To provide a festive
background around the house, we tend to have one of the music channels on. In
the run up to Christmas they run wall-to-wall ‘countdown’ programmes presented
by pop stars and minor celebrities showing the same old Christmas videos that
we all know. Alongside the likes of Slade, Wizzard, Shaky and Wham! they
occasionally throw in something only children will have heard of such as the
latest contrived Disney Channel starlet. I don’t personally think that there
could ever be a real classic Christmas song again, as people take themselves
too seriously nowadays.
Today is the third anniversary
(to the day) of my Christmas show on Sherwood Radio, something I didn’t realise
until this evening. It has become a tradition through Facebook (remember
Facebook?) and Twitter that people download or stream the show at exactly nine
o’clock in the evening, but this year the listening figures were down
drastically due to me only remembering about forty five minutes beforehand.
Having a look through the track list for that show again, I couldn’t believe
how good a selection I had made. My reason for looking through this show again
was mainly because I was sorting out the music for this Sunday. I didn’t get to
do a Christmas special last year for The Sunday Alternative
as I had walked out in November, so I’m looking forward to being able to do one
this year.
For Sunday I have decided to
go a bit anti-Christmas in the spirit of my new found apathy for this time of
year. We will talk about Christmas but I am going to make more of my point from
yesterday’s blog about only celebrating it every two years.
Going back to the start, I
wondered about pitching an alternative Christmas video show to one of the music
channels. I would watch something like that for sure, at the moment it doesn’t
look like one of Magic’s Christmas programmes is going to feature ‘There’s No
Lights On The Christmas Tree’ by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band for example.
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