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Oh lordy! what a cracking write up from music week. :yahoo:

Will's tweeted that the video is done! :cheer: can someone bring it over with pics please? I've got to go out now.x

Thanks sunday, it's always great to see how Will can shift his tour tickets so quickly, that's because he's the best live male singer I know. :wub:

Thanks for all the new Jealousy reviews they're all brilliant! it makes me wonder what some people on here are actually hearing. :blink: :lol:

Fantastic reviews coming in droves, :D the Popjustice one still has the edge though with all those 5* album track ratings.

I know! isn't it just too classy for words?I love it. :yahoo: * by the way I listened to The feeling in concert on radio2 last month with Jo Whiley, I really enjoyed it.

It's only their petty Jealousy of course. :cool: :dancing:

Jealousy is just simple understated class and the production from RichardX is absolutely sublime, the kids who mainly buy singles won't understand any of that, nor do they want it but the ones who matter will.

I have radio2 on most days up until about 9pm, so I'll be listening and thanks TT.

I think the guys at Popjustice are mighty pleased with Echoes don't you think? :cheer: and believe me, they don't throw their 5* awards around unless they mean it. I'm desperate to hear all these tracks. :dancing:

This is Will's new bio from the official site's homepage. In December 2011, Will Young will cautiously celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his winning Pop Idol. That a first-wave reality TV show winner has endured for a decade in the British music industry, collecting plaudits, fans, multimillion sales and crafting some of the deftest Britishmusic of his era seems enough reason to pop the corks. That he has done it his own way, thoughtfully, carefully and retaining his uniquely British sensibility is astonishing. At the beginning of this year, Will took up aresidency at the 606 jazz club in Chelsea, performing to between 50-100 strong audiences a night. It was just one pit-stop in a series of key events that ledto the event of his beautifully personal 5th studio album, Echoes. ‘You have to remember that my first gig was in WembleyArena,’ he says ‘I’ve had to go backwards in ten years to get to where I want to be.’ The intimacy of these gigs was not about trading down, it was about a subtler shift that has marked Will’s career in the ten years of his triumph;prizing creativity over commerce. His trajectory has been a fascinatingly new model for pop - implicitly asking the question as to whether the ticker-tape finale of the instant returns of reality-approved pop canequate with art. With Echoes, he may just have answered it. A long enough time has passed now for Will to contemplate his entrance into the giddy pop stratosphere philosophically. ‘Half of my brand was created the first time I was on TV. The other half was Leave Right Now.’ If we think we know what Will Young represents musically, we must on the occasion of his tenth anniversary prepare to divide the square of these assumptions into a brand new triangle. With Echoes, he has broken his own rules, side stepping tentatively into the world of electronic music, making an album of sophistry and gentility that pulses with the undercurrents of the dance-floor, without ever quite taking their position directly under the mirror-ball. The sweeping strings and key changes of his hit ballads have made way for synthesised melody, towards something sparer and more controlled. ‘I had to learn to undo my musical muscle memory,’ he explains. ‘To allow space into the music.’ It was Will’s personal plan to make a dance record. ‘I started listening to the remixes of my music a nd thinking about how my voice worked in a different way on them,’ he says. From Andy ‘Groove Armada’ Cato’s subtle rewire of Friday’s Child to Fred Falke’s balls-out high nrg re-rub of Grace, this soundscape seemed to suit the subtlety of his voice. ‘If you think back to classic vocal house records, this music centres around voices.’ He was ready to go there. As he entered his 30s,Will was enjoying discovering the margins of London nightlife; tellingly, he is in the middle of a house move from sedate West London to the nocturnal mayhem of the East. As with many turns in his career, the intention didn’t quite turnout as planned. Something far more interesting occurred. Benefiting from the hardy musical ear of former Hacienda resident DJ and the man who, in his career at the helm of M People brought the kind of audience Will Young now has to housemusic, the idea formed to work the other way round. To bespoke the subtler timbres of dance music to Will’s audience. ‘We became unlikely friends after he worked on Let It Go,’ Will says, ‘What I love about Mike is that he’s not snobby at all, he’s just completely intuitive about music.’ Having laid to rest the first chapter of his career with a successful Greatest Hits set, Will was keen to move on. ‘With the duet I did with Groove Armada, History a door just opened to me. Getting to perform it on Jonathan Ross was a really important moment for me. After The Hits, which had done really well in drawing a line on the first part of my career, I had this opportunity to perform something very different.That was all I needed to give me the confidence I’d always needed. It just feltright.’ Will found his ideal writing partners in the electronic duo Kish Mauve and began crafting Echoes at their studio in Wales. Together they fashioned first single, Jealousy, in a day. ‘Instantly I felt like it was going to turn the whole record on its head. I’d been doing quite upbeat, feel-good dance music with a variety of producersand then I got with them and I knew this was it. I’d found a sound. It was natural and relaxed, not upbeat euro-house. It felt right for my voice. So I just found myself heading back there again and again and occasionally canoeing on the Hay river between sessions.’ A pattern emerged. ‘I’ll go for a canoe,then I’ll write a hit,’ he laughs. While staying in Manchester to film his starring role in the Sky Living drama series Bedlam,Will went shopping. ‘To Piccadilly Records, the amazing record shop in the Northern Quarter. I bought the Steve Mason album. Richard X had produced it so,so well. I knew Richard’s stuff from before but all the decisions he had madeon that record really resonated with me. I went to a gig at The Warehouse Projects with Pickers and saw Steve play and then wrote Richard a card asking if he’d consider producing my next record. I knew I needed someone who understood pop completely but was a little leftfield. I trusted everything about him’ The two hit it off.‘Richard is a funny, ironic, Northern guy. I got on with him great.’ A magic emerged in the studio. Like all the best dance music, it sounded upbeat whilstfeeling downbeat. There was a certain melancholy behind the groove. ‘Which is my life, basically,’ he laughs. Something interesting had started happening to his voice as it moved into a new, higher register. ‘It’s quite weirdly prominent now, from Antony Hegarty to Wild Beasts, obviously JakeShears and even Mika, but men singing in that register seems to make senseagain.’ The resulting album is a quietly joyful equation. From the gentle epiphany of Personal Thunder to the solemn heartbreak of Outsider (‘When I feel down, I don’t relate to people. Inmy work I don’t feel like I relate to my peers, as a gay man I don’t necessarily relate and that’s what that song is. It’s about isolation’) this is an evolutionary shift in Will’s catalogue. While songs like Jealousy and Hearts on Fire have a habit of lodging in the brain after one listen, their lyrical depths bear up to repeat playing. ‘I can say with some certainty,’ says Will,with a little pushing, ‘that this is my best record. I like being tested as a singer. I’m 32, where do I go? In ten years I’m on my last record with Sony. Where do I see this evolving? There’s only so much more money you can make, if money is your motive. There’s only so much more famous you can become, if that’s your motive. So it’s about other things that are challenging for me.’ Echoes is clearly about developing new taste levels for Will. During the making of the record he took a sabbatical to Serbia to watch patiently his investment co-producing a Ralph Fiennes directed and starring film treatment of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. It helped flex another intellectual and creative muscle for the artist. ‘The storyof Coriolanus is amazing. It’s very political, obviously but it’s alsoShakespeare’s noisiest play. It has the most stage direction for music. Theparallels to now are so weirdly on it - the watering down of the elitism of politics and having to take it to the masses.’ Clearly, Will has started thinking about the bigger picture not just with Echoes. ‘I don’t think I was mature enough at the start, because of where I’d come from to trust my own decisions. It was a bit like moving East now. If I’d done it earlier it would’vebeen for the wrong reasons. It would’ve been trying to be cool. It’s the samething with the music. Because of the platform I’d come from I was desperate tobe accepted in area that I wasn’t accepted in. If you’d told me I could’ve had a pop at being in Kerrang magazine when I would’ve tried it. That was my mentality for the first few years of my career. Whoever doesn’t like me, I wantto do that. Therein disaster lies. Now I want to make music and try new things not to be accepted by other people but to please me. Everything from curating to creating this record has been about making me happier.’ Happy anniversary, WillYoung. http://www.willyoung.co.uk/gb/biography

