perjantai 31. joulukuuta 2010
Hyvää uutta vuotta!!
Tahdon kiittää teitä kaikkia upeasta vuodesta. Blogini (tai nettisivuni vuonna 2007-2009) ei ole ikinä nähnyt yhtä menestyksekästä vuotta kuin 2010 on ollut ja blogin pitäminen on minusta nyt mukavempaa kuin ikinä. Here's to an amazing 2010 and to an even better 2011!! Ja toivotaan, että vihdoinkin ensi vuonna jokainen suomalainen fani pääsisi näkemään McFlyn, oli se sitten Suomessa, Ruotsissa, Englannissa tai missä tahansa. :)
sunnuntai 26. joulukuuta 2010
McFly Fearne Cottonin pikkujouluissa
"Fearne Cotton (and her mum) host McFly at a Radio 1 Christmas party
I’VE always thought McFly look like the type of boys I’d like to take home to meet my mum. And so, it seems, does Fearne Cotton.
She even went a step further by letting her mum interview the boys, including Tom, or “Tim” as she called him, for a Radio 1 live show yesterday. Aaah."
Daily Mirror
"Why didn’t McFly come to our Christmas party bearing small gingerbread treats?
Probably because we’re not Fearne Cotton, but still, it would have been nice of them to offer. At least send the small gingerbread treats for us to obliterate.
Fearne was hosting a Christmas party at her house in London this morning, with the whole thing being broadcast on Radio 1 (show off). And who turned up? Holly Willoughby, random Radio 1 DJs we can't be arsed to name and only bloody McFly!
Tom Fletcher tweeted this morning: “At Fearne's place. Going to be singing a little festive number in a bit but we're minus Danny and Dougie has bottled it so I'm solo!”
We’ll never bottle it and leave you solo, Tom. Sure, that’s a cheesy line, but anything for a go on Tom."
3am
Ja tässä audiota noista pikkujouluista:
I’VE always thought McFly look like the type of boys I’d like to take home to meet my mum. And so, it seems, does Fearne Cotton.
She even went a step further by letting her mum interview the boys, including Tom, or “Tim” as she called him, for a Radio 1 live show yesterday. Aaah."
Daily Mirror
"Why didn’t McFly come to our Christmas party bearing small gingerbread treats?
Probably because we’re not Fearne Cotton, but still, it would have been nice of them to offer. At least send the small gingerbread treats for us to obliterate.
Fearne was hosting a Christmas party at her house in London this morning, with the whole thing being broadcast on Radio 1 (show off). And who turned up? Holly Willoughby, random Radio 1 DJs we can't be arsed to name and only bloody McFly!
Tom Fletcher tweeted this morning: “At Fearne's place. Going to be singing a little festive number in a bit but we're minus Danny and Dougie has bottled it so I'm solo!”
We’ll never bottle it and leave you solo, Tom. Sure, that’s a cheesy line, but anything for a go on Tom."
3am
Ja tässä audiota noista pikkujouluista:
perjantai 24. joulukuuta 2010
torstai 23. joulukuuta 2010
"Harry McFly
McFly have come back to find the charts flooded with lad totty. What’s a boyband to do? Beef up, get a new sound and drop our pants, says Harry Judd…
Where on earth have you guys been?
“The new album took two years to make. We hooked up with American mega-producer Dallas Austin and wrote some tracks with Taio Cruz. We are still very ambitious and our main goal is to achieve longevity and stay relevant.”
Will that be tough when there are so many new bands?
“While we were away, JLS and The Wanted appeared and we were like: ‘Oh My God, we’ve got competition!’ But we write and play all our own music, and there’s only Take That who do that. And we plan to be around as long as them!”
Did you all buff up to take on JLS?
[Laughs.] “We wanted to come back sounding and looking amazing. There’s no point beating round the bush – we want to look great. We don’t want JLS to make us look scrawny!”
Your bum sure seems to be appearing everywhere!
“Ah yes! [Laughs.] It just keeps happening when there are cameras or webcams! We are best mates and get very immature and muck around. Our poor managers keep going: ‘Enough with the bums out all the time!’ But we can’t stop.”
Isn’t it supply and demand?
“Exactly! Even our recent tour VIP passes had pictures of my naked arse, which we found hilarious!”
So what will you do if you hit No.1 again?
“It’s becoming a bit of a trend for male stars to strip, but we’ve already taken it pretty far. What’s left? I don’t think I could put my fans through a full frontal…”
McFly’s new album, Above The Noise, is out now."
Star Magazine
McFly yllätti muutamia faneja Noel's Christmas Presents-ohjelmassa:
Smile High Clubin Ed ja Luke haastattelivat McFlyta Jingle Bell Ballissa:
Ja haluaisin vielä toivottaa Harrylle hyvää 25-vuotissyntymäpäivää! :)
McFly have come back to find the charts flooded with lad totty. What’s a boyband to do? Beef up, get a new sound and drop our pants, says Harry Judd…
Where on earth have you guys been?
