The period between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve (increasingly known as Twixmas) is the best bit of the festive period for me- the big day has gone and you're into a vague hinterland, not quite sure what day it is. Normal rules regarding eating, drinking and socialising don't apply. Time expands and contracts. It could be Thursday afternoon, it could be Tuesday morning, it doesn't really matter. Things kick in again on 30th December as people begin to ask what you're doing on New Year's Eve but for a couple of days, its very much a slowed down life.
A Boxing Day double for you. In 2015 Courtney Barnett had the Boxing Day Blues. She had them pretty bad...
Two years before that Dark Horses and Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s found an altogether livelier and more acidic way to spend the first day of Twixmas- drones, motorik drums, lysergic synthlines, a bassline to shake you out of your torpor and a numbed out vocal. One to put on when the relatives you haven't seen yet pop round later and you want to raise the Boxing Day intensity levels a little.
Boxing Day (Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s Vocal Mix)
3 comments:
The song title of your first track reminded me of the days when myself, Mr CC and another friend did the Boxing Day Bailout ie leaving the family home immediately after christmas day and convening in Glasgow for much drinking and record buying
The only reason I knew it was Friday this morning was thanks to the #FallFriday on Bluesky.
Oh, love your description of this 'Twixmas' period, what a great way of looking at and expressing it, perfect.
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