Letter From The Editor

How’s your Christmas Day going, dear readers?

Mine started quite badly when my dog, totally underwhelmed by the spirit of the season, stole the sandwich I’d made for breakfast and stupidly left on the table while I ducked outside to give him a bowl of dog food. Clearly mama raised no fool, but she did raise a thief. That said, hosting Summer Breakfasters on RRR from 6am was surprisingly fun, and I forced the lovely Ryan Egan to play my favourite Kenny Rogers festive tune ‘Kentucky Homemade Christmas’ on the radio while I ate cabanossi (I am away from my family this year, so I needed to keep up with some McGuire family traditions…) and gasped with joy at the message/lyrics/keychange.

Anyway, I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Day Off From Work. And I also wanted to ask… what are you doing on the internet, eh? Log off! Log off! Get out amongst the real world, you crazy web fiends!

But hey – before you go, would you like to check out a couple of my favourite Christmas-flavoured tunes after the jump?Back in 2003 The Darkness made a shameless bid for a UK Christmas #1 with the follow song. Somewhat hilariously, they failed and the single charted at #2, but the song itself is awesome. Also note the end of each line in the chorus… Bell end? Ring piece? Genius.

How can you go past The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl? You can’t!

I played ‘Santa Baby’ by Eartha Kitt for Ryan this morning. He said “God, she sounds like she’s gagging for it. I thought she was only meant to be hot for Batman? She must have a thing for men in outfits! She’s into COSPLAY!” and I laughed heartily.

Have a good one, folks. See you soon. Get off the fucking internet now, please.

xx

PS: Oh, alright. Here it is.