Wednesday 23 December 2009

Slayed

Much like many other people, I celebrate the birth of a noted anti-materialist religious teacher by going out to shopping centres and spending ludicrous piles of money. But this year has been subtly different.

No "Merry Christmas Everyone" (or is it "Xmas") by Slade.

It's not just that. Whether Parkhead Forge, Glasgow Fort or Coatbridge Faraday, many of the usual suspects have been conspicuously absent from the tannoy. Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime"? Mud's "Lonely This Christmas"? Even the only record that Wizzard ever, ever made has been put on the back burner.

Has there been an RATM style rebellion by chainstore employees, fed up to the back teeth of the same half dozen Christmas songs being played on a loop from mid-October onwards?