Playlist - 21 December 2013

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, with the emphasis on music for the festive season, including a selection of Jethro Tull recorded live at St Bride's Church (London). Christmas comes but once a year!

8pm
Jethro Tull    Holly herald (2003) (The Christmas Album)
Steeleye Span    The holly and the ivy (1972) (single only, B-side to Gaudete)
Steeleye Span    Gaudete (1972) (Below The Salt)
Steeleye Span    All around my hat (1975) (All Around My Hat)
Loreena McKennitt    Seeds of love + Coventry carol + God rest ye, merry gentlemen (1995) (A Winter Garden)
The Flower Kings    Retropolis (1999) (Retropolis)
Mike Oldfield    In dulci jubilo (1975) (single only / Elements: The Best Of)
Jimmy Smith    Jingle Bells (1964 / 1999) (Christmas 64 / Have Yourself A Jazzy Little Christmas)
9pm
Anubis    The deepest wound + Leaving here tonight + Breaking water + Waterfall + Anonymity (2009) (230503)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    LLanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (aka the Welsh Railway Sign song) (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    The Famine Suite: Absentee landlord 1840 + Blight 1845 + Winter 1847 + Eviction 1849 + Cork 1854 – the Voyage (1997) (In The Home Of My Ancestors)
Procol Harum    A Christmas Camel (1967) (Procol Harum)
10pm
Jethro Tull    Weathercock + Introduction/What cheer + A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times + Marmion + Jack in the green + Another Christmas song + A winter snowscape + God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
Sky    Troika (1983) (Cadmium / Masterpieces: The Very Best Of)
Emma Horwood    Noël nouvelet (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)
Fred Dagg (John Clarke)    Star of wonder (early '80's / 1998) (Fred Dagg Anthology)