Ben Newmark

IT'S CHRISTTMASSSS!

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Stayed Behind.
A Willerby Christmas Story.
A family crosses into Goblin Land to find a missionary who stayed behind.
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Lol.

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1 O Holy Night by Tracy Chapman
2 Fairytale of New York by Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
3 Come on let's boogie to the elf dance! by Sufjan Stevens
4 Just like Christmas by Low
5 Merry Christmas Baby by Otis Redding

#FridayFive

1. Fairytale of New York
2. Imperfect Christmas (Malinda)
3. Driving Home for Christmas (Chris Rea)
4. Feliz Navidad (José Feliciano)
5. Gaudete
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Tbh I'm more worried about TR than Farage.

This is a reason I feel optimistic. He's terrible under pressure and he's never had to be really on show. I think he'll be awful at it.

🙌🏻 - indulging myself with my faves before looking at other responses. 🤭 #FridayFive
🎄”Mele Kalikimaka” - KT Tunstall
🎄”Underneath the Tree” - Kelly Clarkson
🎄”Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” - Gayla Peevey
🎄”Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” - Brenda Lee
🎄”Driving Home for Christmas” - Chris Rea

#FridayFive

1) Santa Baby - Miley Cyrus feminist version
2) Gaudete -Steeleye Span
3) Silent Night - Pentatonix
4) The Power of Love - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
5) Listen the Snow is Falling - Galaxie 500

I wish someone would ask him when he stopped saying explicitly racist things.

1. Just Like Christmas - Low
2. Carol of the Bells - Big Moon
3. Donna and Blitzen - Badly Drawn Boy
4. Please Daddy Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas - The Decemberists
5. Step Into Christmas - Elton John

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My hunch is that he's rattled because he knows this is going to run and run. More and more is going to come out. The issue here is ultimately it might come down to Farage or Not Farage and this could tip balance to Not Farage.

New Year by the Sugababes is thematically similar to but a better song than Last Christmas.

White wine in the sun: Tim Minchin
When the Thames Froze: Smith and Burrows
New Year: Sugababes
I was born on Christmas Day: St Etienne
Fairytale of New York: The Pogues

Too Early, but ok.
1. White Wine In The Sun, Tim Minchin
2. All I Want For Christmas, Queen Mariah
3. (Don't Call Me) Mrs Christmas, Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler
4. Must Be Santa, Bob Dylan
5. Fairytale of New York, Katzenjammer & Ben Caplan (trust me).
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Golden hands stroke a gold world. It's the FIFA trophy.

It's.. ALIVE

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1. Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End). The Darkness.
2. Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy. Bing Crosby & David Bowie.
3. December Will Be Magic Again. Kate Bush.
4. Happy (Xmas) War Is Over. John Lennon & Yoko Ono.
5. 2000 Miles. Pretenders.

1. No Xmas for John Quays, The Fall
2. The Sonics, Don’t Believe in Christmas
3. Tom Waits, Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
4. The Cleaners from Venus, Christmas in Suburbia
5. Big Star,Jesus Christ
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Remember when I didn't used to say and people had to work it out? This drove James Theo MAD.

1. Amy Winehouse’s rendition of I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (soulful)
2. Oh Holy Night - Luciana Pavarotti
3. Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight - The Ramones
4. Last Christmas - Manic Street Preachers
5. All You’re Dreaming Of - Liam Gallagher
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1. Stay Another Day - East 17
2. All I want for Christmas - Mariah Carey
3. Underneath the tree - Kelly Clarkson
4. Somewhere in my memory - Jon Williams
5. Last Christmas - Wham
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1. Great Big Sled - The Killers
2. The Wexford Carol - Cara Dillon
3. Ring them Bells - Gordon Lightfoot
4. Ring Out Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull
5. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waits
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1. Tinsel and lights - Tracey Thorn
2. River - Indigo Girls
3. Winter song - Sam Fender
4. Hazy shade of winter - Simon and Garfunkel
5. Winter lady - Leonard Cohen
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There such romance to remembering when we were all less connected and a phone call and a letter were such a big deal.

1. White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin
2. Fairytale of New York - Pogues and Kirsty
3. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
4. Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day - Wizzard
5. Happy Christmas (War is Over) - John Lennon
Because you have to have a shmaltz follow a dance at the end of the night!

Obviously Kirsty and the Pogues, but to shake it up…

1. Low - Just Like Christmas
2. Smith & Burrows - This Ain’t New Jersey
3. Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler - (Don’t Call Me) Mrs Christmas
4. Pretenders - 2000 Miles
5. Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

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1. Santa Claus is comin' to town, Springsteen
2. Just like Christmas, Low
3. Back door Santa, Clarence Carter
4. Purple Snowflakes, Marvin Gaye
5. It must be Santa, Bob Dylan.