Culture of the United Kingdom music of Christmas has always been a combination of sacred and secular, and every year in the UK there is highly publicised competition to be the Christmas number one single, which has led to the production of music which provides the mainstay of festive playlists. Responding to a BBC report on the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof created the charity supergroup Band Aid who recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?". It has been Christmas number one three times. Written by Sarah Flower Adams in 1841, the Christian hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee" is associated with the sinking of
The Machine in the Garden (band) exploration, the band made a video for the haunting and melodic song, "The Unaware." Creating a mix of darkwave influences and ethereal melodies, the duo of Roger Fracé and Summer Bowman used soaring guitars, tribal rhythms and electronic sweeps to create 2002's "Asphodel". "Asphodel" deals with the many layers of the band's vision, relating songs of love and desire, sorrow and despair. "XV" was released in December 2007 to celebrate the band's 15th anniversary. In December 2010 they released the single "In The Vanir" as a digital only release. The Machine in the Garden (band) The Machine in the Garden