A Punk Rock Christmas with The Myrrhderers

This week, Jamie Hilsden and I have a meeting of the minds about
how punk's meaning and associations have changed over time, and
his punk Christmas EPs--The Myrrhderers Slay
Christmas and The Myrrhderers Slay Some More--give us
the place to start that conversation. 


Hilsden brings a very interesting perspective to the conversation
as a Canadian Christian who grew up in Israel just a few miles
from Bethlehem and started working up the demos for these songs
while on tour with a band in Poland. 


We chew on the challenges involved in converting Christmas songs
to to punk, and which songs simply didn't interest him. We also
talk about the record that served as proof of concept that
Christmas punk could be good as punk and Christmas music.


You can find both EPs on his Bandcamp page.


In this episode, I also talk about a modern Christmas classic,
Nick Lowe's Quality Street. I talked about the album and
Lowe a bit with Eddie Angel of Los Straitjackets back in 2019,
and other artists have talked about finding it reassuring because
it proved that they could be themselves and still make seasonal
music. 


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