Festive Postpunk

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This is doomed, but...

Doing a post-punk/electro/no-wave/indie night at a bar in Birmingham next Sunday (we play n. soul and krautrock and pop n'stuff as well but that's the main bulk). We have wilfully overstated the extent to which it will be Christmas themed. I'd like to make a few token gestures but there's only so much that seems possible within our remit (we don't want to play Slade, oddly). I'll probably play 'Thank God It's Not Christmas' by Sparks and 'No Xmas For John Quays' by the Fall, but I'm struggling a bit for anything else.

Suggestions (it doesn't matter how ridiculously tenuous the Xmas theme is; it'd probably be funnier)?

― Fug (Ferg), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

santa claus by throwing muses is a great great song. it's kinda festive.sorta.

― scott seward, Monday, 15 December 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

the durutti column -- 'one christmas for your thoughts'
tuxedomoon -- 'weihnachts rap'
soft verdict -- 'for christmas only'
mania d -- 'stille nacht goes disco'
paul haig -- 'scottish christmas'
pale fountains -- 'benoit's christmas'
thick pigeon -- 'jingle bell rock'

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

crepuscule comps are a goldmine

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe you should check out those trash comps wherein shit bands like the flaming lips never miss a chance to compose/cover a "cute/quirky" x-mas tune.

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry that was dumb

― adam michel (adam michel), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

check out 1981's 'ghosts of christmas past (chanton noel)' on crepuscule for some other good ones

the original LP came with 6 christmas cards!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

x-mal deutschland had an x-mas song, but i can't remember how cheery it was. probably not very.

― scott seward, Monday, 15 December 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i am rather disturbed there are already so many answers on this thread

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 December 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha me too.

(cheeriness is in no way necessary)

― Fug (Ferg), Monday, 15 December 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wedding Present covering "Stepping Into Christmas." Also, I heard a song by the Waitresses the other day that had an xmas theme, but I can't remember what it was called.

― hstencil, Monday, 15 December 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i love that song.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 December 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, it's indefensible and kinda annoying but i still love it.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wedding Present song? or the Waitresses one? Wish I could remember the title of the latter!

― hstencil, Monday, 15 December 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

christmas wrapping.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 December 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

the waitresses one.

x-post...yes!!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 December 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

going into the minimarket on xmas eve, coming out with romance. what's not to like?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 15 December 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that's it! I heard it at the Archive sale the other week.

― hstencil, Monday, 15 December 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

hey there - could you possibly tell me where i might find the 1981 version(twi058) with extended version of invocation? i am looking literally all over creation for this!!!!!!!!!

― sue tomaso, Sunday, 12 September 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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