Compiled by John Canning Yates
Artwork by AP Yates apyateswrites.com

Just Like Christmas - Low
Christmas Eve - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Walk out to Winter - Aztec Camera
If We Make It Through December - Phoebe Bridgers
Jesus Christ -Big Star
Christmas Time Is Here - Khruangbin
Christmas - The Blue Nile
Maybe This Christmas - Ron Sexsmith
Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) - The Pogues, Kirsty MacColl
Christmas Song - Joy Zipper
Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
In The Bleak Mid Winter - Bert Jansch
Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)- Laura Marling
Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto - James Brown
I Was Born On Christmas Day - Saint Etienne
Blue Christmas - Bright Eyes
Spotlight on Christmas - Rufus Wainwright
Purple Snowflakes - Marvin Gaye
Snow is Falling in Manhattan - Purple Mountains
Christmas Ghost Waltz - RW Hedges
Winterlude - Bob Dylan
Silent Night / Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits
River - Tracey Thorn
Soon After Christmas - Stina Nordenstam
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)- Nat King Cole Trio
Trailer Music - Dimitri Tiomkin
Silent Night- Low

To Warm A Wintered Heart - The Violette Christmas Compendium 2022

02 Beatowls - I Pray

09 Beatowls - Dreams Of Home Invasion

07 Beatowls - (Do You Want To Be) Loved

"Christmas is an idea manifest in reality. It demonstrates perfectly the power of a concept to shape our world and bring people together. Who doesn't love Christmas...who doesn't love ideas...

Here are some Christmas ideas presented in song and The Shining is a Christmas movie for a reason...

Roy for Xmas #1

Merry Christmas war is over if you want it x"

Tom Roberts / BEATOWLS


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Track list: 
1.	“A Very Merry Christmas” – Shelley Duvall
2.	“Santa’s Got a Bag of Soul” – The Poets of Rhythm
3.	“I Remember Christmas” – The Stridells
4.	“Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer” – The Ventures
5.	“Christmas Kids” – Roar
6.	“Winter Now” – Broadcast
7.	“Saint Joseph” – M.Haiux
8.	“Winter Moon” – Lee Hazlewood
9.	“Time of the Season” – Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan
10.	“Christmas Will Break You…” – LCD Soundsystem
11.	“La fille du Père Noël” – Jacques Dutronc
12.	“Christmas Time is Here” – Au Revoir Simone
13.	“We Met Bernard Sumner at a Christmas Party Last Night” – Marsheaux
14.	“Reindeer” – The Knife
15.	“Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” – Ryuichi Sakamoto
16.	“In the Bleak Midwinter” – The Unthanks
17.	“In The Pines” – Smog
18.	“Silent Night” – Alela Diane, The Hackles
19.	“Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas” – Okkervil River
20.	“I Do Not Care for the Winter Sun” – Beach House
21.	“Last Christmas” – Siamese Youth
22.	“Christmas Will Really Be Christmas” – Black Pumas
23.	“This Christmas” – Donny Hathaway
24.	“Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday” – William Bell
25.	“Christmas Time Is Here Again” – The Flirtations
26.	“I’d Like You For Christmas” – Julie London
27.	“Deep Snowdrop” – Deux Filles
28.	“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” – The Springfields

Violette Records Christmas Compendium 2024: The Christmas Lights Are Shining

A Day In The Life Of A Tree (The Beach Boys)

Whispering Pines (Richard Manual)

John Canning Yates - I Can't Let It Happen to You

John Canning Yates - Sadness as a Gift

Vince Guaraldi Trio
Simon & Garfunkel
Mindy Smith
Joni Mitchell
Ron Sexsmith
Ella Fitzgerald
Sufjan Stevens
C Duncan
Tracey Thorn
Bill Wells
The Innocence Mission
The Monkees
Aimee Mann
Malcolm Middleton
The King's SIngers
She & Him
Andrew Bird
Chris Thile
Brian Charles
Dolly Parton
Regina Spektor
Christchurch Citadel Salvation Army Band

The Violette Christmas Compendium for Melancholic Girls and Wistful Boys

Mixed by Dan Rogers
Photograph by John Johnson

[c] Violette Records 2015

Michael Head & Sense of Sound - Something Like You

Live at Buyers Club, Liverpool 
Wednesday 23 March 2016

Recorded by Nick Sharp
Photography by John Johnson

La Violette Società VIO-022.1 - Michael Head - Something Like You

06 Emergency

Compiled by Lulu Ravald
Visual Art by Jean Allain and Violette Monet

featuring...
The Ovaltineys
The Yearning
Irma Thomas
Scritti Politti
Caroline Pennell
The Magic Theatre
Summer Camp
Allo Darlin'
Sweet Baboo
The Raveonettes
Bright Eyes
The Ink Spots
Laura Marling
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
Edine Avec Lisle Mitnik Et Son Orchestre
Adem
Attic Lights
Band À Part
Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler
Dimitri Tiomkin
Joe Brown

The Violette Christmas Compendium live from The Discothèque of the Lost and Found

Live At Studio 2, Parr St - 29 Mar 2017

La Violette Societa 9

Roy - Paintball's Coming Home

La Violette Società 10 

Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool
Tuesday 30 May 2017

Roy - Dead Men Don't Need Season Tickets

La Violette Società 11
Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool
25 July 2017

Photograph by Graham Smillie

Roy - Whose Coat Is This Jacket?

La Violette Societa 13
Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool
26 September 2017

Roy - Riff Raff at La Violette Societa 13

Societa 17 
29 May 2018
Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool

Roy - Please Mind Your Head

Roy - From A To B

Roy - There’s No Gap In Between

DEPARTURE LOUNGE: Al Aire Libre (Kid Loco Exotica Remix)
Written by Departure Lounge
Recorded by Peter Miles at Middle Farm Studios
Remixed by Kid Loco

The original version of Al Aire Libre is from the forthcoming DEPARTURE LOUNGE album "Transmeridian" scheduled for release MARCH 2021 on Violette Records [VIO-060].

Press Enquiries:
Rob Allen at Perspective
rob@maintainperspective.co.uk

All Other Enquiries:
Matt Lockett at Violette Records
matt@violetterecords.com

DEPARTURE LOUNGE - Al Aire Libre (Kid Loco Exotica Remix)

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Roy - Dynamite & Feathers

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