To tell them something about where you've been some time on the show later and yet you're like OK OK I don't mind we can we can share with them so they don't think I've just abandoned them yes OK Also Christmas is here again yes remember this is. Certainly and you know it Kevin this year because it's such a very special Christmas for me I've gone all out O. The food well you know I'm going to talk about the Yeah Yeah I will be joined by a cultural commentator as well Sandra gray and yes talk about some courts aspects of Christmas as well absolutely anything else planned Besides the food for you Primrose when it's my mother's birthday and Christmas Day one of those so it's always a special day for me and. The day actually centers around what she wants which are all the food that she's to give me when I was young anyway so it's just perfect so for us it's not about it's not about the gifting and that kind of stuff there's a tree there's lots of other things but it's the food it's the food yes. I mean business aspects of gift in this well you know yeah to defund Christmas is a time for love you would agree to that one absolutely but my mother doesn't give presents on the actual day so she's given me my christmas present like 3 weeks ago and my birthday present would probably come next week for my birthday she just can't be bothered she sees something that she wants you to have and she'll get it and she doesn't care if it's Christmas Day or your birthday you've had it. She's very funny that way and I really like that about her she's she's just different she's different yes indeed and we've got a lot of tracks to go into the festive mood as well this in the show. Correct yes definitely interesting conversation is yours is probably not came. Home. Chestnut. On an open forum. Jack Strong. Tide. Being sung. And folks dressed. By the you know. The turkey and some this will. Help to make. These. Tiny Tots with them. Will find it hard to sleep tonight. They know that some. Songs will. Ease loaded lots of talk soon. And every mother's sha. Is going. To see the reindeer really in the hot. Dog on the stand for a. 2 kids from Long Beach New Land into. It's been said. Many times many. Christmas. I love that little melody at the end of that song i just that little musical interlude there love it is it's true although I don't know about Shiva Christmas songs always makes me feel happy. And it's do they say the best songs were made for Christmas there are actually 2 that I can't bear I won't name them but I can't bear them to Christmas only 2 only 2 why you don't have to name the songs i hope of a great On my last nerve. Literally But generally speaking I love Christmas songs I love my boney Yeah I got that coming yeah now I knew you had it in the bag you had to hide it in the bag but there too I just when I hear them if I go in a store and I hear them I leave really. Well for that bad yeah yeah I don't I don't think I can think of Christmas songs that I do not like. That sounds strange Yeah I saw my favorite ones are the ones that you you'll be so surprised I tell you which is they are very is was so catchy there's one that I like that people are shocked that I actually like that song but I like it because it's just got such different language you probably know which one I'm talking about you know there's so many so many Christmas songs and I keep calling them and classic is a British classic get OK with my sing that together sometime in the show this evening. You're going to start off aren't you delicately now you've just told the nation I don't have anything you are happy to say we are going to see when you see on the mike and doesn't know you can actually make that singing decision for me so you are the one telling the nation that you're going to sing Now Kevin you must be good it's Christmas yeah you must be good and you must follow through with your promise and now you're telling me that I have to sing. I like I think the Happy to have a time isn't the thing about the food and the drink and the you know everything you've got to do it must be fantastic you got from the food and the drink what else do you like about Christmas having Well it's not the same when you're older. Because you don't have to wear new clothes when you were a youngster I used to look forward to work in that Christmas outfit outfit and play with my Christmas toys but we still have Christmas toys as an elderly Oh yeah I was reading I don't know we have Christmas still weeks ago yes but you know one of the things I really really love about Christmas are the lights I love light anything that's light and bright I like and I think I drove my mother and son a little bit Party this year because my son's like I'm not interested in the tree are the decorations I don't even want any presents Can I just have the food that I've asked for so he's a proper foodie and with his grandmother on the side chirping and yeah we only want the food nobody was willing to help me to put up this Christmas tree or you did it oh I forced them you know to do it they did it and I watched I gave instructions. Because I wanted my lights and I love snowflakes and I love snowman and yeah also the house you know Primrose rock Oh yes. It's not only about Christmas songs this evening was also also special songs selected for you as well OK. Well come I say this with. The out. live . So beautiful music for every day just like here like oh yeah oh yes. You must about the Sly and The Family Stone every day people of course recorded again by Arrested Development on their rap track how the rough version of their own light I shall I'd like it I like I like them I like both versions yes I like Arrested Development yet extraordinary sly himself he was. Saying I'm telling you you think we'll get musicians like that coming around