July 14, 200817 yr Author Music week :yahoo: :cheer: :dance: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/sunday20/ligmw.jpg Just had to jump for joy in here too. :yahoo: :w00t: :yahoo: :w00t: :yahoo: :w00t: :yahoo: :w00t: :yahoo: :w00t:
July 14, 200817 yr May I join you :yahoo: :yahoo: :dance: :w00t: :wub: :music: Edited July 14, 200817 yr by munchkin
July 14, 200817 yr Me too. :yahoo: :dance: :w00t: :funky: :dance: :music: :dancing: :banana: :bounce: :jump:
July 23, 200817 yr Think this needs to go in here pinned: Let It Go – More Details Posted 23 July 2008 Will’s new album, Let It Go arrives on 29th September and we can now reveal the tracklisting. Will co-wrote 11 of the 13 tracks featured and the album includes tracks with a handful of long-standing collaborators like Karen Poole and Eg White. Also included are the first single, ‘Changes’ as well as songs like ‘Disconnected’ that are fast-becoming live favourites thanks to his performances throughout the summer. Here’s the tracklisting:- 1. Changes 2. Grace 3. Won't Look Down 4. Tell Me The Worst 5. I Won't Give Up 6. Disconnected 7. If Love Equals Nothing 8. Love 9. Simple Philosophy 10. Let It Go 11. Are You Happy 12. You Don 't Know 13. Free My Mind Radio 2 Session Posted 23 July 2008 To coincide with the album release, Will will be performing a very special live session on Radio 2 this autumn. He will be performing tracks from Let It Go exclusively for the Ken Bruce show. To stay in the loop, keep it here or check out the Radio 2 website. Edited July 23, 200817 yr by munchkin
July 23, 200817 yr Thanks munchkin, 13 tracks!! how bloomin great is that then eh? http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gifhttp://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gifhttp://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gifhttp://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gifhttp://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gifhttp://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/user/Mauridia_17.gif
July 25, 200817 yr Didn't know whether to post here or reviews :lol: Album Launch Will Young charms at 'Poshfest' by ARWA HAIDER - Friday, July 25, 2008 Will Young - 'total charmer on stage' Original Pop Idol Will Young joked about hosting 'Poshfest' or 'Willstock', as he performed an exclusive outdoor showcase in the swanky grounds of Fulham Palace, London, last night. The site was decked out to resemble a village fete, with bunting, tree lights and a sizzling bbq, and the summer evening weather couldn't have been balmier when Will took to the stage with a full live band and backing vocalists. His short but sweet set comprised four new numbers from his upcoming album Let It Go (due for a September release), partly written in collaboration with pop supremo Eg White – plus a poignant rendition of his massive hit Leave Right Now, and an impressively sassy cover of Joni Mitchell's track Help Me, which proved Will's vocal range was on top form. The taster of new material focused on familiar romantic themes, enhanced by the classy, soulful talents of Will and his outfit. First single release Changes was an upbeat, if relatively 'safe', easy-on-the-ears number; this was followed by the emotive, more downbeat Disconnected, the retro-tinged album title track, and the arguable highlight, a heavier, soul-rock number entitled Grace, which rounded off the set-list. Will himself was a total charmer onstage, chattering affably between numbers, and throwing himself into the performance with such gusto that he didn't appear to realise that his flies were undone and his tight jeans falling down to reveal (pristine white, possibly ironed) underpants. Of course, this only drew heartier cheers from the audience – particularly when he simply pulled his pants up and continued to sing his heart out. With this homegrown soul man, it really is all in the delivery.
