February 4, 200916 yr Author Great news would love him to be on Ant and Dec or Dancing on ice Fingers crossed for either or preferably both of those.
February 4, 200916 yr Author This one will do for starters. Win Jonathan Ross Tickets! Wednesday 04 February 2009 Will's making another appearance on the Jonathan Ross show later this month and you can be there in the audience. We're giving away two tickets to the pre-record of the show on 9th February - a great opportunity to watch Jonathan interview Will and his other top celebrity guests! To be in with a chance of winning, simply click here. The show will be televised on Friday 20th February at 10.35pm
February 4, 200916 yr :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: This and JR! Can't wait to see him :wub:
February 5, 200916 yr Can't wait Do we know if he's singing as well? He's only guesting on Jonathon Ross's show F/G, but they might show a clip of his new video on the show. :) Edited February 5, 200916 yr by suggy
February 5, 200916 yr Will Young chats to Femalefirst Today 11:00 Ever since he first graced our screens on Pop Idol as a fresh faced young star in the making we've all had a softspot for Will Young. With 4 consecutive platinum albums under his belt he's had nothing but success ever since. His new single, "Let it Go" comes out March 2nd and Femalefirst caught up with him to discuss the new track, performing with Elton John and what he sings in the shower. Hi Will. We hear you've not been very well lately No I haven't been very well I've had tonsillitis and I fear I'm getting it again. So you won't be able to sing for a while? Well hopefully I'm not getting it again but I have to have my tonsils out soon. That's awful, so other than the tonsillitis how have you been? I've been very well thanks. I've been doing lots of things, just been in Iceland doing a new video which is brilliant. I got to play a superhero and work with a wonderful director who makes me feel like I'm doing something of creative worth. What was your superpower in the video? Oh mine was queue jumping, thought that was quite a good super power. "What was it like performing with Elton John on New Year's Eve?" "Oh it was great. it was wonderful. He was brilliant absolutely amazing and he's so generous as a person and he's so up to date on his music. I loved the whole thing and I love him. I think that his songs are incredibale and to sing Daniel was great because its one of my favourite song of his as its such a great song the whole thing was brilliant. I can't bear New Years Eve so it wa nice for me. How did that come about? Well he asked me and I was so chuffed that he asked me I said yeah absolutely. You have duetted with some big names like Elton John and James Brown (who Will performed with in him at the Olympic Part in London last year ) I think James Brown was great, I mean, they've both been great actually. Elton John was a real moment and I didn't kind of realise it until I was actually on stage and I thought but this is Elton John. He is probably one of the biggest stars really in the world in terms of music. He has really kept on going throughout but then James Brown is also such a legend. I don't know if I can chose between the two. I loved doing the perfromance at The Mall with James Brown that was great so I'd probably pick that as the best performance. Is there anyone else you would liek to duet with? Theres loads of people - absoluelty loads. I haven't really done many duets. but I think Bjork would be incredible to sing with. She'd be my number one. Wow that would be amazing. So you're currently promoting the single, tell us about that. It was quite personal to me at that time, I guess it's about growing up and realising you can't control everything. I think its a great song, I love the lyrics in it. Its really honest I love the line, "it's somehow typical of being a man." I love that. Are you happy with the response to the song? I don't know yet really its just new. Its always gone down well live we're just sort of getting into the beginning of it so you know I hope the response will be well once it starts going out on TV and things. How about the response to the album? I'm really chuffed about that. It's a funny time and you don't know what's going to happen you get some really big acts that aren't doing so well suddenly. You can't predict it so for me to come back and have a number one airplay with the first song, I was a little bit disapponinted with Grace actually because i thought that was an even better song and I think we should have released it later. That's something you can't really prdict and I'm happy, I'm really happy with the sales and I don't take it for granted. I think to still have a contract and to still be played on radio and still be on TV is a really good thing and to be nomianted for Best Male at the Brits, all those things particularly at the moment, I'm very lucky. You're appearing on Question Time tomorrow (4th Feb) Are you looing forward to it? I'm really looking forward to it, I'm very geed up for it. Hope they don't ask too many questions about the economy, I don't know anything about the economy but I'm quite excited actually becuase its one of my favourite shows. I'm very excited so hopfully it'll be a good one. If you could pick the questions, what would you chose to be asked? I think there should be an economy question. I think there's probably gonna be something on the strikes, probably something on the House of Lords. Maybe something on China and humnan rights, and something on the child report. I'd really like to be asked about the child report becuase I feel quite passionately about that