September 20, 200816 yr I've recorded some Vodophone Live Music something or other, well I've recorded 3 things actually :blush: Can anyone tell me if my man was on it?
September 20, 200816 yr Oh, yes, he sure was! He was on right at the beginning with Dave Berry being interviewed on the red carpet and comparing outfits, then a little bit where he was going away and Dave said he mustn't go on his own! Then he was talking about Estelle and saying she should win. Then he sang Changes to a great ovation! In the final section there was a short interview a fairly large clip of the Changes video. You need to do a serious amount of fast-forwarding!
September 20, 200816 yr I'm the complete opposite with finding my way. In fact if I come out of a shop by a different door I'm lost. :lol: Ha Gill - just like me,......I get lost on the way to my own bathroom :D Edited September 20, 200816 yr by Tillywhim
September 20, 200816 yr Oh, yes, he sure was! He was on right at the beginning with Dave Berry being interviewed on the red carpet and comparing outfits, then a little bit where he was going away and Dave said he mustn't go on his own! Then he was talking about Estelle and saying she should win. Then he sang Changes to a great ovation! In the final section there was a short interview a fairly large clip of the Changes video. You need to do a serious amount of fast-forwarding! Thank you :cheer: I don't mind trawling through anything as long as I know he is in there somewhere :wub:
September 22, 200816 yr Posted by JanetL, it's Will's 10th top 10 hit from 11 singles released. (Who Am I just missed out at #11) :cheer: 10. Changes - Will Young (#1 airplay) The top 10 welcomes back Will Young, who's taken a 2-year chart hiatus following the promotion of his third album, Keep On. "Changes" is a great single from him, and this week lands at #10 on downloads, with the CD single out Monday. "Changes" tops the UK airplay chart this week, Young's third single to do so following "Leave Right Now" and "All Time Love." His new album, Let It Go, is out September 29. http://wwadh.blogspot.com/2008/09/uk-singl...rt-9272008.html
September 22, 200816 yr Author Great interview in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/22/theatre1
September 22, 200816 yr Great interview in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/22/theatre1 I agree TT, that's a great interview, lets have it on here for those who can't get the link and plus, other peeps can read it. :D http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/09/21/young10b.jpg Bolder and wiserFor Will Young, Pop Idol is a distant memory. He talks to Jude Rogers about his acting career, coming out, his guilt over his twin and his Nashville ambitionsJude Rogers The Guardian, Monday September 22 2008 Article history The musician Will Young. Photograph: Martin Godwin Will Young raises his eyebrows conspiratorially. He's talking about his new album and he knows he isn't supposed to say this sort of thing. "I was dreading doing it," he says. "I've had a few dark nights. I'm a bit worried about the title, too. You know, Let It Go. It sounds a bit like a self-help book. With me, Dr Young!" He laughs, tucking his tight trousers under himself as his mood quickly changes. "But what's in it - I love it. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I've finally got comfortable with what I do really well." He takes a sip from a lime-spiked bottle of lager. Young turns 30 in January and, despite his current cheer, it's obvious that the odd coming-of-age crisis has nipped at his heels. His new album is a masterclass in grown-up soul-pop, delivered in a vocal full of heart and personality, but songs called Tell Me the Worst and If Love Equals Nothing hint at other, less joyful stories. And then there's the chorus from Changes, the album's melancholy first single: "Been out of luck/ For so long/ And I don't get much/ So there's nothing much to lose." These songs do have some personal resonance, Young admits. There is his break-up with a long-term boyfriend (the two are now on good terms), but there is also the sense that Young is growing up, reflecting on the peculiar beginnings of his career and realising how he can transcend them and become an artist in his own right. "Yes, that's pretty spot-on," he agrees. "Although Pop Idol was wonderful for me. I could never knock it." Young was always an unusual talent-show winner. He turned 23 during Pop Idol, famously sparred with Simon Cowell, and looked like a worldly-wise adult next to the other finalist, the baby-faced teenager Gareth Gates. Everyone expected Gates to win. He was conventionally cute and had overcome a stutter; his was a great tabloid story. When Young won, it was a shock. "Looking back, it's all quite weird," says Young. "When I started at the auditions, I just thought of it as another way in." He had already worked for Sony Music Publishing to try to get his foot in the door. And when Pop Idol started, he had just begun a three-year musical theatre scholarship at London's Arts Educational School, straight after getting his 2.2 in politics from Exeter University. "Then everything changed," he says. "I was a 23-year-old student with £20,000 worth of loans, who suddenly got a wodge of cash, a record contract and a business. I had to get to grips with a machine and take control of it." Other people would have left the business concerns to the management, wouldn't they? Young's eyes fix me keenly. "Not me. I knew Pop Idol was a means to an end and I had to take the reins. I was determined to have a career, and that kept me going." Young knew, too, that success did not mean that every door was suddenly open. Glastonbury