GigList's Christmas Cracker Of A Playlist

If The Cure's goth icon Robert Smith can feel festive despite this most dreadful year, then so can you with our Christmassy collection of old, new, indie, alternative, and some classic Yuletide tracks to banish those bah humbugs.

Posted: 9 December 2020 Words: Tom Curtis-Horsfall

Despite the dreadful year 2020 has been, the Christmas spirit should be warmly embraced with open arms - if The Cure's goth icon Robert Smith (looking rather chipper next to what looks like a boozed up bricky in a Santa outfit, above) can feel festive, then can't we all?

You may mirror Scrooge's sentiment when hearing Slade for the seventeenth time in a day, or begrudgingly reach for another eggnog to drown your sorrows when Top Of The Pops' annual one-off special reinforces your stoic opinion that contemporary popular music is as fucked as the global economy. Alas, there is cause for Christmassy optimism: we've given you the perfect present to 'step into Christmas' without a peep from a be-goggled Elton John.

Here's GigList's Christmassy Playlist featuring new, old, indie, alternative, and some classic Yuletide tracks to banish those bah humbugs: