Day 14: 'When I get home for Christmas' - Snow Patrol
This has been on the festive Jukebox at Blagg Acres for a few years now and its a shame I haven't included it before as it may have given this thread a much needed credibility boost back when this mob were indie darlings.
As it is their bass driven, doom laden offerings have now become a bit tedious and it's surely too late to commend this in much the same way that it was difficult to persuade the crowd at the V festival this year, that Snow Patrol were a suitable substitute for Oasis.
That death knell of all bands - the 'Greatest Hits' compilation (has there been more than two hits?) - is now upon us and it's easy to understand why when Gary Lightbody sings "When I get home for Christmas / I'll do anything you want" that the response you feel like making is "Anything?, well then bloody cheer up a bit will you?"
Born at an early age a mere defenders' spit from the Boleyn ground, Billy Blagg has seen every West Ham game from 1898 onwards. Blagg was mentioned by Kenneth Wolstenholme in 1966 as one of the people on the pitch during the famous Hammers win over West Germany that lifted the World Cup and he returned to the pitch again for the 1975 FA Cup Final but stayed on the terrace for 1980 FA Cup victory. Blagg, 26, now lives with his eighth wife and innumerable children in a small semi-detached with chintz curtains in Dagenham, Essex and still attends every Hammers match and training session.
Born at an early age a mere defenders' spit from the Boleyn ground, Billy Blagg has seen every West Ham game from 1898 onwards. Blagg was mentioned by Kenneth Wolstenholme in 1966 as one of the people on the pitch during the famous Hammers win over West Germany that lifted the World Cup and he returned to the pitch again for the 1975 FA Cup Final but stayed on the terrace for 1980 FA Cup victory. Blagg, 26, now lives with his eighth wife and innumerable children in a small semi-detached with chintz curtains in Dagenham, Essex and still attends every Hammers match and training session.
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