was a case in point: "I couldn't just expect to waltz into a festival back then and go, 'Oh, hello, it's me from the telly,' could I? You've got to work. You've got to earn it." And earn it he did, finally playing Glastonbury this summer, as well as T in the Park. It was clearly quite a landmark for him and he was delighted to see fields of "drunk, blokey men" singing along to songs like his 2003 No 1, Leave Right Now. Barely a month after his double A-side debut single, Evergreen/Anything Is Possible, hit No 1, Young also came out publicly. At the time, he said: "For me it's normal and nothing to be ashamed about. I'm gay and I'm comfortable with that." Given the sanitised genre in which he operated - and his core audience of teenage girls and their mothers - it was a bold move, but, thankfully, one that had no effect on his career. Coming six months after the openly gay Brian Dowling won the second series of Big Brother, it also suggested the general public are no longer terribly troubled by their reality heroes' sexual preferences. Did he feel like he did something special by coming out so frankly? "Oh $h!t, no, I'm the worst gay person ever!" Young cackles. "If it helped some people, then great. Thing is, though, I never wanted to be in a box. I still don't. I mean, if an issue is prevalent, then I'm happy to make a comment about being gay, middle-class, or a singer, whatever. It's not like I'm a big gay campaigner picking up my mantle and charging towards Soho." Nevertheless, last year Young wrote an elegant response to a Matthew Parris column in the Times, in which Parris told his "fellow-queers" to remember that "there has been no better, luckier, time or place to be gay than Britain in 2007". Young agreed with his point, but also described his own experiences of homophobia, drew attention to the invisibility of gay sportsmen and actors, and talked about how homosexuality still had to be equated with normality. Or, as he put it: "Coming out should just be a statement of fact - I have red hair, I drink tea, I sleep with the same sex." Were you proud of the piece? "I was. Because I did agree that things were good for us, but ... the very fact that we're talking about me being gay now says everything, doesn't it?" He smiles cheekily. "Matthew wrote a very charming letter to me afterwards. We were just like two academics sparring across our periodicals." Young also wrote a piece for this paper, about being nominated for both the Brits and the Baftas in early 2006. The Bafta nod came for his role in the Judi Dench-helmed musical, Mrs Henderson Presents. Then, in 2007, came something he had always craved: his first role in theatre. Young spent four months playing Nicky Lancaster, the protagonist of Noel Coward's 1924 play The Vortex, at Manchester's Royal Exchange. The London Evening Standard's theatre critic, Nicholas de Jongh, loved his performance, saying it had "taken more than 80 years and the performance of Will Young ... to bring out the full truth about Nicky Lancaster". Young is clearly energised when talking about that time, though he adds: "It was $h!t-scary - living in Manchester on my own, constantly conscious of what people thought of me getting the role. And being angry eight times a week. My friends said I looked like $h!t." He hasn't had any roles since, and worries that it's because of people's prejudices. "But if I have to graft like I did with my singing, I will." The toughest thing Young has had to deal with in recent years, however, concerned the mental health problems of his twin brother, Rupert. A constant presence during the Pop Idol tryouts, Rupert grappled with alcoholism and self-abuse, even slitting his wrists during the auditions. In 2005, he was diagnosed with dysthamia, a depressive disorder triggered by trauma, and since then has set up the Mood Foundation, which provides mental health treatment for the less financially sound. "I'm so proud of him," says Young. "It's been so f***ing hard seeing someone you adored being so very unhappy, trying to reach out, them not letting you in." He had to cut the strings a few years after he got famous, which was particularly hard given the differences in their lots. Did he feel guilty? "Of course I did. But it got to the stage that I was like, no, I can't feel guilty about it. Because I loved him to death, but I had to wait for him to help himself." Young is still angry about the mistreatment of depression in this country, though. With a laugh, he adds that he is equally angry about post offices closing down, the nanny state and the lack of mutual responsibility being promoted by the government. "I'm growing older and grumpier. Next tour, I'm taking a soapbox and a loudhailer." Young has always been straightforward. Proud that his music follows similar lines, he has recently been getting into the "simple, direct messages of folk music and country" and talks passionately about the recent Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album, Raising Sand, and a compilation on a small Manchester label, Finders Keepers, called Folk Is Not a Four Letter Word. He makes me write down a list of similar things he might like, and reveals that he's desperate to go to Nashville to make his next album. "I feel like I can, you know? Because it feels like another one of those transitional times. I used to feel I had to apologise for what I was doing - and I don't any longer." He laughs and clinks his bottle against mine. "I mean, I've been around for years now, haven't I? I've done my time. And it feels good" · · Let It Go is out on RCA on September 29. Will Young plays City Hall, Newcastle (0191-261 2606), on November 16, then tours.
