It's advent

We had toyed with the idea of doing a No Rock Advent thingy, but in the end we haven't as we're off on holiday before Christmas and it's possible it would never be finished.

Anyway, behind door twenty four would have been Britney being force-fed mince pies by Pink. Probably with nipple clamps on.

Luckily, popjustice aren't as slovenly as us, and intend to be at their desks right up until the bitter Only Fools and Horses special, and they've invited various people to contribute pop jokes to their advent calendar. Of course, we're plugging it because we've been asked ("You know there's only twenty four days in advent? Right, well... ") and the whole thing is on the popjustice blog. Jingle bells, jingle bells...

Talking of Christmas, No Rock and sister service Zapsmart have come together to offer a guide to the music on TV over Christmas which at the moment is All That There Is of the Christmas special. We've only had the Daily Star's TV Guide to work with - "To Be Announced" quite a fixture, especially over on BBC Choice, so we'd recommend you treat it as a beta version right now...