Categories: Music

Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, Day Six: Tom Robinson’s "The Joy of Christmas"

For day 6 of the Accordion Guy Advent Calendar, how about something a little more Christmas-related? Here’s The Joys of Christmas [5.1MB, MP3], an essay written and narrated by British musician, DJ on BBC’s excellent 6 Music radio station and all-round cool guy Tom Robinson. Tom’s show is The Evening Sequence

and runs from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 pm UK time (2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time). The music selection is quite good and he often

has great interviews and presentations to boot.

(Those of you around my age may remember Tom’s songs: Power in the Darkness, 2-4-6-8 Motorway, War Baby and Atmospherics. Accordion City residents may remember Atmospherics as Listen to the Radio, which was also covered by odd-but-good band The Pukka Orchestra.)

Joey deVilla

View Comments

  • "Accordion City residents may remember Atmospherics as Listen to the Radio, which was also covered by odd-but-good band The Pukka Orchestra.)"

    That was a Canada-wide hit, as I recall; as was their other hit, "The Cherry Beach Express".

    Cheers,

    Anonymous Bosch.

Recent Posts

Sunday picdump for Sunday, August 16

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, cartoons, anbd…

2 days ago

Try to guess by the photo only: Which one had the hatchet, and which one had the machete?

I guessed correctly. For the answer, read the article!

6 days ago

Sunday picdump for Sunday, August 9

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons…

1 week ago

The time Tampa amost ceased to exist (and how we became the Capital of the Impossible)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dARFO8nBCc If you live in the Tampa Bay area, which has been my home for…

2 weeks ago

Random accordion photo: “The Egg Roll Machine” (September 11, 2024, Louisville, Kentucky)

This photo was taken on September 11, 2024 at a bar called Kaiju, located in…

2 weeks ago