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Alternative Christmas Songs

A dazzling array of alternative Christmas anthems including Glasvegas, She & Him, Tessio and Low.

If you’ve had your fill of Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, then Stephen McCauley has a goldmine of alternative Christmas songs to soundtrack the festive frenzy. This sparkling seasonal selection includes music from Fleet Foxes, Low, Saint Sister, Ramones, Glasvegas, She & Him, Tessio, Eels and Sinead O’Connor.

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2 hours, 48 minutes

Last on

Fri 19 Dec 202519:04
BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle

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Music Played

  • Fleet Foxes

    White Winter Hymnal

  • Glasvegas

    A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)

  • The Waitresses

    Christmas Wrapping

  • Low

    Just Like Christmas

  • Tessio

    Christmas No 1

  • The Divine Comedy

    All The Pretty Lights

  • Cocteau Twins

    Iceblink Luck

  • Best Boy Grip

    Fire

  • Ron Sexsmith

    Maybe This Christmas

  • Kurt Vile

    Snowflakes Are Dancing

  • Aztec Camera

    Walk Out To Winter

  • Adebisi Shank & MayKay

    Christmas Time Is Here

  • Khruangbin

    Christmas Time Is Here

  • Run‐D.M.C.

    Christmas In Hollis

  • Darlene Love

    Marshmallow World

  • The Big Moon

    Carol Of The Bells

  • Julian Casablancas

    I Wish It Was Christmas Today

  • Saint Sister & Lisa Hannigan

    The Place That I Work [Clean Edit]

  • Silk Daisys

    It's Just Like Christmas

  • Sufjan Stevens

    Only At Christmas Time

  • Björk

    Frosti

  • Paddy Hanna

    Mario Lanza

  • She & Him

    The Christmas Waltz

  • Benjamin Zephaniah

    Talking Turkeys!!

  • Darlene Love

    Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

  • Lisa O’Neill

    The Bleak Midwinter

  • The Delgados

    Coming In From The Cold

  • Lisa Hannigan

    Snow

  • The Flaming Lips

    A Change At Christmas (Say It Ain't So)

  • Ash

    Shining Light

  • Ramones

    Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)

  • Ciaran Lavery

    Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

  • Sleigh Bells

    Rill Rill

  • Belle and Sebastian

    Fox In The Snow

  • The Raveonettes

    The Christmas Song

  • Adebisi Shank

    Wonderful Christmastime

  • David Bowie & Bing Crosby

    Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth

  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

    In This Home Of Ice

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

  • Joni Mitchell

    River

  • LaFaro

    Feel Good Hit Of The Season [ATL Carol Service]

  • Sinéad O’Connor

    Once In Royal David's City [Live on RTE Carols From The Castle, 2012]

  • Joe Strummer

    Without People You're Nothing

  • John Lennon & Yoko Ono

    Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

  • EELS

    Everything's Going To Be Cool This Christmas

Broadcast

  • Fri 19 Dec 202519:04
    BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle