We immediately messaged her to say that the stars had aligned and we got on with recording at our respective homes. We realised we were all mad Throwing Muses fans and vowed to perform it together someday so were thrilled when Cherryade Records got in touch to see if we could contribute a song to 2021’s A Very Cherry Christmas compilation.

🙂 Charley Stone (solo artist/guitarist with Desperate Journalist/Salad /Sleeper +) commented on our Twitter post last year and she said she was singing the backing vocals along with it and that it was one of her all-time favourites.

“ We covered “Santa Claus” at the very beginning of DUCK at a Christmas gig in Sheffield and have posted the live vid every year since in the hope that a kindred spirit would appreciate it. Today they’ve provided us with a festive cover version featuring a proper indie guitar hero, (which also features on the ace A Very Cherry Christmas album) as the band explain. They’ve since been busy writing its follow-up and booking gigs and hope to have new material to share in 2022. Reckless Yes teamed up with Leeds three-piece Duck this year for a vinyl re-issue of their 2020 LP There Are No Normal Conversations Any More. They’ve also found time to get in the festive spirit, playing Some Weird Sin’s X-Mas Party at Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney on 17th December with fellow Joyzine faves Slime City (tickets here) and recording a brand new festive track, ‘You Ruined Christmas’ for the 15th edition of the endlessly excellent A Very Cherry Christmas compilation, which we’re delighted to present to you as their second Advent Calendar offering today. They released their self-titled fourth album through Reckless Yes earlier this year, from which today’s first track ‘Boredom and Dissatisfaction’ is taken and have spent the intervening months writing their fifth as well as making their lockdown dreams a reality by planning an all-dayer: Part Time Punks, which will take place on 30th April at Wharf Chambers in Leeds – details and tickets here. Leeds-based punk-pop trio Nervous Twitch are a band who like to keep themselves busy and have outdone themselves by offering two tracks for today’s calendar.

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