Yum thanks Chris...just went out and got that. :wub: had to. :dance:

Me too - I haven't bought a newspaper for yonks I usually download from the internet , :lol: But I had to have that for the collection :P

My head is spinning trying to keep up with the news :lol: Lots of positivity :wub: :D

My head is spinning trying to keep up with the news :lol: Lots of positivity :wub: :D

Wondered where you got to Shel was just saying to barry i hadnt seen you

 

Thanks Chris and Gill i have my telegraph now :cheer:

waiting to read the paper later rather than reading online, one to savour for later

Wondered where you got to Shel was just saying to barry i hadnt seen you

 

Thanks Chris and Gill i have my telegraph now :cheer:

waiting to read the paper later rather than reading online, one to savour for later

 

 

Was too busy ordering Olly merchandise to come online :P :w00t:

Was too busy ordering Olly merchandise to come online :P :w00t:

 

bloody hell woman what tat did you buy this time? pen, apron, tea towel, huge pair of Y's with olly on the front :wacko: :rolleyes: :no: :cool: :heehee:

Will's got a Piece in The Tmes today

AbigailSPaulAbigail Scott Paul

Actor, singer + charity Catch 22 ambassador Will Young sticks up for young people in Times (£): http://t.co/3j8hAO1

Edited August 22, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

Popjusice interview

 

http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option...42&Itemid=9

Popjusice interview

 

http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option...42&Itemid=9

 

Thanks Sunday you beat me to it :D

Thanks Bev for the heads up re the Times

Thanks Bev but I can't access The Times online - it's paywalled.

 

Another interview:

 

SamandAmy Sam and Amy

.Just recorded another naughty interview with Will Young, will take some editing (!) Hear it all cleaned up this Friday (its going to take a bit of work!) ..

 

Our radio station is called Gem 106. We are a pair of post-modern egotists incapably assisted by our showbiz boy child Dangerous Dave. So sue us ... http://www.gem106.co.uk

Edited August 22, 201113 yr by munchkin

Another went well today!

RowettaGaydioRowetta on Gaydio FM

Big thank you to @will_young31 for a great interview. Goes out Saturday 3rd Sept. Jealousy- OUT NOW. Fab New Album: 'Echoes' out tomorrow

 

Yeah..The Times is buy only Chris..but as he wrote the piece it's bound to be worth it. :wub:

Just got the Times but cant see it in there looked through twice :unsure:

 

yes it is, bout a third of page :dance:

 

what a numpty :wacko:

 

small pic tho

Edited August 22, 201113 yr by phil3579

So that's September 2nd for Gaydio, 26th August Gem fm & Foxy 8am tomorrow. Have I missed any others?

 

Wonder what he's been up to in that Gem interview? :lol:

 

Looks like he may be putting his political head on again.

 

Ron Brown

@will_young31 You said on Something for the Weekend you want to do Question Time again. Please get in touch - I'm in the production team

 

Would love to see him on Top Gear again too.

 

As you said Bev everyone wants a piece of him. :dance:

So that's September 2nd for Gaydio, 26th August Gem fm & Foxy 8am tomorrow. Have I missed any others?

Yep.. :lol:

markgoodiermarkgoodier

Will Young on the show tomorrow @smoothradio if you're a super-fan have a question for him, tweet or email mark.goodier@smoothradio.co.uk

 

Thanks Bev.

 

It's so hard to keep up. :unsure: I'll add them to the pinned topic.

Another went well today!

Yeah..The Times is buy only Chris..but as he wrote the piece it's bound to be worth it. :wub:

 

Yes it is Worth it

I have typed it up

 

 

The Times 22.08.2011

 

These rioters are not mindless neanderthals.

 

Young people can switch quickly from bad to good. They need a bit of belief and direction.

 

Will Young

 

(Picture of head and shoulders).

 

I am not going to start with a long-winded account of my personal experience of the recent rioting in London, apart from saying that my one moment of potential bravery ended with my crossing the street to avoid a group of young people who were carrying sticks. On closer inspection my friend did point out they were a youth hockey team and not a mob of looters. But, I pointed out, they could have looted the hockey kit as a cunning disguise.

 

There are so many theories being bandied around as to why young people reacted as thy did. Modern Britain is a blamocracy: people look to pass the buck. Governments, we are told, have created a society of idleness, in which a mood of entitlement has fermented. Add to this the onward march of capitalism, family breakdown and a fettered education sector and things look bleak.

 

Yet there is an opportunity for something that could leave the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats with an impressive legacy. For within this helpless cloud, there is a sliver of a hint of a silver lining.

 

Young people learn very quickly, they really do. There is a malleability about them that means they can switch rapidly from the bad side of the path to the good. All they need is for someone to show belief in them and respect for them and to be provided with a suggestion of what direction to go in and they will do it.

 

I’ve seen this. Through the work that I have done and witnessed with Ctch 22 (the charity that works with young people across the UK) over the past 18 months, I have seen young people blossom - young people who came from broken families, had no one in their lives who treated them with an sort of respect, found it hard to communicate and felt little or no direction in their lives. I’ve seen them get their lives back on track.

 

One example was a project in Dagenham, Essex, in which a group of young people embarked on a community project to do up people’s gardens. The idea was to improve relations between young people and the adults in their community and create an environment of achievement and personal responsibility. Such was the success of this project that the kids went on to offer their services to a local shopkeeper who had been injured as a soldier. They relished their sense of achievement.

 

I am not saying that all problems can be solved by a pat on the back and an uber-liberal approach to youth culture. Some lives are so broken they take longer to mend, or they occupy a space in society that none of us wants to inhabit. But change is attainable, despite some commentators’ use of words such as ‘ferel and ‘sick’.

 

Less than two weeks after the riots I have concern that all young people will be tarred with the same brush. But most of them are not mindless neanderthals. Yes, some people were complete opportunists and have to learn their lessons. (Incidentally, evicting people from the housing is not the most sensible way to do it). There are people who have to learn to take responsibility for their actions.

 

But there are also so many young people who in my opinion are heroes to be able to stay on track surrounded by all the shit that modern society throws at them. These kids learnt quickly, saw what the right path was and remained on it. Others can follow suit, I know. I’ve seen it.

 

 

 

Will Young is a singer and actor.

Hi Elaine, thanks for typing that out! will read it all in a bit but just Loved the Hockey bit at the beginning. :lol:

Thanks Elaine what a star you are for taking the time to type it up :wub:

 

TV times

 

We chat to @will_young31 about his acting ambitions & what could lure him to be a talent show judge ahead of @ITV1's A Night with Will Young