“The new album took two years to make. We hooked up with American mega-producer Dallas Austin and wrote some tracks with Taio Cruz. We are still very ambitious and our main goal is to achieve longevity and stay relevant.”
Will that be tough when there are so many new bands?
“While we were away, JLS and The Wanted appeared and we were like: ‘Oh My God, we’ve got competition!’ But we write and play all our own music, and there’s only Take That who do that. And we plan to be around as long as them!”
Did you all buff up to take on JLS?
[Laughs.] “We wanted to come back sounding and looking amazing. There’s no point beating round the bush – we want to look great. We don’t want JLS to make us look scrawny!”
Your bum sure seems to be appearing everywhere!
“Ah yes! [Laughs.] It just keeps happening when there are cameras or webcams! We are best mates and get very immature and muck around. Our poor managers keep going: ‘Enough with the bums out all the time!’ But we can’t stop.”
Isn’t it supply and demand?
“Exactly! Even our recent tour VIP passes had pictures of my naked arse, which we found hilarious!”
So what will you do if you hit No.1 again?
“It’s becoming a bit of a trend for male stars to strip, but we’ve already taken it pretty far. What’s left? I don’t think I could put my fans through a full frontal…”
McFly’s new album, Above The Noise, is out now."
Star Magazine
McFly yllätti muutamia faneja Noel's Christmas Presents-ohjelmassa:
Smile High Clubin Ed ja Luke haastattelivat McFlyta Jingle Bell Ballissa:
Ja haluaisin vielä toivottaa Harrylle hyvää 25-vuotissyntymäpäivää! :)
maanantai 20. joulukuuta 2010
Cheerios Childline
McFly esiintyi 3. joulukuuta Dublinissa Cheerios Childline -hyväntekeväisyyskonsertissa ja se tuli TV:stä Irlannissa 18. päivä. Videon alussa Westlifen Nicky Byrne kertoo hieman tapahtumasta ja n. ajassa 1.55 McFly tulee esiintymään.
Lopuksi kaikki illan esiintyjät tulivat Westlifen kanssa lavalle What About Now'n lopun ajaksi, McFlykin vilahtaa siellä jossain vaiheessa :)
He myös ilmoittivat uuden keikan tänään: 10.2.2011 AB Box, Bryssel, Belgia. Pioneer pre-sale tälle keikalle alkaa huomenna kello 10.00 Suomen aikaa.
Lopuksi kaikki illan esiintyjät tulivat Westlifen kanssa lavalle What About Now'n lopun ajaksi, McFlykin vilahtaa siellä jossain vaiheessa :)
He myös ilmoittivat uuden keikan tänään: 10.2.2011 AB Box, Bryssel, Belgia. Pioneer pre-sale tälle keikalle alkaa huomenna kello 10.00 Suomen aikaa.
sunnuntai 19. joulukuuta 2010
lauantai 18. joulukuuta 2010
McFly TMI:ssa (+Dougien uusi hiustyyli!)
Tässä ensin Dannyn ja Dougien haastattelu Portugalista:
McFly oli TMI:ssa eilen vieraana, tässä videoita sieltä.
Mitä mieltä olette Dougien uudesta hiustyylistä? :)
McFly oli TMI:ssa eilen vieraana, tässä videoita sieltä.
Mitä mieltä olette Dougien uudesta hiustyylistä? :)
torstai 16. joulukuuta 2010
"Back to the big time arena tours for the reborn McFly
DON’T all scream at once, girls – but boyband pop rockers McFly have announced a live show at the arena in Sheffield.
The award-winning British group, who are especially beloved by teenage girls, are playing at the Motorpoint Arena on Friday, March 18 as part of as their biggest ever UK arena tour.
Most famous for their guitar-based hits 5 Colours in her Hair and All About You – and an appearance in the Lindsay Lohan film Just My Luck – the group are now promising what could be a change of direction from their trademark – “infectious and soulful electro-pop”.
This will be the first time they have played an arena tour in the UK in two years.
Prior to this week’s announcement, the band had played five sold-out intimate gigs, which celebrated the release of their fifth studio album, “Above The Noise”.
Since their debut in 2004, the band have shifted more than EIGHT MILLION albums and had 18 consecutive “Top 20” hit singles including SEVEN number ones.
Tickets for their Sheffield show went on sale this week priced £28 and £14, They are available in person from the Box Office, or by calling 01142 565656 and online at www.motorpointarena.co.uk."
