Christmas a GoGo party teaser!

DJ Natashka from the Christmas A GoGo team joined @CathyCentral to talk about the line-up of festive independent music acts at their legendary annual event, coming up on Monday 22 December at the Paradiso.

Listen back on the mixcloud player above to the 32-minute show, with behind the scenes chat as well as taster tracks by the live music acts. Also repeated on our internet radio station in the run up to the event.

Show notes

Paradiso celebrates 20 years of Christmas music blog Christmas A GoGo on 22 December

The Netherlands’ biggest Christmas blog, Christmas A GoGo, to throw its annual Christmas party. Blackbird, Blanko, and Talking Trees—a duo that transforms tree pulses into synthesiser music—will be performing at the Bovenzaal of Paradiso in Amsterdam. It’s the perfect fit for a Christmas site that claims to showcase ‘the weird and the wonderful.

Doors open: 19:30. Show starts: 20:00. Tickets at Paradiso.nl, here.

Teaser playlist from the BRAM interview

The full Christmas A Go Go playlist is on Spotify here.

22 December live acts

Blackbird. In the past, Merel Koman gave us her own Christmas hits, such as the smash ‘Christmas Getaway’. On her new EP (on green vinyl), ‘Mama Made Christmas’, you’ll hear Het Metropole Orkest backing her up. Paradiso plans to be the tree-topper of her Christmas tour.

The Lasses. This duo met at an Irish pub in Amsterdam. They’ve put out four albums, performed countless shows, and now they have a Christmas album. Hallelujah! Expect English carols and Christmas hits from the likes of Joni Mitchell and Joan Osborne.

The Mieters. These argyle-clad gentlemen from the Zaan region play beat music that makes the windows shake. The band has released a vinyl Christmas EP with homemade hits and a banging cover of a Groningen punk classic from De Boegies.

Blanko. This multi-instrumentalist, who is frequently heard on the radio, wrote songs like ‘Just Let It Out’. Blanko is no stranger to writing Christmas songs, either. This year, he sang the touching duet ‘Christmas Night’ with Ellen ten Damme.

The Heck. Here we have a trio of garage rockers from Klazienaveen who’ve produced two deafening Christmas singles. They’ll play an acoustic set for us at Paradiso, but it will not be any less powerful.

Talking Trees. In his project, Bert Barten turns tree pulses into synthesiser music. As a gift to us, he’ll be using Christmas tree pulses. Alongside musical partner Pieter Nooten (Clan of Xymox), Talking Trees is committed to replanting and combatting climate change. See here, https://www.talkingtrees.com/explore

About | The Christmas A GoGo blog has been writing about beautiful, crazy, hard-hitting, and hit-worthy Christmas music since November 2006. Christmassy guests from around the world visit the blog, which has featured several world premières and has had experts appear on radio shows and podcasts.

The annual Christmas party at Paradiso is happening for the fourth time. Previous guests have included Fay Lovsky, Judy Blank, néomí, Henk Koorn, Stephanie Struijk, S.Lois, and het Nieuwendammer Shantykoor.

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