April 25, 201015 yr Author Well if their like his launch party's herehe will be singing...so someone sort of gig then :lol: Will have alook around for LRN though :huh: You could well be right but It could also just mean playing tracks from his album to mark it's release as it doesn't mention Will is performing. Just noticed the date so he should definitely be in the states.
April 25, 201015 yr Thanks for the airplay info TT, id dint realise. :D And your right...now sign of LRN in the top 100 at the mo.
April 25, 201015 yr You could well be right but It could also just mean playing tracks from his album to mark it's release as it doesn't mention Will is performing. Just noticed the date so he should definitely be in the states. Ahh got you...so he might be just there looking pretty then? :wub: :D
April 25, 201015 yr Author Ahh got you...so he might be just there looking pretty then? :wub: :D Well he doesn't need to try hard for that. :wub:
April 26, 201015 yr Author Thanks to Stormiya Tracklisting for the digital release. 1. Leave Right Now 2. Your Game 3. Friday's Child 4. Switch it On 5. All Time Love 6. Who am I 7. Changes 8. Grace http://www.amazon.com/Leave-Right-Now/dp/B...92&sr=301-1
April 27, 201015 yr Author http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/NoWillPower/instinct-1.jpg Wow aren't they choosing the best psomo pics in the US. :heart: :wub:
April 27, 201015 yr Yes they are. They are all from the Let It Go promotion. I've had that piccy as my avatar for a while now. That piccy is in the tour programme. :heart: Here's part of their interview - thanks to the girls on D for finding them: Will Young Web Exclusive! Written by Jeff Katz | Monday, 26 April 2010 http://instinctmagazine.com/images/stories/thumbs/L3Vzci9sb2NhbC93d3cvYXBhY2hlMjIvZGF0YS9pbWFnZXMvc3Rvcmllcy9ibG9ncy9qa2F0ei8xOV8tX1dpbGxfWW91bmdfNC5qcGc=.jpg Tags: will young, instinct, web exclusives, american idol, pop idol, may 2010, music British pop sensation Will Young is truly taking over. He’s on our May cover, inside the May issue and shortly will be invading TV via the most popular show around, American Idol. Well, since he’s here, we figured we’d let him have the Instinct site, too. Check out these never-before-seen outtakes from our exclusive interview with Will, including the film and musical projects he’s working at at the moment. How do you feel about watching old clips of yourself, particularly from Pop Idol? Oh heavens, heavens! I’m not mortified, I love them. Weirdly, for like the two years after the show I actually watched them a lot because I couldn’t believe that I’d got a record deal. I couldn’t believe it was actually going on. I had to look at it and remind myself that it had actually happened. Was acting always an interest? Yeah, I was going to go to acting college when I was 13, but I’m a twin and I didn’t want to leave my brother, so we stayed together. I did a film and that kinda reawakened my love of it. But I still have my frustration with it. I want to do more, but I go to auditions and sometimes I don’t get them. It’s been very leveling for me. I did a film, I did a play, I had a couple of TV jobs, but I still have a ways to go. But it’s getting better. I’m doing this Shakespeare film, Coriolanus, that Ralph Fiennes is directing and starring in. So please go and see it! [Laughs] So do you view acting more as an escape from “Will Young the pop star”? I definitely did. It was great. It’s so different, the film industry to the music industry. What types of roles are you attracted to? Weirdly, recently the last two roles I’ve done have been comedy. I’ve always loved comedy and sort of done it in my videos. Also, I think the English, because they have this awful post-colonial guilt, do have to laugh at themselves because they were so horrible in the past. [Laughs] Maybe it’s that sort of English humor. What is a dream collabo in either film or music you’d love to make happen? A part I would love to do is the Joel Grey M.C. in Cabaret. It’s one of my favorite films and I would love to play that part. For music, I would love to work with Danger Mouse, who is kinda my favorite producer. Is writing your own music important to you? It was, but I’m not one of those people who will lie if they haven’t written a song. You know, change a word and say, “Oh, I wrote that song.” I love singing my own stuff, but I don’t mind singing someone else’s song as long as I can relate to it. What inspires you to write? Oh, God, it’s the worst thing; sadness. But I do think I’m changing! [Laughs] But unfortunately for years I have been inspired by my own personal sadness. But that is changing. Who are some of your musical influences? A singer like Annie