The book’s appeal, he says, lies in the combination of “classic English Christmas fantasy” – carol singers, food markets with plum puddings, cathedral choirs – with “the long shadows of pagan tradition” that still haunt our midwinter feast. The record’s sleeve offered a competition to identify all the Crass songs included herein: “First prize, bath salts. But apparently, kids kept eating them, so now parents tell their children the story of Danny, a boy who tried to eat Santa’s cookies.

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The air is squeezed out of the seal, and then the body is coated with seal grease to prevent the whole thing from rotting.If you didn’t get any new clothes, you leave out old clothes, and hope to God they meet his standards.

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His name is the same as the lead character in Ramsay’s 1999 drama Ratcatcher, set in Glasgow in the mid-1970s, and his suicide hints at a sad sequel to that harrowing film.Culturcide’s most notorious album, Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America, consisted of the band singing rewritten lyrics over various hit records (totally unauthorized, of course).