As we reach the point where all the good chocolates have been eaten and we find ourselves contemplating whether we’re desperate enough to eat the gooey strawberry ones, we’re all looking for something to keep our festive flame alight, and we’ve got just the thing. Sadly this year’s Joyzine Advent Calendar was cut short (as explained here) but that means we have loads of brilliant songs still to share with you over the coming days to lighten the trudge towards the new year.
As with all of out songs this year, if you enjoy them we’d love you to consider supporting the excellent work of First Timers Fest in creating opportunities for people from under-represented backgrounds to learn an instrument, form a band, write some songs and get onstage, by making a donation here.
News of a new Scaramanga Six album is always cause for celebration around these parts, so you can imagine our jubilation when we were informed that the dramatic odd-rock quartet have not one but two shiny new LPs planned for 2025 (a year which marks the band’s 30th anniversary). We’re delighted to bring you a sneak peak of what they have in store for us, in the form of the ickily titled ‘Vomit Clock’.
We reached out to the band to find out more:
As they lurch ominously into their 30th year of existence, The Scaramanga Six continue to ply their tirade amongst jobs, families and loads of other un-rock&roll commitments somehow. To celebrate such lengthy tenure as the UK’s most virulent underground, and self-styled ‘evil version of a pop group’, The Six have been busy in 2024 working on not one, but TWO new long-players for release next year. These will be called ‘GLUT’ and ‘DEARTH’, released respectively in the first and second halves of 2025.
‘Vomit Clock’ is a brand new, and as yet unreleased track that will feature on one of these albums – which one is anyone’s guess right now. The song, which is gifted to you lovely and supportive Joyzine readers as part of the magnificent annual Advent Calendar bonanza, concerns the curse of procrastination and the dichotomy of living both in and outside of a crumbling society. What could be more festive, I ask you?
The Scaramanga Six do actually love Xmas and have just had their annual practice/Xmas do in which a variety of poor taste/frankly offensive ‘presents’ were administered to each member of the band via the medium of ‘Secret Satan’. Collectively, favourite Xmas songs of the band are ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’ by Wizzard, ‘Only a Winter’s Tale’ by David Essex and the entire ‘Non Stop Xmas Disco’ album by The Roller Disco Orchestra.
The Scaramanga Six only ever speak of themselves in the third person, especially at Christmas time.
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Catch up on all of this year’s Advent Calendar Tracks so far:
1: Piney Gir – Reindeer
2: Gabriel Minnikin – Said Information
3: LOUD WOMEN ft. Smallways, Butterknife, Daddy Issues, Witch Spit, R.U.B, Vipersnatch, Worm Girlz, Lady Lazarus and Stabbitha & The Knifey Wifeys
4: First Timers Fest ft. Gay Skeleton Club and Skutterfly
5: Goo Records ft. Jopy, The Stanford Family Band, Owners Club and The Roebucks
6: Dead Horse – Historic
7: Gemma Rogers – Never Have I Ever
8: Umarells – Closer
9: MJ Hibbett – Moshi Twistmas
10: The Indelicates – Mom Is Waking Up (acoustic)
11: The Fades – Caca (BBC 6Music Session)
12: West Midlands – Totally Killing The Community Clinic
13: Subliminal Girls – Mid-December
14: How To Swim – Soul One
15: Forming – You What
Festive Finale: Stuffed Foxes, One Big Family + Maps & Muir
Advent Extra: Prismatiqk – Hannah & Gabi
Advent Extra: Electric Pets – Stumblin’ In
Advent Extra: The Middle People – Hello John
Advent Extra: Art Trip & The Static Sound – Algorithms of Mass Destruction
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