A SIMPLE FESTIVE TALE...

ORLANDO Weeks - the former Maccabees frontman-turned-solo artist - is not the type of person who gets caught up in the extravagance and over-indulgence of the festive season. Not that he’s a Scrooge, bah humbug, sort of bloke, mind. The London-born musician simply prefers a gentler, understated version of Christmas - much like his favourite festive children’s stories.

“When I was a kid,” he reminisces, “I used to love the Christmas stories of Raymond Briggs. They’re really understated; I love the way he could hide the more fantastical elements of his stories in plain clothes. They’re like an antidote to that bombastic, bells and whistles version of Christmas. For me, a story like The Snowman (Briggs’ most famous work, of course) really sums up the spirit of Christmas.”

Fast forward two decades and Orlando Weeks, now 34, has embarked on a creative project