Thanks Sunday. Will pick that up..also something else to keep an eye out for..

Red Mag interview

RosamundWitcherRosamund Witcher

Will Young's new album is out today! @marisabass interviews him in this month's Red and discovers a worrying passion for Michael Bolton.

Loved these comments following that tweet..

RosamundWitcher @marisabass He's also writing opinion pieces on the riots: http://t.co/uj5JpQ7. Young that is. Not Bolton

RosamundWitcherRosamund Witcher

@JonathanDean80 The only man who can wear a lycra catsuit to work one day, and write a political opinion piece for The Times the next

:lol:

Thanks for typing that our for us Elaine - your a marvel

 

Thanks for the Tweets Bev - only Will eh. Do you remember that fabulous shoot he did for Red Magazine :wub:

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Edited August 22, 201113 yr by munchkin

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

 

 

So Will isn't it Bev! :lol:

 

Lots of us are missing you, wish you would come back.

Thanks Sunday for the link, Popjustice interview is so funny i just had to bring it over, hope you dont mind

 

 

Popjustice Blog Some Will Young chitchat

 

Will Young's got a new single and album out so he has to talk to journalists for interviews like this even though he'd probably prefer to be doing something else

 

 

 

 

Interviewer: Peter Robinson

Interviewee: Will Young (obviously)

 

 

Will.

Hello.

 

How are you?

I’m a little bit hungover.

 

Where did you go?

Er, well I was in the edit for my TV special...

 

‘In the edit’ - technical term there.

Yes, technical term. Yep. Just dropping in some lingo there. ‘Doing the VT’. (Grandly) TEN YEARS IN THE BUSINESS! And then I got far too overexcited and went round my friend’s house and got drunk. In the garden.

 

It wasn’t very warm last night.

No, it wasn’t that warm. So I managed to cosy up in one of her fleeces.

And booze does have a lovely warming effect, does it not.

It does. Even more so this morning, when I’m getting intermittent hot flushes.

 

Are you pregnant?

I am! AGAIN! And I don’t even know how it happened...

 

If you get drunk, Will, these things do happen...

(Laughs)

 

Have you been to bed yet?

Oh yes, I’ve been to bed. I woke up this morning with things splayed around my bed. Like suncream. What was I doing with suncream last night?

 

What were you doing with it? Is this a road we don’t want to go down?

I wasn’t doing ANYTHING untoward. And that still leaves a whole window of discussion open, about what can be done with suncream. So yes, on my bed: suncream, laptop, toothbrush.

 

It sounds like you might have booked, and started packing for, a citybreak.

I’ve so booked a citybreak. To Luton!

 

Well a lot of people go to Luton and the first thing they do when they get there is fly off somewhere else. Why not just soak up the chilled out Luton vibes? Enjoy the sights!Exactly! You don’t have to fly from Luton. You can just be IN LUTON. I think I could save Thomas Cook with these ideas.

 

It’s 9:30am. Usually being first interviewer on a long day of interviews means you get someone when they’re at their best. Yet in this instance your Popjustice interview has been scheduled to coincide with a stinking hangover. Maybe lunchtime would have been better?

YES! I’ll be on a major high around lunchtime. Sorry about that.

 

What are you discussing in your interviews at the moment? Are people asking you about music, or is it mainly people asking you what you think about other people because talking about other people makes you more quotable, or...

That’s a good one, yes. I get asked about Simon Cowell a lot. And they normally want me to say something nasty, so then they can say “WILL YOUNG SLATES TV TALENT SHOW JUDGE”. “IT WASN’T MY BABY, SAYS SINGER.” “I NEVER LIKED BLACK TROUSERS.” (Cackles) Do you know what I mean? Things like that. And what else... (Thinks) Who’s current at the moment? I’ll tell you what, I’m sad that my release schedule meant that I missed the Royal Wedding.

 

Well we could briefly pretend that it’s still to come, if that would please you.

OH GO ON GO ON!!

 

Er... Are you looking forward to the Royal Wedding and have you been invited?

I haven’t been invited and I’m really, REALLY pissed off. I feel like I’m posh enough to go.

 

You should perform there.

Never mind that, I should be the VICAR! I am actually technically an ordained priest. I did it online with a friend. That was another drunken night.

 

To be honest that sounds like one of your video treatments. One of your whimsical, well, how would you describe your videos? There’s a feel to them, isn’t there. What is that feel?

How would I describe... What video?

 

All of them. They’ve all got the same feel.

