THEME TIME: CHRISTMAS FM

Irish songstress Lisa Hannigan, probably best known for her collabs with Damien Rice and this indestructible song, is no stranger to (recording) Christmas music. We had her on this blog with her version of The Christmas Waltz back in 2014, she recorded her own seasonal original Snow for her 2016 album At Swim, and last year she covered Little Drummer Boy with Villagers.
For this year, she's releasing a track that she wrote & recorded in 2020 with the band Lux Alma, in just 48 hours. See a live version from 2020 here:
On her insta, Lisa writes: 'I started writing this song in the car on my way to Hibernacle Music, a collaborative festival in Doolin in the west of Ireland. It was December and the radio was blaring all the way. When I arrived I asked @theluxalma to help me finish it as she is the most festive person in any room. We had a blast. It’s about my abiding love for Christmas music, just waiting there up in the attic with the tinsel and the lights- a frosty window straight into a different world (in my case, rural Ireland in 1986).'

I really like the little references to the Christmas pop canon (you'll hear 'm), and a song about Christmas radio, that's not very common. We DID have a lot of songs about Christmas TV on the blog, HERE.

But if you start digging, Christmas radio songs pop up. There's of course that fantastic track by fellow Dutchies Audiotransparent, a Christmas song that's a plea to switch off Christmas radio: They re-recorded the song in a faster pace for the How To Throw a Christmas Party project:
Festive friends Connor and Mikey have a love/hate relationship with Christmas radio too:
'I wanna rock around the Christmas tree/Gimme Otis, gimme Nat King Cole', countrypop-trio Runaway June sing:

Runaway June · Christmas on the Radio

If you think that last track was a bit sappy, then get your toothbrushes ready for Olivia:
Let's get lo-fi with this Polivka Brothers, who wrote a meandering song about Christmas songs on the radio and in the streets:
Stretching it a bit, this song does not mention radio, but references a lot of xmas songs. Until Rage Against the Machine gets a nod...
'Spanish Bombs' by The Clash reworked to 'Christmas songs on my car radio':
Time for some appreciation of Christmas songs, Josh Rouse doesn't mention hearing them on the radio, but there's a good chance he did hear'm while in Gothenburg:
Turn the radio on! Turn the radio on! Christmastime is here (and radio might play a better song than this:)
This is what I love about themed posts, you bump into Glammy xmas song like this:
Radio that plays Christmas songs too early, it's a thing:
You know more? There's gotta be more. Holler in the comments please.