{"id":2146,"date":"2016-12-28T18:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2016-12-28T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:44:30","slug":"2146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/28\/2146\/","title":{"rendered":"Ska Humbug at the Oval Tavern"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have never played a Christmas Eve gig before, so we were delighted to be asked by Croydon’s Oval Tavern to play there this year as it is one of our favourite venues.<\/p>\n

We decided it should be called Ska Humbug! and it gave us the chance to play a lot of cheesy Christmas covers.<\/p>\n

Many old Christmas songs are basically jazz swing tunes, and they always work well as ska – so it was not hard to adapt Rockaing Around the Christmas Tree, Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (which we have done before) for our line up.<\/p>\n

We have done Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody before, so we dusted that one down. And in what we thought was a stroke of great originality we adapted the Snowman song “Walking in the Air” as a reggae instrumental. However we soon found that we were by no means the first band to do this, but no matter it still went down well.<\/p>\n

This is what we played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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  • Chinatown<\/li>\n
  • Guns Of Navarone<\/li>\n
  • Tide Is High<\/li>\n
  • My Baby Just Cares For Me<\/li>\n
  • Work Song<\/li>\n
  • Walking Air<\/li>\n
  • Mad World<\/li>\n
  • Enola Gay<\/li>\n
  • Rocking Round the\u00a0 Xmas Tree<\/li>\n
  • 10 Out Of 10<\/li>\n
  • Rudy A Message To You<\/li>\n
  • Israelites<\/li>\n
  • Red Red Wine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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