D.I.H. and friends @ Christmas 2023 submissions open

Saturday, 26 August 2023

Back again for its 21st anniversary (Barring a few gaps of course) and its 18^th album somehow, DIH and Friends at Christmas are now opening their doors on a submission call out for ambient, drone, metal, singer-songwriter, experimental and poetry to name but a few genres (all welcome really) on the theme of Christmas.

The history of the project from Digital Vomit states ‘The origin behind the infamous series of DIH with friends at Christmas began back in 2002 when for a one-off joke as a side project from his more official work in DIH, Andy N one year decided with the help of one or two friends decided to do in his words ‘ A Christmas album for those people who don’t really like Christmas’ where in the space of half an hour (as was the original plan) – Andy and a few friends would murder, cripple and take the piss out of as many songs as they could.

However, as is the nature of the beast with this sort of thing things snowballed and by the time the second album came along, It had become officially a DIH project where they would between the three of them alongside an ever-increasing cast-off friends playing around with the myth of the Christmas, which will often be funny and sad sometimes within the same breath.

The music contained within this series of albums is varied and can vary from spoken word (sometimes with musical backing or experimental backing), acoustic singer-songwriter stuff to music that could appeal to fans of Aphex Twin, hardcore, breakbeats, dubstep, fans of the spoken word, re-imagining of carols and classic songs, faithful versions of Christmas carols and songs and generally people who like their music to challenge and make them think.

For reasons too long-winded and just plain boring to go into here, DIH took a break from the Christmas albums in 2012 before starting up again in 2015. Following on from their 2015 comeback, we are now expecting submissions for our 2023 album, our fifth album since starting up again with anything and everything encouraged from experimental, drones, ambient, Christmas Carols, Poems, songs... whatever takes your fancy really.