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Maybe one day it’ll be regarded alongside festive hits like Merry Christmas Everybody, All I Want For Christmas Is You and Fairytale Of New York?
Anyway, there’s a song called Minecraft Christmas. The Official Charts Company has it at number 52 in the midweek UK charts.
English Band Area 11 are… oh, who are we kidding? We know sod all about Area 11. Here’s their Wikipedia page. Knock yourselves out.
It seems that the Bristol-based rockers have released games-based singles before although we have no idea of they’ve ever charted. Presumably not?
The layout of MCV’s news pages means this story needs padding by around another paragraph or so before we can insert the video. Which has to be done in raw HTML, incidentally. Is it Christmas yet?
Right, that’ll do:
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