actually and I agree with alot of what the report says, not all of it but most of it. What was it like going on Top Gear Top Gear was brilliant that's my other favourite programme, I'm just working through a list. I love cars and I'm obsessed with Top Gear. It was just a great thing to do, it's so it was hysterical and Jeremy Clarkson was really funny. I loved the challenge of going round the track and I hope I get to do it again. When you were promoting the album you encouraged fans to "Let It Go" by revealing all on an anonomous message board. What Would you confess? What would I confess at the moment? Oh god. I'm trying to think . I'm doing alright at the moment actually maybe a frustration with my car. It doesn't seem to be working. I did get stuck in the snow in Cornwall just managed to get out so I think maybe that but otherwise not too much I want to let go of. What have you got planned for the rest of 2009? Well I'm promoting the new song and the album for next month. Then I'm gonna have my tonsils out in like a month so got quite a few other thing. I've been working on a couple of musical like album ideas that i need to finish and stuff with my my brother's charity Mood Foundation, which helps people that have depression. Everytime we do promotionss for it we get alot more people using it and that's wonderful so many things really. Will you be taking any time off? Yeah a bit of time off. I'd quite like to go away to this retreat might do that for a bit and chill out in the mountains before I get old and haggered. How was your recent tour? It was great. It was probably one of the best tour i've done. It's been a really good year for live shows, with all the festivals, the duet with Elton and tour. I'm much happier whan i'm doing lots of live singing. It was kind of why I enter Pop Idol in the first place. You have played alot of smaller venues this time around. Do you prefer those or bigger stadium gigs? Well they're both so different. Stadiums are more creative as you get to formula a whole show so I like doing those. I don't know how more of those I'll do. I don't mind doing theaters, you can always still do one off big shows and with theaters I think its alot more personal. I quite enjoyed that it was simple and i didn't have to worry about dancing that much or costume changes. What are Will fan's typically like? They're very pasionate. I'd say and thankfully so. They're very passionate and have amazing loyalty and you don't take that for granted. We ask every interview to come up with a question for the interview. Yours comes courtesy of Jem. She asks "What do you sing in the shower?" Oh Jem, I love her record. It was a really good record. At the moment it is Golden Slumbers by The Beatles. Yeah I just seem to be singing that alot at the the moment. Femalefirst - Kate Teasdale http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/musicin...irst-63105.htmlThanks to Willsdoc on Devoted. Will on DS Lite Will Young does 'Question Time' Lite Thursday, February 5 2009, 12:31 GMT By David Balls, Entertainment Reporter Will Young makes his debut on BBC One's Question Time this evening. Having accepted an invitation to appear on the show last October, the singer has spent the past week swotting up on all things news-related. He may have studied Politics at university, but that was a while ago now so we decided to give him a helping hand by testing him on some of the week's most pressing issues. What do you think about the recent strikes over foreign labour in this country? "I think it's interesting really because there seems to be a lot of conflict within the Labour party about this. Has the refinery acted legally? Well, they had a sub-contractor who didn't fulfill the job so they got another one in and there's nothing wrong with that. You want people who are going to do the job well. But I am very supportive of direct action, I think it's a really important part of a democracy." Is the government not responsible for protecting British jobs though? "Not if it means that the best people aren't being employed. I can see that it's hard for lots of British people to see foreign workers here during a period of economic strife, but there is mobility within Europe and there are lots of Brits working in Italy. The soundbite 'British jobs for British people' seems to have backfired a bit on Gordon Brown." The economy aside, what do you think are the main problems facing this country? "We've had lots of things taken away from us in recent years. My post office round the corner has closed as has the one in my Cornwall hometown. The butcher down the road has gone too. There are fewer and fewer places for people to commune together. Then you get something like the recent snowfall and people are up in arms about the schools being closed - why can't they just have the day off? It's a bit of a sad thing." How do you think this decade will be remembered in 20 or 30 years? "I know it sounds pessimistic, but at the moment I would actually say that there's a lack of people relating to each other. Everything is so much quicker these days and it's all about ease and money. People are a lot more mutually exclusive of each other and there is a lack of common responsibility. Maybe the recession will help people come together more now." http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a145761/...time-lite.html# Thanks to Lulu Loves Will on Devoted. Edited February 5, 200916 yr by munchkin
February 5, 200916 yr He's only guesting on Jonathon Ross's show F/G, but they might show a clip of his new video on the show. :) Nnooooo i was all looking forward to a performance ...is this definite ?