Lennox, she was always a major inspiration for me. I’ve always loved her music from a young age. I was very lucky that both my parents, particularly my mom, have a very modern taste in music. More modern than me actually, which is worrying. I remember Annie Lennox, Trent Darby would have been two of the big singers for me that I loved. As I grew up I loved soul, R&B. Michael Jackson, obviously, from a pop point of view. Article continues below... Do you have a favorite of your songs? Oh, God, that’s really hard. There was a song I did called “Home,” which I love. And “Let It Go,” I really love that one. Probably because it was also a time that was right for me. And as you’re embarking on your American debut, you’re also busy recording a new album in the U.K. And I hear this one will have a dance influence? Yeah, I started working with Groove Armada years ago, they did remixes for me and I started loving the remixes. And then I did this song “History” with them, which is very much Bronski Beat, and I’ve just become really interested in that era. So I’m just having the best time. It’s really weird because I’m doing this film at the moment, Coriolanus, which is Shakespeare, so I got to Serbia and shoot that and then I come back and write these pop/dance songs. The dichotomy of my life is just bizarre! So, in retrospect, did coming out affect your career at all? Um, I don’t know. [Pause] No. No, because if I look on it, at the time the sales were fine. I don’t know if it affected my career. I have to really think about it. Certainly not in a negative way. What is the best part of your job? Clothes. Clothes. All the clothes! [Laughs] It sounds really shallow in this really deep interview, but it’s just the best thing that I get sent amazing clothes that I get to wear. To be honest, I never really knew much about clothes. Really, I have great stylists. [Laughs] In time it’s made me a lot more comfortable as a man. The perks from that are brilliant. And this is really going to sound awful, but flying business class is the best thing ever! [Laughs] I’m being completely honest. Well that is truly an honest answer! With the good comes the bad—can you ignore all the press? I used to get quite stressed about it. I’m quite a nervy person, really. I’m quite a shy person, and I think a lot of performers are. And the attention was kinda terrifying. My idea of a perfect day is going to have a coffee on my own and reading the paper. So that took a long time to get used to. But I said to myself, “You’re doing the best job in the world and this is what comes with it. And nothing is perfect.” Even my niece, who’s 7, just asked me, “Did you always want to be famous?” And I said, “No. I always wanted to sing.” It was never my intention to be famous. And also I just thought, “Well look at all those clothes you’re getting! Do you really want to throw this away?” [Laughs] You can read the whole Will Young story, “Will I Am,” in the May issue of Instinct! http://instinctmagazine.com/web-exclusives...g-web-exclusive Cover Guy: Will Young Monday, 26 April 2010 http://instinctmagazine.com/images/stories/thumbs/L3Vzci9sb2NhbC93d3cvYXBhY2hlMjIvZGF0YS9pbWFnZXMvc3Rvcmllcy9ibG9ncy9taWd1ZWxqZGVsZ2Fkby9Db3Zlckluc2lkZV93ZWIuanBn.jpg This is gonna sound weird, but I occasionally get premonitions,” Will Young warns. “I had a premonition about a show looking for a singer. I had a premonition about doing a film in the 1930s. I had a premonition about doing a play, too.” One then has to wonder if Will had a premonition about making his highly anticipated American debut on the cover of Instinct magazine—but then again, how could he not? Just a few short years ago, Will Young changed not only the face of television and the music industry but the gay community as well. Sure, he may have a handful of Brit Awards, a growing acting résumé and a few million in international record sales, but what he’s really got his sights set on now is a Grammy and an Oscar. And that journey starts here. Across the British Isles and throughout Europe, Will Young is a music superstar. Or rather a Pop Idol. He’s taken his start from winning a reality-competition show and turned it into a blockbuster music and acting career, all the while being completely true to himself and his fans, even when others told him not to be. Sixteen singles, 10 million albums sold and one very public coming-out later Will has proven that a musician can be openly gay at the start of his career and still be topping the charts years later. Of course, that was all on foreign soil. This month, we finally get the chance to hear that soulful pop and the gorgeous vocals that Will has sprinkled across four albums as he gets a proper (and long overdue) U.S. release. His as yet untitled (at press time) U.S. debut includes eight tracks that make up a collection of Will’s biggest and best hits from overseas, something that he says makes what may have otherwise been a nerve-racking move to the American market more bearable. “I used to get a bit overexcited about things. If we were speaking a few years ago, you would have had a bit more of a headcase,” Will says one evening from London over a dinner of homemade brownies. “Whereas now I get really vibed up for it in the right way. I guess because I’ve been doing this for almost nine years, I have a bit of a different perspective. It’s nice to be starting from scratch in a new country while having the wisdom and the knowledge I have now. But this is definitely starting anew.” Well, starting anew with old friends. That’s how Will speaks about the music he’s bringing stateside. Still scratching your head over how you might recognize his name but can’t recall a single song? You may have already been hearing his music every week for the past few months without even realizing it thanks to a certain mega TV show. “Leave Right Now,” previously a massive hit for the cute bloke from Berkshire, has been the departing song each week this season for the would-be singers voted off American Idol. Of course, Will’s no stranger to the Idol franchise, its format or even the show’s most famous judge. That’s because Will Young was the very first Idol winner, back in 2002 on a little-known, new U.K. TV show, Pop Idol, featuring a little-known, very opinionated judge, Simon Cowell. Want the whole Will Young story? Well, then you're just going to have to pick up the May issue and read all about this cute Brit. But in the meantime, check out our Web Exclusive chat with Mr. Young here! http://instinctmagazine.com/cover-story/cover-guy-will-young Edited April 27, 201015 yr by munchkin
April 27, 201015 yr Author Thanks munchkin. The dichotomy of my life is just bizarre! So true & can't you just hear him saying it. :wub:
April 27, 201015 yr Author Up a place to #26 on the AC chart with 81 plays on 16 stations over the last 7 days.
April 28, 201015 yr O/S Update: Leave Right Now Is American Idols Exit Anthem Wednesday 28 April 2010 Before Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood became household names in America, there was Will Young. Will Young is a British singer/songwriter who rose to fame in 2002 after winning the UK’s Pop Idol, a precursor to American Idol making him the first winner of Simon Fuller’s now-worldwide Idol’s franchise. Outside of the U.S., Will Young has released four studio albums and one compilation, and has sold over eight million albums worldwide to date. Now Young is poised to expose his talent to an American audience. For the American Idol Season 9, Young’s “Leave Right Now” is the featured exit song, played every Thursday on the results show when a contestant is sent home. On May 4, 19 Recordings/Jive Records will be releasing a digital only album Leave Right Now thru all digital providers. Track listing for Will Young’s Leave Right Now is: Leave Right Now Your Game Friday’s Child Switch It On All Time Love Who Am I Changes Grace Details to follow on upcoming U.S. performances and appearances. This is what I've been waiting for. Hope there are shows we can get on Sky. :dance:
April 28, 201015 yr Author Details to follow on upcoming U.S. performances and appearances. :yahoo: Bring it on Will. :dance: Thanks for bringing over the update munchkin.
April 28, 201015 yr Thanks everyone for all this wonderful news. :yahoo: I feel like dancing :dance: - only I can't at the moment. :rolleyes: :lol: Love the pic on the cover of the Instinct mag. :dance: And looking forward to hearing about the dates.
April 28, 201015 yr Up a place to #26 on the AC chart with 81 plays on 16 stations over the last 7 days. Brilliant! thanks Gill Got to get one of those mags! :wub:
April 28, 201015 yr Author Couple more plays 83 on 16 AC stations over the last 7 days. Steadily climbing.
April 28, 201015 yr Thanks for bringing us ALL the brilliant news Munchkin.x :dance: So Good To see..cheered me up after a week with an injured back.. :( The USA are in for a real treat... :yahoo: Dot .x :)
April 28, 201015 yr Do you know if it was played as the exit song this week as I can't see it anywhere on American itunes? :unsure: The results show is tonight in the US LRN added to Atlanta and Chattanooga AC radio stations.
April 28, 201015 yr The results show is tonight in the US LRN added to Atlanta and Chattanooga AC radio stations. Thanks Sunday..Chattanooga? isnt that a choo choo? :huh: :lol:
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