Emmy The Great: "There is no Christmas next year, it's the apocalypse!"

[bananas]

I think she's just kidding!

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Darkly-festive/story-13252892-detail/story.html

Darkly festive
Friday, September 02, 2011
Nottingham Post

IT'S still, officially at least, British Summer Time, but Emmy The Great is already thinking about Santa. Although her second album, Virtue, is less than three months old, her next long-player will be a Christmas album with boyfriend Tim Wheeler, from Irish indie rockers Ash.

<snip>

The festive release is due out this December – "There is no Christmas next year, it's the apocalypse! So yes, (it'll be out) this Christmas," she smiles – but before then, there's her Keep Your Virtue Tour, which will find Emmy revisiting songs shaped by another close relationship.

Not too long ago, before she hooked up with Tim, Emmy (real name Emma-Lee Moss) was about to be married. But then her atheist husband-to-be suddenly discovered Christianity and one day, out of the blue, simply left the flat they shared together in North London ... and never came back.

<snip to a discussion of her last album titled "Virtue">

The songs were shaped by fairytales and mythology, saints, London architectural landmark Trellick Tower, power stations in the North of England, the writings of Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter and Marina Warner, music by the Cocteau Twins and Suzanne Vega, and much more. Yet Virtue is not at all downbeat or depressing.

<snip>

Via Stubby's House of Christmas: http://www.stubbyschristmas.com/1/post/2011/09/time-for-an-update.html
Via Santa's Working Overtime: http://santasworkingovertime.blogspot.com/2011/09/holiday-update-for-91611.html
(Costco started selling Christmas lights a few weeks ago, so I've been perusing the Christmas blogs)

[Behind the Aegis]

1. At least Chanukah won't be canceled! YEA!!!

Good thing the world isn't ending this year, though...that would suck! We'd only get one day!

[Sherman A1]

2. I have been wondering about this myself

Should we shop early & deliver gifts early?

Will we get holiday pay?

What about Holiday cards, should we send them out or not?

If the end is December 21st that could really ruin the holiday shopping season....

Oh! the Humanity (and retail sales)......:donut:

[TlalocW]

3. I assume she's talking about the Mayan thing

But she hasn't been paying attention or has forgotten that Harold Camping has rescheduled the apocalypse to October 21... OF THIS YEAR! So there's not only no Christmas but no Halloween!

TlalocW