Thanks for posting chrysalis.

 

The headline doesn't sound like Will at all does it! :)

 

Hope he does have success abroad. Looks like I need to brush up on how to find the international charts.

Thanks for posting chrysalis.

 

The headline doesn't sound like Will at all does it! :)

 

Hope he does have success abroad. Looks like I need to brush up on how to find the international charts.

 

 

No it doesn't sound like Will - think they may have overdone the headline a bit. I can't even keep up properly with the UK charts let alone the International ones so my head is going to be scrambled even more than usual. :wacko: :P

Just read this on Chartclarity.

 

The week of 22APR06 sees "All Time Love" climbing to #1 spot on OutQ Hot 20 chart in the US.

 

OutQ is a gay/lesbian talk station broadcasted from SIRIUS Satellite Radio, which now has over 4 million subscribers in the US plus another 100K in Canada.

 

So things looking good despite only on the gay/lesbian/bi artist only chart

 

Positive start to his music being heard in the states.

He's got to start somewhere. As good as any place i suppose.

 

Seems they have quite a following.......4 million listeners is not to be sniffed at :D

He's got to start somewhere. As good as any place i suppose.

 

Seems they have quite a following.......4 million listeners is not to be sniffed at :D

 

That's what I thought.

 

Will Young To Crack The USA?

Brits go on tour...

By: Lowri Williams on 4/26/2006

 

UK pop star Will Young is planning on taking the US by storm when crosses the pond next month.

 

Young is hoping the crack the US market and is starting with several showcases for record labels and has high hopes to go on tour.

 

A source told the Star: “Will Young is on the cusp of an international move.

 

“It’s all coming from Will. His plan was always to establish himself in his home market before branching out.

 

“He’s very ambitious and wants America in a big way. Those UK acts who have succeeded over there all have a certain something to offer that American acts don’t have.

 

“Will feels he’s got that special ingredient too.â€Â

 

 

I've moved your post in here Mark as we've already got the info in this thread, thanks very much though. :D

Taken from The Stage magazine, thanks to Sweetwilliamfan. :D

Interview with CC Sammy..voice coach..

Vocal coaching on ITV 1's Pop Idol, meant preparing amateurs Will Young and Gareth Gates for instant,fully-blown careers. Sammy, though is modest about her role:

'On Pop Idol 1 i was very fortunate to have performers who were hungry to learn. They also absorbed information. Will Young is like a sponge and he does extra homework. He really is teachers pet-he will go out and buy every CD he can and bring them into lessons for ideas'

She still coaches Young and other pop performers at 19 Management and Sony/Bmg and she normally likes vocal Development not to be rushed. She explains..

'We are a Microwave generation-a lot of people want things now, they want it in five minutes or they don't see the point. But actually there is so much to be said for hard work, for sitting down and learning your craft'

In fact Sammy states that talent alone is not enough if a performer wants to make it.

You can have some one born with an incredible talent but they never work at it. never learn their craft. To this day Stevie Wonder every week still has voice coaching. You can never stop learning'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the info. Good news all round. :cheer:

And I'll put it in here too :lol: - don't forget The Nw Paul O'Grady Show tonight 5pm to 6pm C4.

Sunday has just posted that new Will e-mails are being sent out.

Quote:

Don't forget to you can catch Will on Paul O'Grady's Channel 4 show at 5pm tonight (Friday 28th April). Keep an eye on your inbox and the website next week as we've got some very exciting news for you...

:funky: :cheer:

Wonder what's going to excite us next week? :dance:

 

Anyone any ideas?

 

 

Sunday has just posted that new Will e-mails are being sent out.

Quote:

Don't forget to you can catch Will on Paul O'Grady's Channel 4 show at 5pm tonight (Friday 28th April). Keep an eye on your inbox and the website next week as we've got some very exciting news for you...

 

 

:funky: :cheer:

 

 

Wouldn't you just know it, it just happens to me all the time, release of singles, albums and tour tix etc :blink: and I'm away, as I shall be again from Sunday until the 15th May. :( :cry: Think I'll have to get in touch with him to find out when the next news is out, so I can be around. At least I've set my VCR for POG tonight, and since checked it's OK, as half way through my setting it we had a power cut!!!!!!!! :blink:

 

Thanks for posting anyway Suggy.

:funky: :cheer:

Wouldn't you just know it, it just happens to me all the time, release of singles, albums and tour tix etc :blink: and I'm away, as I shall be again from Sunday until the 15th May. :( :cry: Think I'll have to get in touch with him to find out when the next news is out, so I can be around. At least I've set my VCR for POG tonight, and since checked it's OK, as half way through my setting it we had a power cut!!!!!!!! :blink:

 

Thanks for posting anyway Suggy.

 

If you have a mobile chrysalis. Leave your number with someone & they can text you the news.

Ooooo wonder what that's about then :huh:

If you have a mobile chrysalis. Leave your number with someone & they can text you the news.

 

 

Good idea truly talented. Editing to say I probably shouldn't go on so many holidays, but at least this one's in the UK, so I'm not going to become polluted and get bronchitis as happened on my recent trip to Cairo and Egypt! :lol:

Edited April 28, 200619 yr by chrysalis

Thanks to griff on Devoted.

 

In the Arts Telegraph there is quite a longish article where Will answers some of the questions from the recent Daily Mail piece.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/0 4/29/bmwill29.xml&sSheet=/arts/2006/04/29/ixtop.html

 

 

'I'm not really suited to pop'

(Filed: 29/04/2006)

 

Pop Idol winner Will Young is still a high-flyer in the music world - but, he tells Michael Deacon, he'd rather be in Hollywood

 

Will Young's latest single is titled Who Am I. Yet the question he appears to be pondering today is not so much who he is, but what. "I'm not really suited to pop," he shrugs. "I'm not very… pop-tastic."

 

 

Will Young: he arrived at his first record company meeting carrying a ring binder

 

It's a remarkable claim from someone who won TV's camp talent contest Pop Idol. He also sang the fastest-selling debut single in British pop history (Evergreen: 1.1 million copies in its first week) and has made three unmistakably pop albums. It's a bit like hearing Mike Tyson say that he's not an aggressive chap by nature.

 

Young is lounging in a library-quiet private members' club in Soho, London, and enduring "a two-day hangover" (he had a heavy night celebrating his Grand National win of 60p on the horse that came third).

 

Even so, the 27-year-old looks a pop star: for one thing, he's wearing a hat indoors. The swooning, lovely Who Am I, the third single from his album Keep On, will be his 10th hit. But, four years on from Pop Idol, has the dream dissolved into a day job?

 

"I've always said it was a job, actually," he murmurs, in his boyishly soft and well-spoken way. "People thought that was weird. But I think it kept me sane."

 

His first visit to his record company's offices exhibited a similar lack of starriness. He arrived clutching a ring binder, more like some eager work-experience boy than a newly garlanded chart hero, and asked where his desk was. "I remember all these blonde ladies going, 'What the hell are you doing?'"

 

This doesn't seem to be a fame-never-changed-me affectation. He talks of "my job" many times. "I've become better at my job," he'll declare, as if affirming his proficiency as a plumber.

 

More likely to be an affectation is his claim that he's "not very business-minded". He can scarcely mention a tour or song without putting it in sales terms: "That single got great airplay but didn't sell me many albums… The great thing about touring is if you sell tickets up front you can see your budget."

 

So pop is a job. But is it the job he wants?

 

Last year, he acted with Judi Dench in the comedy film Mrs Henderson Presents. He has hired a theatrical agent and has an audition lined up. "I don't want to say what it is in case I jinx it," he says, "but I'm really excited." However, he's still doing the music - there'll be a British tour in the autumn. So if he had to choose one career, pop or Hollywood, which would it be?

 

 

"Hollywood!" he exclaims with a laugh, presumably at the obviousness of the decision. "I enjoy the [acting] industry more. I think I'm better suited to it. I'd miss the singing. But there are areas where it wears me down. There are some things I have to do that I despise."

 

Such as? "I'm not going to tell you! There's something I have to do which… let's say it's not highbrow performing. But it gets good results." He means album sales again. "And there's so much on your shoulders. One of the things I loved about [Mrs Henderson Presents] was when it got $h!t reactions, I could go, 'Not my fault.'"

 

However, it doesn't seem as though the music itself, as opposed to the pop "industry", has lost its sheen for him. His excitement about the tour seems genuine: "It's the shining beacon of my year," he says. "I won't make money but I don't mind, because I won't give in on the creative." It might be argued, though, that what he cites as the tour's appeal - "I can create and produce a show as well as star in it" - suggests an interest as much in the theatrical as in the singing-chart-ballads side.

 

Young's candour about his career frustrations is all the more notable given how guarded he is otherwise. First and foremost about his love life. Last month, the celebrity magazine Heat printed photographs of Young strolling with a 24-year-old man called Conor (no surname given), who their story said was his "secret boyfriend". (Young came out immediately after winning Pop Idol.) In a subsequent issue, a reader emailed to say she'd seen Young kissing Conor in a club.

 

Until then, the identity of Young's boyfriends had never been known, although he had been, in that handily non-committal phrase beloved of tabloids, "linked to" male celebrities from fashion designers to footballers. Young has always protested that these links are false.

 

Even now, however, he won't so much as confirm that Conor is his boyfriend. "It's nobody's business," he groans. "Be [the rumours] true or not, I always give the standard answer, which is that I have people who are affected by what I do, but who do not ask to be in the public eye, be they friends or family or someone I'm in a relationship with."

