Local News: The 'Boy Least Likely To' return to Wendover

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album – The Best Party Ever – the band will kick off Real Magic Weekend on Friday 30 May! Carl Gosling from Real Magic books, who is promoting the event said: ”The gig will be the first time they will play the whole debut album live, their first gig in Wendover and the first night of our Real Magic Weekend!”

The band, made up of Peter Hobbs and Jof Owen, met when they were still at school and grew up together in Wendover. Initially released on their own Too Young To Die imprint (and later re-released by Simon Fuller’s 19 Records) The Best Party Ever was constructed from glistening melodies, glockenspiels, guitars, recorders and insightful lyrics informed by an awareness of mortality and a loss of innocence.

The Best Party Ever was released in 2005 to widespread critical acclaim, earning spots in both Pitchfork’s Top 50 albums and was number eight in the Rough Trade Shop top 100 of that year. Pitchfork called the album ‘a thing of wonder, made of rubber and springs’ and they were featured in Rolling Stone’s top ten bands of 2006. Details from www.wegottickets.com/event/648546.