Sea Shanty - the Pogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7CSlUbKVQ8 While most other major South Coast destinations were included in the Government's planned...
Summer in Siam - the Pogues
Artwork by Jon Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepk00K-vfE When I first started doing discos, in the early 90's, the needs of the...
The Way It Will Be - Gillian Welch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6SkStmhGY Something beautiful and sad, hopeless, yet overflowing with musical and lyrical hope, as if...
Silent Night - Sinéad O'Connor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpXRk5f254 At the end of a year of tragedy and sadness, Sinéad O'Connor's beautiful rendition of "Silent...
Winter Song - Lindisfarne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_dsk7u26A In these days of commerciality, of war unopposed if not endorsed by "Christian" nations, of...
I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You - Margot Guryan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WeFx-3jTc0 Two nights ago I spent a few hours in a pub singing Christmas carols and songs. There were...
Christmas Time Again - Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrL25fKnzM Of all the rock groups to cut a Christmas album, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band that rose,...
Gee Whiz, It's Christmas - Carla Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DurNzCqdde4 When she was just fifteen, Carla Thomas, daughter of Rufus Thomas, deejay and soul journeyman...
Fairytale of New York - the Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8 On the 23rd anniversary of Kirsty MacColl's tragic death, and just 18 days after the death of...
Mexico City - Jolie Holland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HM2POXvxQg One of the founding members of the Be Good Tanyas was Jolie Holland, a Texan who wound up in...