 

His desire for privacy is perfectly understandable, but there's something feline in his testiness - like a cat narrowing its eyes at a child's shrill pesterings. Indeed, his demeanour in general has a cat-like quality: he can be playful almost to the point of purring, then balk haughtily at a question he doesn't want to answer.

 

Maybe if he talked about his relationships a little, or at least acknowledged having them, the press and public interest would wane. If his love life intrigues anyone, it is perhaps only because Young keeps it secret, thus inadvertently making it appear excitingly illicit.

 

But it's unlikely that he'd take that risk when he so plainly distrusts the media. He snorts at a somewhat hysterical recent newspaper article (the sort based on what unnamed "friends" are supposed to have said), which suggested Young had "turned to God" because of his "troubled personal life". "It was mad. I'm religious, but I'm not there with my 'battered Bible'. I can't let it ruin my week, though. I was more worried about fixing my washing machine."

 

Acting may yet free Young from the non-highbrow horrors of the pop playground. Whether it will halt the intrusions of gossip-sniffers is another matter.

 

'Who Am I' (BMG) is out now.

 

Looks like there could be some truth of him tiring of his 'pop' career. Mind you he does seem to change his mind as much as he changes his socks these days, unless of course he's been misquoted. :P Just hope we get to keep hearing him singing for many years to come.

 

Wonder if the exciting OS news could be linked to the audition.

Edited April 29, 200619 yr by truly talented

Thanks to Julie on Devoted,

 

WILL TO BECOME HOLLYWOOD IDOL

Kiki King, Eva Simpson & Caroline Hedley

IT looks like Will Young's movie debut has put him on the road to Hollywood stardom.

 

Following his role in Mrs Henderson Presents, the story of an all-nude revue, former Pop Idol winner Will has been snapped up by agency Tavistock Wood.

 

"They look after Willem Dafoe, Nick Nolte and new Bond girl Eva Green," says an insider. "They only look at talented actors. He has three auditions lined up already so it's looking good."

 

And Kevin Spacey is so impressed by Will's talents he's asked him to act in the next Old Vic fundraiser.

 

 

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OS Update confirms this.

 

29/04/06

 

WILL INKS DEAL WITH ACTING AGENT TAVISTOCK WOOD

 

Today Will Young and 19 Entertainment appointed Tavistock Wood as his global acting representative. Following Will's acclaimed debut in Mrs. Henderson Presents he met with several agents and we are now able to confirm his working relationship with Tavistock Wood.

 

Will said "As soon as I met them I knew they were going to be great. We share the same vision and I like that Tavistock Wood are a small and personal agency. I'm very excited to be working with them."

 

Tavistock Wood say: "We are delighted to be representing Will Young. He is very talented and I look forward to working with him in this area of his career."

 

Tavistock Wood is a boutique management company which was established in September 2005 by Angharad Wood and Charles Collier. They represent actors, directors and writers. Clients include Nick Nolte, Willem Dafoe, Dominic West, Daniel Bruhl and Nicolas Roeg. They have recently secured their client Eva Green the female lead in Casino Royale in which she stars as Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond.

 

Thank you for your continued support and Will assures you that he will continue to release music as well as turning his hand to acting.

 

Really hope Music still continues to be Will's number one passion.

Edited April 29, 200619 yr by truly talented

Quote:

29/04/06

 

WILL INKS DEAL WITH ACTING AGENT TAVISTOCK WOOD

 

Today Will Young and 19 Entertainment appointed Tavistock Wood as his global acting representative. Following Will's acclaimed debut in Mrs. Henderson Presents he met with several agents and we are now able to confirm his working relationship with Tavistock Wood.

 

Will said "As soon as I met them I knew they were going to be great. We share the same vision and I like that Tavistock Wood are a small and personal agency. I'm very excited to be working with them."

 

Tavistock Wood say: "We are delighted to be representing Will Young. He is very talented and I look forward to working with him in this area of his career."

 

Tavistock Wood is a boutique management company which was established in September 2005 by Angharad Wood and Charles Collier. They represent actors, directors and writers. Clients include Nick Nolte, Willem Dafoe, Dominic West, Daniel Bruhl and Nicolas Roeg. They have recently secured their client Eva Green the female lead in Casino Royale in which she stars as Vesper Lynd opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond.

 

Thank you for your continued support and Will assures you that he will continue to release music as well as turning his hand to acting.

 

 

 

So he isn't going to stop singing and releasing music. :cheer:

Added this to the Daily Mirror post in the news thread suggy but agree it needs it's own thread. :cheer:

 

Great to see Will taking steps to ensure more acting roles but I do hope his singing remains his number 1 passion.

Edited April 29, 200619 yr by truly talented