True facts. Carols by candlelight started in Melbourne in 1938 after some dude (can’t remember his name) saw a woman in the window singing Away In A Manger by candlelight in 1937. The next year he got the neighbourhood together to sing in the park. Awww.
I don’t think it is possible for it to have been getting worse every year for the length of time people have been saying this. I’ve been hearing this for at least 30 years, I can only assume that it is people’s nostalgia that gives the past a warm glow rather than the show itself deteriorating.
I used to love it so much, but it’s become some overly sponsored commmericalised crap that I just can’t be bothered :( instead I’m thinking of watching the X Files Christmas episode with the ghosts because why not.
Anyone else watching Carols By Candlelight? It used to be a family tradition but it’s getting steadily worse and worse every year.
True facts. Carols by candlelight started in Melbourne in 1938 after some dude (can’t remember his name) saw a woman in the window singing Away In A Manger by candlelight in 1937. The next year he got the neighbourhood together to sing in the park. Awww.
I don’t think it is possible for it to have been getting worse every year for the length of time people have been saying this. I’ve been hearing this for at least 30 years, I can only assume that it is people’s nostalgia that gives the past a warm glow rather than the show itself deteriorating.
I used to love it so much, but it’s become some overly sponsored commmericalised crap that I just can’t be bothered :( instead I’m thinking of watching the X Files Christmas episode with the ghosts because why not.
For the last few years, I’ve done the Cambridge option. https://youtu.be/A5LNpKdgig8?si=0sJHEOD6e7ydvRjo
Doesn’t even need to be the current year. It’s the classic, beautiful choir carols that I remember from my youth.
Protestors storming the stage certainly added some “spice” to the event.