Yobs, The – Xmas II LP

White Vinyl with soft blue & red marbling

The long deleted “Xmas II” album by THE YOBS will be available for the first time in almost 35 years. The albums will include a full lyric sheet as well as notes from Matt Dangerfield.

Having released an album and two singles on NEMS, The Boys decided to swap the ‚B‘ and ‚Y‘ in Boys and became The Yobs for their 1977 Christmas single „Run Rudolph Run“. In 1978 The Boys were in dispute with their record company and bootlegged themselves as The Yobs for their Christmas 1978 offering of „Silent Night“.

After signing for Safari in 1979 „Little Drummer Boy“ was given The Yobs treatment and appeared as „Rub A Dum Dum“ in time for Christmas. To promote „Rub A Dum Dum“ The Yobs appeared live at the 1979 Safari Christmas Party at the Music Machine with Gary Holton as MC. They were supported by fellow Safari stablemates Toyah and The Boys! The Yobs came on with stockings over their heads to conceal their identities but only managed to play a few songs before the stage was invaded by punks. The over-enthusiastic stage invaders wrecked all the equipment so the gig had to be abandoned – it was to be the only time the five original Yobs appeared live on stage together.

„The Yobs Christmas Album“ followed in 1980. In true Yobs style the album was written, recorded and mixed in two days at Pete Townsend’s Eel Pie Studios.  Two further albums followed in 1991 (Xmas 2) & 1995 (Leads 3 Amps Utd 0).
(Last Exit Music/ 2025)

TRACKLISTING:
A1 Let's Go
A2 Senseless Lass
A3 There's No Santa Claus
A4 Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
A5 Christmas Eve In The Boozer
A6 Christmas In Jail
A7 Xmas Guantanamera
A8 Come All Ye Faithful
B1 Oy Santa
B2 I'm A N.U.T.T.E.R.
B3 Born In A Barn
B4 Away In A Normal Bed
B5 Yob Rap
B6 Tommy The Christmas Tree
B7 While I Washed