GBA 141 A Room Full Of Christmas Friends

In GBA 141 we get better acquainted with Christmas (again). It's the 2013 Christmas Special: A festive curiosity once again full of intimacy, doubt, shared history, music & cheer.

This year we join the GBA house band and A Room Full of Friends to sing some Christmas songs and talk some Christmas talk. This year's Christmas special is designed to be:

"Like an episode of Killroy where the issue being discussed is Christmas. With songs."

As part of the house band I am joined by:

Asia - (GBA not yet aired)
Sam - https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-99-sam
George - https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george
https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-106-jack-and-george

With special guest Harv who shared a song and recorded the room: https://twitter.com/SteveHSoundtech

The rest of the room full of friends are:

Jen: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes/
Dad: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes/
Tony: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-35-tony
Liz: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz
Chris: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-25-chris
Nina: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-132-nina
Natti: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-98-natti
Alex: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-80-alex

Charities plugged at the end of the episode are:

Crisis at Christmas: http://www.crisis.org.uk/pages/christmas.html

Core Arts: http://www.corearts.co.uk/

Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/

St Mungos: http://www.mungos.org/

Self Determination: http://developmentforafrica.org/selfdetermination.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/charity/against_1.shtml

Red and Black social club: http://www.soundthealarm.org.uk/red-black-social-club-septembe/

GBC Legal: http://greenandblackcross.org/legal

Previous incarnations of A Room Full of Friends:

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-2-a-room-full-of

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1

For other GBA takes on Christmas:

The first GBA Christmas special focused on how I learned to love (albeit a highly neurotic and ambiguous love) the season despite its past crimes against my childhood. Here it is: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-christmas-special

The second was a longform true story of the trip I took to Amsterdam with my mum in 2005. Warning it could be described as NSFW: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-91-getting-better
I made this for Christmas this year: https://soundcloud.com/the-dave/time-to-be-nice

I made this for a Christmas a few years back: Ghosts of... youtu.be/XqCKfOwA9vE

This is a true story I told at Spark London that focuses on an incident that is touched on as back story in this episode: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/two-cathedrals-david-pickering/

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year!

(There will be no GBA next week. It will return on the 2nd of January 2013.)

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