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2013...

So I didn't finish the whole Xmas song thing, I'll do that later this year.

In the meantime find me on twitface if you want, or not...

@lucasthrillson

Best Xmas Song Ever... (Knock Out Stages)

Well, that was exciting, Jona Lewis went to war with The Darkness, and won, congratulations to him.

He joins Mariah Carey in the the quarter final stages of this AMAZING competition which really has taken to UK by storm.

Also, following lots of rearranged matches (due to flooded pitches) a whole raft of other entrants have also progressed into the Quarter Final Stages.

Congratulations to Wham!, Elton John, Bing & Bowie, Pogues & Kirsty, The Waitresses and Chris Rea; who all defeated Nat King Cole, Band Aid, Slade, Andy Williams, Reuben and Johnny Mathis respectively.

This gives us some mouthwatering match-ups...

Mariah Carey Vs Chris Rea
Jona Lewis Vs The Waitresses
Wham! Vs The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Elton John Vs Bing Crosby & David Bowie

Four quarter finals, and coincidentally only four sleeps until Xmas!

Best Xmas Song Ever... (KO Round 2)

Well, the first knock-out round was close, very close.

We went venturing around twelve of Leamington's finest drinking establishments quizzing the good people of Royal Leamington Spa, and it was Mariah Carey who came out the winner, hard luck to Chris De Burgh.

So, onto out next knock-out round...

Jona Lewis' 'Stop the Cavalry'

Vs

The Darkness' 'Don't Let The Bells End'

An oldie versus (relatively) a newie (not to be confused with Jona Lewis!).

Best Xmas Song Ever... (Last 16)

OK, so I've got a bit behind on this, and there are not many days to Xmas, so this one goes to the public vote.

It's Chris De Burgh with 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' or Mariah Carey with 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'.

Chris De Burgh or Mariah Carey ?

Chris De Burgh...



or Mariah Carey ?




Chris or Mariah?

Best Xmas Song Ever... (Knock Out Stages)

...Knock Out Stages will start tomorrow.

Best Xmas Song Ever... (Pool H)

Well done to Reuben yesterday for coming out of nowhere and topping the pool, and congrats to The Darkness for also making it through to the knock-out phase.

We're now into our final qualification pool, Pool H.


Bob Dylan - "Here Comes Santa Claus"
Kate Rusby - "Sweet Bells"
Chris Rea- "Driving Home for Christmas"
Mike Oldfield - "In Dulci Jublio"
Mariah Carey - "All I Want For Christmas"

Thankfully this is an easy pool to determine the songs to progress.

Bob Dylan's Christmas album a few years back is pretty good, and 'Here Comes Santa Claus' is a stand-out track. Similarly Kate Rusby has two relatively recent Christmas albums under her belt, and 'Sweet Bells' is also a very very good song. But there's something about them, I'm not quite sure what, perhaps they're just too modern, perhaps sometime in the future they'll be more of a Christmas song staple, but for now, they're not. Also, sorry Mike Oldfield, but you're not Chris Rea or Mariah Carey.

For that reason Chris goes through as Pool Winner, and Mariah gets through as Runner-Up. Thankfully for Mariah's sake we've chosen to ignore her duet with Justin Bieber.

Mariah, good at what she does.

Coming up next, the Knock-Out Stages of the Competition!

Best Xmas Song Ever... (Pool G)

Either you've arrived here looking for the Thrillson's Throwabout schedule, if so, that's further below. If not, and for some reason you're hear to read my drivel about Xmas Songs, then read on big boy!

Pool G, you'll be pleased to hear, is our penultimate qualification pool, with only Pool H remaining (there are some crackers in there though!).

So, lets pick two out of these lot to progress into the knock-out rounds...


The Darkness - "Don't Let The Bells End"
Bo Selecta - "Proper Crimbo'"
Reuben - "Christmas is Awesome"
East 17 - "Stay Another Day"
Emmy & Tim - "TBC"

You'll see that I've now specified a song by Emmy and Tim, this is largely because the album was new out last year, and I've forgotten which one I like the best. I could have a listen to the album, but it's only November, I restrict my Xmas Song listening to December only. (That's right, all of the videos I've been posting to date, I've not even played, I've just hoped they're the right songs/versions!). So, in actual fact, I'm going to make it easy for myself, and take these guys out of the equation right now. If you haven't heard it however, check it out, its a nice album.

Bo Selecta, remember that? Leigh Francis, back in 2002, whom you probably now know better as Keith Lemon donned some large rubber masks and created spoof parodies of 'celebrities'.

  

Craig Daaaaaaaaavid and Michael Jackson, Shamone!

