:blush: I haven't done that in ages. Shall I step down as mod. :P

 

:lol: no definitely not... but you can go and sit on the naughty step AGAIN :P :heehee:

 

http://www.supernanny.co.uk/Images/content/needsyou/sn_naughty_step.gif

Edited September 26, 201113 yr by phil3579

Could this be the answer?

Headspace is his band TT :D

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HEADSPACE is a British rock band consisting of Adam Wakeman (keyboards), Damian Wilson (vocals), Pete Rinaldi (guitar), Richard Brook (drums), and bassist Lee Pomeroy.

 

The first release, an ep entitled “I am...” coincided with the opening slots on Ozzy Osbourne’s European leg of the Black Rain tour in 2007.

 

In between the individual band members touring and writing commitments, the HEADSPACE debut album is due for release early 2012 and is tipped to be one of the hot progressive albums of the year. Get connected and keep up to date with the latest news from the band.

 

Latest Twitter updates

 

Yes I deleted when I realised. :lol:

 

I'm not having a very good day. :lol:

I'm not having a very good day. :lol:

 

:heehee: youre not the only one Gill :P :lol:

think if i had a brain today i'd be dangerous :blink:

Triumph of The Will

Monday 26 September 2011

 

He's just released the best album of his career, he's happily single, and he's bought a new house. Is it any wonder Will Young is so content? Alan Corr meets the singer and talks about love, life and growing up

 

1 of 1 Will Young It wasn't meant to happen this way. The usual career trajectory of most TV talent show winners is one of initial hype, a mandatory Christmas No.1, tabloid ignominy, and, finally, an over-familiarity with Simon Cowell's message machine.

 

 

Then there's Will Young.

 

 

Ten years after triumphing on Pop Idol, a forerunner to X Factor, the 32-year-old finds himself with eight million album sales, a promising sideline career as an actor, and the respect of the kind of peers who would normally scoff at his lowly beginnings.

 

 

"Well, it's great to feel that you're not mad and that you believed in something and other people believed in it too", says Young in his crisp, well-educated accent. "I don't mean that in a smug way but it's nice when things go right, it's nice when you have a passion for something and you want it to work. It's nice to be liked really. That's why I'm in the job - most performers just want to be liked. We all want to be appreciated. It's what makes us want to perform."

 

 

Liked he is. I meet Young after one of his busiest weekends of being 'liked' in quite a while. His new album Echoes has just gone to No.1, ITV have just given him his own hour-long special, and he's moved into his new house. "It's been a mad weekend. It's crazy", he smiles. "As my friend's daughter said the other day when I got her a Justin Bieber ticket, I have so much happening I don't know what to do with it. It's a bit overwhelming but it's fantastic."

 

 

He may be cast as a kind of Tory-voting, well-groomed pop star from the rolling hills of Berkshire but somehow you don't begrudge Young his success. Then again, he's always been a different kind of performer. As well as winning an Ivor Novello Award for the very fine Leave Right Now he's had an edition of The South Bank Show dedicated to him and aged 22, he sang with Burt Bacharach at the Royal Albert Hall.

 

He's also treaded the boards in a production of Noël Coward's The Vortex (a play about drug abuse and sexual vanity among the upper classes) and he's still toying with the idea of making an album of Coward songs. Not something we can see Olly Murs doing anytime soon.

 

 

In fact, there's something of the old-fashioned song and dance man about Young, but he has a very modern heart. That's more than clear on Echoes, an elegant set of dance tracks that recall the coming-of-age gravitas of George Michael's Older and which take Young's studied melancholia to new heights. He's been writing songs for the album for nearly seven years but he began to record it in earnest after the reception of his work with cooler-than-thou dance act Groove Armada.

 

 

It appears that having great record sales and success were all very well, but now Young craves credibility. "Well no. I'm not doing this album for credibility. I'm doing it for my own integrity", he says. "That's a better word but I think you're right - when you get to a certain stage in a career you do feel braver and I like to think I've always been brave. I don't have to worry about the mortgage so much and things like that, which is nice, but I think it is about integrity now for me.

 

"Sometimes people can treat listeners as stupid and I don't think listeners are stupid. I think listeners want to be challenged. I'm not saying this is an avant-garde record but I think people overthink it sometimes as, 'mainstream, oh no, we can't do that!' Really? I think you'll find it will be OK."