the still playing to still musicians. You know it's like. I mean I'm a self-confessed lover of original songs do you reckon I've got it wrong no I think you've got a point there because obviously because of technology music is not created naturally anymore most instrumentals I mean some of the goods even the ones who still use technology to make the tracks are still have to bring session musicians into play particularly instruments both. As we saw no keyboard I was reading an article the other day about the destruction of hip hop because of technology. Why that the article said that with musical technology and intervention it's not the same thought as you know I think hip hop was made out of technology people and now they're saying the technology is working against it it doesn't have the same sound . Well in the very early days the introduction of the sampler which meant a lot of people parties how to sample all school beats all school vocals and stuff like that to put on most of the best people tracks you could hear today even public enemy when they came out it was very much samples based on samples that period I think was a was Grace was was was a graceful periods for for the music industry so this article you have to share with me let me know exactly what they're saying is that the technology is changing maybe the sounds are changing maybe you know what I think they're saying the technology is changing the sound and when the sound starts to change then. But I don't know I'm not I'm not an expert on hip hop. I saw this article and I thought I better. Read it. I would like a very interesting one as well and something about music talking about old musicals you have to already know about some other one. 0 yeah. Now. Now. Think. The. Track is taken from the night in 85 album street called Desire right me and Angela I'll be good Tongil Winbush who used the Maori to run the Isley off there I figure I was yes that one takes me back in time I like to like to shake it's one of those trucks actually makes me happy funny enough that particular track the happy sounding since I have this on this song and officer that's the. Radio edit of that track if you remember during the period if you dance to the track your extended version of was it like something nearly 12 minutes Yep Yeah no maybe no less Let's go for 8 between 8 and 10 minutes yeah the extended mixes of all the other half of the 3 and then they would remake set and it would last like 20 minutes. And you know I read a quote the other day Kevin and it's something you talk about all the time when it comes to music it isn't the it isn't the the lyrics are the song that brings back emotional. Times for you it's the connection to whatever is going on in your life at the time that song became meaningful to you that's what makes the song memorable There are many things you forget Yeah and if you hear a song you have think about yeah take you straight back to that period you have forgotten. Yeah so that that is I think the joys of what we get from what we know as music today do you do you know the Boney M. Song that you've got coming up. As a youngster I used to I used to member hearing that song but I heard it sang in church by quire because every ever. Christmas morning we would get dressed up in our new clothes everything was new from top to bottom sometimes the shoes were a little bit tight but you still wore them I never had and I never had any tight shoes but other people did but everybody went to church on Christmas morning whether you wanted to are not church started at 6 AM Yeah but you know the highlight was sort of wire singing that song. And I remember one Christmas Christmas morning because the children had to sit in the front I fell asleep and fell off the bench Whoa and I just got up nicely and fluffed my dress down sat down like nothing happened there are no injuries during Christmas no different you know can be in your case all that later on it's also about family members you haven't seen for a while everybody for us everybody comes back home yeah or selves as the secular people you long for years as long as I didn't take too much of my cake and the ham I was cool with it is I'm a enough cake to go around the normally and there's no as well no leftovers no leftover cake no no roll with it no there are far as I'm concerned I should just have my own cake your own cake yeah so that there is no left over is it's just pre-meds cake. I'm a little bit selfish only comes to fruit. And not get one made for you oh yeah and if I want to know. Prim. I. Oh that's a beautiful song I really like that one you're trying to figure out which songs I don't I can't you Kevin I think I know the ones already they might hear them on the show and I did I'm ready to get you out of the mood for Christmas Primrose I am in the mood I've been in the mood since like November the SO I mean I'm going to let those particular songs to get you in the mood for Christmas. OK OK All right man I'll let you off OK on the Wolf since it is a very special Christmas everything can possibly everything compress this is I'm about in my no no no nice one. Slayer back. La. That's the really good to hear Macy Gray singing a Christmas song that one winter wonderland cover for the month Primrose ground 0 here on this special Christmas show. Saying all the mist song Hold on again it's unknown you've read and. Yes. You got everything you want for Christmas Mary. Mary J. Blige this Christmas Have you got everything you want for Christmas this Christmas especially Absolutely you have yes. For yourself yes oh prince quake. Typical festive guy I go out on Christmas Eve. To all my shopping but do you go to the petrol station before because you might leave it till late in the evening when all the stores are closed no you cut the stores when