Using the basic melodic shape of Silent Night, Sean O'Loughlin has written a lively piece that goes in a quite different, more up-to-date direction than thefamiliar, reflective Carol. The noise makers of the percussion section are given a lively role to play, and the introduction, by the low brass, of God RestYe Merry, Gentlemen, in the middle of the piece, creates a somewhat ironic twist in this amusing re-imagining of a classic carol.