This website serves as a repository of the many bad musical performances that have been collated over a
decade of Christmas music collections, and also a select few less bad ones.
The website was a collaboration between Matthew and Allie. Allie—although rather less conspicuous on the
site—did about as much of the website making (designing, coding, debugging, etc) as Matthew did of the
performing: not quite all but the large majority by a long way.
The site is designed to hopefully be fairly straightforward to use: the main
homepage shows a video at the top, and allows you to browse other videos
below. The slider allows you to filter by year (personally I reckon it all started going downhill after
about 2012…). The tags let you sort to only performances of a certain category ('Best of' has been
curated for those who don't actually want to watch all 133 videos). The instruments can also be filtered
in the same way (I personally recommend the euphonium back-catalogue), as can the performers. Also on
the site are this page, and the History page, which gives a brief history of
the decade-long musical endeavour.
If you habitually listen to music on/through YouTube (eg through a TV or smart speaker) and would find
that easier than watching through the website, I have made a YouTube playlist
with all the videos on this site – you can use this to listen to the recordings however you usually use
YouTube (on a desktop computer, phone, tablet, TV, etc). It should contain all the videos, but it
is entirely possible that some have been missed!
As may have become apparent by this point, this site is a work in progress, so things may change over
the course of time (or we may get distracted by other things in life and never finish adding the
content/features we originally intended to). And if something doesn't work, let us know!