CHRISTMAS HURTS

What better way to celebrate your first year of delicious pop marvellousness than by releasing something a little festive just before Christmas. And while all Mariah Carey wants for Christmas is you, all the boys from Hurts want seemingly is New Years Day, which seems to suggest that they want to skip the whole festive palaver and move swiftly through to 2011. Which is a shame really, ’cause then they’d miss out on all the fun stuff – like breaking your teeth on the sixpence hidden in the Christmas pud, getting another box of handkerchiefs from that long lost auntie and wearing those ridiculous Christmas cracker paper hats on your head around the Christmas dinner table while groaning endlessly over the dodgy cracker jokes.
But, if the clip is anything to go by, the Hurts lads really DO love Christmas after all. And it’s a festive affair, with trees, candles, snow – and the slightest dash of red to give things a rather traditional festive look. And while we don’t get snow in Australia at Christmas time (though with the weather so far this summer it’s not out of the question), we’ll certainly get this single – it’s released digitally on Friday December 17.

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