July 25, 200817 yr Thanks Sunday - Chrysalis has posted it in the reviews thread - can't have too much of a good thing :dance: Edited July 25, 200817 yr by munchkin
July 25, 200817 yr Thanks sunday, I'll go and read it again now in the reviews thread, I'm loving all this. :cheer:
July 31, 200817 yr Author This has so been worth waiting for. From RCA Site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Young Info It is all about the voice and the song. Will Young returns in September with his fourth and strongest album to date, ‘Let It Go’. Perfectly crafted songs, rich contemporary arrangements, that familiar voice to the fore: but sweeter, more intimate and tender than ever before. "I tried to focus on what I do really well,” explains Will. "Last time around I had a film and an album and a tour and it all became a bit of a monster; SUPERWILL - GO!" This time, I wanted to simplify. I concentrated on lyrics, melodies and voices; where the listener feels like they are in the room with the singer, you can really hear every last breath. I made myself stick to that path and it's just been the most pleasurable experience ever. I haven't had one breakdown!" Which is not to suggest there wasn't some turbulence. It wouldn't be soul without a little heartbreak. "I have enough material to pull on," Will laughs. "I'm kind of doing a relationship a record. But it's not so bleak, there's a bit of silver lining. I find writing therapeutic. It's one of the best things I have in life. You wake up, you're feeling $h!t, and you get the opportunity to put it on paper, sing it, and by the end of the day you've got it out of you. It's a way of talking to yourself. Songs are full of the kind of advice I hand out to my friends, but never follow myself." He will always be the Original Pop Idol but the public has come to learn there is so much more to Will Young. A Politics graduate (with a 2:2 from Exeter University), he has written about gay rights in The Times ("I don't specifically address sexuality in my songwriting, because I feel love and music are universal, but there were things I wanted to say"). He won plaudits (as well as Rear Of The Year award) for his 2005 film debut with Bob Hoskins and Judi Dench in 'Mrs Henderson Presents' and in 2007 starred in a critically acclaimed theatrical revival of Noel Coward's 'The Vortex' at the Royal Exchange Theatre. "Acting gave me the space to revitalise my love and enjoyment of music." By the end of the touring and promotion campaign for his third album, the triple platinum 'Keep It On', Will admits he felt exhausted with the music business. "It is you on the line all the time and that can make you completely self obsessed. I had five solid years of it and felt like I was doing more meetings than performances, which I probably was. With acting, I can just turn up and do it. It helped re-energise me.” Although he has been co-composer on some beautiful songs (including 'Your Game', the 2005 Brit Award Winner for Best British Single), Will says, "I really started to feel like a songwriter on this album. I write all the time now, I never really stop. My aim is to make great pop songs that are really personal but with a strong sense of storytelling. I don't want to be self-indulgent and just sit in my study and wallow in my own misery. You have to have a sense of an audience, even one person in a room can make a difference. They are tales that I hope people can understand, or learn from, or relate to, or even make them question things in their life." After making two albums with legendary producer Steve Lipson, Will made the decision to work with a variety of producers for ‘Let It Go’. “It was time to move on but it was scary. With different producers so much more responsibility falls on me, because the voice has to really hold the album together.” Will’s relationship with Lipson continues on two tracks, the epic ballad ‘Tell Me The Worst’ and silkily syncopated George Michael-esque funk of ‘Love’. “We have an old school singer-producer relationship that is very important to me because it really moulded me. I wanted that to continue but I also wanted something a bit more rough and ready.” He found that with one of his long established songwriting partners, Eg White, the Ivor Award winning composer of 'Leave Right Now' (most recently spotted assisting the breakthrough artists of 2008, Duffy and Adele). “Eg’s demos were always a little bit clangy and clashy but they had a lot of life in them and that’s what I liked, there’s nothing clinical about his production. I knew he wouldn’t move away from the honesty of the songs and over-polish what didn’t need embellishing.” Will and Eg’s song, ‘Changes’, is the first single. “Eg really brings the best out of me. Writing with him is like having a very frank conversation, straight to the heart. This is one of my most personal songs. I was in a bit of a rut and I didn’t even know it. Writing about the changes I needed to make actually helped me get out a situation where I felt trapped by my own actions. That really is songwriting as therapy!” Other