About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas!

So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came to the 2nd Radio Clash night in 2005 (also called Bah Humbug!) – was that 4 years ago? Wow. I’m uploading this because I met up with Kirk last night and he said he still listens to it every Xmas while wrapping presents, so it definitely gets the Coverley Classic ™.

Also reuploaded the Bah Humbug mix also from 2005, you’ll get a bit of deja vu from this but it’s an expanded version of this compilation – but in lower quality to get the filesize…and it’s mixed!

You can get a zip file of the compilation here – enjoy! Or don’t, grinches!

01. Wayne Butane / Xmas (Excerpt)
02. Sparks / Thank God It’s Not Christmas
03. Bob Rivers / Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
04. The Chipmunks / Xmas with the Devil
05. A plus D / Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Dirty)
06. Princess Superstar / I Hope I Sell a Lot of Records at Christmastime
07. Culturcide / They Aren’t The World
08. Cassetteboy / Up the Chimney
09. Mae West / Put The Loot In The Boot, Santa
10. Culturcide / Santa Claus Was My Lover
11. Vandals / Christmas Time for my Penis
12. Cassetteboy / Happy Cliffmas
13. Vim / When a Child is Bored
14. Little Marcy / Suzy Snowflake
15. Tiny Tim / Santa Claus Has Got the Aids
16. dj BC / Turbo Sleigh Ride
17. The Fall / Jingle Bell Rock
18. Bob Rivers / Wreck the Malls
19. Mr. T Experience / Merry Fucking Christmas
20. Voicedude / Carol Of The Burgers
21. Peter & The Test Tube Babies / I’m Getting Pissed For Christmas
22. Dwarves / Drinking Up Christmas
23. Showcase Showdown / Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman
24. JIROB v Paul McCartney / Pipes of Peace (gentle remix)
25. Adam Sky / Shakin’ and a Bakin’
26. Shitmat / Dis Dancehall Ting Is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony
27. Rx / Happy RxMas & a Whole Lotta Love
28. TBC Poundsystem / Don’t Lose my Funky Sledge

Depressing song for #1 at Xmas? Well apart from Gary Jules, I’m there!

And Malcolm Middleton doth rocketh – first LP is great, plenty of bear references too!

Me and Eric by Leki

Eric Kleptone’s friend Leki has his pictures of Bah Humbug up at his Flickr site – and they are very good and funny….especially this one:

Jeb £50 Note on the mic

The second Radio Clash night – BAH HUMBUG went really well, with a large crowd staying til 3am; and Eric Kleptone and Jeb £50 Note both played great sets, and I got into the action later on DJing with Eric!

Me and Jeb (taken by John Shed)

Jeb started at 9pm rocking the place with the likes of The Knife and doing several live songs until 11pm, even including a great cover of ‘It’s Percussion’ where he rapped (who knew Jeb could rap?) and then after his set was the one and only performance of the TBC Poundsystem (remember them?) doing a new version of ‘Losing My Sledge’ which is a mashup-cum-parody-cum-Xmas-song called ‘Don’t Lose my Funky Sledge’ (also included on the free CDs I gave out to the first lucky 10 people).

Jeb giving it MORE COWBELL! (John Shed)

So I was on stage doing backup vocals and sleighbells, and even attained some sleighbell-related injuries – some blisters. Ouch! We had a technical difficulty half-way through (it’s a long song) but then people were grooving to the backing…yes I’ll be releasing this soon!

You asked for WHAT? – Eric Kleptone

Then Eric Kleptone of the Kleptones came on and did an astounding set, a laptop/Ableton set as in San Fran and played his great Aphex Twin/Bon Jovi mix, as well as other classics and new ones…the dancefloor was full and stayed that way!

Eric Kleptone BRINGS IT ON!!!

Eric did a 2-3 hour set, and then we did a 1-2-1 back-to-back set, the crowd was mostly members and a birthday party at that point so we had to adapt and play less bootlegs and more known stuff, but we got em dancing til 3am!

Santa Tim! (by John Shed)

More pictures on my Flickr here (more to follow)