 

 

Echoes is certainly a far cry from the mum pop tag he's been inflicted with over the years. "People are too quick to judge audiences but an audience is an audience and I don't have a problem with any audience people want to associate me with", Young says maybe a tad tetchily. "I just had a chat with someone who told me their 88-year-old grandmother loves my new single and then I spoke to someone who said she'd just heard her eight-year-old daughter singing it."

 

 

He denies that Jealousy, the first single from the new album, is in any way about him. "Actually Jealousy and Come On are the only songs that are not personal", he says. "I'm not a jealous person. Well I don't get jealous in relationships. I can get professionally jealous sometimes, oh yeah we all do. There's a song that you wish you'd written or a director you want to work with. I don't get jealous of friends' success. I embrace it."

 

 

The electro throb of Echoes does take him right back to his clubbing days. "I don't know about taking me back because I get worse as I get older!" he laughs. "I love clubbing. Oh god yeah, I love it. I love going out. Never did drugs. I have enough natural energy going on in my head and my body, so no thanks. I'm not going out in that capacity. Although I love dancing, I don't go on the dance scene and that's not where this record came from. I like to stretch myself."

 

 

Young has stretched himself quite a bit over his decade-long career. A graduate of politics, he writes occasional opinion pieces for the London Times and he's appeared on the BBC's Question Time. On the flipside of all that, he was named Male Rear of the Year in 2005, an accolade he can add to awards for the Most Stylish Male Music Star, Best Bod, Sexiest Star, Best Dressed and Best Hair.

 

 

"Best bod?" he asks. "God you wouldn't want to see me today! I just scoffed two slices of banana loaf! It gets harder to keep in shape the older you get but I do run the London Marathon every year so that does help and later today I'll be off to run around the park."

 

ext thing Young will be telling us he helps out in a shelter for sick children in Bolivia every summer and campaigns on behalf of the endangered Andorran llama. In reality, he does indeed do a lot of work for charity and is a spokesperson for several.

 

 

He deals with the inevitable X Factor question with good humour. "Well I was in a van moving to my new house when it was on the other night", he says. "It's hard for me because I get asked about The X Factor a lot. This is probably the 100th time this month. I came from that kind of show, a very different beast then, and I do have an interest because it's part of popular culture and if it brings great talent than that's fantastic."

 

 

Young came out as gay shortly after he won Pop Idol in 2002 and has been single for three years. Is he enjoying the freedom? "What's it like? Three years, it's alright. I'll go out with someone if I meet someone. I'm happy being single. I don't really think about it that much to be honest. I've had two relationships, they've been great, they finished and the next one will happen. I am very happy at the moment really."

 

 

So at the ripe old age of 32, you're beginning to feel comfortable in your own Speedos? "I suppose so", Young says. "As you get older you always, hopefully, feel more comfortable, get wiser and all that which makes for an easier life. I think it's combination of all those things. It's also about being around for ten years, growing as a songwriter, growing as a singer."

 

 

He has to leave right now. "Someone is waving at me", he says apologetically. "I'm on a very tight schedule."

 

 

That or there be must be more banana loaf doing the rounds over at his new house.

 

 

Echoes is out now

 

Alan Corr

 

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0926/youngwill.html

Yes I deleted when I realised. :lol:

 

I'm not having a very good day. :lol:

 

Sorry i posted and then went out :lol:

 

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David_IX David Anderson

@will_young31 hey spotted you at the White Rose Ball last night! You enjoy Liza?

 

so looks like he was defo there

Still doing the interviews . He must be reading all those reviews to come across so happy. :D

 

Thanks phil. Great find.

Sorry Phil i must have missed the interview you posted :D

Ive just skim read this i cant remember seeing it before

 

Will Young speaks out on Marx, phone hacking, X Factor and the riots

 

 

Marx got it right,” declares Will Young with a flourish, as the former Pop Idol identifies the unattainable material desires imposed by the capitalist system as the root cause of the London riots.

 

It’s not a discussion one expects to have with a winner from Simon Cowell’s star-making factory but then Young, 32, has turned out to be no ordinary pop idol.

 

Dumping Cowell soon after his 2002 triumph in the ITV talent show, the smooth-toned singer has enjoyed sustained musical success, selling eight million records. His new album, Echoes, has gone straight to number one.