South Yorkshire Times
McFly julkaisi 5 uutta Euroopan keikkaa:
28.1. Melkweg, Amsterdam, Hollanti
26.1. Le Trianon, Pariisi, Ranska
6.5. Casa Cultura Burjassot, Valencia, Espanja
7.5. Palacio Vistalegre The Center, Madrid, Espanja
8.5. Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Espanja
ja vielä yhden keikan Iso-Britannian kiertueelle:
25.3. The P and J arena, Aberdeen.
Presale Super Cityn kautta alkoi tänään Ranskan ja Espanjan keikoille ja perjantaina tulee Hollannin ja Aberdeenin liput myyntiin.
Keikkoja löytyy siis tähän mennessä tammikuulta, maaliskuulta ja toukokuulta. Ehkä sinne väliin saadaan vielä keikkoja tännekin päin! :)
DON’T all scream at once, girls – but boyband pop rockers McFly have announced a live show at the arena in Sheffield.
The award-winning British group, who are especially beloved by teenage girls, are playing at the Motorpoint Arena on Friday, March 18 as part of as their biggest ever UK arena tour.
Most famous for their guitar-based hits 5 Colours in her Hair and All About You – and an appearance in the Lindsay Lohan film Just My Luck – the group are now promising what could be a change of direction from their trademark – “infectious and soulful electro-pop”.
This will be the first time they have played an arena tour in the UK in two years.
Prior to this week’s announcement, the band had played five sold-out intimate gigs, which celebrated the release of their fifth studio album, “Above The Noise”.
Since their debut in 2004, the band have shifted more than EIGHT MILLION albums and had 18 consecutive “Top 20” hit singles including SEVEN number ones.
Tickets for their Sheffield show went on sale this week priced £28 and £14, They are available in person from the Box Office, or by calling 01142 565656 and online at www.motorpointarena.co.uk."
South Yorkshire Times
McFly julkaisi 5 uutta Euroopan keikkaa:
28.1. Melkweg, Amsterdam, Hollanti
26.1. Le Trianon, Pariisi, Ranska
6.5. Casa Cultura Burjassot, Valencia, Espanja
7.5. Palacio Vistalegre The Center, Madrid, Espanja
8.5. Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Espanja
ja vielä yhden keikan Iso-Britannian kiertueelle:
25.3. The P and J arena, Aberdeen.
Presale Super Cityn kautta alkoi tänään Ranskan ja Espanjan keikoille ja perjantaina tulee Hollannin ja Aberdeenin liput myyntiin.
Keikkoja löytyy siis tähän mennessä tammikuulta, maaliskuulta ja toukokuulta. Ehkä sinne väliin saadaan vielä keikkoja tännekin päin! :)
sunnuntai 12. joulukuuta 2010
Artikkeleita & videoita
"McFly come to the Liverpool ECHO Arena in March 2011
Who are they? Four-piece boyband, now not so boyish, made up of Tom Fletcher (lead vocals and guitar), Danny Jones (lead vocals and guitar), Dougie Poynter (backing vocals and bass guitar) and Harry Judd (drums).
What are they famous for? Catchy pop rock and a bit of an eye for the ladies.
Distinguishing features? Infectious tunes and loads of cheeky charm, they all look distinctly different, too, so there’s one for each type of girl fan.
Career high? McFly's debut album, Room on the 3rd Floor, debuted at number 1 in the UK, making them the youngest band ever to achieve this – a title taken from The Beatles. They have had 18 consecutive top 20 singles, seven of which reached number 1in the UK charts.
Career low? Appearing in the teen comedy film, Just My Luck, starring Lindsay Lohan, in 2006.
Significant others? Dougie recently split from The Saturdays’ Frankie Sandford, and Harry was rumoured to have had a fling with Lindsay Lohan during filming together.
Not to be confused with? Busted, who helped launch McFly by inviting them on tour, in March, 2004. Tom Fletcher originally auditioned for Busted, but lost out to Charlie Simpson.
They say? “We just didn’t have any fear,” says singer Tom Fletcher, of their new album Above The Noise, including the hit single Shine A Light with Taio Cruz. “We learnt to completely rethink what McFly could be.”
Interesting fact? All About You/You've Got a Friend has been featured as the ending theme for the South Korean variety show, Invincible Youth, since the show's original pilot episode in October, 2009.
McFLY play the ECHO Arena on March 29, 2011."
Liverpool Daily Post
"McFly back in Brum for their 'biggest ever' tour
FOLLOWING a string of sold-out intimate gigs to celebrate the release of their fifth studio album, Britain's biggest boyband is back with their biggest ever UK tour.
Returning to the live stage for their first arena tour in two years, McFly have announced a string of gig dates – including a show at Birmingham's LG Arena.
The lads will be performing in the second city next spring, on March 30.
The band announced their forthcoming LG gig date while on stage at the BRMB Live 2010 sold-out concert, which took place at the venue last month.
