This week on The Bugcast: anniversary weekend, volunteering, and eight tracks of festive Creative Commons and independent music.
Songs played
- Luca & Mauro – Macche Natale – from Italy – source
- J.J. Zhivago – Crismus Breeze – from USA – source
- Roy Smiles III – Snow Falling In Aachen – from Ealing, UK – source
- Siobhan Dakay – Snowflake, Little Snowflake (feat. Claudia Fenslau) – from Munich, Germany – source
- Lenny Wiles Lionstar – My First Christmas All Alone (feat. Venus Xlatrose) – from York, PA – source
- Lawrence Beamen – I’ll Be Home For Christmas – from Walnut Creek, CA – source
- Micki McDonald – Come See Me On Christmas – from Virginia Beach, VA – source
- Hollywood Drunks – Let It Snow – from Los Angeles, CA – source
Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking
Topics
Our Anniversary long weekend<br />
Audiobook recording<br />
Charity volunteering (and paying for the privilege)<br />
<a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/">TuxJam</a> Christmas Twofer
Upcoming events
<a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">Podcrawl Christmas 2025</a> on Saturday 20 December 2025 from 18:00 UK time<br />
<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/new_year.html">Hacker Public Radio New Years Party</a> starting on Wednesday 24 December at 10:00 UTC<br />
<a href="https://ogg.camp/">OggCamp</a> will be on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April 2026, Manchester UK
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Announcements
- Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
- The next show will be episode 881 which will be our New Year show, streamed live on Friday 2 January 2026 at 21:30-ish UK time (UTC).
- Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
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Special thanks go to
Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server<br />
Paul (TopCat Radio) for the use of their Icecast server
The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network
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