Quote of the day

"Dying is a bit like writing a letter to Santa. Unless you've been a good boy or girl, you're fucked".

Malcolm Middleton, whose bid to get to the much-coveted Christmas #1 slot with a single called 'We're All Going To Die' has been backed by Radio 1's Colin Murray and Edith Bowman, seeing his odds slashed by William Hill from 1000/1 to 12/1.

'We're All Going To Die' is, quite wonderfully, the first song on Middleton's latest record A Brighter Beat, and certainly made an impression on me when he played it to a bunch of parents and children at a folk festival in the summer. You can buy it at the official site and watch the video here.