Listen to this

It's not often that I mention music on this blog - X Factor aside, naturally - but I just want to give a plug to my cousin, Marv, for his christmas 'single'.

The recording is a bit pants and the first 45 seconds is nonsense, but when the track kicks in it really is rather catchy!

Listen to 'Merry Christmas Everybody' at http://www.myspace.com/martynlewins.

Elsewhere in the musical world, I see there's a campaign underway to make Rick Astley the Christmas no.1. As big a fan of The X Factor as I am, it is a bit dull for the winner to have the no.1 every year, so I'm all for RickRolling the chart...

http://www.ultimaterickroll.com