We’ve made it to double figures on the 2021 edition of The Joyzine Advent Calendar! Yesterday saw a trio of free download treats from the lovely people at Alcopop! Records, including tracks from Frauds, Tokky Horror and Beach Riot, and a competition to win free tickets to see the latter at The Lexington next week (click here to download the tracks and enter the competition). Today we’re back on a festive tip with a new seasonal track from another artist we’ve loved this year.
As always, the tracks are completely free to download and there’s no need to sign up to any mailing lists to access the songs (though if you’d like to you can join ours here), but if you’re enjoying the tunes we’d love you to make a donation to the wonderful charity Help Musicians, who offer health and welfare support to musicians at all stages of their lives.
Let’s find out who’s behind today’s window…
We last caught up with Irish born, London-based singer songwriter Michael Gallagher, aka The Mining Co., in September following the release of his latest album Phenomenology, an epic retro-futurist concept album centred on the tale of Talby, the main character in John Carpenter’s cult 1974 sci-fi film Dark Star.
In 2019 he released a Christmas EP, Three Kings, and he’s followed that up this year with a double A-side single, from which today’s track, ‘Last Stop for Tired Reindeer’ is taken. A swooning seasonal beauty written in the style of the Great American Songbook with string parts arranged and performed by Nashville based musician Chris Carmichael, the track sees Gallagher empathising with Santa’s dependable team of reindeer as they reach the end of another Christmas Eve shift.
Download ‘Last Stop for Tired Reindeer‘
If you enjoy today’s tracks, please consider making a donation to Help Musicians
Find out more about The Mining Co. on his official website
Come back tomorrow for more exclusive tracks + check out the tracks from previous windows, all of which are still available to download:
#1: Piney Gir – Everybody Knows It’s Christmas
#2: Lost Map Records: Gordon McIntyre – You and Me and The Ghosts of Christmas Past
#3: Hey You Guys! – I’m Sorry, Peter With Rosie – The Oxen + Peter Richard Adams – The Roaring Twenties
#4: Salt The Snail – Matador Print
#5: Dead Horse – Eating The Reindeer
#6: Blang Records: Sergeant Buzfuz – In The Bleak Midwinter, Paul Hawkins (Awkward Silences) – Christmas Doesn’t Love Me, Faux Fibbers – All The Nutters Come Out At Christmas
#7: The Scaramanga Six – Dog Form
#8: Hatcham Social – If You Go Down To The Woods Today (Three Cheers for Our Team)
#9: Alcopop! Records – Beach Riot – Modern Dinosaur, Frauds – Woke Life, Tokky Horror – Eden on Acid
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