February 5, 200916 yr Nnooooo i was all looking forward to a performance ...is this definite ? I think it may be: Friday Night With Jonathan Ross BBC One Friday 20 February, 10.35pm. Jonathan Ross welcomes Hollywood comeback king, Oscar-nominated Mickey Rourke; the comedian Peter Kay is calling the new Peter Kay, Jason Manford; the original Pop Idol, Will Young;and there's music from The Cure performing The Only One live in the studio. Edited February 5, 200916 yr by munchkin
February 5, 200916 yr I wouldn't give up all hope of Will not singing on the JR show, the last time he was on he started the show with an acoustic version of WAI didn't he? then he came on for a chat later, I can't remember who closed the show, but I'm sure it was a rock band. :D
February 6, 200916 yr What was your superpower in the video? Oh mine was queue jumping, thought that was quite a good super power. I'm still hoping for a trolley dash in Iceland. :lol:
February 6, 200916 yr I wouldn't give up all hope of Will not singing on the JR show, the last time he was on he started the show with an acoustic version of WAI didn't he? then he came on for a chat later, I can't remember who closed the show, but I'm sure it was a rock band. :D I think it may have been Franz Ferdinand or am I thinking of another chat show? Editing to say thanks for all the info everyone. Edited February 6, 200916 yr by chrysalis
February 6, 200916 yr I wouldn't give up all hope of Will not singing on the JR show, the last time he was on he started the show with an acoustic version of WAI didn't he? then he came on for a chat later, I can't remember who closed the show, but I'm sure it was a rock band. :D I do hope so
February 6, 200916 yr Author And some worry about his popularity. :D Question Time ratings winner! Friday 06 February 2009 saving...0 votes 0 comment If you didn’t catch Will’s appearance on the BBC Question Time panel last night, then you must have been one of the few who didn’t. The show received record ratings with a whopping 750,000 extra people tuning in earning the programme its highest figures since 20 March 2003! A recording of the show is now available on the BBC iPlayer.
February 6, 200916 yr TT - that's brilliant, thanks! :D I am yet to see it. Have no laptop at home at the mo, have been using my flatmate's when he hadn't taken it with him. Pearl - I think it was indeed Paul Weller singing on that show, definitely not Franz Ferdinand.
February 8, 200916 yr Author Thanks to Jan on Devoted. :D :D Who knows what drove Will Young to join the panel of Question Time. A university graduate, he's known to be cleverer than most pop stars, but that's a bit like saying he's cleverer than most plant pots (sad fact: everyone is cleverer than most pop stars). Happily, Will was such a triumph that, alongside him, certain other panellists struggled: Nigel Farage of Ukip looked even more like a badly made sock puppet. Theresa May looked exhausted, perhaps from dodging amusing "impromptu" snowball fights with Tory leaders. Then there was Geoff Hoon who, slowly and stiffly, seems to be morphing into the Professor Yaffle bookend from Bagpuss By contrast, Young, clearly fresh from a deep-pore facial, accentuated points by jabbing his pen in the air in the manner of some beauteous school-debating society god. Better still, in reference to the culture of timidity at the BBC, Will voiced his concern that everything had become a "bit vanilla". Now please excuse me if I stop typing for a moment to scream and pull my handbag up to my chest. As you probably know, "vanilla" is a term often used to describe conventional, unadventurous sex. (And yes, I do mean the sex you're probably having.) Such raciness on Question Time. In Dunstable! Is this a sign of things to come? If so, good job, sir. Clearly, if Question Time panellists are going to have the likes of Will join the ranks, they're going to have to up their game. Perhaps a seaweed wrap on the day and the mastery of some languidly witty pansexual slang. David Dimbleby had better send out the memo. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20...an-rights-watch We couldn't have wished from better comments from the Guardian :o could we.
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