So the redhead is going solo and her debut single is....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NO SLEEP TONIGHT

 

Yes you read right, she's re-recording the track without the others and is going to re-release it in hopes of a major smash hit, read:

 

You literally could not make this up: Molly from The Faders has signed an album deal with Innocent and her debut single is... 'No Sleep Tonight'.

 

(Historical note: 'No Sleep Tonight' is the song The Faders took to Number 13 LAST YEAR.)

 

Molly is now calling herself Molly McQueen, which must come as a blow to anyone who's tattooed any of her other names (Molly Ure, Molly Lorenne, etc etc) across their face.

 

We have asked Molly's people if this is in fact a joke and they say no, it is not.

 

In spite of the fact that it is ACTUALLY BRILLIANT and SHOULD HAVE BEEN NUMBER ONE THE FIRST TIME ROUND, we don't really understand why this record is coming out again, so we've asked Molly to explain herself.

 

Notes Molly:

 

 

1) "The song is in an amazing new movie “My Super Ex Girlfriend†starring Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson and Eddie Izzard – what a legend."

 

2) "I think it’s a brilliant track and I did sing it the first time round! Plus “The Faders†had already split up and Cherisse and Toy are fine about it. We didn’t want some other bugger recording and releasing it!"

 

3) "The song has been picked up by loads of people including “ROKR/Cingular Wireless†in the USA for a massive phone advert."

 

4) "Since its release the track also been used as the opening song in the movie “She’s The Manâ€, plus it’s been played on “Sugar Rush†on Channel 4. I even appear in an upcoming episode of US TV show “Veronica Mars†singing the song!"

 

5) "I think it would be silly not to take the opportunity to release it again and help launch my solo career!"

 

Source: PopJustice

For a moment i thought it was gonna say

 

So the redhead is going solo and her debut single is....

 

 

 

Ultravox's Vienna :lol:

The current offspring score is

 

Geldof kids 3 - Ure kids 0

Who are the ure kids? I don't see why she should release it again.. the only bad part of kelly's concert were the faders opening it.

Who are the ure kids?

 

Midge Ure =

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Mollythefaders.jpg

 

Bob Geldof =

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Peaches_Geldof.jpg

 

Some bloke called Jah Wobble = Hayley Angel Wardle from Frank

Midge Ure and his daughter Molly

 

 

Midge Ure OBE, 53, is a former member of the band Ultravox, best known for their 1981 hit Vienna. He also had success in the bands Visage and Slik, and in 1985 had a solo No 1 with the song If I Was. With Bob Geldof, Ure helped set up Live Aid and co-wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas? He lives in Bath with his wife, Sheridan, and their children: Kitty, 12, Ruby, 9, and Flossie, 7. Molly Lorenne, 19, is Midge’s daughter from his marriage to Annabel Giles. Molly is the singer and guitarist with the band the Faders, who release a single, Look at Me Now, tomorrow. She lives in London.

 

MIDGE SAYS: I’m glad I had kids when I did. I was 31, I’d done the rock-star thing, I’d got the fleet of cars, the eight-bedroom house and done everything I’d dreamt about doingÉ and a whole load more. But it wasn’t enough. There was something missing, and that something was a home life. Some sort of stability. A family.

 

 

Unfortunately, the main memory I have of the day Molly was born is one of horror. Horror and panic. Like any new parent, I had no idea how I was meant to cope. I wanted a guidebook. I was 31 but I was still a child. Bizarrely, the chaos of having a child made me feel even more useless and childlike, because I realised I no longer had any control over my life. The baby was in charge. The fact I’d earned a bit of money meant we were lucky enough to have a nurse stay with us for the first few weeks. She taught me and Molly’s mother everything we knew about being parents. Until then we’d both been living in fairyland.

