Today we've got one of my favourite Scottish bands in the advent calendar, The Spook School! Considering that for a big chunk of the year half of the band have been off galavanting in foreign lands, they've been surprisingly busy. October saw the release of a 7" single , and they followed that up this month with a release on tape . Both are fab. Now, here's their Christmas song, Bah Humbug! You can name your price for a download here . Bah Humbug! by The Spook [...]
Repeating myself with a post from last year again today. Complaints to the usual address. mi mye's Christmas album from last year was ace, so here it is again. merry christmass and sorry for all the trubble i cosed is available to download for free on Bandcamp . merry christmass and sorry for all the trubble i cosed by mi mye
I really shouldn't leave these till after I get home from work when I don't get home till eleven. Anyway, squeezing in just before the midnight deadline - the deadline that I do occasionally gleefully ignore anyway - is the latest door on the advent calendar, with 3 (three!) songs behind it. The Last Battle's Christmas offering is a three track single, The Last Xmas. You can download it here for free. The Last Xmas by The Last Battle
Another day, another pretend door to open. Today we've got Colin's Godson. It's been a busy wee year for this band, they've gone to Space , through time , and, um, ahoy ? They've also provided me with quite a lot of entertainment with their records, with a special mention going to the fab packaging the albums come in. Now in what will surely be a career highlight for them, they get to be the illustrious 16th band this year to have a Christmas song on here. The [...]
Today we carry out an Aye Tunes Christmas tradition, by reposting, yet again, the Campfires in Winter's Christmas Song, complete with disclaimer. I post this every year, and make no apologies for doing so, as it is still one of my favourite things in the World, and never fails to make me smile. In the words of Boab from Campfires In Winter "it's about 2 guys getting pished, one of them decides to burn down the tree and pretends to be a bear and asks the other one to join him. It's a [...]
Ooh, there's only ten more of these to go after today. There's two things that arise from this: 1. if you've got a Christmas song you want included here you better get it to me quick and 2. have you bought me my Christmas present yet? Speaking of presents, I should really get my own shopping done. Expect a murderous rant on Twitter tomorrow as I venture into the shops of Glasgow trying to find something to buy my girlfriend. Back to the calendar though, today we've got Andrew Pearson with a [...]
Today's Christmas song isn't a Christmas song at all. It is, however, ace, so I'm tossing rules out the window. Feel free to file a formal written complaint to our PR department. Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
Hey, it's 12/12/12! That's special or something. It means America agrees with us on what the date is. Enough of that though, we've got more imaginary doors to be opening on a kid on calendar. How To Swim can always be counted on to provide some Christmas goodies, and so it continues this year. Their latest festive collection, Sleigh Tracks, is available to download for your choice of price here . Sleigh Tracks by How to Swim
One of my favourite festive songs of recent years, Christmas Is Cold by The Porch Song Anthology is one of the best things about December. Any excuse to listen to it far, far too much is good for me, and this month makes it a bit more acceptable. The band, consisting of some former Telstar Ponies and other, have been awfully quiet since the release of their Late Mournings EP last year, but I'm hoping they'll resurface sooner or later. Porch Song Anthology - Christmas Is Cold
As noted before, this is another thing that'll cost you money if you want a copy. The second Christmas compilation from gig putting on buddies Scottish Fiction is available now, with money raised going to Shelter. Songs from loads of good people make up the compilation - The Orchids, Behold the Old Bear, Flutes, Esperi, Kevin P. Gilday, Lovers Turn to Monsters and Siobhan Wilson - which you can buy for £3 or more here . Scottish Fiction Shelter Christmas 2012 EP by Scottish Fiction
This post, and the next one, contain things you'll have to pay for if you want to own. Not much money is involved though, and cash raised goes to charity, so stop your bloody complaining, right? Those horrible lovely people at Olive Grove Records are first in on the act, getting the bands on their roster to contribute a Christmas song each for this EP, with funds raised going to Ronald McDonald House Charities. Packed full of goodness from The Son(s), Jo Mango, State Broadcasters, and Randolph's Leap, you can get the [...]
Behind door eight lies Perth's Laurie Cameron, with a rather lovely offering. Her Christmas song is a laid back wee affair, and quite lovely. Merry Christmas from Scotland (Laced With a Stiff Drink) is a pay what you want download here . Merry Christmas from Scotland (Lulled With a Stiff Drink) by Laurie Cameron
I'm certainly glad I switched the titling of these things from "day" to "door" this year, it makes missing out every installment over the weekend a touch less embarrassing. I'm sure everyone with a real advent calendar has hit a point where they've missed a few days and ended up opening a bunch of doors at once though, haven't they? Anyway, time to get back on track and catch up on those late doors, starting off with the latest festive offering from internet pal The Shadow Committee. Winterval Armistice is available to download for [...]
Today's Christmas cracker comes from one of the bands who have been kind/foolish enough to play one of my gigs this year. Eddy & the T-Bolts are one of the most fun bands I've seen this year, and their debut album Medium Rare is a riff packed, shouty, singalong beast of a record. Their festive offering will be quite familiar to those that know the band, or have listened to stuff I've posted by them while gig pimping etc, since it's a rewritiing of one of their other songs (one of my [...]
More accurately, Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, with he Girobabies and The Plimptons. I may have said something about just wanting stuff to give away as downloads for the Advent Calendar, but this is for a good cause, so it gets to break the rules. Christmas Pimping, Everybody's Gimping, is a charity single for Caoimhe featuring Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5, The Girobabies and The Plimptons due for release 10th December on Traffic Cone records. Caoimhe is only three years old, she has Anaplastic Ependymoma with Spinal Metastases, a [...]
Four days without missing a deadline? That's a minor miracle for me. No promises on it continuing though. Today's Christmassy song comes from Newcastle's Coney Island Sound (not Coney Island's Coney Island Sound, that would be too obvious). Actually, it's two songs, since CIS's Ewan Gordon has gone all out with a two track Christmas single. A pair of unique takes on old classics, the Christmas single is a free download here . Christmas Single by Coney Island Sound
Here's the first advent calendar post of the year which has been written while sober. See if you can tell the difference. Naming The Saints are a very new band from Scotland, who have chosen to make their debut release a three track Christmas EP. DRUNKTANK just came out today, and has helped take the chill off my bones this morning as I listened through it. You can stream it below, and download the whole thing for the price of your choice here . DRUNKTANK by Naming The Saints
For the second day of the advent calender we're going with another of my favourite ever festive songs, and also one of my main current irritations. For those not keeping up with my private life, that'll be most of you then, I'm back working now after a far too long spell on the dole. This is good, in that I am a) not on the bloody dole and b) get better money. The downside is that I'm in retail in December, which means Christmas songs on a loop in my workplace, all bloody day. This brings up [...]
It's December 1st, barely. That means it is time for the annual Aye Tunes advent calendar. One free download of a Christmassy song, every day between now and Christmas. Extra posts with stuff that isn't free. Or at least that's the plan. First off we have the only person so far to respond to my plea for Christmas songs, and in the proces what I think is an Aye Tunes exclusive. Dave Hughes, with and without his Renegade Folk Punk Band, has been a long time supporter of the blog. I've [...]
No, not that C word. Or that one either. Christmas. There, I said it, in November. If I have to suffer through a dreadful CD of Christmas songs in work then I'm allowed to bring it up on the blog, that's the deal. For years now, both here on Aye Tunes and before that on previous blogs, I've ran an advent calendar of sorts on the blog, treating readers to a festive themed song each day of December up until Christmas, because that's how advent calendars work. There's [...]
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