St Etienne wrote the best song about...

For some, it's the second greatest religious festival of the year - the celebration of the birth of a man who would later get nailed to a dead tree for telling people that they should get along with one another¹.

For others, it's a celebration of excess in the midst of the season of scarcity.  A festival to remind us that whilst all around us is cold and miserable, we are alive and looking forward to good times ahead with friends and family.

Regardless of which interpretation of christmas you subscribe to, we are all bathed by past Christmas songs for the two month period of advent that retailers adhere to.  It's a shame there's rarely any new ones (thank you Simon Cowell for monopolising the Xmas charts), but it's a shame the best one of all hardly gets airplay: St Etienne's 1993 single I was born on Christmas Day.

But never mind that now, Merry Christmas everyone and let's look forward to a better year ahead.

1: With thanks to D. Adams.