they're open for the bus you get out when you go out on Christmas Eve to shop it's amazing is that would that be the cross to Christmas sometimes that the jostling crowd inability to party and. The fact that your next dress that you drive you wore I feel the cross what is what if you don't you don't live near the shopping center Well that's you OK. Sandra gray in our cultural commentator a very Christmas in the face to me I'm going any I'm going to 10 follow me but it's all an outside Gary should your eyes get a bit bland What are you planning for Christmas and eat drink and be very very merry thing I tend to do all the cooking so as long as I've got some champagne or some badly or something in a glass I'm more than happy to learn about you know what what what let me take you back what do you remember about your Christmas. As a child or as a teenager as. Child I remember we get catalogues and we could pick something have a catalog that was the special treat you could pick something I think the one I remember the maistres I picked out the game operation and and my cousin picked out like a plastic chocolate dispenser and I thought there's a point let's pick him out because at some point the chocolates going to run out but I will have this game forever when I say forever. I haven't got it. I haven't got it now. But yeah Christmas is always a really special time my mum I realised as I got older that my mum was the Christmassy person in the house she was the one who was getting really excited she was the one who got the tree out she had all of these really awful which I've got in the House really all for. Flashing lights and musical things you'd come and it would always be playing the same chewed over so it's awful because you didn't know where it was coming from because it would be additions every year and then you. Sing at you and say Yeah I realize that she was a Christmas Eve person and and now it's my other half who's the Christmas Eve person he's the one that puts pillowcases at the end of the bed and a tangerine or an orange we didn't have a lump of coal but he gets in so you sure like Christmas and I like the eating and the drinking part of Christmas my surprise but you don't like the you don't like anything else the color on the lights in the music and right now I just I never really thought of it until I had a child and then I realized you know it wasn't me that it's like the one that was like going all out Christmas Well I totally understand where you're coming from I was never really a Christmas person and I only bought the tree in 100-1009 when my son was born the only time I've ever owned a Christmas tree ring and now you want to see me this year I'm like a 5 year old I've got you know they're my. My mother was like What's wrong with you you know my songs like I'm only interested in the food exactly but I just want everything and I made them put this Christmas tree up and I made them get the decorations and when he went in the loft and forgot stuff I sent him back because you're you're missing the point. And you're actually missing the Snow Man and the snow man's got to go up at. Night I think I think he's a bit worried about me I think he's always quite worried about. This special occasion. OK I want to hear some more stories very shortly but let's go for another one I. True combination that. About here would a Christmas special show cover for them on Primrose Granville as well as a cultural comment it's a subtle green here with us on to yes we leave you this evening we had so 10. Months or a fact Christmas talk about Christmas song spoke to Primrose Primrose life before I was had favorite Christmas songs and she did say there were 2 she totally dislikes . Oh yes Andrea. Do you have a favorite Christmas song well I did and mine King Cole and you know he's just got a classic voice for Christmas just not rape you know raping real saying. It's raping on an open fire. And about us and and Ray Charles is not the classic I surprised but I like that he sings Baby it's cold outside but a lot of people have been making some horrible allegations about my song obviously because it was on The Cosby Show and all the rest of it say so so that was a bit tarnished now so I suppose the kit and Santa baby is another good one which is nice classic groundling little little kitten that she has and. So do you have any other songs that you made this like well just like my best many times is that you know like oh gosh that's the songs yes. Slaves wish it could be Christmas which is played a top level literally a walk in doing all the stories by going not if it's. Going out straight out the door see Kevin Drake when I'm not alone there's no right way to go traditional Christmas songs so. By who I mean most most of the songs that are Christmassy have all been recorded by with artists and all of that is that you realize I don't know actually Kevin their Christmas carols that are recorded by our teas and then their Christmas songs which I'm really which is unique to the artist it tends to be that selection that rubs me the wrong way that in general that genre of unique to the artist so you know I like the Christmas songs that are done done by other people I like Michael Blue. I really do he said it was the 1st time is better boob who play . I'm not liking her right now but you know I like that I like my I like my not can call those While I love my kids I like my Dionne Warwick doing over the classic Christmas carol music but it's actually now I've gone up to 3 songs that I can't stand the 3 things that would make me walk out of the shop get creative with that one that's definitely one note now oh I wish you could because I'm having a like that doesn't mean people hate them so I don't know I do so so people love them OK I like that one but you know I quite