Another mention.

Oh and a really crap report about it from the Sun that's now been picked up. :rolleyes:

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...e-on-Voice.html

 

http://tellymix.co.uk/reality-tv/the-voice...e-voice-uk.html

 

 

Thanks Bev Great to see you posting :D

Hi Sunday, been busy with Bloke things. :heart:

 

US Instinct mag..love the bit in bold.

Will Young Wants To Be A Dad...

http://instinctmagazine.com/images/stories/thumbs/L2hvbWUvaW5zdGluY3RtYWdhemluZS9wdWJsaWNfaHRtbC9pbWFnZXMvc3Rvcmllcy9ibG9ncy9qaGlnYmVlL25vdmVtYmVyMjAxMS93aWxseW91bmcuanBn.jpg

...albeit with some stipulations. Details follow.

 

Out U.K. and international sensation Will Young has peered into crystal balls and sees fatherhood in his future, in his 40s.

 

The 32-year old gaydored singer spoke with You Magazine about his biological clock and revealed that he will only father some rugrats if he can remain a "stylish dad."

 

“I’m fully embracing my 30s. I’ve just moved house, I want to get a dog. I love watching ‘Antiques Road Show’, this morning I fed my fish."

 

“And kids? Probably when I’m in my 40s. I like the idea of being less selfish – though I also like the idea of rocking up on the school run as the stylish gay dad as opposed to the yummy mummy.”

 

How do we apply for the position of Will's Yummy Mummy? Our application for this position is available on Manhunt, and references are available upon request at the Free Clinic.

http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/wil...irectory=100011

Edited November 8, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

Ooh!! :huh: :dance:

 

Scheduled for March 2012

 

Morten Harket, the voice of a-ha, is working on a new solo album and will tour in 2012.

 

The new album will consist of songs written by Morten, two songs he has written together with the Swedish band Kent, one song written by the Pet Shop Boys,

one song by Will Young and possibly one or two songs by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy.

 

Morten began work on the album back in May, and it is expected to be completed before Christmas. The album is being produced by Steve Osborn and will be released by Starwatch/Universal Germany in Eastern and Western Europe, as well as in South America. There may also be releases in other territories.

 

The first single will be released in January or February.

 

To support the new album, Morten will go on tour in South America and Europe in spring 2012. Karl Oluf Wennerberg, Erik Ljunggren and Dan Sunhordvik will accompany Morten on tour. Morten will be performing his solo music as well as a selection of songs from a-ha's catalogue.

http://a-ha-live.com/

Thanks Bev. :D

 

Is this a first, a Will song being snapped up by another artist?

Thanks Bev. :D

 

Is this a first, a Will song being snapped up by another artist?

Yes this is the first time he's written for someone else Gill, well as far as we know so far anyway :P how exciting! i wonder if it's upbeat too as The Pet Shop boys have also written for the album. :dance:

Oohhh thanks Bev interesting :cheer:

Thanks to Penny

 

Will was interviewed by Jo Wiley from his dressing room last night around 8.15. It should be up on listen again.

Thanks Bev - great news :dance:

 

Thanks TT - just listened to that. Really liked the Stone roses song he chose too.

Edited November 9, 201113 yr by munchkin

Thanks TT and Penny, will have a listen. :D

 

 

Edited November 9, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

Yes this is the first time he's written for someone else Gill, well as far as we know so far anyway :P how exciting! i wonder if it's upbeat too as The Pet Shop boys have also written for the album. :dance:

 

Missed this news earlier! :o How good is that! :cheer: Thanks Bev. :D

 

We'll have to keep an eye on that.

Thanks Bev.

 

Think that one could go in the favourite tweet thread. Love to read Dermot showing his support again. :D

Edited November 9, 201113 yr by truly talented

:D I wonder which song it is? i had a look but couldn't see.

breadforsongHattie Grunewald

Holly is dancing THE RHUMBA on Sunday with BRENDAN to MY FAVOURITE WILL YOUNG SONG. #scd #bliss

:D I wonder which song it is? i had a look but couldn't see.

 

It's Leave Right Now Bev. Julie (will4me) has posted thar they were talking about it on It Takes 2.