 

I’ve still got a very working-class — probably a very Scottish — view when it comes to money. The money is there to help, but it doesn’t mean Molly gets everything on a plate. She once came back from school and said: “Dad, the school’s having a skiing trip to Colorado.†I said: “Colorado! For the price I’d be paying for that, I could take the whole family skiing in Italy. No! You can’t go.â€

 

I needed her to understand there was no silver spoon — she was just a few rungs further up the ladder from me and my parents in our Glasgow tenement block.

 

Mind you, after me and her mother split up, Molly became very adept at getting money out of me. Like any child in that situation, she was very good at playing on my guilt. We split up when Molly was three and, though I say it myself, me and her mother did our level best to make sure Molly didn’t get hurt. That doesn’t stop you feeling guilty. She’d stay with me at weekends and say: “Oh, Mum bought me one of those. Can I have this one too?†I was a soft touch.

 

When it came to her being in a band, I can’t say I was over the moon about it. I wanted her to get an education, but I was in no position to stop her because that’s exactly what I did when I was her age. I’d managed to get an engineering apprenticeship and dropped out to be in a band. My father was devastated. He drove a bakery van for 40 years and hoped his son would escape the same fate. When I walked away from that apprenticeship, he was heartbroken.

 

Molly was the same. When she was doing her GCSEs, I’d agreed to pay for her to go this quite fancy school where they taught music and drama. She seemed to be very artistic, so I thought: “Okay, let’s get her some qualifications.†But then she went to the Reading festival. I’d already told her she couldn’t go, but she’d sneakily sorted out some tickets with my manager. She was 15! Just her and a friend camping at this bloody festival! For the first time I decided I wasn’t going to be a soft touch. I’d got four daughters and they’d always been able to wrap me round their little fingers, but this was utter defiance. I told her if she didn’t come home, I wasn’t going to pay for her to go to school.

 

Well, she didn’t come home. She eventually went to London, got a flat, got a job and formed a band. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. That’s Molly all over. She doesn’t need anyone’s help.

 

A lot of people assume that I helped her get a record deal. Rubbish! The only thing I did was sign the contract for her, because she was only 17 and too young to sign it herself. Whenever I did give her any advice, she completely ignored me.

 

Molly’s independence certainly helped her deal with my problems. I drank for a long time. I guess it was just part of being in a band. A bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the rider. After a while, I was finishing the bottle before I’d got on stage. Then, when my career started going downhill, drink was the first thing I turned to.

 

I owed the taxman a fortune, I couldn’t get a record deal, but it didn’t matter because the man at the off-licence would have a bottle of Jack and a bottle of Diet Coke waiting for me on the counter. Isn’t it funny? I didn’t mind being pissed, but I didn’t want to get fat.

 

The fact that Molly and my children saw me in that state is something I’ll always regret. Parents are meant to protect you. All I could do was sob down the phone to Molly. I was falling apart in front of her. I wasn’t one of those guys who needed to sit in the park with winos. I’d drink on my own at home, and drink until there was nothing left or till I’d fallen over. That’s why I took myself off to rehab. I had to kill it dead. And I did. I haven’t touched a drink in two years. When you drink alcohol, you comfort yourself by thinking: “At least I’m only hurting myself.†But drink is like a shotgun blast. Everybody gets hit. I know Molly got hit. But I hope the fact she’s seen what drink can do — what that whole rock’n’roll myth can do — means she’ll steer clear of it. I know she will. She’s too smart.

 

 

MOLLY SAYS: I was only three when my parents split up, so I didn’t know much about it. All I remember is people telling me I was extra special because I’d get two families, two homes, two birthdays, two lots of Christmas presents. Brilliant! My parents have been apart for so long it’s hard to think of them being together. I know some kids do that whole “I wish Mum and Dad would get back together†thing, but it would be a nightmare — they’re very different people.

 

 

I’m aware that I’m a prime candidate for therapy. Daddy’s little rich girl divorce. I could have gone down that road. Drug-taking, having sex with boys and getting drunk, but that’s just not me. I believe you always have to look at the positive side of a situation. Deal with it. Get over it and move on.

