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Jeepster to release Christmas benefit album
24 October 2000
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Scotland’s Jeepster Records along with UK radio station XFM have put together a 21 song/21 band benefit album titled It’s A Cool Cool Christmas, set for UK release on 20 November on CD. All the bands have donated previously unreleased songs. The label will forward all profits from the album to The Big Issue Foundation.
    The London based Big Issue Foundation/Big Issue Magazine assists homeless people throughout the UK with clothing, housing, training, and work. Their motto is A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out.
    Here are the participating bands and the songs they donated

Grandaddy - Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland
The Dandy Warhols - Little Drummer Boy
The Webb Brothers - Every Day Is Christmas
Eels - Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
El Vez - Feliz Navidad
Morgan - Christmas In Waikiki
Drugstore - Maybe At Christmas Time
Belle & Sebastian - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Giant Sand - Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You
The Flaming Lips - White Christmas (demo for Tom Waits)
Saint Etienne - My Christmas Prayer
Departure Lounge - Christmas Downer
Six By Seven - I Believe In Father Christmas
Snow Patrol - When I Get Home For Christmas
Titan - Spiritual Guidance
Big Boss Man - Christmas Boogaloo
Teenage Fanclub - Christmas Eve
Calexico - Gift X-change
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - Hwiangerdd Mair
Low - Just Like Christmas
Lauren Laverne - In The Bleak Midwinter

You can pre-order It’s A Cool Cool Christmas now from Amazon UK (you can order from the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, etc.). | Jeepster | | Cool Cool Christmas from Amazon UK | | The Big Issue Foundation | | top of page |


 


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