Snowflakes Christmas Singles

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas everyone!

A few days ago DJ Oscar (Oscar Smit Music) shared 12 videos of (mostly recent) Christmas songs at the request of an online newspaper from the eastern part of Amsterdam. It includes the video for Simon Chesterfield's cover of 'I Believe In Father Christmas'... plus 11 more Christmas videos worth checking out...

Net als ieder jaar kiest kerstmuziekliefhebber en -kenner DJ Oscar voor oost-online een aantal verrassende, ongebruikelijke en niet al te commerciële recente k

17/12/2024

The list of new 2024 7" Christmas singles on Discogs is now 75 singles long... and more to come...

13/12/2024

A few days ago the great Christmas music blog Christmas-A-Go-Go (also based here in The Netherlands) wrote a nice piece about this year Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club and the four singles of Simon Chesterfield/The Chesterfields, Les Pommes De Lune, Whatitdo Archive Group and The Holiday Crowd - thanks Oscar!

Is Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club from Amsterdam the only Christmas record label in the world? I think so. Please let us know if there...

10/12/2024

Yesterday, I posted the A-side of the Simon Chesterfield's Snowflakes Christmas single, today it's the video for the B-side, a great cover version of Greg Lake's Christmas classic 'I Believe In Father Christmas'...

Filmed at Black Shed, Sherborne, Dorset, by James Harvey, 24 November 2024

09/12/2024

Simon Chesterfield made two videos for his Snowflakes Christmas Single - Here is the video for the A-side (on the channel of his band The Chesterfields): Last Train To Christmas, to get you in the Christmas mood!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBDXXn0MeM

The single is still available here: https://snowflakes.bigcartel.com/

Filmed at Black Shed, Sherborne, Dorset, England, by James Harvey, 24 November 2024

29/11/2024

Today, 29 November 2024, is the official release date of the four singles of the 2024 edition of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club: Simon Chesterfield (of The Chesterfields), Les Pommes De Lune, Whatitdo Archive Group (already sold out, some shops and the band might have some copies left) and the The Holiday Crowd!

You can now also listen to all 8 songs on the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club Bandcamp page!

Snowflakes Christmas Singles is out to celebrate the Christmas 7" single by the yearly Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club. Every year, new Christmas singles will be released by current artists, that will feature an original song on side A and an interpretation of a classic or obscure Christmas song b...

23/11/2024

In 2012, the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club as an idea was born, but too late in the year to have a first edition ready in time for Christmas.

The first band that agreed to be part of the first edition of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club in 2013 was the British folk-blues duo Smoke Fairies (Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies). They wanted to be Snowflake 1, and as they were the first to say 'yes', they deserved Snowflake 1.

It was a big success, I remember that their 150 copies sold out within 1,5 hours on their website and also the other 350 copies sold out before the official release date. I'm still thankful that they had the courage to say yes without knowing me personally and without any other releases out yet.

In 2014, Smoke Fairies returned to Christmas and even recorded a complete and absolutely great Christmas album, 'Wild Winter'. That album is now celebrating its 10th anniversary, on for that occasion, the Smoke Fairies re-release the album this year, on "snowglobe blizzard" vinyl.

You can get here here: https://www.musicglue.com/smokefairies/products/smoke-fairies-wild-winter-2024-ltd-ed-snowglobe-blizzard-vinyl-lp

In the meantime, enjoy 'Simple Feeling', the A-side of the very first Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1CWGW67F4

SMOKE FAIRIES'Simple Feeling' b/w 'I Wonder As I Wander' 7" singleSnowflakes Christmas Singles Club - SNOWFLAKE 1Buy at http://snowflakes.bigcartel.comSmoke ...

21/11/2024

I've made a list of all new 2024 7" Christmas singles on Discogs - I will update it regularly. So far it has 26 singles.

https://www.discogs.com/lists/7-Christmas-Singles-2024/1564159

And the Whatitdo Archive Group Snowflakes single is now officially sold out here at Snowflakes HQ!

19/11/2024

All pre-orders of the 2024 edition of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club, featuring Simon Chesterfield of The Chesterfields, Les Pommes De Lune, Whatitdo Archive Group and The Holiday Crowd have been sent out!

I'm down to the last six sets (as the Whatitdo Archive Group single is close to being sold out), so if you don't have ordered your set, and still want to do so, don't wait too long!

You can still order the complete set here:
https://snowflakes.bigcartel.com/product/all-singles-of-the-2024-edition

23/10/2024

Today, Record Kicks released the digital version of the A-side Whatitdo Archive Group's Snowflakes single, 'Wild Man'!

So now you can listen to the band's funky song about the darker side of Christmas on all known music platforms, and also on the label's Bandcamp.

https://whatitdoarchivegroup.bandcamp.com/track/wild-man

Record Kicks already sold out all their pre-order copies, but it is still available for pre-order, as part of this year's Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club set and as stand-alone single here:

https://snowflakes.bigcartel.com/

from the album Wild Man / Greensleeves

17/10/2024

Today I approved the last of the four test pressings of this year's edition of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club!

The singles should arrive at Snowflakes HQ on November 5.

If you haven't ordered your set yet, please do so at:

https://snowflakes.bigcartel.com/product/all-singles-of-the-2024-edition

04/10/2024

Snowflakes Christmas Singles - Edition 2024, part 4

The Pre-order of the 2024 edition of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club has started!

You can order the complete set here:

https://snowflakes.bigcartel.com/product/all-singles-of-the-2024-edition

And let me introduce you to the fourth Snowflake of 2024 - The Holiday Crowd

HOLIDAY CROWD
Side A: Winterland
Side B: Hard Candy Christmas

Canadian band The Holiday Crowd as part of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club, it was a match too good to not be made. The Toronto, Ontario-based indie rockers formed in 2010 and released a mini-album, a full-length and a 7" between 2012 and 2016. In 2022, the group returned with a new single, 'Party Favours', like their other records released by Portland, Oregon label Shelflife Records. Despite being Canadian, the band's sound is heavily influenced by British indie rock of the 1980s and early 1990s. For their Snowflakes Christmas single, the original four members of the band, lead vocalist Imran Haniff, guitarist Colin Bowers, British-born bassist Alex Roberts and drummer David George Barnes, reunited to write the original 'Winterland'.

Winterland' takes you right back to the 1980s with its jangly guitar, rolling bass, pounding drums and Imran's warm vocals. The song seems to look back on childhood memories, but the parts about the heart that turned to coal, the last-minute shoppers and the 'graveyard malls' show that there is a deeper meaning to the lyrics. The single's B-side 'Hard Candy Christmas' was written by Carol Hall for the 1978 musical 'The Best Little Wh******se in Texas'. The song became a hit for Dolly Parton in 1982 when it was featured in the movie version of the musical in which she starred. The Holiday Crowd's reworking of the song perfectly captures the melancholy of the original, with its message of focusing on the sweet things in life, even when times are hard. The single is released on snow-white bio-vinyl in a sleeve with a playful design by Kenichi Ueda and limited to 300 copies.