Self indulgent? (Hoots)

 

Oh you know, it’s ‘here’s likeable Will Young, here’s something vaguely nostalgic and pensive, here’s some whimsy, here’s a narrative involving some task that requires completion’, you know what I mean...

Yes and there’s something a bit, you know, there are varying scenes running through so you can take it how you want it. A bit kitsch, maybe...

 

Is there also an element, at all, of ‘ideas Robbie Williams said no to’?

(Guffaws) Probably, yes! I think Top Gun was probably an idea he said no to. And apparently Kylie Minogue said no to Blue Peter.

 

I’m going to ask you a question that I’ve written down.

Okay.

 

I’ve got, written down, “tickets to come and see you on your tour are about forty pounds. Are they made from solid gold?”.

(Howls) They can’t... Are they FORTY POUNDS? I thought they were about twenty five quid!

 

I’m on the Live Nation website right now. I’m looking at tickets for the Bournemouth International Centre. £40.25.

God that’s a bit of a ripoff, isn’t it? I haven’t even gone into rehearsals yet, I’d better get on with it. I’d better get some trapezing in there!

 

I don’t mind paying £40.25 if there’s going to be explosions and dancers.

God, no, it was just going to be me and a ukelele. Oh God I’m going to have to completely rethink the whole thing!

Maybe I’m trapped in some sort of secondary ticketing market hell, perhaps they’re not really forty quid?

I hope you are.

 

Hang on... Right I’m on Ticketmaster now. Here we are.

Go on, how much are they on there?

 

I’m looking at Bournemouth International Centre again.

Go on.

 

This is taking a while. (Page takes a million years to load) I think this is definitely interview time well spent.

Definitely.

 

Now it’s asking me to do a security check.

You’re never going to pass that. I’m eating muesli while you do that.

 

What kind of muesli?

Nice muesli.

 

What are your thoughts on the Alpen debate?

I went through a real phase of loving Alpen. I used to love any cereal. Now I have moments of nostalgia so I might go for Honey Nut Loops, for example. Ready Brek? Amazing. Farley’s rusks? LOVE Farley’s rusks. They’re for babies, obviously.

 

Ticketmaster have delivered the goods. Upper Balcony, Row S. How much do you reckon?

£35?

 

FORTY POUNDS AND TWENTY FIVE PENCE. That’s for Upper Balcony, Row S.

(Unconvincingly) Well that’s a good seat though isn’t it. In the theatre that would be at least eighty quid!

 

I have a problem with the theatre. I don’t like people acting in front of me. And when they reference the audience, I mean I know it’s all about taking down the fourth wall and everything but I want that fourth wall to be there. And I want it made of bricks.

(Laughs) Oh God, you’re one of those people who goes to a gig and watches it through their phone, aren’t you?

 

I try not to spend too much time doing that. I mean, fair dos, you’re at a concert and you want to take a couple of pictures or bits of video because it’s nice to have your own record of the night even though they never come out properly. But the people who film the whole thing - from the front row...

It’s really weird. I saw someone at a Madonna gig a few years ago - which was an incredible gig, when Stephen Klein did all the shots for it - and this woman watched the entire show through the screen of her digital camera. I bet SHE’D pay £40.25 to watch my gig through a camera. I need to market my whole tour at her.

 

Well the thing is, as well as the ripoff pricing which is a bit of a Ratner moment but not to worry, as well as that you could also be flogging those Golden Circle sort of tickets that people do.

Those ‘pay £120 to come and have tea with me’ things?

 

Yes.

No, I don’t do those. But I do do meet and greets with competition winners, or charity people.

 

'Charity people'?

Well you know, they’ve won a competition...

 

‘Charity people’ sounds like the sort of phrase we’re not supposed to use in these enlightened times...

No it sounds like, er... No I didn’t mean it like that. Not like an interview that was in the Guardian where someone said something about, well, I won’t mention or you’ll put it in, but I’ll tell you after we’ve finished the interview. Um... Yes. No. Basically I don’t do golden tickets. I’m not Willy Wonka!

 

What would be a reasonable price to charge for a meeting with Will Young?

(Laughs) A pint of beer? I’m fairly easy to be honest, on all levels. I’m a little bit of a disappointment - I remember right back at the beginning someone ran a competition to hang out with me at one of the Saturday morning TV shows and the girl was really upset when she met me because she asked me what hobbies I had and I said (starts howling) I was really into BIRD WATCHING! (Cackles) I think she wanted to go and meet Gareth after that. I actually caught her mouthing, to someone else, ‘he’s such a loser’. (Laughs) And she had to spend all day with me!

