Alright, this 2010 single is technically more of an anti-Christmas song, what with being inspired by the story of an LA killing spree by a gunman dressed as Santa and featuring lines like “A child was born on Christmas Day/But they crucified him anyway”, and its innate melancholy is further underscored by the fact that Poly Styrene, aka Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, died just a few months later from breast cancer at the horribly early age of 53. But the video also features her very-much-alive daughter, Celeste Bell-Dos Santos, who as well as looking nearly exactly like her mother is now busy making a film about her, and the spirit of Poly Styrene lives on in some of my favourite artists, including the star of tomorrow’s advent calendar, so although she may have left us, she isn’t gone, and here she’s perfect in the way that only punk superstars in their fifties ever are.