How to listen to non-stop Christmas music on Downtown Radio 🎅📻🎶
If you wish it could be Christmas every day, then you're in luck... as Downtown Radio, in partnership with Ballymena BID, transforms into the 'Home of Christmas Music' for Northern Ireland this December!
All mainstream shows will play a 100% Christmas playlist from Friday 1st December. We want to throw out our usual playlist to help shine a light on rising child poverty levels across Northern Ireland.
Our Cash for Kids team are in full Mission Christmas mode, helping pack and distribute gifts to under-privileged kids and families. Listeners can support and donate HERE.
Meanwhile we've been busy preparing our 'sleighlists' for the next month - we've got everything from the traditional classic to more modern upbeat hits.
'Yule' be immersed in the best festive music for this very special season!
Here's how to listen to non-stop Christmas music on Downtown Radio 🎅📻🎶
1) Download our FREE Downtown App– Apple iPhone or Google Play Store
2) Ask your smart speaker to “play Downtown Radio”
3) On your radio
Belfast, Newtownabbey, Holywood, Carrickfergus - 103.4FM
North West - 102.4FM
The West - 96.6FM
Causeway Coast - 96.4FM
South Down - 103.1FM
Mid Antrim - 102.3FM
Newcastle - 103.4FM
Larne - 97.1FM
DAB digital radio
4) Online – downtown.co.uk
In an unprecedented move for a radio station here, Downtown will ‘format flip’ – replacing its regular playlist with only Christmas music right through to Boxing Day and becoming the only ‘100% Christmas Music’ station in Northern Ireland.
Check out some of our presenters favourite Christmas hits 👇
Kirstie McMurray - Weeknights from 7pm
Ed Sheeran and Elton John - Merry Christmas
"It's got everything - jingle bells and two legends, they couldn't go wrong. It's feel-good, uplifting and catchy"
Neal McClelland - Weekdays from 4pm
The Darkness - Christmas Time
"It's a toss up between The Darkness and The Pogues, who doesn't love a headbanger like Christmas Time!"
Gary Myles Weekdays from 6am
Shankin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
Rend Collective - Christmas in Killarney
"I have always loved it Shakin Stevens, it's a great Christmas party song and always fills the dance floor.
On a more local level there is a band from Bangor called Rend Collective - a Christian folk rock band who did a fantastic version of "Christmas in Killarney" which we started playing 2 years ago on Downtown Breakfast which got a great response and lots of requests."
Caroline Fleck Weekdays from 10am
Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas
"This is when Christmas really kicks in for me. Our family are spread out all over, from America to England So driving home has such a special meaning for us having to go the extra miles to be together!"
Coley Weekends from 6am
The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
"It's a classic, no matter how many times you hear it, it's always great!"