The Boy Least Likely To At Komedia
Published 20th Dec 2006 by Chris Challis

Once upon a time there lived a band called The Boy Least Likely To. There were two of them - one of them was called Jof and the other one was called Peter, Jof writes all the words and sings, and Peter writes all the music and plays all the instruments.

They met when they were still at school and grew up together in the middle of the English countryside in the small Buckinghamshire village of Wendover, where they spent their teenage years scouring countryside car boot sales for rare Dexy's seven inches and Lee Hazlewood albums. They also read lots of Ted Hughes, Anne Sexton and Douglas Coupland, watched John Hughes films and old videos of Top Of The Pops whilst all the time putting together a collection of weird and wonderful instruments found in second hand shops, craft fairs and the Early Learning Centre… a collection that would be used in all its eclectic glory when it came to making the album.

Strongly influenced by the independent bands of the 1980s, the songs bring to mind the post punk playfulness of Altered Images, Aztec Camera, Dexys Midnight Runners, and Orange Juice. A charming rural pop sound with banjos, glockenspiels, recorders and fiddles thumping away in a quirky indie folk style, the music is heartfelt and uplifting with unique and sweetly eccentric lyrics. They make disco music with a country heart, sublime pop moments tinged with an English folk eccentricity and sad songs that can't help but make you smile.

THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO visit Komedia on Tuesday 16 January at 8.30pm. Tickets are £8 adv/£10 on door and are available on-line or from the Box Office on 01273 647100 (booking fees apply).

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