Will and Eg collaborations include the beautiful ‘Let It Go’ (“that’s my mantra to myself,” says Will) and the orchestral groove of ‘I Won’t Give Up’, co-produced and mixed by ultrahip clubland duo The Freemasons. “I think very carefully about who to collaborate with. Eg found this brilliant string section in Nashville, the Love Sponge Strings, and their arrangement is quite fantastic but we needed a bit more rhythm. You wouldn’t really associate The Freemasons with me but it works, because its like a disco track led by the strings. We’ve kept it really sparse, so the strings almost joust with the vocals.” Will jokingly refers to ‘I Won’t Give Up’ as “the stalker song”. “It’s such a declaration of love, it could be misconstrued, someone could actually be arrested for this and not be allowed within a mile of the object of their affection! It’s about seeing someone who is right for you and making yourself vulnerable and saying exactly what you feel. It’s actually a very brave song.” Another favourite is ‘Grace’, co-written with Matt Prime and produced by Richard ‘Biff’ Stannard and Ash Howe. “I think grace and charm are important qualities, they go with generosity, but it’s about someone who has neither. There’s a bit of personal hurt in that song.” The dark sentiments are counterbalanced by a gloriously uplifting “ooh-ooh” hook line. “That hook came from nowhere. The best ones do. A lot of songs have been done around the piano. I used to like to get a groove going to get a sense of the story, what the mood was. This time it's been a lot more about the chords, finding proper musical movement. I'm really very proud of these songs." Other songwriting collaborators and producers include former Alisha's Attic star Karen Poole, veteran producer Mike Spencer (who has worked with everyone from Queen and Jamiroquai to Kylie) and Bristol team Robot Club (currently working with Massive Attack). Between them they conjure up a sonic palette that encompasses disco, soul, funk and spacious orchestral chamber pop framed in plush, synthetic 21st century soundscapes. “I think I have made a soulful record,” says Will, “but it’s not second hand soul. I have concentrated on the purity of the song. The soul comes out in the delivery.” If his vocals sound as relaxed as a young Bill Withers he says it is because he is more relaxed. "I'm a lot more confident as a person. It's the best thing about getting older. I used to think 'if you can, do', if you can riff, then riff as much as possible, show them how good you are. I don't do that as much now. It's more about the tone and the lyric. Most of the vocals are original demo vocals, recorded as I'm writing the song, because you are in the moment and you're not really thinking about it." He was once the boy who put Simon Cowell in his place. At 28, on his fourth album, Will Young is a distinctive and authentic exponent of his own hugely popular brand of quintessentially English soul. "I know it's a really good record, the most concise record I've done, and I think it's the best record I've done. I don't take any of this for granted, but if I can continue making music like this for the rest of my life, I'll be a happy man." Link: http://www.rcalabelgroup.co.uk/artist_spot...ill_young/biog/ Edited July 31, 200817 yr by truly talented
July 31, 200817 yr It makes for a brilliant and informative read doesn't it TT :dance: The more i hear about this album the more excited i become :w00t: .....and the more impatient i am to get my sweaty little hands on it http://bestsmileys.com/anxious/1.gif:lol:
August 4, 200817 yr "Changes" is my most played song of the week on Itunes :P I just love it so much :wub:
August 4, 200817 yr "Changes" is my most played song of the week on Itunes :P I just love it so much :wub: I'm glad you love it Bertie, the first time I heard it I thought it was very good, but I wondered if it was catchy enough :unsure: and then by the third listen on the radio I was hooked! :dancing: :wub:
August 4, 200817 yr I'm glad you love it Bertie, the first time I heard it I thought it was very good, but I wondered if it was catchy enough :unsure: and then by the third listen on the radio I was hooked! :dancing: :wub: It's a song really easy to listen to! The melody and the chorus are really addictive, and his voice sounds better and more natural than ever! I really see it being huge on radio, because I can't see people getting bored of it! It's the kind of song that sounds fresh and new even after 100 listens! I'm not sure it will be a smash hit sales wise, but it's deffo a single that will sell looooots of album!
August 4, 200817 yr Love your "advertisement" for Will's forum on your thread in Chart Chat. Nice one.
August 5, 200817 yr Obsessed by Changes already :lol: I have heard the acoustic of Let It Go today as well! :cheer:
August 5, 200817 yr Obsessed by Changes already :lol: I have heard the acoustic of Let It Go today as well! :cheer: Heloo there Jester, :D glad you're liking Changes, I'm loving Grace and Disconnected as well.
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