Its that time of year again! You know the one I mean. The time of year when middle aged blokes start moaning about how the build up to Christmas starts earlier every year and how 'when I were a lad I got a Satsuma in my stocking and I was grateful for that'.

To be honest with you all that moaning is a bit tedious isn't it? Mind you I don't totally disagree. I have a few bugbears about this build up to Christmas malarkey myself.

Firstly I'm not that keen on people putting a million lights on the outside of their house. Quite apart from the fact that they are creating enough C02 to melt a small ice cap and the confusion it must create for low flying aircraft. It just looks crap. I reckon that this is the real reason that the energy companies are constantly putting up their prices. They are just trying to stop these sad gits.

Secondly Christmas music in shops. We have Christmas music in shops for about a month every year. Which is totally out proportion to the amount of Christmas music there is in the world. Basically shops play normal music for 11/12ths of the year and Christmas music for 1/12th. So for roughly 1/12th of my life there has been Christmas music (the same 10 or 20 songs) playing in the shops. That's nearly four years! I think Noddy Holder and Roy Wood should be put in orange pyjamas and sent to Guantanamo Bay for what they've done to humanity! 

I like the concept of Christmas and the little rituals and stuff. But does the build up need to be so long and drawn out. Also we do seem to put all our eggs in this one particular yuletide basket. 

All year everybody walks around miserable as sin not going out, not talking to anybody. All of a sudden people are full of the festive spirit (and probably other spirits too) and they are all out celebrating and been nice to each other. 

That's all fine but there's another eleven months of the year when we could all be doing the same. Enjoying ourselves and being nice to everybody. I agree that if we did it all the time it would get boring. But instead of doing it for one month a year with eleven month's of misery how about switching to three or four months of niceness spread throughout the year?  

 

 

 

Music Selection November 2012

Rose and the Howling North - Cuckoo

Stuff I Love - Paul Weller

Gig Diary - October 2012

Back Issues

Send your comments, articles, insults, poetry, pictures, outpourings of love etc

Click above to go and like this on Facebook

The Credits