 

It fulfils his aim to meld the melancholic sensibilities of the Pet Shop Boys and his recent discovery Bronski Beat, with a falsetto vocal style which Young says is consciously inspired by indie outsiders Wild Beasts.

 

Declaring his homosexuality during his first flush of television fame, the outspoken Exeter University politicsgraduate is now fighting an even bigger battle than defeating Gareth Gates in front of 13 million viewers.

 

Young believes young people have been let down by successive governments and that the anger on the streets last month was caused by the dissatisfaction of feeling disenfranchised in a hollow, materialistic society.

 

 

2001 triumph but escaped from Cowell's clutches

He is partnering with a London charity, Catch 22, to help mentor young people who find themselves in difficult situations get the skills and training that they need to get back on the right path.

 

“I think something has to be done,” said Young. “It’s a real worry that they’ve taken away any sense of mutual responsibility and social cohesion. Everything has been stripped away .Young people can learn if you show them the right way. I do feel they’ve been let down.

 

“What do they have to aspire to? You go from being young to adult with no inbetween. We just have (advertising) messages everywhere.

 

They are so marketed at. Young people and gay men, they are the biggest areas, the youth pound and the pink pound.”

 

Young moved to a new home in Hackney just as the streets were set ablaze. “It shocked me but once there was 16,000 police on the streets and the Turks in Dalston said ‘enough is enough’, then people didn’t feel so frightened. There was a bit of a power change. It brought communities together in a way.”

 

 

Unlikely fan of cult band Wild Beasts

Young’s absorption of Marx’s theory of alienation survived his clash with Cowell’s “profit above art” credo. “I remember clearly that Marx made me want to be a singer,” the Berkshire-born performer said.

 

“For Marx it was all about putting yourself into your work. People aren’t allowed to do that because they try to strip away that sense of self. For the last 50 years people are harbouring a miserable society. The primary thing about capitalism is to make the consumer feel unhappy, to make you spend more money.”

 

It was in order to gain control of his “art” that Young declined to be managed by Cowell after his win and signed instead with Simon Fuller, the impresario behind American Idol and keeper of the “Beckham brand”.Young said: “I don’t think anyone can survive for a long period and not be in control of their career.”

 

Despite believing that the “innocence” of his Pop Idol run has been replaced by the more manipulative X Factor, Young has no regrets about his participation. “I would do that show again in a heartbeat. I got instant feedback every week and the level of confidence I had in my singing grew.”

 

“I love X Factor. It’s all round family entertainment andyou get to see live musical acts too. It’s like Commedia dell’arte (Italian masked theatre popular in the 16th century). You’ve got all the different characters in there. If you broke it down into a dramatic script it would read brilliantly.”

 

Young chose to announce his sexuality in the News of the World “because another paper was going to out me.” Despite collaborating with the tabloid, Young has learnt that he was a hacking target.

 

“I did get called in and saw lots of pages with lots of numbers, written down and scribbled,” he said. “I don’t know if they listened in, I haven’t heard back since I was invited to the meeting.”

 

He doesn’t think the public wants to hear “celebrities moan”about being targeted but is delighted that the full extent of the criminal activity has been uncovered.

 

“The Dowler case was really despicable. For it to come out, it shows that we have a working democracy. That MP (Tom Watson) kept picking at it, he wouldn’t let it go and he unearthed a whole menagerie of corruption. I think it’s great, it shows that there is legal recourse and our country is working. It shows that we have a working democracy and we can get legal recourse and the right result.”

 

Young, who appeared in a production of Noel Coward’s TheVortex, has his own dramatic ambitions. He helped produce a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus starring Ralph Fiennes and has “a new film project Iwant to fund and a couple of theatre things I’m working on.

 

“But I get distracted so easily and I want to try and remainas focused as possible on the album. It’s a different sound for me and it’s important because it could so easily have gone wrong.”

 

A longer term project is a civil partnership and children.“I do feel quite broody at the moment. I’m single at the moment. I’d have to be with someone for a period of time.

 

I see my friends who are having children, straight couples, and I like the idea of it.

 

“It’s like working with Catch 22, which gave me the desire to mentor and to do workshops. I think it’s a natural feeling to want to put something of yourself into other people. I never felt like that before really.”

 

And in a pop world full of “boring mannequins”, the Marxist pop singer promises to remain opinionated, “even if it sometimes bites me on the arse.”