agree with my songs come into all through those Christmas time at all that's what I don't know you know with that song that I know you guys are so how do you think Kevin sing songs all the same things thinking I was that I'm gay that's not slave that's still a Christmas song Mariah Carey's song which when the she at that No I'm just doesn't like she says she's going to jail he looks like she's having a fit but I think that's the one I'm not surprised because Mariah Carey had taken and the last time she brought out an album or a track that down very well that once played every Arab on what he heard. Also that's one of the biggest songs out there when you know it's a case in the Billboard charts 100 charts for the Christmas song she is number one this year so you know and Nat King Cole I mean we have known she's been number one yes of course if you listen to any radio station any one of them and I have been listening to B.B.C. Yap yap royalties Elaine I think it's like 300 the how it was and had dollars probably and will seize it she will go I don't get together and do a song because you can't thing I can but I think I can write once or not I cannot I can't you can't and you know I've been writing and I hum hum is good for Christmas . And I mentioned writing the song Home we can just write some lyrics and I thought let's write a song where I want hum Kevin things and Sandra does backup vocals get that would be thought OK this is going to be the key you know right OK. I say. Let's think about Christmas for this or yeah I could write it's got to be a Christmas line to be called to the U.K. Not America typical to all snow right now right I love Christmas Sunday your evening primrose when the food on the table All right so I'll go right up down and I love. In the evening he says yes that's right on the table. For days on the table OK we are going to write a song at the end of the show. When I. Go get ready. To . Get things. The Birds. You do. Seem to. Be. The Birds. There are words as well. And friends yes I'm here with my friends today and you are also a friend if you're listening out there on this special Christmas show hope you've got all your Christmas presents and everything and I know for a fact. Primroses happy she's got. This not like me who goes out on the night before Christmas to. Campaign hard on a 2nd we've got to catch up on that one because it's only fair the night before Christmas is that when you go shopping because the stores close half day OK let's take the night of the day before Christmas Christmas Eve so we know it's Christmas Eve What time do you go shopping what time I don't know depends Hartfield. Is the day before Christmas right OK after not and I'm just trying to understand took. Your kind of chronological movements on Christmas Eve So I wonder if you're one of those people that I don't like on Christmas Eve What happens on Christmas Eve that you would like anybody. Who knows so there's not enough people in the shops doing last minute shopping how do you know you and I've been there one. Because I was doing last minute someone well here's what you know is that. Might have been early noughties OK because you would you couldn't there is no amount of money OK Actually there is what you see these days you just put up your feet put your leg on the table get your laptop or you can do it on Christmas Eve because you know you got them Christmas Day even just just come pick them up oh brother is up is that easy. So rubbish from the Kona shop I don't want that as a present again this year and I'm not having any half dead flowers. And I don't need any toothpaste. My from my friend's son went to the petrol station and bar her a tube of toothpaste. That's love for you and I she said to him that's my mouth right he said No I'm making sure it doesn't. And I've got to love it that's all I'm saying but the present but you didn't you didn't get what I could electronic toothbrush to go with it one year my cousin and I said to her Do not get me a present just don't get me anything because she's she's quite thrifty this way of saying she's quite thrifty and I said just don't get me think it's B.S. Just got me rubbish must just save you money you know I don't bother but if you get me pound shop ceramic angels ceramic angels look at me Do I look like somebody who has ceramic angels in the hall if you do go to something the things that I knew you'd say that is the thought that counts that's what I say I still have them in a bag some of it coming to you. Carrying on on a serious note yes why would you give someone a gift that you know they're not going to enjoy because you don't like them. I know I don't like her either well that's in the works and you know why did you accept the way I did what I did was unwrapped off of course you know I don't know it's that you know I don't know it's something on that side of the family. I'm not quite sure what it's so I'm not quite sure but they keep giving things you know what I saw in the book that in never going to really yes. Jewelry that you're never going to do you know do you know what's funny it's when people try so hard to get you a gift that they think is so on usual and sort of exclusive and then you open it and you have to plan the smile on your face I'm not I'm not sounding ungrateful cause I'm really easy to please you know just buy me something and I see . I'm cool. You know I have. Or something I'm good now you know what to buy these ladies for Christmas why not. Me you know around the angels she's. Dreaming. Long in. Me. Being. Me. And I'm going to bank on. Knowing that. You know you're going to strong. And. Get up there and you know you're strong. On the. Phone. And it don't hold me so. Long. As you. Know you're not. You know you. And. Me and. Jesus cries. And. Yeah. It costs. To. Dump. Tom.