When I first got into music the stuff that had been Number One ten years earlier - well, even three years earlier really but definitely ten years earlier - seemed like music from another planet. It that stuff from the late 70s, like punk or whatever, certainly seemed like nothing to do with the music I was buying, even if looking at it all now you can see how everything joins up. But the point is that popstars from a decade earlier seemed like they had nothing to do with me. And I’m wondering how you feel you fit in for the Nando’s generation. You’re like the Sex Pistols to them.

(Laughs) I’m probably more like Nanette Newman!

 

But - in the nicest possible way - are you nothing to do with their lives?

Young people now?

 

Ten, twelve years old...

That’s not true! I disagree with you. I’m always amazed when young kids up and know who I am. But they do.

 

Do they not know that you’re old? Maybe your cherubic features and motionless hairline have fooled them...

Well I can tell you that my features are definitely not cherubic this morning! I think it’s just the fact that my name’s Young.

 

Simple as that.

Yes! (Laughs)

 

Those screengrabs that were sent out from the ‘Jealousy’ video were a DISGRACE. :w00t:

That’s not my fault, that’s the director. I wanted to run through a field of lavender but they wouldn’t let me! I said, ‘five grand budget, Vaseline on the lens, I’ll run through my parents’ garden, how’s that?’. They didn’t want it.

 

Well there’s always Single Two. Depending on how ‘Jealousy’ does the five grand budget might be more appealing to the label after all...

No, we’re alright, I think we’ve already got a healthy budget for Single Two.

 

And you’re still sort of on RCA, is that right?

Yes. Yes I am.

 

But this is your final thing for them, yes?

For the moment, yes.

 

It seemed like your Greatest Hits was the final thing. But it wasn’t.

I don’t know why it went that way round, I can’t remember. But I’m glad it was this way round because I don’t think I would have written this record if it had been the other way round.

 

Why not?

Because it gave me more space. ‘The Hits’ I didn’t really have to think about - they’d all been done before - so that gave me more time to work on this record. I don’t know why, but I didn’t feel any pressure with this record.

 

Is the pressure slightly off because your most recent stuff hasn’t exactly been a run of multi-platinum Number Ones? Is it, maybe counter-intuitively, easier to follow up a flop than a hit?

Well I don’t think so because in a career... Well, my last studio about reached Number One or Number Two, ‘Changes’ was a Number One on airplay and that was without Radio 1. It depends how you measure success really I suppose, and I don’t mean that in well-media-trained sort of way. I didn’t sell as many as ‘Evergreen’, but I was really proud.

 

‘Evergreen’ was an amazing song.

‘Everygreen’ was an amazing song. But yes, I don’t know what it was. I don’t know...

 

Some stuff happened, it was good, The End.

I think I’d paid my mortgage off, that was probably it! (Laughs)

 

How amazing do you think you are?

Sometimes I think I’m really amazing. Sometimes I think I’m horrendous.

 

Does whether other people say you’re amazing make your own opinion on whether you’re amazing differ?

Oh big time, yes. Yes. I’m VERY needy. For example in the edit - there I go again with my lingo - the director, my friend Michael, said, ‘we’re going to have to change that shot, you’re not in the centre with the dancers’. And I was like, ‘no, I hit my mark’. And Michael was like, ‘Will Young hit his mark, it’s just that all sixteen professional dancers missed theirs?’. And in my head I was thinking, ‘yes, that is correct’. (Laughs) Do you know what I mean? I kind of work on that level.

 

After ten years what’s your coping mechanism for people shouting YOU’RE SHIT at you on the internet?

I just don’t look at things on the internet. I don’t understand why people do.

 

You’re on Twitter.

I am on Twitter. I’m dreadful on Twitter.

 

You’re not as good as I thought you’d be actually.

I know what you mean. I just don’t get it. Sorry. I don’t quite get it. I do have a bit of a phobia of the internet because people can say anything. And I worry that people won’t get my jokes, and then I’ll say something and people are like, ‘OH WILL WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT’ so I’m just like, ‘oh, I’ll just post a picture of a sheep every now and again then’.

 

The pictures are good. I was just hoping for more in the way of bon mots.

Yeah I know. But it’s like, I do have comments and observations, but I feel like... I can’t get my head around the egotistical thing. It’s like, ‘how important do you think you are?’.

 

And how important do you think you are?

Not very important! (Laughs) Not very important at all. I am not a heart surgeon.

 

I don’t want to listen to a heart surgeon singing songs.

