The Whole Nine Yards Ep 99 18.12.22 Blue Sunday with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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Blue Christmas

Christmas is defined largely by the media by the media. Just think about the annual John Lewis ad which sets out a perfect family Christmas but that is a myth for a lot of people. Social media is swamped by happy family images, Christmas trees and mince pies but this often the glitter not the substance. But what if Christmas was not about spending money, eating drinking. What if there was something else to celebrate?

What if you made it less about you.

What if you focused on people, not possessions.

What if you remembered whose day it really is..

Then the Season’s greeting may be an optimistic hello to the new year, rather than simply a goodbye to the old.

Hour One

Glasvegas – A Snowflake Fell (and it felt like a kiss) 4.23 (A Snowflake Fell and it felt like a Kiss 2008)

Echosmith – I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day 2013)

Reliant K – In Like a Lion (Always Winter) (Let It Snow, Baby… Let It Reindeer 2007)

Courteeners – Winter Wonderland (Single 2015)

James – Shooting My Mouth Off (Millionaires 1999)

Simone Corvino – Nostalgia (Chaos Theory 2022)

David Neil Crabtree – Running with the Wolves (Single 2022)

Josh Groban – Believe (The Polar Express OST 2004)

White Door – Jerusalem (Windows 1983)

Angel Olsen – Gloria (Aisles EP 2021)

Passenger – Wicked Man’s Rest (Wicked Man’s Rest 2007)

Stella Rose (Gahan) – Angel (Single 2022)

Hazel English – Never Going Home (Just Give In / Never Going Home EP 2016)

Hour Two

Ronettes – Sleigh Ride (A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector 2003)

Reliant K – Sleigh Ride (Let It Snow, Baby… Let It Reindeer 2007)

Katey Brooks – All of Me Heard the Bells of Christmas (Single 2020)

Suki Waterhouse – Nostalgia (I Can’t Let Go 2022) (Milk Teeth EP 2022)

Fazerdaze – Winter (Break EP 2022)

Lizzo – Someday at Christmas (Single 2022)

Phoebe Bridgers – So Much Wine (Single 2022)

Kacey Musgraves – Christmas Makes Me Cry (The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show 2019)

Mora Michelle – No Friends (Ordinary EP 2022)

The Veils – No Limit Of Stars (..And Out Of The Void Came Love released March 3, 2023)

Luella – Never Been in Love (Luna 2022)

Dora Jar – Spell (Comfortably in Pain EP 2022)

Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen – Like I Used to (Single 2021)

Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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