 

I wasn’t always this reasonable. When I was younger I was a complete brat. When I’d stay with Dad and Sheridan, I was always fighting with her. “You’re not my mum! You can’t tell me what to do!â€

 

I did the same thing with Mum and her new boyfriend. But as I got older I realised that Mum and Dad went through the divorce too: it wasn’t just about me. They went through the heartache and the pain; now they deserve to be happy.

 

One thing that does p*** me off is when people have a go at my dad. When I look back at his life and at what he achieved and what he’s been through — I think: “What right have you got to have a pop at my dad? Why don’t you just f*** off!†How many people know he was part of Live Aid? He helped set it up. Dad’s not bitter. He doesn’t want the attention. But I’m his daughter — I’m allowed to say he deserves the respect. I have so much respect for my dad. As a musician and as a songwriter he is so, so, so talented. When I listen to what he can do with his voice! God, it’s incredible.

 

I know things haven’t been easy for him, but as a child you’re kept away from your parents’ problems. The only time I realised Dad had a drink problem was a couple of years ago, when he sat me down and told me he was going to get some help. What I didn’t realise then was that for years I’d only ever seen him when he’d been drinking. It was only when I saw him when he wasn’t drinking that I realised how bad things had got. People need to understand that you don’t choose to be an alcoholic. It’s a disease. You can shout at an alcoholic as much as you want, but that person isn’t going to get help unless that person wants help. It must have been horrible for him. The burden of feeling he’d let people down — of wondering what his kids were going to think.

 

Frankly, it doesn’t matter what my dad does. He’s still my dad and I’ll always be there for him, 100%. It’s the same with my mum. When I look at my dad now and compare him with some of the other people in the music business, I think: “What an amazing guy!†Just look at some of his friends and people he’s known: complete drug addicts. Dad’s had a crazy life, but he’s still got his head screwed on. To see someone who’s still so strong after doing so much and going through so much c**p! If I can be half as sane as my dad when I’m that age, I’ll be very, very happy.

 

 

#76 smash on the way.

Heard about this already :lol:

I adore the Faders - the album is safe pop but amazing <3

Hmmmm not sure she'll do better by herself but that hair :wub:

I heard about this the other day, totally unexpected. But I hear The Faders were dropped at the beginning of last month.

 

IMO that was their only good song out of several tracks I've heard by them, and one of my favourites of last year infact and deserved to do FAR better than it did. Good luck to her with it this time, I hope she manages to make it a hit. ^_^

No sad loss there.

I'm delighted the ugly cows have split / been dropped as they were disgusting to look at and made awful music but for one of them to actually be deluded enough to believe they'll be more successful as a solo artist! And as if re-releasing their debut single as a solo artist is going to do well! Also the name Molly McQueen really isn't very cool. If she manages to get top 200 then she has done well.

Also the name Molly McQueen really isn't very cool.

 

Still probably better than calling herself Molly Ure

 

However dont think she will trouble Peaches Geldof and Lily Allen in the celeb sprog stakes :lol:

I read this on PJ a few days ago, but I'm confused as I thought they had a new single out soon? :unsure:

I read this on PJ a few days ago, but I'm confused as I thought they had a new single out soon? :unsure:

 

They were dropped at the beginning of last month, so didn't get a chance to release it.

They were dropped at the beginning of last month, so didn't get a chance to release it.

 

That's such an odd move as I thought they were dropped after the (much undeserved) flop of Jump, only to hear they were recording new stuff recently :lol:

That's such an odd move as I thought they were dropped after the (much undeserved) flop of Jump, only to hear they were recording new stuff recently :lol:

 

Dont think so, it probably didnt get the airplay that it needed to be a hit so the label thought whats the point in releasing it when its only gonna be stocked right at the bottom of the hmv rack for one week!!