Spoonful are still the greatest bar band in Melbourne. It’s a title they’ve held for quite some time. Challengers have tried to topple them but no one has succeeded.

Spoonful – the brothers Warhurst, the Big Fireman and the Good Lord – pack out the pubs around Melbourne and deliver. Spoonful play party music.

Big Bad Santa (AKA RRR’s Jon von Goes) has been donning his skanky Santa suit and performing a couple of Santa songs with Spoonful every festive season for the last decade and a bit, and this year the recording studio beckoned. Spoonful and Santa ascended the stairs to Davey Lane’s little brown studio to whack down Santa Claus Blues in a take or two.

Everybody knows that the blues is a feeling and d’you know what? Santa’s not happy.

Santa’s decided to hang around for a couple of days to do a guest spot with Spoonful at the Archies Creek Hotel. And why wouldn’t he?

Big Bad Santa and Spoonful’s brand new single “Santa Claus Blues” is out now on Bandcamp.