I heard this song playing in the background as I sorted through some old paperbacks, it was called The Lord Of Misrule and was performed by Marc Almond with Ian Anderson on flute. It was a song I once heard Marc Almond describe as an alternative Christmas song and it may well be so in whatever world the mercurial Marc has constructed about himself. there has always been a touch of the pagan about Marc Almond so he might well be thinking about some bleak midwinter festival to see off the dark.As this is one song Bob Cratchitt was not likely to sing around the Christmas Tree And this is one dark little song, bouncing back from the last days of the world, especially as you may have also seen the accompanying video made to go with the song, as some pagan entity played by Marc Almond literally gives the world a roasting. Or rather, smiles as we do so ourselves, as you might justifiably suspect,the world as we know it might come to a smokey end. This song set the tone for the book that followed as I settled on The Black Corridor by Michael Moorcock.
