Christmas songs advent calendar: Day 6. The Housemartins If the razzle is all getting too much, cleanse your palette with the Housemartins's 1986 barbershop cover of the Isley Brothers that was just pipped to the festive number one slot by a re-release of Jackie Wilson's Reet Petite. A great Christmas song that doesn't mention the word and manages to brings a bit of religious and political grit to proceedings - or just a reminder to be nice to be your fellow man and woman. Top Eighties indie fashion and larking around from Fat Boy Slim and co in the video. Bernadette McNulty