Christmas Songs, Part 3

Belle and Sebastian - Are You Coming Over For Christmas? Belle and Sebastian 2 comments Belle & Sebastian http://weheartmus... The song is not really about Mike Piazza, but more or less a love song. If you follow the lyrics,...

Belle & Sebastian that well-loved band from Glasgow, Scotland, are back with a new Christmas song called "Are You Coming Over for Christmas?". The song is available for download on their official myspace on Christmas day.

Fans of B&S should already have their special Christmas Peel Session from 2002, but in case you don't have it, here the Christmas tracks from that session:

1. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
2. Christmas Time Is Here
3. Santa Claus (The Sonics)
4. Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto (James Brown)
5. Silent Night
6. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
7. Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me (Elvis Presley)
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel
9. I Took Some Time For Christmas
10. The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Pipettes - In the Bleak Midwinter The Pipettes The Pipettes http://weheartmus... Please note: that although these events are advertised as "Sold Out" on the venue's calendar list...

Here's another Christmas song from one of our favorite, The Pipettes. Good luck on finding this 7" single, as there were only two hundred of them made (by hand) and was only available at their Christmas show in 2004. The song, "In the Bleak Midwinter", is an old Lutheran Christmas Hymn, originally written by Gustav Holst.

They're currently on tour through Australia, but they still managed to put together a "Bandzine" The Pipettes Christmas Zine just time for Christmas. I did download the PDF file and it looks very professional for a bandzine.

Tour dates as follows:
12/29/07 The Factory Sydney, AUS
12/30/07 Tasmania Falls Festival Victoria, AUS
12/31/07 Tasmania Falls Festival Victoria, AUS
01/02/08 East Bruswick Melbourne, AUS
01/05/08 Southbound Festival Western Australia

Manic Street Preachers - Ghost of Christmas Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers http://weheartmus... By popular request... ok one person mentioned it in a comment to the MoneySavingExpert post, but ...

Meanwhile, Manic Street Preachers is also offering a new Christmas song called "Ghost of Christmas" on their myspace. This is an original song with some jab at expensive technologies::

No xbox and no computers
We just used our imagination
A leather football was perfection
What more could you want

I wouldn't mind a soccer ball to play outside, but unfortunately it's snowing outside so I'm going to stay indoors with my PS3 :)

Anyway, the band is still around, releasing Send Away The Tigers on February 2007, and is actually the only album I don't have from this band. I guess, I'm just waiting to find it really cheap/used and there's really no compelling reason for me to rush out to get the album.

I think the only song I know off of it is "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (that song with the Cardigans singer Nina Persson) which I think is quite popular.

Apparently so popular that NME have named MSP the 2008 "God Like Geniuses" Award.

Strawberry Fair - Let It Snow Strawberry Fair 2 comments Strawberry Fair http://weheartmus... Hey, this is Vu on the road. I have the following pre-written offline on my trusty laptop and I'm...

Finally, remember the awesome Strawberry Fair (Jenny Franzén)? Lately she's been busy with her live band with: Mathias (Kissing Mirrors, Sarto, Twig), Alice (After School Sports, The Never Invited to Parties), David (The Morning Paper), Ida (The Bridal Shop), Maria (The Happy Birthdays^[W♥M]), appearing on Digfi playing some Christmas songs.

The two songs she did was "Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!" and "Winder Wonderland". I thought you can only watch it on Windows Media Player, but I was told that it will work on a mac using flip4mac.

The band was also recently on Rip It Up! 2007, you can watch some clips on youtube.

PS, this may be the last xmas post from me!  You're welcome!

 12/24/2007 09:41:29  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com