Time To Dust It Off Again

[stewblack]

Any songs you have to blow the cobwebs off every year? I'm about to decide whether this is the year I actually bother to learn Fairytale Of New York or just blag my way through it for the next fortnight.

[gary mac]

The Slade one is getting an outing from us tonight. 

[gazhowe]

Slade for us from next weekend. 

[Woodinblack]

We always do stop the cavalry the few gigs near christmas. It sound bad, it has never gone down that well. I have no idea why we do it - well, technically I do, because the singer and guitarist say that everyone loves christmas songs, something I have yet to see proven.

[lemmywinks]

Slade and Mariah for us, Fairytale is my least favourite Xmas song to play.

 

This one has the most interesting bassline though:

 

[gary mac]

20 minutes ago, lemmywinks said:

Slade and Mariah for us, Fairytale is my least favourite Xmas song to play.

 

This one has the most interesting bassline though:

 

That's the one that I always suggest but it falls on deaf ears 🤔

[BlueMoon]

Kim Wilde - Rockin Around The Christmas Tree.

Don't much like it, but the punters' seem go for it

[lemmywinks]

31 minutes ago, gary mac said:

That's the one that I always suggest but it falls on deaf ears 🤔

To be fair it doesn't have the widespread appeal of the two we currently do, our guitarist is the one who keeps suggesting it not me! Annoying that the bassist doesn't bother to play along on 99% of the official video as she's a really good player. Toured with Sting, Wayne Shorter and the B52s according to her wiki.

 

The only Xmas songs which guarantee a full dancefloor for us have been Mariah and Slade.

Edited December 14, 2019 by lemmywinks

[steantval]

Our guitarist suggested the Slade one for next Saturday, the singer can’t be bothered to learn the lyrics.

Its a pretty tasty bass line by Jim Lea, more difficult than people think, can’t bluff it by just playing root notes, you totally loose the feel.

Edited December 14, 2019 by steantval

[Woodinblack]

I put a ban on the slade one. Bah, humbug.

[White Cloud]

Slade and Elton for me!🎅

[pete.young]

If you're in a Pogues covers band, it's Xmas every gig. Since we don't have a female singer in the band we have to recruit a  'Kirsty' from the audience, which can be hit or miss.

Usually when this comes up, I like to talk about the excellent Showcase Showdown, but this year as a tribute to Sharon Jones I'm going to rave about 'Aint no chimneys' instead. Bonus point to anyone who can identify the bass:

 

[gary mac]

48 minutes ago, steantval said:

Our guitarist suggested the Slade one for next Saturday, the singer can’t be bothered to learn the lyrics.

Its a pretty tasty bass line by Jim Lea, more difficult than people think, can’t bluff it by just playing root notes, you totally loose the feel.

Have to agree, a very tasty bass line and it only works if the drummer can get the shuffle thing nailed. 

[mep]

We are doing some Slade tonight for the first time but it's Fun on feel the noize not the Christmas one!

[Guest]

I'm playing on Saturday night.  Anyone asks for a Christmas song and I'll just tell them I'm hindu.

[alant]

Slade for us next Saturday and possibly Springsteen's Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

 

[pineweasel]

Slade, Wizzard, Shakin' Stevens, Mariah Carey, Mud, Band Aid and Wham are all in the set list for next weekend. Slade and Shaky are quite fun to play but the rest are dull...  

I did get to play Christmas Wrapping last year. It went down very well but we don't have our female singer anymore, so it got dropped

[stewblack]

Just done Power Of Love which apparently counts as a Christmas song now, also santa baby which is OK. Guitarist in this particular band never learns the right chords so it's always an interesting experience throwing in new stuff 

[BrunoBass]

7 hours ago, lemmywinks said:

Slade and Mariah for us, Fairytale is my least favourite Xmas song to play.

 

This one has the most interesting bassline though:

 

One of my favourite Christmas songs! 

[YeastieB]

We did Slade Merry Christmas last night. I was a bit loathe to do it again after last year as it can be a bit plodding if the tempo and drums  aren’t right. But when those are spot on, it’s a fantastic bass line to play. And everyone loved it.

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

Just done Power Of Love which apparently counts as a Christmas song now, also santa baby which is OK. 

Power of love by frankie goes to holywood (yes, a christmas song) or by huey lewis (not a christmas song)?

[stewblack]

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Power of love by frankie goes to holywood (yes, a christmas song) or by huey lewis (not a christmas song)?

Sadly not Huey's - I dig that tune - but FGTH, which I recall coming out but can't for the life of me see any Christmas connection. 

[BreadBin]

2 hours ago, stewblack said:

Sadly not Huey's - I dig that tune - but FGTH, which I recall coming out but can't for the life of me see any Christmas connection. 

It was a December number one, and had a nativity-based video 👍

 

Edited December 15, 2019 by BreadBin

[mikel]

I'm Dusting my Broom off tonight, does that count?

[stewblack]

4 hours ago, BreadBin said:

It was a December number one, and had a nativity-based video 👍

 

Ah thank you. My memory is pretty shot away.