You know you’re getting old when you find yourself near Christmas fighting the desire to comment about how quick it’s all come round this year blah blah. So I’ve deleted the original start to this blog and will begin with observing that after a long and arduous year we thought would never end, we finally find ourselves with Christmas concerts upon us. We didn’t record any Christmas songs in July like last year so I haven’t minded dusting off our trusty carol songbook this time.

For those of you in the South East with families come along and see us this Sunday, 14^th December at 4:00pm in the Brighton Dome. As usual there will be ample opportunity to dust off your own vocal chords and share a couple of hours of Christmas music with the Brighton Festival Chorus and Youth Choir accompanied by full symphony orchestra. James will be waving his arms infront of them all (if they can be bothered to watch him) and I’ll be putting on a frock with the baritone Andy Rupp – he won’t be putting on a frock, that’s just me.