Good point.

 

oops sorry forgot the quote tags

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Lots of us are missing you, wish you would come back.

Thanks Elaine, it's nice to see you posting here and the O/S will be back soon as well. :D

Edited August 22, 201113 yr by Sweetwilliamfan

They're not the only ones looking forward to it.

itvthismorningThis Morning

@will_young31 We are very much looking forward to having you on @itvthismorning tomorrow!

Do we have a set time for this?

have we seen this??

 

They have rated it 5 stars

 

EF Rating:

5.The original Pop Idol Will Young is returning to the charts after a brief hiatus. His last release was 2009’s The Hits which celebrated the singer’s career since winning Pop Idol back in 2002. Since the release of that album Will has taken time out to star in Sky Living show Bedlam and record his new album. In an unlikely move Will has teamed up with dance producer Richard X to record Echoes, his fifth studio album.

 

Echoes is quite unlike anything that Will has done previously moving him into more rhythmic territory than we’ve heard before. Inspired by his collaboration with Groove Armada on History, Echoes sees Will exploring new musical ground whilst keeping his trademark vocals intact. Opening with current single Jealousy it’s clear that Will’s new sound is a progression rather than a reinvention. Known for his heart-wrenching love songs Will sticks to similar lyrical ground whilst exploring the musical landscape behind the words. The end result is something fairly stunning and is sure to win Will even more fans than he’s currently got.

 

There are so many potential singles on Echoes that it’s difficult to know where to start when expressing our love for this record. The pulsating 80s beats of Losing Myself are a definite highlight whilst Outsider is the closest Will gets to his signature sound. Good Things is a proper dancefloor cut that will get some fantastic remixes if it’s granted a single release and Runaway is a smooth electro-pop cut that utilises Will’s vocal range to great effect.

 

Elsewhere on the record Will channels La Roux on the falsetto-filled choruses of Personal Thunder and borrows an epic musical landscape from Coldplay on the superb Come On.

 

I Just Want A Lover is the record’s most exciting and enjoyable cut. The heavy beat combines with Will’s reverb filled vocals for one of the saddest upbeat songs we’ve ever heard. Lyrically the song pines for a lover to take away the pain of being alone. We can’t wait to see him perform this on his tour later in the year.

 

Echoes could be Will’s best album since his mega-selling Friday’s Child record back in 2003. We’re glad that he’s trying something new and when we last interviewed him back in 2008 he expressed a desire to make a more dance-oriented album but was concerned how his fans may receive it. Judging on the response for Jealousy they’re lapping it up and we hope Will continues to explore this new sound. Echoes is a polished, heartfelt and glorious pop record that will stand the test of time.

 

http://www.entertainment-focus.com/music/a...ll-young-echoes

They're not the only ones looking forward to it.

 

Do we have a set time for this?

 

This morning ITV1

 

Its on from 10.30 - 11.25 - think the news is next

11.30 - 12.30

 

If you have skyplus you have to record 10.30 - 11.25 and then 11.30 - 12.30

 

Hope you can understand this if you're going to record. :)

 

Avis xx

Thanks Sunday for the link, Popjustice interview is so funny i just had to bring it over, hope you dont mind

Popjustice Blog Some Will Young chitchat

 

Will Young's got a new single and album out so he has to talk to journalists for interviews like this even though he'd probably prefer to be doing something else

Interviewer: Peter Robinson

Interviewee: Will Young (obviously)

Will.

Hello.

 

How are you?

I’m a little bit hungover.

 

Where did you go?

Er, well I was in the edit for my TV special...

 

‘In the edit’ - technical term there.

Yes, technical term. Yep. Just dropping in some lingo there. ‘Doing the VT’. (Grandly) TEN YEARS IN THE BUSINESS! And then I got far too overexcited and went round my friend’s house and got drunk. In the garden.

 

It wasn’t very warm last night.

No, it wasn’t that warm. So I managed to cosy up in one of her fleeces.

And booze does have a lovely warming effect, does it not.

It does. Even more so this morning, when I’m getting intermittent hot flushes.

 

Are you pregnant?

I am! AGAIN! And I don’t even know how it happened...

 

If you get drunk, Will, these things do happen...

(Laughs)

 

Have you been to bed yet?

Oh yes, I’ve been to bed. I woke up this morning with things splayed around my bed. Like suncream. What was I doing with suncream last night?

 

What were you doing with it? Is this a road we don’t want to go down?