Thanks to roma on Baby D for finding this blog

 

 

i love will young more than is healthy

10

Thursday

Nov 2011

Posted by Jacki Evans in columns ≈ Leave a Comment

Tagscrush, knitting, music, pop, will young, wonky logic

I have, of late, had rather a lot of spare time on my hands. I haven’t been to work since September (it’s really not as fun as it sounds), and I leave the house maybe once a day, for about an hour at a time. So I’ve had to find things to do to entertain myself. There was the learning to knit. And the having lots of baths. And the reading the history. But more fun than all of these, there’s been a massively pointless pursuit.

 

The working out just why it is I love Will Young as much as I do.

 

Ol’Will and I have had a bit of a fraught relationship over the years. His modern pop classic All Time Love was released at a rather unfortunate point in my romantic life, and so for years Mr Young was associated with heartbreak, and misery, and sobbing. And it wasn’t even like we had that much of a history together; I didn’t watch Pop Idol, so I don’t have the affection born of watching him take down Simon Cowell. Even though everyone tells me that was really really great. But still, I love him.

 

Some of it undoubtedly has to do with the brilliance of his videos. I thought he’d peaked with the Blue Peter extravaganza that was Who Am I, but then I saw the video for Come On. IT’S AMAZING. It is the only thing that can break your heart and then fix it all back together again in the space of a very pleasant pop song. Plus he looks excellent in that suit.

 

And along with the excellent suit-wearing, he also has the kind of skills that would make your mother utterly adore him. If you ignore the whole gay thing, then he’s the perfect husband; educated, well-spoken, nicely dressed and almost certainly wonderfully house-trained. And when you and your mother both inevitably fell in unrequited love with him, he’d be able to provide the soundtrack to your misery for you. And that would only make you love him even more.

 

So, whilst I’m being a bit rubbish at leaving the house, I’ve decided that I want Will to come and move in with me and keep me company on the sofa. He’d be great at comforting; he’d stroke me on the head and tell me that everything would be OK, and I’d believe him. Because he’s Will Young. He would never lie to you. He’s far too nice for that. And he looks excellent in knitwear, so I could actually find some kind of purpose for the new knitting hobby, rather than just knitting endless fingerless gloves because I’m scared of shaping. I could knit Will a succession of lovely cardigans using my new-found cable knit skills. We’d be a brilliant team.

 

But I think perhaps my favourite thing of all about Will is this; whilst guest-hosting Never Mind the Buzzcocks, he announced that he’d once had sex in a Grundon bin. That is the actual FILTHIEST THING YOU COULD EVER DO, and that of course makes him UTTERLY AMAZING.

 

http://jackievans.wordpress.com/2011/11/10...han-is-healthy/

 

:wub: :wub:

Thanks Chris..i found that in a tweet last night..fab :wub:

 

City Life.

Young taking pride of place in his success

http://www.citylife.co.uk/img/21940/58313_490250_young_is_now_an_actor_and_documentary_maker_as_well_as_a_singer.jpg

Pride isn’t a characteristic that many people manage to wield gracefully.

And, in fact, if CityLife was sitting with any other talent contest graduate than Will Young, we might be frowning at the list of achievements pouring out of his mouth.

 

“It feels great to have stuck around. I feel like I’ve reached several benchmarks – (best of album) The Hits was certainly that,” he muses, excitedly and bashfully, an element of disbelief in his voice.

 

“Winning Pop Idol, Leave Right Now, the Mrs Henderson Presents film, The Vortex in Manchester and doing the A Night With Will Young TV special for ITV, my ambassadorial work with Catch22.

 

“They’ve been the highlights. Oh god, no! There’s more: shooting (Sky series) Bedlam, singing with Elton John. You do forget them, you know.

 

“I think they’re all fresh start moments. I think that’s what punctuates a career, and I’m very wary of resting on my laurels.

 

“I like to be challenged as a person and I like to be challenged as a performer. It’s nice to look back and say, ‘Oh yeah, I remember the song, the play, the TV series’.

 

“They are all things that stand alone on their own, they don’t have to be moulded into one career.”

 

Will’s diverse career – in which he’s proven himself not only as a singer but also as an actor on stage and screen, and more recently as a documentary maker and executive producer after following Ralph Fiennes on the making of Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus – is characteristic of the way he has spent his life.

 

He had a well-documented privileged education, attending independent schools in leafy Berkshire before earning a scholarship to study musical theatre.

