This year, of all years, we need a little Christmas... With notes of Joni Mitchell played on an ancient piano in old Scrooge's cold parlour, "Lanterns" Julie anne McCambridge and the Radical Epiphanies' latest single opens the final advent calendar window of 2022 and finds a chocolate-sweet anthem for better times ahead. Featuring saxophone and mandolin by Anthony Thistlethwaite, this is the silver-bell, jingle-jangle marching music of a George Square band of your memory. This is the West of Scotland Christmas bells ringing out from Glasgow Cathedral, music that Gregory listened to on cassette when he bought a gift for his Girl.

It is a heartfelt lament for everything we think we want and everything we know we can't have.

Crackling like a soft fire, McCambridge's voice rises with all the hope of a child holding a gift from St. Nicholas, before burning with the blue flames of Christmas pudding brandy. "Lanterns" is available on Spotify and on Julie anne McCambridge's Facebook and youtube.