As an office, we take Christmas very seriously! Celebrations start on 1st December, when we decorate the office and get the Christmas tunes playing. In this post we put a Christmassy spin on our recent Desert Island Discs blog post and share some photos of this year’s CVP/MM Christmas festivities!
If you’re bored of hearing the same 10 Christmas songs played on loop in every shop, you can check out our office’s carefully curated Christmas playlist on Spotify here. Here are our personal favourites, including the one we’d each save from the waves marked with a star.
Sarah
- *Proper Crimbo – Bo Selecta
- Don’t Shoot Me Santa – The Killers
- Must Be Santa – Bob Dylan
- Donde Esta Santa Claus – Augie Rios
- Christmas was Better in the 80s – The Futureheads
- Sleigh Ride – The Ronettes
- The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole
- One More Sleep Til Christmas – The Muppets Christmas Carol
Favourite Christmas Film: All I Want For Christmas
Favourite Christmas Food: Turkey & bread sauce sandwiches
Anna
- Must be Santa – Bob Dylan
- *Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love
- All Alone on Christmas – Darlene Love
- It’s Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas – Half Man Half Biscuit
- O Holy Night – Tracy Chapman
- (Don’t Call Me) Mrs Christmas – Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler
- Santa Claus Meets the Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley
- Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) – Ramones
Favourite Christmas Film: It’s a Wonderful Life, with Nativity! a very VERY close second place
Favourite Christmas Food: Bread sauce
Laura
- Gaudete – Steeleye Span
- Feliz Navidad – José Feliciano
- *I Was Born On Christmas Day – Saint Etienne
- Last Christmas – Wham!
- Walking In The Air – Aled Jones
- It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas – Pet Shop Boys
- The Power of Love – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
- Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer – Elmo & Patsy
Favourite Christmas Film: As I’ve only seen 3 Christmas films I have very few to narrow down, so it’ll be The Holiday
Favourite Christmas Food: Brandy butter (with mince pies on the side!)
Flo
- 2000 Miles – The Pretenders
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love
- *O Holy Night – Tracy Chapman
- Christmas Eve, 1943 – Tom McRae & The Standing Band
- Fairytale of New York – The Pogues
- Will You Still Be In Love With Me Next Year – Hot Club de Paris
- It’s Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas – Half Man Half Biscuit
- Kindle a Flame in Her Heart – Los Campesinos!
Favourite Christmas Film: The Muppet Christmas Carol
Favourite Christmas Food: Yule log
Tommi
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Christmassy cocktails Sylvian Joululaulu – Various different artists
- Tonttujen Jouluyö – Various different artists
- Joulupuu on Rakennettu – Various different artists
- Joulupukki – Various different artists
- Joulupukki puree ja lyö – M.A. Numminen
- *Herra Huu Pelkää Joulupukkia – M.A. Numminen
- Näin Sydämmeeni Joulun Teen – Various different artists
- On Hanget Korkeat Nietokset – Various different artists
Favourite Christmas Film: I don’t have a favourite Christmas film, I think they are all pretty appalling and besides I can’t think of anything less Christmassy than watching TV on Christmas Eve, so I would rather sit in a wood fired sauna staring at the flames flickering under the stove. I hope, by the way, that my desert island will be an arctic desert island so I can jump in the snow from the sauna and it will be properly dark.
Favourite Christmas Food: Joulukinkku (Christmas ham)
Alice
- A Spaceman Came Travelling – Chris de Burgh
- *Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
- Driving Home for Christmas – Chris Rea
- Last Christmas – Wham!
- 2000 Miles – The Pretenders
- Stop the Cavalry – Jona Lewie
- Fairytale of New York – The Pogues
- In Dulci Jubilo – Mike Oldfield
Favourite Christmas Film: It’s a Wonderful Life
Favourite Christmas Food (/Drink!): Mulled wine!
Merry Christmas from all of us – see you in 2018!
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