With less than a week to Christmas, this month's 7 Tracks is dedicated to all things festive, though these aren’t your typical Christmas songs. You won’t find Mariah Carey, Bing Crosby or Wham on these tracks. Instead I have opted for the obscure, the alternative and the downright odd for this month’s list.

Here’s a scrawling of memories regarding a gig at the lovely Factory Theatre in Sydney that involved a certain formido Leporidae – Frightened Rabbit to quote the Latin.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT

Splendour in the Grass Sideshows - August 2010

I must admit that when I heard I was going to review a band named ‘Frightened Rabbit’, I had some reservations. An obscure, Scottish band from a town named Selkirk; A band of which neither myself nor most people I asked had heard. So, with that in mind, I was surprised to see that the show to take place on the 28th of January at the John Curtin Hotel in Carlton had sold out.