Day 24: 'Silent Night / Noapte de Vis' - Glasvegas
Good to see the Glasvegas album was shortlisted for the Mercury Award this year although scant attention was paid to the important fact that the later release included a Christmas CD which was almost worth the cost of the album alone.
Last year I featured the title track, the wonderful 'A Snowflake fell (and it felt like a kiss)' and this year 'Silent Night' was always guaranteed to make it onto the Calendar as the Christmas Eve song, being entirely appropriate fare for this special day.
This track was recorded in Transylvania with the full Concentus choir singing both in English and Romanian and, complete with howling wind blowing all over the track, It is brilliantly chilling - in all senses of the word - and best heard with only the Christmas tree lights on and a strong brandy in the hand.
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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