Here is my annual effort to do a broadly holiday based playlist without getting involved with any overtly Christmas music - a genre I generally don't like all that much. As ever, I get around this thorny issue by picking some more generally winter themed tunes. However, on this occasion I have failed somewhat, with one or two such songs managing to sneak their way in. 1. Aztec Camera: Walk Out To Winter Roddy Frame brought his latest venture to roaring, jangly post-punk life

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Now, those of you that know me, will know that Christmas is a time of humbug, while festive playlists generally leave me cold. I'm not...

This edition of the musical ramble we like to call Six Degrees Of Kevin Shields, begins as a tribute to Denny Laine, who passed away last...