Also, we’ve been doing that tour for, I don’t know, 17/18 years, something like that, and we’ve done five Christmas albums to date, but there are still so many songs to go over. The first of the three originals comes with a reminder that ‘Christmas Is Merry’, sleigh bells putting in an early appearance behind the cascading chords and swayalong melody, while, set to the traditional tune ‘Noel Nouvoulet’ and accompanied by an icy piano note, muted drums and minimal guitar, ‘The Holly King’ has an almost liturgical feel to its account of the pagan mythic archetype, a precursor of Santa Claus, representing the second half of the year, forever battling his adversary the Oak King. Porthdinllaen Harbour Company was formed in 1808 in preparation, but the bill before Parliament to constitute Porthdinllaen as a harbour for Irish trade was rejected in 1810. In May 1806, a parliamentary bill approved new buildings in Porthdinllaen when it seemed that the town would be chosen. I wasn’t very good at all, but loved my time there, and it really gave me a confidence to stand on a stage and play and sing.

Then, rarely, you leave each other going, ‘Oh, we need to stay friends and record something one day. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Wylfa was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. The post road built by Thomas Telford from London strengthened Holyhead's position as the port from which the Royal Mail was dispatched to and from Dublin on the Mail coach. By late 2004, Kate’s ‘Wandering Soul’ had featured on the soundtrack of BBC television series Billy Connolly’s World Tour of New Zealand, while in a busy 2006 she scored a first mainstream hit, her duet with Ronan Keating on ‘All Over Again’ reaching No. I’ve still got numbers for him and his manager, but … It was such a privilege to have a peer into that kind of world though.

I like the idea of your 2020 LP, Hand Me Down, reinterpreting in your own style well-known songs – what traditional folk music was about – but in this case what you could argue are the folk songs of today, from Prince to Ray Davies numbers, Taylor Swift to Cyndi Lauper, Robert Smith to Bob Marley. But I went to performing arts college in Barnsley, did a BTech in performing arts, majored in drama. Records that aren't in picture sleeves will either be in a company sleeve or a generic plain sleeve.

I know, you’re busy …’ It’s kind of such a small thing, compared to his world, but he accepted and just did it, and it was so lovely, it really worked. A People's History of Slade (Spenwood Books, 2023) and This Day in Music's Guide to The Clash (This Day in Music, 2018), currently writing, editing and collating Solid Bond in Your Heart: A People's History of The Jam (Spenwood Books, 2024).

So, 11 of us altogether on stage, and six crew, I think, and of course not forgetting Ruby Reindeer! Porthdinllaen was almost as far west as Holyhead, but Holyhead was more accessible because of Thomas Telford's road developments. And it just went like that – every gig I was doing, somebody else would say, ’Do you fancy doing a slot at our folk club?This one is actually to the tune of a different song that I also love, but I wasn’t that keen on the words, then realised it went with the While Shepherds words, so yey, another has now been invented. But in our studio, we have this tiny Christmas tree that whenever we’re making a Christmas album, we put in the middle of the floor and we all have to sit round it, get in the Christmas spirit. We’ve known Jason a few years, I was on a track of his on his album, and he was at our festival this year. The residence of an engineer was in charge of the government-sponsored alterations to Holyhead Harbour being carried out.