I wasn’t doing ANYTHING untoward. And that still leaves a whole window of discussion open, about what can be done with suncream. So yes, on my bed: suncream, laptop, toothbrush.

 

It sounds like you might have booked, and started packing for, a citybreak.

I’ve so booked a citybreak. To Luton!

 

Well a lot of people go to Luton and the first thing they do when they get there is fly off somewhere else. Why not just soak up the chilled out Luton vibes? Enjoy the sights!Exactly! You don’t have to fly from Luton. You can just be IN LUTON. I think I could save Thomas Cook with these ideas.

 

It’s 9:30am. Usually being first interviewer on a long day of interviews means you get someone when they’re at their best. Yet in this instance your Popjustice interview has been scheduled to coincide with a stinking hangover. Maybe lunchtime would have been better?

YES! I’ll be on a major high around lunchtime. Sorry about that.

 

What are you discussing in your interviews at the moment? Are people asking you about music, or is it mainly people asking you what you think about other people because talking about other people makes you more quotable, or...

That’s a good one, yes. I get asked about Simon Cowell a lot. And they normally want me to say something nasty, so then they can say “WILL YOUNG SLATES TV TALENT SHOW JUDGE”. “IT WASN’T MY BABY, SAYS SINGER.” “I NEVER LIKED BLACK TROUSERS.” (Cackles) Do you know what I mean? Things like that. And what else... (Thinks) Who’s current at the moment? I’ll tell you what, I’m sad that my release schedule meant that I missed the Royal Wedding.

 

Well we could briefly pretend that it’s still to come, if that would please you.

OH GO ON GO ON!!

 

Er... Are you looking forward to the Royal Wedding and have you been invited?

I haven’t been invited and I’m really, REALLY pissed off. I feel like I’m posh enough to go.

 

You should perform there.

Never mind that, I should be the VICAR! I am actually technically an ordained priest. I did it online with a friend. That was another drunken night.

 

To be honest that sounds like one of your video treatments. One of your whimsical, well, how would you describe your videos? There’s a feel to them, isn’t there. What is that feel?

How would I describe... What video?

 

All of them. They’ve all got the same feel.

Self indulgent? (Hoots)

 

Oh you know, it’s ‘here’s likeable Will Young, here’s something vaguely nostalgic and pensive, here’s some whimsy, here’s a narrative involving some task that requires completion’, you know what I mean...

Yes and there’s something a bit, you know, there are varying scenes running through so you can take it how you want it. A bit kitsch, maybe...

 

Is there also an element, at all, of ‘ideas Robbie Williams said no to’?

(Guffaws) Probably, yes! I think Top Gun was probably an idea he said no to. And apparently Kylie Minogue said no to Blue Peter.

 

I’m going to ask you a question that I’ve written down.

Okay.

 

I’ve got, written down, “tickets to come and see you on your tour are about forty pounds. Are they made from solid gold?”.

(Howls) They can’t... Are they FORTY POUNDS? I thought they were about twenty five quid!

 

I’m on the Live Nation website right now. I’m looking at tickets for the Bournemouth International Centre. £40.25.

God that’s a bit of a ripoff, isn’t it? I haven’t even gone into rehearsals yet, I’d better get on with it. I’d better get some trapezing in there!

 

I don’t mind paying £40.25 if there’s going to be explosions and dancers.

God, no, it was just going to be me and a ukelele. Oh God I’m going to have to completely rethink the whole thing!

Maybe I’m trapped in some sort of secondary ticketing market hell, perhaps they’re not really forty quid?

I hope you are.

 

Hang on... Right I’m on Ticketmaster now. Here we are.

Go on, how much are they on there?

 

I’m looking at Bournemouth International Centre again.

Go on.

 

This is taking a while. (Page takes a million years to load) I think this is definitely interview time well spent.

Definitely.

 

Now it’s asking me to do a security check.

You’re never going to pass that. I’m eating muesli while you do that.

 

What kind of muesli?

Nice muesli.

 

What are your thoughts on the Alpen debate?

I went through a real phase of loving Alpen. I used to love any cereal. Now I have moments of nostalgia so I might go for Honey Nut Loops, for example. Ready Brek? Amazing. Farley’s rusks? LOVE Farley’s rusks. They’re for babies, obviously.

 

Ticketmaster have delivered the goods. Upper Balcony, Row S. How much do you reckon?

£35?

 

FORTY POUNDS AND TWENTY FIVE PENCE. That’s for Upper Balcony, Row S.

(Unconvincingly) Well that’s a good seat though isn’t it. In the theatre that would be at least eighty quid!

