and you love Christmas music, and you love the idea of David, Mary and David talking about Christmas music, then you’re going to love the Listening Party this month!

Please enjoy:

* The Beatles – “Christmas Time is Here Again” – Free as a Bird EP, 1995 (Originally recorded November 1967)* Mindy Smith – “Santa Will Find You” – My Holiday, 2007* Andrea Perry – “Christmas with Fat Aunt Bette” – Ho Ho Ho Spice: A Hospice Awareness and Benefit Project, 2002* Kate Rusby – “Cornish Wassailing” – The Frost is All Over, 2015* Lyle Lovett – “Christmas Morning” – The Road to Ensenada, 1996* Poly Styrene – “Black Christmas” – Black Christmas, 2010* The Goons – “I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas” – The World of the Goons, 1978* The Christmas Jug Band – “Don’t They Know It’s Christmas” – Uncorked, 2002* The Len Price 3 – “It’s Christmas Time, Ebenezer” – Christmas a Go-Go, 2008* Sandra Bernhard – “White Christmas” – Without You I’m Nothing, 1987* Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert – “Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?” – A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, 2008* The Malibooz – “Carol of the Swells” – A Malibu Kind of Christmas, 1992* T.V. Smith – “Xmas Bloody Xmas” – Xmas Bloody Xmas, 2000* Buckcherry – “Christmas is Here” – Christmas is Here, 2010* Tracey Thorn – “Tinsel and Lights” – Tinsel and Lights, 2012* Glasvegas – “A Snowflake Fell (and It Felt Like a Kiss)” – A Snowflake Fell (and It Felt Like a Kiss) EP, 2008* Emerson, Lake and Palmer – “Nutrocker” – Pictures at an Exhibition, 1971

Thanks for listening. Carol on!