The search for the spirit of Christmas

	Fran Healy

What is your idea of a perfect Christmas?
On the Jerry Springer Show, fighting with mad-bitch homegirls.

How did you spend Christmas as a child?
At 12.01 on Christmas morning, I'd give my mum her present and she'd give me mine. At 11 a.m., she would drag me up to mass. The rest of the day was spent playing with toys and watching TV.

What's the best present you've ever received?
An Encore guitar from mum when I was 14.

And the worst?
A pair of ball-crusher underpants when I was 19.

Is Christmas important to you?
Not until I have kids. Christmas is for kids.

How will you be spending Christmas this year?
In East Kilbride with my family. In Glasgow with friends getting steaming. In bed on Boxing Day hanging over.

Is Christmas different now that you're famous?
Ask me next year.

What's your favourite Christmas record and film?
That Slade song and It's a Wonderful Life.

Which celebrity would you most like to buy a present for? What would it be?
I'd get Natalie Imbruglia a big box o' Ferrero Rocher, a jar o' Gold Blend, and 20 Silk Cut.

What are your plans for New Year's Eve?
To consume as much alcohol as I can.

Melody Maker
December 20/27, 1997

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