 

I have a problem with the theatre. I don’t like people acting in front of me. And when they reference the audience, I mean I know it’s all about taking down the fourth wall and everything but I want that fourth wall to be there. And I want it made of bricks.

(Laughs) Oh God, you’re one of those people who goes to a gig and watches it through their phone, aren’t you?

 

I try not to spend too much time doing that. I mean, fair dos, you’re at a concert and you want to take a couple of pictures or bits of video because it’s nice to have your own record of the night even though they never come out properly. But the people who film the whole thing - from the front row...

It’s really weird. I saw someone at a Madonna gig a few years ago - which was an incredible gig, when Stephen Klein did all the shots for it - and this woman watched the entire show through the screen of her digital camera. I bet SHE’D pay £40.25 to watch my gig through a camera. I need to market my whole tour at her.

 

Well the thing is, as well as the ripoff pricing which is a bit of a Ratner moment but not to worry, as well as that you could also be flogging those Golden Circle sort of tickets that people do.

Those ‘pay £120 to come and have tea with me’ things?

 

Yes.

No, I don’t do those. But I do do meet and greets with competition winners, or charity people.

 

'Charity people'?

Well you know, they’ve won a competition...

 

‘Charity people’ sounds like the sort of phrase we’re not supposed to use in these enlightened times...

No it sounds like, er... No I didn’t mean it like that. Not like an interview that was in the Guardian where someone said something about, well, I won’t mention or you’ll put it in, but I’ll tell you after we’ve finished the interview. Um... Yes. No. Basically I don’t do golden tickets. I’m not Willy Wonka!

 

What would be a reasonable price to charge for a meeting with Will Young?

(Laughs) A pint of beer? I’m fairly easy to be honest, on all levels. I’m a little bit of a disappointment - I remember right back at the beginning someone ran a competition to hang out with me at one of the Saturday morning TV shows and the girl was really upset when she met me because she asked me what hobbies I had and I said (starts howling) I was really into BIRD WATCHING! (Cackles) I think she wanted to go and meet Gareth after that. I actually caught her mouthing, to someone else, ‘he’s such a loser’. (Laughs) And she had to spend all day with me!

When I first got into music the stuff that had been Number One ten years earlier - well, even three years earlier really but definitely ten years earlier - seemed like music from another planet. It that stuff from the late 70s, like punk or whatever, certainly seemed like nothing to do with the music I was buying, even if looking at it all now you can see how everything joins up. But the point is that popstars from a decade earlier seemed like they had nothing to do with me. And I’m wondering how you feel you fit in for the Nando’s generation. You’re like the Sex Pistols to them.

(Laughs) I’m probably more like Nanette Newman!

 

But - in the nicest possible way - are you nothing to do with their lives?

Young people now?

 

Ten, twelve years old...

That’s not true! I disagree with you. I’m always amazed when young kids up and know who I am. But they do.

 

Do they not know that you’re old? Maybe your cherubic features and motionless hairline have fooled them...

Well I can tell you that my features are definitely not cherubic this morning! I think it’s just the fact that my name’s Young.

 

Simple as that.

Yes! (Laughs)

 

Those screengrabs that were sent out from the ‘Jealousy’ video were a DISGRACE. :w00t:

That’s not my fault, that’s the director. I wanted to run through a field of lavender but they wouldn’t let me! I said, ‘five grand budget, Vaseline on the lens, I’ll run through my parents’ garden, how’s that?’. They didn’t want it.

 

Well there’s always Single Two. Depending on how ‘Jealousy’ does the five grand budget might be more appealing to the label after all...

No, we’re alright, I think we’ve already got a healthy budget for Single Two.

 

And you’re still sort of on RCA, is that right?

Yes. Yes I am.

 

But this is your final thing for them, yes?

For the moment, yes.

 

It seemed like your Greatest Hits was the final thing. But it wasn’t.

I don’t know why it went that way round, I can’t remember. But I’m glad it was this way round because I don’t think I would have written this record if it had been the other way round.

 

Why not?

Because it gave me more space. ‘The Hits’ I didn’t really have to think about - they’d all been done before - so that gave me more time to work on this record. I don’t know why, but I didn’t feel any pressure with this record.

 

Is the pressure slightly off because your most recent stuff hasn’t exactly been a run of multi-platinum Number Ones? Is it, maybe counter-intuitively, easier to follow up a flop than a hit?

