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| Top 5 (or 7) Alternative Christmas Songs |
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There is a (quite u  nscientific) scale of Christmas excitement. It ranges from the Yuletide joy that little children feel from the day they break ajar the first door of their advent calendar, to the urge one gets to spring out of your bed every time a rooftop clatter is heard, right down to the misery that one assumes Santa Claus experiences. "Father Christmas?" you say. Yes, because, if anything, this festive season is a bit of a busman's holiday for old Saint Nick. I fall somewhere toward the lower end of that spectrum. I'm not full on bah humbug but neither am I the type to yell at young boys to buy me the finest turkey they can. Clearly then, I’m the perfect choice to DJ the Student Punch Christmas party. So here are a few tracks I'd spin that stand as a nice alternative to whatever X-Factor dreck decks the halls this year. Read more... Add new comment
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| Coldplay - Glasgow SECC - 03 Dec |
In the anticipation s urrounding tonight’s gig, most of the capacity SECC crowd don’t give a second thought to the slightly bulky wristband they’re handed as they enter the cavernous venue. |
| Diary of an Average Student |
Kate Harris, Miss Ave rage Uni Student, shares her average student week - including auctioning sports students, and wee in her hair. |
| Death Cab for Cutie - Glasgow Academy |
 Watching Death Cab's frontman Ben Gibbard, the unashamed flag bearer of heart-on-the-sleeve indie rock, you'd never know that little more than a week ago he and his true love (everyone's favourite indie actress Zooey Deschanel - see Elf and 500 Days of Summer) announced that they were divorcing. Or "like, totally splitting up" as one excitable, 'geek chic' bespectacled, side fringed hipster tells another in The Academy's foyer. Although Gibbard's seemingly upbeat front is convincing enough, a few song selections lend themselves to the thought that he's likely wallowing in heartbreak.Death Cab are currently on tour in the UK promoting their newest record (the band's seventh) 'Codes And Keys'. |
| Jai McDowall - Interview |
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After blowing the socks off the Britain’s Got Talent judges with his powerful, pop operatic renditions of such tunes as Evanescence’s ‘Bring me Back to Life’, Page 3 of 26
