The Ukranians - Merry Christmas Everybody

ZIRKA RECORDS

£8.10

Cat. no: ZRKCDS15
Format: CD
Barcode: 0702669860567
Release Date: 06 Dec 2021
Genre: World Music

So here it is… The Ukrainians' unique, fast and furious, vodka-fuelled version of Merry Christmas Everybody which gives you an idea of what Slade might have sounded like if they'd come from Ukraine's industrial city of Sloviansk instead of Wolverhampton!Also featured on the Merry Christmas Everybody EP are two special tracks: a beautiful, relatively unknown traditional Ukrainian carol that the band recently discovered called V Halitskiy Zemli ('In the Galician Land'), and Kolyadka, a selfpenned carol that has been unavailable since The Ukrainians' 1991 12-inch vinyl only debut, the NME single of the week Oi Divchino

The Ukrainians are notorious for their Ukrainian language versions of classic Western pop songs. They have also released their unique 'Ukrainianised' versions of songs by The Sex Pistols, The Smiths, T-Rex, Prince, Motorhead and The Velvet Underground.

OK... it's time to play your copy of Merry Christmas Everybody. First sink a swift shot of ice-cool vodka. Secondly, turn the volume up to '11'. Now give in to those beautiful melodies, the poetry of the Ukrainian language and the pure, lifeaffirming energy of the music...

Tracks: MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY / V HALITSKIY ZEMLI / KOLYADKA / MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY (LOOK WOT YOU DUN MIX)