Christmas

The battle is on. Those outside the UK will have no perception of the depth of feeling surrounding the Christmas number one slot, a coveted, somewhat iconic chart position that misrepresents the British music scene completely, yet simultaneously speaks volumes about the population at large.

Christmas on Mars is the stuff of legend, the kind of project often talked about in hopeful hushed whispers, with the underlying probability that it would never be seen by anyone. Seven years in the making, tension has mounted. For years Flaming Lips shows have been punctuated by individuals parading around the stage in Santa Claus and alien uniforms with only a brief trailer to confirm that Lips’ leader Wayne Coyne’s pet project might actually manifest itself on celluloid.