September 22, 200816 yr Thanks Suggy and TT - I haven't read this yet looks like a good one though. Do wish we had been told about this - would have missed it without Devoted. :D Did you all hear Grace on the radio this morning. What a great song it is. Another epic YG - loving all the layers and his vocals are strong and clear. :wub: :wub: Edited September 22, 200816 yr by munchkin
September 22, 200816 yr Thanks for bringing that interview over suggy and TT. Always thought the Guardian was a bit anti in the beginning. Amazing how times have changed. Edited September 22, 200816 yr by chrysalis
September 22, 200816 yr Author Thanks for bringing that interview over suggy and TT. Always thought the Guardian was a bit anti in the beginning. Amazing how times have changed. Still a bit of the sheep mentality though isn't it. Once one is willing to admit he's bloody good the others follow. Hence much more praise for the new album. Talking of sheep, having you seen how a song sung by a girl on X Factor has rocketed Fauth Hill's song into the top 10 on itunes. :o Eeen more surprising Bette Midler has entered the chart, much lower down I must add after being on SCD. Had to turn my sound down she was awful!. :wacko:
September 23, 200816 yr Another date for the diary - confirms Grace as the next single: :D Thanks to Bumbling on D: Dec 12th This Morning One for your diary: Will Young performs his Christmas single Grace for the team's final show of the year http://www.itv.com/Entertainment/Music/Mus...ry/default.html Edited September 23, 200816 yr by munchkin
September 25, 200816 yr Have a gtreat day today sunday, TT and any others who are going to Will's album launch, B) :D hurry back with all the goss asap. :D There's a lovely article on radio2's website for tomorrows live session as well, thanks to Bumbling. Quote: Will Young joins Ken Bruce live from our Maida Vale studios on Friday 26 September, to play tracks from his brand new album Let It Go as well as one or two classic hits. Asked about the session, Ken Bruce said "Will has one of the purest voices in popular music and I can't wait to hear it singing out from Maida Vale." Radio 2 are filming Will's session, and you'll be able to watch all five tracks right here from Friday morning. ABOUT WILL YOUNG Since emerging as the original Pop Idol in 2002, Will has established himself as one of the UK's most popular solo artists. He has performed with artists including James Brown, Burt Bacharach, Neneh Cherry, Queen and Nitin Sawhney. Will has appeared at events as diverse as The Queen's Jubilee Concert, T In The Park, The Festival of Remembrance, The Concert for Diana, Glastonbury and as headliner at Radio 2's Proms in the Park in 2007. Since the release of his third album Keep On in 2005, Will has won plaudits (as well as Rear Of The Year award) for his film debut in Mrs Henderson Presents and his performance in Noel Coward's The Vortex at the Royal Exchange Theatre. Let It Go is Will's fourth solo album. He has co-written 11 of the album's 13 tracks including first single Changes and has been perfecting his live set at a series of summer festival dates. __________________
September 25, 200816 yr I'm not going :cry: , so shall be here on and off during the day, waiting to hear from our intrepid explorers of the south. :lol: Hope they all have a wonderful time, and don't forget us. Edited September 25, 200816 yr by chrysalis
September 25, 200816 yr Thanks for the piece of Radio 2's website suggy. I agree I love this bit. :cheer: Asked about the session, Ken Bruce said "Will has one of the purest voices in popular music and I can't wait to hear it singing out from Maida Vale."
September 25, 200816 yr Still a bit of the sheep mentality though isn't it. Once one is willing to admit he's bloody good the others follow. Hence much more praise for the new album. Talking of sheep, having you seen how a song sung by a girl on X Factor has rocketed Fauth Hill's song into the top 10 on itunes. :o Eeen more surprising Bette Midler has entered the chart, much lower down I must add after being on SCD. Had to turn my sound down she was awful!. :wacko: Not just for reviewers. :rolleyes: Maybe I'm just getting old, but I can't believe how some of the GBP are so taken in. Bette Midler was fine in her day, but now..........I wonder what she looks like if the warpaint was off. She should retire gracefully.
September 25, 200816 yr This has to be here: We seem to be getting a lot of interest from over the pond - thank the lord for Youtube: Easy to say, quite another to do. I'm fond of saying that if a pop song doesn't know how you feel, there's really no point to it. And even though, yes, those are cliched lyrics, well it certainly doesn't make them any less true. http://dancsblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/grip...t-shatters.html Edited September 25, 200816 yr by munchkin
September 25, 200816 yr Will is in October's issue of Attitude - thanks to Mary on O/S: http://www.attitude.co.uk/ :wub:
September 25, 200816 yr Will is in October's issue of Attitude - thanks to Mary on O/S: http://www.attitude.co.uk/ :wub: Oh my :wub: He looks so sexy there :naughty: Love his arms :w00t:
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