Oh, bless them! 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' was always my favourite advent hymn. It's been years since I've been at a pre-Christmas church service to hear it. Reminding myself of the words on the web, I discovered that the translation I always sang ('[...] Redeem thy captive Israel') is less widely used than one that goes 'And ransom captive Israel.' There's lots on the web about the O Antiphones and related issues. See http://www.stpetersnottingham.org/hymns/emmanuel.htm for example. Low's 'Just like Christmas' is lovely too. Good old Beepster. N. xx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+