The Sleazecast: Christmas Special

Here it is, a record of the only Christmas party I ever attend: The Sleaze staff Christmas party. Join us in the The Sleazecast: Christmas Special, as we celebrate the season of goodwill to all men, (except carol singers). All the ingredients for a great Christmas are here: reflections on the spirit of the season, a guide to tasteful decorations, a ghost story, drunken party antics and angry fights. Why go anywhere else when you can hear it all here, in one handy package? But enough talk, you can listen to the latest Sleazecast here (it runs 32' 14"):



The Sleazecast: Christmas Special

Alternatively, you can download it here in mp3 format.

Track listing:

1. Season's Greetings: In which the Doc welcomes you to the party and ponders the meaning of Christmas.

2. Santa's Seasonal Shed: Ruminations on the perfect Christmas decorations for your house.

3. Room Sixty Nine: A seasonal tale of the supernatural.

4. Fright Christmas?: Santa under fire from fundamentalists.

5. A Pagan Christmas: The Doc examines the pre-Christian origins of our favourite festival.

I recorded the whole thing yesterday afternoon in my living room, adding the backing tracks later. For what it is worth, most of the sound effects come from pacdv.com, with he exception of the fight noises, which come from free-loops.com. The carol singers are actually extracts from cylinder and 78rpm vinyl disc recordings from around a hundred years ago, which are available free from archive.org.

The closest thing to a 'studio' recording I've done, it was fun to make, but I'm not sure I'd want to repeat the experience in a hurry. The simplicity of the 'on the fly' recording techniques of the previous Sleazecasts is more attractive, (they're far easier to edit, not being multi-tracked).

Anyway, I'm going to try to squeeze another Sleazecast out before the New Year, (whether you want it or not), until then, it's Season's greetings from the web's least-listened to podcast.