 

Not long after graduating, he entered ITV television contest Pop Idol, winning the title in early 2002 in a sing-off with Gareth Gates and, perhaps more importantly, scooping a major recording contract in the process.

 

He was an early winner before talent show fatigue struck, but he’s worked hard to maintain his relevance.

 

A great deal of that determination can be written up as a massive IOU to his grandmother.

 

An adventurous child that tried out lots of sports before moving over to performing arts, Will was a little prone to lose hope. But his grandmother wouldn’t let him give up.

 

“She used to just say, ‘Practice!’. About everything,” he smiles, affectionately. “I believed that and I was very dedicated.

 

“I wasn’t great at basketball, so I used to practice every day – every day – and then I became captain of the basketball team. It was the same with lots of things.

 

“I was kinda like the quiet person who would always just watch and learn; apart from performing, I probably didn’t have a natural aptitude to get me to the top.

 

“I had a level of natural ability but then I’d have to watch and learn to ever be really good at something.

 

“And I still do that now. I mean, wouldn’t it be boring if I went and did The Vortex and didn’t learn from (co-star) Diana Hardcastle, or made a record with Cathy Dennis and didn’t learn from writing with her?

 

“I’m a very competitive person quietly, not so I’d tread over anyone because I think that’s a terrible trait. So for me there’s the learning and then this desire to satisfy my leftover English colonial guilt.”

 

In August, he released his fifth studio album – Echoes. “It’s so good,” he smiles. There’s that glint of pride again, but it’s difficult to resent.

 

Almost 10 years after the public made him a star on the back of cover versions, Echoes is the sound of a very different kind of performer. It’s his 30-something album and a down tempo offering, full of contemplative space and pensive lyrics.

 

And it is the record on which Will believes he has finally found his stride. “I feel like the last 10 years I’ve just been warming up: as a songwriter, as a performer, as a singer and an actor,” he explains.

 

“Even though this album’s been on the cards for five or six years, I wouldn’t have been able to pull it off, not even two years ago.

 

“I would have questioned why I was doing it. I’d have wanted to do a more upbeat, electro album. I wouldn’t have had the confidence or the perspective to pull it off; in your 20s, you’re too worried what other people think of you.

 

“This album feels like the beginning of the next decade for me, a new type of music.

 

“I’ve set out to be an artist with longevity and that’s what I’ve made my decisions based on.

 

“They weren’t based on money, they weren’t based on how much fame I could have. It was all based on being in it for the long haul.

 

“To have that, you have to have brilliant people around you and I’ve always had the same manager (Simon Fuller), the same team and the same record company.

 

“I follow my heart in music, and that’s what I’m doing now in life. I’m really trusting my instincts.

 

“I feel like my confidence has really come back and suddenly I’m full of ideas for songs, videos, shows. None of it has been, ‘Right now, I’m going to do this’, it’s kind of naturally fallen into place.”

 

Where is the next chapter leading to? “I’d love to make another album like this,” he says. “I feel like me and Richard X have found a good niche.

 

“It’d be like making the second series of a TV show and saying, ‘Oh, I get it now! That’s how the characters work together’.

 

“But otherwise I want to do very different things because it keeps my love of everything when it’s all varied.

 

“And I don’t think anything I do would ever take over from singing fully because I think I’d get itchy feet.

 

“Lots of projects bring me up to Manchester,” he laughs. “What is it about Manchester? I’m clearly drawn to Manchester.

 

“I was obviously there in a past life. It’s either that or the humour.”

http://www.citylife.co.uk/news_and_reviews..._in_his_success

Edited November 11, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

Thanks Bev.

 

One thing that's coming through all these interviews is how he's now being seen as a credible artist. He's earned his stripes so to speak.

Thanks Bev.

 

One thing that's coming through all these interviews is how he's now being seen as a credible artist. He's earned his stripes so to speak.

Yes, he's clearly well respected now :heart: it's been a long wait.

“Lots of projects bring me up to Manchester,” he laughs. “What is it about Manchester? I’m clearly drawn to Manchester.

 

He's spent a few days there mid tour, returning there after venues. Wonder if he could be persuing another project.

 

Does this project have dark hair and browneyes? :lol:

When is A Night with Will Young next on TV?

 

It's next showing on ITV2 December 3rd, 1:15pm and on ITV2 HD December 3rd, 1:15pm. ..