Why isn't it Evergreen listed? Anything Is Possible was hardly played.

Totally wrong surname for him. :lol:

His legs are a bit of alright as well. :wub:

I think there'll be a lot more million sellers on a regular basis with some downloads being so cheap, I can remember when Will sold his 1.8 million you only had 2 options, go to a shop to buy, his cd's were £3.99 :o and cassettes were £1.99. Does everyone think it's easier to buy your music now?

It's like the return of Crazy Frog.

Love the album artwork and love the red lettering.:cheer:

Hiya fatmuffin, http://www.sheknows.com/graphics/emoticons/wave2.gif it's lovely to see you on here again. :D

IWe know just the person if she's around and not on holiday somewhere. ;) VANESSA!!

Thanks to Bumblies on BabyDevoted, :cheer:

Everyone has been so positive about Jealousy and I think I'll go crazy before I hear it in full next week. http://www.sheknows.com/graphics/emoticons/aerobics.gif

I'll be trying on Friday for Manchester, I'm so pleased you're all sorted on here for tickets.

That'll be lovely sunday, although with only one night booked at the manchester venue this time, I'm just hoping to get a ticket.

Thanks sajjadali :yahoo: hopefully I'll be going to Manchester and Blackpool. :cheer:

Oh oh oh oh, in the bin bin bin bin. * forgot to say between 2 and 5.