 

http://www.beehivecity.com/music/will-youn...he-riots897679/

Edited September 26, 201113 yr by phil3579

Get Ready For ‘Luther’ & ‘Bedlam’ With A Couple Of New Sneak Peeks!

 

 

Bedlam’s first episode will get a nice lead in from the season finale of Doctor Who. The supernatural show is based around an apartment block called Bedlam Heights, which was previously a mental asylum, and it follows the strange hauntings that happen to all its new residents. Originally aired on Sky in the UK earlier this year, Bedlam has a number of faces that you may recognize with Charlotte Salt (The Tudors), Theo James (Downton Abbey), Ashley Madekwe (Secret Diary of a Call Girl), Hugo Speer (Skins) and Will Young (Pop Idol winner, Skins) all making appearances in this six episode show.

 

I have not yet had the opportunity to see Bedlam and so will be tuning in on Saturday. Bedlam looks genuinely scary (and freaky!), and although a second series has not yet been officially announced, the writers have confirmed they have begun penning it, which is always a good sign. Take a look at the exclusive trailer and sneak peek from the show below. Bedlam premieres Saturday, October 1, 10:00pm ET/PT. It moves to its regular time slot Saturday, October 8, 9:00pm ET/PT.

 

:w00t:

http://www.britscene.com/2011/09/get-ready...eak-peeks/28566

 

 

 

and just a snippet from the White rose ball

 

LIZA MINNELLI'S MOVING PERFORMANCE

 

 

 

Liza Minnelli gave a moving performance this weekend after visiting the UK’s first holocaust centre

Tuesday September 27,2011

By Daily Express Reporter Have your say(0)

MUSIC legend Liza Minnelli gave a moving performance this weekend after visiting the UK’s first holocaust centre.

 

 

The 65-year-old appeared at the White Rose charity ball on Sunday in front of guests including actors EmIlia Fox, Dougray Scott, Tara Fitzgerald, Maureen Lipman and singer Will Young.

 

During her hour-long midnight performance Liza swigged soft drinks and talked of her experience at the Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire where she met a holocaust survivor and schoolchildren: “When they took me up to the Holocaust Centre, I thought it was just going to be dreadful and depressing.

 

“But children are being told what happened and little by little they hear the journey of a survivor – it helps teach the children and helps him, too.”

 

The ball at the Park Plaza Hotel in central London raised £100,000 from the sale of tickets and auction items.

 

We hear hotel staff were in a tizz as Liza enjoyed a cigarette or three on the premises.

 

 

When they took me up to the Holocaust Centre, I thought it was just going to be dreadful and depressing

Liza Minnelli

 

 

An insider said: “There was smoke near the lifts and in the corridors and no one really knew what to say to her.”

 

http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/273...ing-performance

Edited September 27, 201113 yr by phil3579

Ive just skim read this i cant remember seeing it before

http://www.beehivecity.com/music/will-youn...he-riots897679/

Thanks Phil..enjoyed this..it's all over twitter too. :P

 

Hope Bedlam does well In the US.

Thanks Phil - I see the usual comments under that Beehivecity one - but nicely fielded by two others - :P

A PR agent as tweeted this

Performances so far today from Labrinth, Cher Lloyd, Will Young and now.... Kasabian! Now that's what I call an away day!

He also tweeted this morning

Amazing live shows from @CherLloyd and @Labrinthda1st. Not bad for a Tuesday morning!

Thanks Sunday. That's a very mixed bag.

I know TT very strange...the PR agent that tweeted works with Will i remember he tweeted when Will got to #1 saying they were going out to celebrate a successful campaign.

A tweet from someone who works for sony.

Great company day!Thanks Labrinth,Cher Lloyd,Will Young,Olly Murs & Kasabian for great performances

 

It sounds like a showcase of sorts to me..perhaps big wigs for Promo abroad? can't think of anything else, this must be what the boys were rehearsing for, Dave tweeted this earlier.

davidtenchDavid Tench

Little performance with @will_young31 done. He was ace as always. Cheeky pint in the sun by the Thames with Rupe Dogg? Ooh go on then. :-)

The lady who tweeted has this in her Bio. :huh:

Sony Music Video Commissioner.

Its all odd...i wish we knew what was happening. :P

Thanks for articles and snippets, I enjoyed reading them all. :D B-)