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Hello Folks,

Here's a reminder of this year's Christmas releases along with some ghosts of Christmas past. Click on any of the covers for a link to the Christmas section of our online shop.



Various - A Christmas Gift For You (Download album)



Yes it’s a Damaged Goods Christmas Compilation featuring some of the best Christmas tracks we’ve released over the last 20 odd years, plus a few exclusives as well. Here's the review from the Guardian today...



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Holly Golightly has two tracks on here, one from a couple of years back ‘Christmas Tree On Fire' and one from 2002 with The Green Hornes (Featuring Patrick Keeler (The Raconteurs) & Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs & The Dead Weather) called ‘Little Stars'.

Billy Childish has three with three different bands, The MBE’s excellent Christmas 1979, The Buff Medways ‘Merry Christmas Fritz’ and a really early DG release Thee Headcoatees ‘Santa Claus’ (originally Damgood12, a 7” Picture Disc)

We have last years Xmas 7” Goldblade and Poly Styrenes ‘City Of Christmas Ghosts’ as well as 2005’s TV Smith single ‘Xmas Bloody Xmas’ plus 2001’s Helen Love Xmas 7” ‘Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight)’

Then we have brand new exclusive tracks from The Cute Lepers, The Singing Loins and a great new band called ‘Severe’.

Last up we have a couple of obscure tracks from the 1993 and 1994 Christmas singles, Wat Tyler doing ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ and Monkhouse, a great lost band from Belfast doing ‘Guinness And Wine’.

Next year this might even make it out on record along with a bunch of new tracks as well, but it’s good to have it all in one place.



Here's the full track listing...

1 Christmas Tree On *Fire Holly Golightly*

2 The Cute Lepers Christmas Song *Cute Lepers*

3 Christmas 1979 *Wild Billy Childish And The M.B.E's*

4 Ding Dong Merrily On High *Singing Loins*

5 Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight) *Helen Love*

6 Santa Claus *Thee Headcoatees*

7 City Of Christmas Ghosts *Goldblade Featuring Poly Styrene*

8 Little Stars *Holly Golightly And The Greenhornes*

9 Stop The Cavalry *Severe*

10 Silver Bells *Cuckooland*

11 Xmas Bloody Xmas *Tv Smith*

12 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen *Wat Tyler*

13 Guinness And Wine *Monkhouse*

14 Merry Christmas Fritz *Buff Medways*



It's available via i-tunes or click on the artwork to download from our online shop.



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Also check out this site which is run by mates of ours from the Reading area, PUNK ROCK ADVENT CALENDAR

It's a track a day punk advent calendar and it's where the 'Severe' track on this years comp came from.



PUNK ROCK ADVENT CALENDAR



Piney Gir - For The Love Of Others 7"



This years Damaged Goods Christmas single is by Piney Gir.And it’s a corker…

Piney Gir, sometime electronic exotica lover (Peakahokahoo); genuine all-American country girl (The Piney Gir Country Roadshow), makes her recording debut on Damaged Goods with this lovely 7" single. Out now! For more details click below for the DG shop:-



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Goldblade feat. Poly Styrene - City Of Christmas Ghosts 7"



Last year John Robb's hard working punk rock'n'roll band teamed up with legendary X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene for this marvellous bit of Chrimbo cheer! Available on a choice of re or green vinyl, it also features 2 classic Goldblade tracks on the B-side. Damn right!



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Billy & The MBE's - Christmas 1979 LP/CD/Digi



Every year at Damaged Goods we try to put out a Christmas single and in 2007 on a very hot June day we asked Mr Childish if he fancied doing a whole album of Christmas themed tune…after a couple of weeks he had worked out half the album and in July went into the studio to record it, a week later in early August 2007 the Christmas 1979 album was complete.



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Billy & The MBE's - Christmas 1979 7"



This single is the title track from the album and it’s backed with an exclusive b-side called

‘Ho Ho!’



This is our favourite track on the album recounting one particularly harrowing Christmas in Billy’s life.



It’s limited to 2000 copies, 1000 Red and 1000 Green vinyl



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Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree's On Fire 7" pic disc



Miss Holly Golightly's Christmas single from 2006. ‘Christmas Tree’s On Fire’ was written by the legendary ‘Tom Heinl’ who has supported Holly on a few of her American and European tours.



This track was recorded at Holly’s barn deep in the heart of Kent as well as the b-side, ‘Hear My Heart, Here’ another cover that was originally recorded by the Staple Singers.



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TV Smith - Xmas, Bloody Xmas CD single



In 2004 our Christmas release was from T.V.Smith (yep him from The Adverts, The Explorers,Cheap etc) with a new version of "Xmas Bloody Xmas"



The record was available as a limited edition single on coloured vinyl (long sold out) and as a CD maxi-single (still available) with additional tracks recorded live with his band featuring Die Toten Hosen's drummer Vom Ritchie. The extra tracks are 'Bored Teenagers' 'Lords Prayer' and 'Gary Gilmores Eyes'.



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Helen Love - Merry Christmas (I Don'w Wanna Fight) 7"



Last few copies of 2001's Christmas single. Helen Love covers The Ramones. Gabba Gabba Ho Ho Ho!



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And if you were at last night's Hard Skin gig in London...WELL DONE!



Ian & Duncan

www.DAMAGEDGOODS.co.uk