Love is for Life (Not Only for Christmas Time) Says Hannah Collins

And so it begins, the build-up, the tension; come all ye faithful round yon virgins and three kings of orient are, spreading joy to the world while shepherds wash their socks and Batman smells. In which, in order to spread warm emotions of peace and unity for the one day, it’s obligatory to rush around like headless chickens for two months, verbally abuse drivers in traffic jams, inevitably cause accidents because we’re too consumed by what little Johnny wants this year to concentrate on our driving!

Or, how we’re still hungover from the work-do where we accidentally got off with the agency temp in sales who puked down her blouse before half four, and Gary fancied her, and now he’s going to be pissed with you. And ram B&M on black Friday, fight  to the death anyone who might grab the last Labubu doll, and Granny’s ditched us for some “gentleman friend,” who’s whisked her off to The Maldives, and well, if mum undercooks the pigs in blankets again I’m off down the pub, where did they put the batteries, and who lost the end to the bloody sellotape?!

A pastiche of the RSPCA slogan about puppies as pressies, Bristol-based vocalist, musician and producer, Hannah Collins has nailed it in her new Christmas song with a spin, Love is for Life (Not Only for Christmas Time.) The simple premise; if we can be nice to each other on Christmas Day, why can’t we for the rest of the year? How smug, bar humbug, great song, though!!

For if it sounds like the basis of a bitter anti-Christmas punk song, it’s subtle, ironically uplifting, and contains a simple piano riff with seasonal jingly bells. Released on the 28th of November, Hannah says, “in a materialistic world, love is the greatest gift we can give.”

Produced and mixed by Tim Oliver (Sinead O’Connor/Robert Plant) at Peter Gabriel’s Realworld Studios in Box, Wiltshire, featuring John Baggot (Massive Attack/Portishead/Robert Plant) on keys, and Eric Okafo on bass, it has a Motown lite sound and is reminiscent of a Mariah Carey singalong…..argh, I’m caught by the catchy hook, and I’m putting my decorations up now!!

It will be available to stream on all platforms from 28th November 2025. There will also be an original music video released on YouTube on 21st November, created by Olivia Kennedy from OK! Animations. 

Hannah is new to us, but tis said her, “inquisitive mind, creative spirit and interest in philosophy are overarching themes in her work; a golden thread flowing through her art, which is particularly resonant with the message of peace and goodwill at Christmas.” The press release asks, “can we keep the peace, love and charity going all year long, and not just at Christmas time?!” Have they not heard of dry January, winters of discontent, and seasonal affective disorder, damn your spritely song, Hannah?!!

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach,” Dickens wrote, “feel the magic in the atmosphere, I wonder why it’s only this time of year,” Hannah wrote similarly, and maybe her song has a lesson too, a seasonal catchy pop lesson I happen to love!

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