Jimmy  Severe, whose punk guitar and shouty voice spread his fame throughout  the pop music world of Coley Park and the rest of West Reading, was  born and brought up in the small flats. The story goes that he traded a  bushel of Beano comics for his first guitar. When Severe attended the  School of Hard Nuts, the guitar went along with him and helped pay for  his beer. When an injured leg ended his career as a centre-back it was  only natural for him to turn to his guitar as a means of support. He  found out early on that playing the songs of others, especially good  old singalong classics, was far more fun than writing his own  self-indulgent dirges, and soon joined up with the Blue Christmas Boys,  a bunch of local punks who specialised in bringing vitriolic cheer to  the local estate at Christmas time with their very special  interpretations of Yuletide classics. In putting together The Punk Rock  Advent Calendar, Jimmy & The Boys picked the ones that portray all  sides of the season - from revelry to irreverence - from White  Christmas to Mary's Boy Child - with strictly for drinking songs like  Senor Santa Claus and The Merry Christmas Polka for good large measures.