It wasn't a terrible show, and it's produced a not terrible Christmas single. Pretty fun in fact, with quite a good video. Definitely one of the better modern festive pop tracks. Hot on it's tails however is "Don't Let the Bells End" also a relatively modern (if 2003 is relatively modern!) festive rock song.

The Darkness with Christmas Lights

I kinda like the song, OK, so it's got the high pitched shouty bits sung by the high pitched shouty man, but it's still good. So, let's stick it through, The Darkness  can progress as Pool G Runner-Up.

This leaves Reuben, whom many of you will never of heard of, against the mighty E17, or East 17 as they were probably called at the time. Now in East 17's favour they had snow, massive puffa jackets and their lead singer managed to drive over his own foot. That's talented.

Check out that hood, massive, furry, a furry massive hood!

E17 are up against Reuben, now props to those of you who know the awesome Christmas song, "Christmas is Awesome", it's pretty awesome and it's a Christmas song.

Reuben, not very Christmassy here.

It's a damn fine song, Frank Turner has also done a pretty decent cover on a banjo. Plus it includes the line...

 "And if I eat a sprout, you gotta eat a sprout, you gotta suffer too"

Which I like, for this reason, Reuben are the dark horses of Pool G, causing an upset and topping the group!

Forthcoming Fixtures...

Our last Pool, Pool H, is coming up.

Our five last hopefuls get the chance of progressing to the knock-out stages.

What songs might we have missed?

Frisbee: Thrillson's Throwabout 2012

Thrillson's Throwabout

Indoor Festive Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

Saturday 1st December, 10am, 2012

XCEL Centre, Coventry, CV4 8DY

As we are now about 48 hours before the start of the worlds very best festive indoor frisbee tournament that's held in Coventry and hosted by me, I thought I'd send you some more details.

Some Housekeeping...

Please be nice and considerate to other users of the sports centre. We've used this venue before, and we want to use it again in the future! If you want to do calls, please find a sensible place for them, out of the way of others. Also, please put your rubbish in the bin, I'll have spare black bags if you need them.

If you need them, the sports centre staff are First Aid trained. Should you need them, please also let me (the TD) know.

Attitude / Spirit of the Game...

Now in it's fifth year, Thrillson's Throwabout is a fun informal relaxed and friendly indoor tournament held around Christmas time. Please keep it that way. This year we welcome Miss Lynneshaw and some of her students, which for some of them will be their very first frisbee tournament.

Frisbee Rules...

Games will be about 18 minutes long (pretty good for indoors!). You'll all have your own 'kit' (coloured t-shirts that you've brought), please can captains flip before games to decide ends/receiver. Please make sure you substitute on and off fairly, and don't hog the line. Each team can have a time-out if they really want it, but keep it to 30 seconds or less. There is no 'cap', games can finish in a draw. Games will finish on the hooter/whistle, if the disc is in the air at that point, it can be caught for a score.

Festive Fun...

I hope to have a few festive themed goodies for you lot. Plus Thrillson's Festive Boombox (TM) will be there blasting out Xmas tunes. There will also be a Christmas Music Quiz (with prizes), those who have been following the blog (http://thrillson.co.uk) will already know lots of the answers! I've also had a rather silly idea, and I'm not sure if it'll work, but we'll try it anyway. Whenever you hear The Conga on the Boombox, you must rush and get one player from each of the opposition teams, the first six people to 'do the conga' in view of the TD will win a prize. However, you must have a player from each team in your line (will those on the pitch risk running off in order to seek conga glory?!). Also, once you've started the conga, why stop, your prize can be collected later, keep that conga-line going, and get everyone else to join in!

Schedule...

Please be ready to start your game on time. When your game finishes, please leave the pitch quickly, and conduct your post-game handshakes and niceties on the sideline.

10:00 Welcome

10:10 Elves v Frosts

10:28 Nights v Robins

10:46 Snowmen v Angels

11:04 Elves v Robins

11:22 Nights v Frosts

11:40 Elves v Snowmen

11:58 Nights v Angels

12:16 Snowmen v Robins

12:34 Angels v Frosts

12:52 Elves v Nights

1:10 Snowmen v Frosts

1:28 Angels v Robins

1:46 Nights v Snowmen

2:04 Elves v Angels

2:22 Frosts v Robins

2:40 Presentation

We need to be out of the hall prompt after the presentation. Please can I ask that once your last game is over, you pack your bags up, put your rubbish in the bin and help tidy up. After the presentation we'll all go out to the cafe, which does a particularly good Hot Chocolate, where the winners can gloat about how great they were. 

Finally...

If you've read this far, then well done you, I'll get you a mince pie. If you've gone any questions on the day, or before, then just ask/email me. Hopefully you're all looking forward to it as much as I am.

See you there,

Lucas.

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