Class Of 79 with special guests The Gimme Gimme Gimmes

CLASS OF ’79 / Gimme Gimme GimmesIf your idea of a festive soundtrack leans more towards Alternative Ulster than Fairytale of New York, Babylon’s Burning over Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, and Into the Valley instead of Silent Night, get this in your diary.With two Capital crackers already ticked off, Class of ’79 make a Christmas return to La Belle Angele to land the hat-trick, with the Gimme Gimme Gimmes again riding shotgun.Class of ’79 are a first-class ticket back to a time when the urgency, rawness and bite of late ’70s punk lit a fuse that’s been burning for 50 years.

Steve Crittall, Phil Thompson, Simon Bowley and Mike Lea are scene veterans, and they’re back to rip through a set that takes you back to a time when music mattered.Setting the pace with their madcap brand of craft and chaos are the Gimme Gimme Gimmes, twisting instantly recognisable punk intros into gloriously unhinged parodies of songs with a Scottish link, no matter how loose the connection.This will be your pre-Christmas release valve - loud enough to shake the tinsel off the walls.Stuff the carols, this is what Christmas should sound like.