Month: December 2013

Christmas With… We See Lights

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I’d really meant to post this one before tonight, in order to include a plug for the Christmas Songwriters’s Club gig which probably finished about an hour ago. Like many, if not all, of my plans that one failed.

Enough of me documenting my failures though, we don’t have nearly enough time for that, and on to some Christmas songs.

We See Lights have turned up on the blog before with a Christmas song, but this time round they’ve (finally!) put out a collection of songs recorded way back in 2008, which I’ve been after for ages. Most of the songs have been aired at past Christmas Songwriters’ Club gigs in the past, hence the attempted and failed plug.

Anyway, get your copy of Every Autumn, Every Winter here for whatever price you fancy, or listen below.

Since it’s kicking around in my uploads anyway, you can have a version of Cold Noses performed for a Vic Galloway session too.

We See Lights - Cold Noses (session)

Christmas With… Lovers Turn To Monsters

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Carrying on this wee spurt of Christmas related music posts, here’s our pal Lovers Turn To Monsters.

Never a stranger to releasing something for Christmas, this year’s festive offering from Lovers Turn To Monsters is like a Christmas greatest hits, rounding up songs from the last few years, and some new additions.

Get your paws on a copy of Now That’s What I Call a Slit Yr Wrists Christmas here, or listen below.

 

Finds loads more from Lovers Turn To Monster on Bandcamp.

There’s a special intimate gig taking place this Friday with Lovers Turn To Monsters and loads more of the Common records family. Spaces might all be taken, but maybe if you ask really nice over on Facebook you’ll be able to squeeze in.

Christmas With… MC Almond Milk

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MCalmondJamie Scott used to be the The Japanese War Effort, and released a bunch of stuff under that name that I really liked. Then he stopped being The Japanese War Effort and took up rapping. After a few appearances as Ar Droops he’s got a new name - MC Almond Milk.

Along with the name there’s a mixtape in the works, set for release in February. There was potential for it to be awful, but I’ve had a wee sneak preview of said mixtake, PC World Music, and it’s a blast.

That’s not out until February though, what about now? Well, a Christmas single, of course!

Stream and download Black Friday below.

Find more from MC Almond Milk on Soundcloud.

 

Christmas With… Eddy & the T-Bolts

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t-boltsTime to get some Christmas stuff posted then eh?

Former Aye Tunes gig stars and blog pals Eddy & the T-Bolts promised me a Christmas song. I then decided not to do the advent calendar, but they delivered the song anyway.

They’ve chosen to cover Darlene Love. This pleases me, since the song in question, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is one of my favourite things. It turns up here by various folk every year, so now we have another version to add to the list.

Listen to and download the tune below.

Eddy & the T-Bolts play at The 13th Note in Glasgow on Tuesday, 17th December as part of Bastard’s Xmas, with Ross Gilchrist, The Hate 80s and the wonderfully named Destroyevsky.

You can find more of their music on Bandcamp.

What Happened to the Advent Calendar Anyway?

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December 6th and not a single Christmas song posted so far. Why? Well, a couple of reasons. Number one being that my computer took another of its funny turns and didn’t work for several days, number two is that there’s been very little interest in the series. My blogging motivation has been very low all year already, so there was nothing that made me feel there was a pressing need to post stuff.

Added into number two is that working in retail in the run up to Christmas means that free time is as rare as a unicorn, a bad release by Song, by Toad or Gerry Loves Records, a financially successful Aye Tunes gig, Niall from The Spook School keeping his top on, or a good Fatherson song.

Not much time to do stuff then, and since I’ve missed a week already it seems a bit late to start an advent calendar now.

There’s still Christmas music to be posted though, I just won’t be doing it in the usual format.

Since this is getting written on my phone there’s nae music to go here, I’ll shove some stuff up over the weekend if I get a minute.