What Christmas Songs Do You Play Live?

RocknRollDave

Being a West Midlands band with a singer with a strong Wolverhampton accent, we are always going to put Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody into the December set, that's a given. Great song to play.

We have ditched Last Christmas this year in favour of:

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - We do the U2 version, corker of a tune. I think Darlene Love did the original?
Do They Know It's Christmas - Yes, the Band Aid song. After some debate, we stuck to the "famine" version not the new "Ebola" one...:/  Not my choice, and I could easily take or leave the verses, but the rousing FEEEEED THE WOOOOOORLD... bit is fun to holler along to.


So, what Christmas songs do you guys play?

And let's just take it as a given that some of you would rather die than be seen dead playing Christmas songs, and yes Bah Humbug etc etc.....

monquixote

My last band did a funk version of Santa Baby and the Jackson 5 Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

DesVegas

Slade, slade and slade.

EricTheWeary

Xmas songs from the West Midlands? @rocknrolldave surely you need Wizard as well?

RocknRollDave

For some reason, the Wizzard one never gets a mention. Not a fan, meself. The line "When the snowman brings the snow" never sounds right to me.

RocknRollDave

DesVegas said:

Slade, slade and slade.

Baby, baby, baaaaaaaaaaybaaaaaaay

chrisj1602

I have never played any live, but I'd go for Run Run Rudolph.

Here's Keith Richards doing it:

bigjon

Currently I Believe In Father Christmas and Fairytale of New York, as a gtr/bass/drums 3-piece, with just me on vocals!

jpfamps

We played Charles Brown's Merry Christmas Baby last year.

Would like to do Clarence Carter's Backdoor Santa.

DesVegas

bigjon said:

Currently I Believe In Father Christmas and Fairytale of New York, as a gtr/bass/drums 3-piece, with just me on vocals!

I Believe In Father Christmas is my favourite christmas song ever, such a beautiful melody 

hotpickups

Is it Christmas already

RocknRollDave

hotpickups said:

Is it Christmas already

Will all be over in 3 weeks' time , don't worry.

Alnico

DesVegas said:

Slade, slade and slade.

Wisdom, Wisdom and Wisdom

drwiddly

Yup, Slade for us too then back to Sabbath, Dio and Y&T! :-)

Bod

Alnico said:

DesVegas said:

Slade, slade and slade.

Wisdom, Wisdom and Wisdom

Have a wisdom

dilbert

jpfamps said:

Would like to do Clarence Carter's Backdoor Santa.

I tried to do the Chubby Brown version on the present Mrs dilbert last year.

Not recommended :-\"

mike_l

RocknRollDave said:

For some reason, the Wizzard one never gets a mention. Not a fan, meself. The line "When the snowman brings the snow" never sounds right to me.

Intake a few "substances", it will......

Teetonetal

When I used to play in a covers band we did Oi to the world by the Vandals (later covered by No Doubt).

rapscallion

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name

...just sayin'

koneguitarist

chrisj1602 said:

I have never played any live, but I'd go for Run Run Rudolph.

Here's Keith Richards doing it:

We do this in my band. I actually bought that single.... Long long ago!

Roland

I've just got home from rehearsal. Three solid hours of Christmas songs. I'm sure the punters will love them, especially our clichéd arrangements. Wham, Slade, Wizzard, Shakin' Stevens, and Brenda Lee (which I rather enjoyed).