Yule come back now, y’hear.

Is it that time of year again already – where does the time go? I guess we’ve just been having too much fun this year what with Resonance letting us go weekly but we haven’t lost sight of why we started this show and we’re not ones to turn our back on tradition, so as sure as the BFI will be screening It’s A Wonderful Life, we’re gearing up for another Christmas special.

If you’re familiar with the format already, you’ll know we wont be rolling out the usual festive favourites but we can assure a cavalcade of curious Christmas records which in the past have covered anything from sleigh bell drenched Hawaiian hits to William Burroughs growling about heroine abuse on a cold winter night. Joining us for the party will be our irregular regular guest Ed Zed and as it’s our last show before Resonance breaks up for the Christmas hols we’ll no doubt be bringing in games, busting out the egg nog and oh shucks just tune in on the 16th to find out.

That’s just the icing on the brandy drenched cake though as we’ve got another special show this week in the shape of a Noughties run down. Yes, I’m well aware that we didn’t start at the year “0″ but if we did gauge the decade from zero then surely 1980 would’ve been in the “the 70’s”? Really though, does it matter? It’s simply another opportunity for us to cobble together a bunch of unrelated music with the ruse that it somehow ties together (let’s just hope our selections are marginally better than the name of the decade). Anyway as I said to my mum when I was told not to huff lighter fluid “everyone else is doing it so why can’t we?” So that’s this Wednesday at 10pm GMT  for the rundown and next Wednesday at the same time for the Yule rulers, and don’t forget we’re off for a couple of weeks but we’ll be back on January 6th.

Mr Trick & Wrongtom: Xmas Special 1 (December ‘08)

Welcome then our first of two Christmas Specials, in which the dynamic (*ahem!*) duo select a diverse bunch of yuletide-related cuts for your delectation. On this first show, tunes aired include some hawaiian guitar festivity, some midget-funk courtesy of The Purple One, two mighty soul legends in the form of Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, Scandinavian Spector-ness from The Raveonettes and even the frankly rather grim tale of “Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa” from De La Soul. Matters discussed include Trick’s new Chesterfield armchair/sofa combo, the mighty port sipper glasses, Prince’s festive loving arrangements, the forthcoming Specials reunion and much more. One thing’s for sure: this isn’t the kind of festive drivel you see on MTV where Tony Christie palms you off with more bloody Cliff Richard. O Come All Ye Faithful indeed!

Click here to download the show! (128Mb, 256k MP3)

Mr Trick & Wrongtom: The Xmas Special (Dec. 07)

A lot of people have been chasing for a podcast of our Christmas Special that aired live on Resonance last December (the 21st, to be precise), so I’m pleased to say it is finally online for you to wrap your loving ears around.

I should also outline that we’re now going to podcast these shows on a separate feed to the Rhythm Incursions one, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, there are other Rhythm Inc podcasts I needed to get online, and I felt these live shows would get lost in amongst them. Secondly, its quite clear these Trick n’ Tom shows are developing a fanbase of their own, and so it only makes sense to provide them separately for people on that basis.

So: if you need a URL to paste into your podcatcher of choice, it is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/mrtrickandwrongtom. If you’re an iTunes user, search for us in the Podcast Directory as usual. I’ve only just added the feed, so maybe give it a couple of days to get approved and all that.

In the meantime though, download the show here (78Mb). Enjoy!