Well I don’t think so because in a career... Well, my last studio about reached Number One or Number Two, ‘Changes’ was a Number One on airplay and that was without Radio 1. It depends how you measure success really I suppose, and I don’t mean that in well-media-trained sort of way. I didn’t sell as many as ‘Evergreen’, but I was really proud.

 

‘Evergreen’ was an amazing song.

‘Everygreen’ was an amazing song. But yes, I don’t know what it was. I don’t know...

 

Some stuff happened, it was good, The End.

I think I’d paid my mortgage off, that was probably it! (Laughs)

 

How amazing do you think you are?

Sometimes I think I’m really amazing. Sometimes I think I’m horrendous.

 

Does whether other people say you’re amazing make your own opinion on whether you’re amazing differ?

Oh big time, yes. Yes. I’m VERY needy. For example in the edit - there I go again with my lingo - the director, my friend Michael, said, ‘we’re going to have to change that shot, you’re not in the centre with the dancers’. And I was like, ‘no, I hit my mark’. And Michael was like, ‘Will Young hit his mark, it’s just that all sixteen professional dancers missed theirs?’. And in my head I was thinking, ‘yes, that is correct’. (Laughs) Do you know what I mean? I kind of work on that level.

 

After ten years what’s your coping mechanism for people shouting YOU’RE SHIT at you on the internet?

I just don’t look at things on the internet. I don’t understand why people do.

 

You’re on Twitter.

I am on Twitter. I’m dreadful on Twitter.

 

You’re not as good as I thought you’d be actually.

I know what you mean. I just don’t get it. Sorry. I don’t quite get it. I do have a bit of a phobia of the internet because people can say anything. And I worry that people won’t get my jokes, and then I’ll say something and people are like, ‘OH WILL WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT’ so I’m just like, ‘oh, I’ll just post a picture of a sheep every now and again then’.

 

The pictures are good. I was just hoping for more in the way of bon mots.

Yeah I know. But it’s like, I do have comments and observations, but I feel like... I can’t get my head around the egotistical thing. It’s like, ‘how important do you think you are?’.

 

And how important do you think you are?

Not very important! (Laughs) Not very important at all. I am not a heart surgeon.

 

I don’t want to listen to a heart surgeon singing songs.

Good point.

 

Just found the time to read this properly. Love his wacky sense of humour.

 

Looks from this interview that he could resign with his present label. :unsure: If he's talking about the budget for the second single it sounds as if it's already chosen.

Just found the time to read this properly. Love his wacky sense of humour.

 

Looks from this interview that he could resign with his present label. :unsure: If he's talking about the budget for the second single it sounds as if it's already chosen.

 

I laughed myself silly reading it, so funny.

 

yes looks like he might move, but he didnt seem totally certain,

 

just seen this on twitter..

RowettaGaydio Rowetta 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

and another tweet that i posted in fav tweet of the day

 

hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply » jamiebeags Jamie Beaglehole

@ @will_young31 Great interview on @GaydarRadio - just bought the album off the back of that one. And a very good album it is too. #willyoung

 

now im confused :rolleyes: :lol:

 

Digital spy

 

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/intervie...nton-abbey.html

MUSIC

Will Young interview: "I badly want to be in Downton Abbey"

Monday, August 22 2011, 16:08

 

Ten years after his Pop Idol win, Will Young remains a shining (albeit, rare) example that reality talent shows can occasionally find, well, talent. After four studio records, an impressive retrospective and a number of film and TV spots, Will has turned a corner for his fifth opus Echoes, calling on electro-pop expert Richard X to help him navigate a new, club-friendly sound. With said LP out this week, we caught up with him to find out more.

 

Your new single is a slight change in sound from your previous material; are you pleased with the response?

"Really pleased! Before a song gets released you're in your own bubble with it and worry that you could be the only one that thinks it's good! Changing your sound is a tricky thing to do, but I think it's come about at the right time and from the right place. It's not a massive change, and it's very genuine."

 

The change feels like a natural progression, particularly after your greatest hits...

"I think that was a big part of it. Not a lot of people heard my duet 'History' with Groove Armada, but that also gave me a lot of confidence and I'd been writing songs for the album for the last few years and filing them away. 'Good Things' was written six years ago now, just after Friday's Child. Dance was always a long-term goal."

 

The song is called 'Jealousy'; are you a jealous person?

"I'm not a jealous person in relationships, which seems to be quite rare! It's a horrible thing, and it makes people do such crazy things that don't make any sense. If I'm out with a boyfriend and I see him talking to a stranger it doesn't bother me."

 

 

 

 

What was it like working with Richard X (Goldfrapp, M.I.A) on Echoes?

