The (Christmas) Rock'n'Roll Manifesto - Setlist

Well without wishing to blow our own trumpet too much (like we mind!) I have to say the Saturday's Manifesto was a great success and probably our best night yet. Both the brandy shots and the Christmas selection boxes (complete with Chomps) went down a treat, as did the music. Photos of the night will follow but, for now, here's our festive setlist in full.

DJ Bid-Up's opening hour:

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant
The Moonglows - Hey Santa Claus
Andy Williams - Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Louis Armstrong - Cool Yule
Babs Gonzales - Be-Bop Santa
Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman
Brooke Benton - Soul Santa
The Emotions - Black Christmas
Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes
Albert King - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'
Sugar 'Chile' Robinson - Christmas Boogie
The Crystals - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Barry Richards - Baby Sittin' Santa
Dinning Sisters with Bob Archer - Christmas Island
Margie Joseph - Christmas Gift
Jethro Tull - Ring Out The Solstice Bells
The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn't So)
Little Joey Parr - Rock'n'Roll Santa
The O'Jays - Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Year's Ain't New New Year Without The One You Love
The Ronettes - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter

Another Guy Called Gerald then took over for the 2nd hour:

Beck - Little Drum Machine Boy
My Chemical Romance - All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Wombats - Is This Christmas (video mix with Les Dennis intro)
The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - All I Want For Christmas
Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Lets Boogie to the Elf Dance!
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire - Santa Claus
The Ravers - (It's Gonna Be A) Punk Rock Christmas
The Joseph & Mary Chain - The Twelve Days of Christmas
Go Home Productions (Blondie/Paul McCartney/J-Lo 'mash-up') - High Tides and Blocked Peace Pipes
The Killers - Great Big Sled
The Black Arts - Christmas Number 1
The Long Blondes - Christmas is Cancelled
Malcolm Middleton - We're All Going To Die
The Hives/Cyndi Lauper - Christmas Duel
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

DJ Bid-Up then returned from 10-11pm with:

Blink 182 - I Won't Be Home For Christmas
The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Snog - Hey Christian God
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
Big John Greer - We Want To See Santa Do The Mambo
Bobby Rydell & Chubby Checker - Jingle Bell Rock
Darlene Love - Winter Wonderland
Rotary Connection - Christmas Love
Donny Hathaway - This Christmas
Christina - Things Fall Apart
Fountains of Wayne - I Want an Alien for Christmas
Standstill - I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus
They Might Be Giants - Santa's Beard
Far (featuring Chico Moreno) - Feed The World
Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
The Marshall Brothers - Mr Santa Boogie
The Hepsters - Rockin' and Rollin' with Santa Claus
Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

And Another Guy Called Gerald finished off the Christmas part of the evening with:

Liberace's 1954 Christmas Greeting (also featuring his brother Johnny)
The Fall - No Christmas For John Quays
Go Home Productions (Boston/The Beatles/Greg Lake this time) - Christmas In Boston
The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children
Frightened Rabbit - It's Christmas So We'll Stop
Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
No Doubt - Oi To The World
Daniel Johnston - Some People Don't Even Know It's Christmas
Wall of Voodoo - Shouldn't Have Given Him a Gun for Christmas
Arcade Fire - Jinglebell Rock
The Wedding Present - Step Into Christmas
Half Man Half Biscuit - It's Cliched To Be Cyncial At Christmas
Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
El Vez - Feliz Navi-Nada
Scaffold - Lily The Pink
St Etienne/Tim Booth - I Was Born On Christmas Day
Eels - Everything's Going To Be Cool This Christmas
Throwing Muses - Santa Claus
Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio - I Am Santa Claus
Lucious Jackson - Let It Snow
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

And as the clock struck midnight, we went into rock/party mode for the last hour, the idea of throwing in some of our favourite songs of 2008 being dropped as we were having such a good time with the rock'n'roll we vowed at the end to do the original (non-christmas) rock'n'roll idea again for a whole evening at some point in the future.

DJ-Bid Up rocked out to:

Hawkwind - Silver Machine
Slade - Cum on Feel The Noize
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
T-Rex - Get It On
Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits
Free - All Right Now
Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone
Ram Jam - Black Betty

And Nicey ... I mean Another Guy Called Gerald, brought things to a rocking conclusion with:

Def Leppard - Animal
AC/DC - Back in Black
Jet - Are You Going To Be My Girl?
NERD - Rock Star
The Strokes - Last Night
David Essex - Rock On
and finally, and appropriately, a reprise from our very first night, the New York Manifesto: Kiss - Crazy Crazy Nights

Manifesto returns on Saturday 24th January with the Grim Up North? Manifesto - of course it won't be that grim - what it will be is a trip through the North of England, from Morrissey and Madchester, to Merseybeat and the 80's Liverpool New Wavers, over to the sounds of Sheffield, the Yorkshire goths, up to the new indie bands of the North East (and Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet is the first song on my playlist!) and not forgetting of course, er, It Bites of Cumbria

Hope to see you then (it's my birthday as well!)