The Boy Least Likely To 'The First Snowflake' Video & Christmas Message

• 16th Dec 2008

A Christmas message from The Boy Least Likely To:

“Hello To You All At This Special Time Of Year,

Originally, I tried writing this in the style of the Phil Spector Christmas message from the sleeve notes to ‘A Christmas Gift For You’, but then when I read it back I realised it made me sound a bit mental. All that stuff about great traditions being contemporised through the pop music of today. It wasn’t really like that. We didn’t set out to write a Christmas song, it just turned out that it couldn’t be anything else, and however much we tried to pretend it was just a song about snow, it would always make us think of Christmas when we listened to it. I guess some songs just are what they are, and there’s nothing you can do about it. If a song wants to be a Christmas song it will be a Christmas song, or any other type of song it wants to be.

And because the song could never be anything else, we thought we’d better release it as a Christmas single, and so that you can enjoy it too we’re going to make it available for everyone to buy from December 15th. And then we thought perhaps we should throw a party and invite you all along, so we’re playing a Christmas show at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen to coincide with its release. This is the first single to be released on our own Too Young To Die label since we put out ‘Paper Cuts’ three years ago, and I don’t think I’ve been as excited about a record of ours coming out since then.

Our new album will be released in March next year, but for now This is ‘The First Snowflake’, a little pop song about feeling lost and alone at Christmas. I hope it makes you happy in the way that all the best sad songs should, and I hope you have as much fun listening to it as we did recording it for you.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

With love from,

The Boy Least Likely To”