"I wrote a letter to him and stalked him until he agreed to do it! I've always been a huge fan of his work - he's such an intelligent producer and I love his musical choices. I was really nervous, but he was the real linchpin of the record. I'm so pleased with how it's turned out."

 

We heard you were supposed to be doing something with the Shapeshifters too...

"I did do something with them but it never came out. It was a song they'd made and asked me to put a vocal on it. I did it at the same time as 'History', and I think you've got to be conscious of not ramming something down people's throats. I've learnt to be patient!"

 

How would you describe the rest of the album?

"The songs are quite direct this time, which is probably because we wrote the central line of most songs first and worked from there. They're all very personal things that are usually about what's going on that week, which is what I usually write about!"

 

You've filmed an ITV special to go out later this year; were you nervous about it?

"I was initially weary about doing the ITV special because I wanted it to be done in my way, but ITV were great. They trusted me and my team and we've come up with something great. The performances reference this woman called Ann Margret who did a lot of TV specials in the '60s. It was very simple and graphic but I think it really works."

 

You're one of the few males succeeding in a female-dominated pop market at the moment; why do you think that is?

"I have no idea! I love female artists, but I suppose girls represent more for the populist and the papers. You don't ever see what I'm wearing in the news - I suppose women are more marketable. We have some amazing female artists though - someone like Adele is hands-down amazing. I don't mind though, it's less competition for me!"

 

 

 

 

You haven't done many collaborations in the past; is there anyone you're keen to work with?

"There was actually one collaboration that was meant to happen on this album but didn't in the end. I'd love to do something with Beth Ditto - that would be so cool! Her EP is so amazing - very Madonna. I don't know why she didn't do a full album!"

 

Are you planning to return to acting soon?

"At the end of next year I've got a couple of things. I really want to do a musical, and I badly want to be in Downton Abbey! I've also been working on this spoken word project to do with music; it sounds really pretentious but it's great."

 

Are you looking forward to this year's X Factor?

"It's great Saturday night TV - it'll be interesting to see what happens with the new judges. People get really worked up over it - including me! I've been known to shout at the TV at Louis Walsh. I'm more interested in the contestants, especially if they can find another Leona Lewis."

 

It's ten years since you won Pop Idol; could you handle the pressure of The X Factor today?

"The show has evolved with the media so it must be harder in that respect. I think I could still handle it; I was so focused on having a pop career that everything else would be periphery. It was different back then as it was all new, but I was so focused on getting a recording contract that I think I'd still be the same way if I was entering today. All you need is your foot in the door!"

 

Will Young's new single 'Jealousy' and album Echoes are out now.

» OfficialCharts Official Charts

The Official Album Chart on @bbcr2 with @fakejowhiley tonight at 8pm. @csi_popmusic reviewing @hardfi @will_young31 and @LennyKravitz

 

:w00t:

 

Thanks Sunday will pop back for a read, still catching up :rolleyes:

Edited August 22, 201113 yr by phil3579

Thanks Sunday.

 

Are you planning to return to acting soon?

"At the end of next year I've got a couple of things. I really want to do a musical, and I badly want to be in Downton Abbey! I've also been working on this spoken word project to do with music; it sounds really pretentious but it's great."

 

Anyone know of any new musicals in the pipeline?

 

Thanks Sunday.

Anyone know of any new musicals in the pipeline?

No..but he might of written one of his own :lol: wouldn't put it past him. :P

 

Thanks Phil..Will listen to that review tonight...And thanks Avis for the This Morning times..

Thanks everyone for the updates and info-I am having trouble keeping up!

Just remembered to join into Jo Whiley. Hope I haven't missed the album review. :unsure:

Capital fm showbiz reporter

RT @Popprince: Good to catch up with Will Young today, talking about his TV special, touring and Toronto. New album Echoes is one of his best, me

 

 

Jealousy now #5 and #39

Edited August 22, 201113 yr by Sunday

Just remembered to join into Jo Whiley. Hope I haven't missed the album review. :unsure:

 

Let us know what they say please :D

 

Let us know what they say please :D

 

Will do. Just read a text from someone saying Echoes is fantastic & Will's best album yet.

 

Great to read the tweet from the capital reporter. Really hope they start playing Jealousy.

 

Editing to say hope Fraser McAlpine is more endeared with Echoes than he is with Lenny Kravitz album. Gave it 1 out of 5. :o

Edited August 22, 201113 yr by truly talented

Have reviewed echoes yet TT ?