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City of Christmas Ghosts ft Poly Styrene

by Goldblade

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Released in 2008 via Damaged Goods Records on two different coloured 7" vinyl; a green version, and a red version - both sold out almost immediately.

The track was an adaptation of 'City of Ghosts' which originally appeared on the 'Mutiny' album via Captain Oi! Records.

'City of Christmas Ghosts', the Goldblade single featuring Poly Styrene, means a lot to me. It was written as a song of friendship, memory and melancholy and has become a celebration of one of the great talents of a generation: Poly Styrene, who was a close friend of mine, reinvented the whole idea of what a woman singer could be and, in the current climate of Robin Thicke and Miley's merry thong, the memory of Poly is even more important in proving that you don't have to play anyone else's game.

The idea for the track was to write an honest song; one that reflected the real Christmas, not the gurning celeb fest and consumer insanity. Instead it could be filled with wonky euphoria and a streak of melancholy, littered with ghosts, a time to reminisce about lost friends and comrades and celebrate their lives. Just like we sang together on the song itself, "we raise a toast to the ghost of the friends that we lost last year", it was tragic that the duet now has an extra poignancy as Poly herself died from cancer in 2011. (John Robb)

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released November 19, 2020

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