Olly Murs is ringing within the vacation season with a brand-new collaboration alongside The Bizarre Boys frontman Sam Preston.
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Their newest launch, Christmas Begins Tonight, arrives simply in time for December and reimagines Olly’s earlier observe Run This City as a full-blown festive anthem.
The one continues Olly’s long-standing artistic partnership with Sam, who first labored with the singer on the chart-topping hit Coronary heart Skips A Beat. The enjoyable observe blends Olly’s trademark pop power with The Bizarre Boys’ indie aptitude.
Reflecting on the tune’s journey, Olly defined how the observe developed from a forgotten demo right into a Christmas spotlight: “It started as a demo of ‘Run This City’ that by no means fairly discovered its second. Quick ahead to 2025, and it finally ends up on my new album. I carry out it on Strictly, and instantly, I’m listening to it as a Christmas tune. So I despatched Sam a message and one way or the other we’ve turned it right into a full-on festive anthem and correctly reconnected within the course of.”
Sam echoed the thrill, describing the discharge as a “small seasonal miracle”: “Born from the bones of ‘Run This City’, a tune that had been languishing in a dusty folder on Olly’s telephone for fifteen years, it has lastly been granted a brand new life as a Yuletide anthem.”
Ska tune Run This City featured on Olly’s High 5 album Knees Up, launched in November, however he recorded the observe throughout the classes for his self-titled 2010 debut album.
He mentioned: “This tune’s been with me since my first album again in 2010. I’ve all the time liked it, but it surely by no means fairly discovered the suitable second… till now.
“It’s bought that Insanity-style power that I’ve all the time wished to faucet into. After I began engaged on the ‘Knees Up’ album late final 12 months with the type of songs I used to be writing it lastly felt like the suitable time to convey it to life and add it to the combo. I’ve wished to launch this one for years and now it’s time!”
