A Great Christmas A Go Go Party

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A very successful fourth edition of the mini-festival Christmas A Go Go in the crowded upstairs room of Paradiso, Amsterdam. The room looked perfectly Christmassy and the six acts all played almost exclusively Christmas music. MC Santajan introduced all of them, as an occasional contributor to the blog. 

   

Blackbird did a short intimate set with songs from her album 'Mama Made Christmas' 

                  

Folk duo The Lasses kept everyone quiet with their disarming, almost acoustic Celtic folk Christmas songs from their album  'A Celtic Winter'.

Blanko beautifully covered 'Fairytale Of New York' and suddenly conjured up singer Ellen ten Damme, with whom he performed their duet-single 'Christmas Night'.

The Heck generated a lot of enthusiasm with their raw anti-Christmas songs. A band that covers 'Santa Claus' by The Sonics just can't go wrong!
   
The Mieters got the audience in the mood with their fast Dutch-language Christmas songs. There was even lively singing along to the Dutch punk classic 'Elke Punk Viert Ook Kerst Het Kerstfeest' (by the Groningen punk band De Boegies).
   
The synthesizer duo Talking Trees began their set with an atmospheric poem; after this, the tempo was slowly increased and the audience even started to dance.
DJs were CAGG regulars DJ Natashka and DJ Oscar

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