Fresh from performing sold-out exclusive UK dates in October to preview the band's new album Above The Noise, McFly are returning to what they know – playing to huge audiences in sold-out arenas.
Having recently conquered colossal venues around the world, McFly are excited to return and showcase their infectious and soulful electro-pop sound.
Two years in the making, McFly recently launched the ground-breaking Super City.
The website provides fans with unrivalled access to the band. It has citizens rather than visitors, where fans can subscribe to access further content including albums, demos and web-chats.
A week's free access to Super City comes with each ticket purchase via email.
As well as Super City, November saw the release of McFly's fifth record Above The Noise, and another top five single Shine A Light, with UK hit-maker Taio Cruz.
With a fan base that now stretches around the world and having recently entered a joint venture with their original major label home, McFly have succeeded beyond their own expectations.
"We just didn't have any fear," says singer Tom Fletcher. "We learnt to completely rethink what McFly could be."
Tickets for the show are on sale now priced £14 and £28.50 (plus booking and transaction fee).
Go to www.theticketfactory.com or call 0844 338 8000."
This is Staffordshire
"Hollyoaks Music Show is to return to T4 and 4Music for a Christmas special.
The hour long episode will be filmed ‘as live’ and feature performances from acts including Jason Derulo, McFly, Alexis Jordan, The Wanted and Tinchy Stryder.
Earlier this year, the show gave No.1 selling artists Jason Derulo and The Wanted their first British TV appearances and this year both acts have gone on to storm the international charts.
As part of the ad-fund deal, fashion brand Matalan, has secured title sponsorship of the programme."
MusicWeek
"Jeff Bridges, McFly and others talk to us at the Tron: Legacy premiere!
Thanks to our friends at Wrigley's 5 gum, we managed to squeeze ourselves on to the red blue carpet for last night's UK premiere of Tron: Legacy. WE MET JEFF BRIDGES!
Jeff was obviously utterly amazing (the full Jeff interview is below) considering it was colder than Gillian McKeith's crotch.
As well as Jeff, we bumped into McFly who had a few things to say about our recent review of their album, Shayne Ward looking like a bit if a muscle Mary, Alison Goldfrapp who got jiggy with Matt and a whole bunch of others."
Holy Moly
I Like Music julkaisi kahdeksan sivuisen haastattelun, voit lukea sen kokonaisuudessaan täältä.
Video Tron: Legacy ensi-illasta:
Tom oli eilisessä Xtra Factorissa:
Ja tässä haastattelu Espanjasta:
Who are they? Four-piece boyband, now not so boyish, made up of Tom Fletcher (lead vocals and guitar), Danny Jones (lead vocals and guitar), Dougie Poynter (backing vocals and bass guitar) and Harry Judd (drums).
What are they famous for? Catchy pop rock and a bit of an eye for the ladies.
Distinguishing features? Infectious tunes and loads of cheeky charm, they all look distinctly different, too, so there’s one for each type of girl fan.
Career high? McFly's debut album, Room on the 3rd Floor, debuted at number 1 in the UK, making them the youngest band ever to achieve this – a title taken from The Beatles. They have had 18 consecutive top 20 singles, seven of which reached number 1in the UK charts.
Career low? Appearing in the teen comedy film, Just My Luck, starring Lindsay Lohan, in 2006.
Significant others? Dougie recently split from The Saturdays’ Frankie Sandford, and Harry was rumoured to have had a fling with Lindsay Lohan during filming together.
Not to be confused with? Busted, who helped launch McFly by inviting them on tour, in March, 2004. Tom Fletcher originally auditioned for Busted, but lost out to Charlie Simpson.
They say? “We just didn’t have any fear,” says singer Tom Fletcher, of their new album Above The Noise, including the hit single Shine A Light with Taio Cruz. “We learnt to completely rethink what McFly could be.”
Interesting fact? All About You/You've Got a Friend has been featured as the ending theme for the South Korean variety show, Invincible Youth, since the show's original pilot episode in October, 2009.
McFLY play the ECHO Arena on March 29, 2011."
Liverpool Daily Post
"McFly back in Brum for their 'biggest ever' tour
FOLLOWING a string of sold-out intimate gigs to celebrate the release of their fifth studio album, Britain's biggest boyband is back with their biggest ever UK tour.
Returning to the live stage for their first arena tour in two years, McFly have announced a string of gig dates – including a show at Birmingham's LG Arena.
The lads will be performing in the second city next spring, on March 30.
The band announced their forthcoming LG gig date while on stage at the BRMB Live 2010 sold-out concert, which took place at the venue last month.
Fresh from performing sold-out exclusive UK dates in October to preview the band's new album Above The Noise, McFly are returning to what they know – playing to huge audiences in sold-out arenas.
Having recently conquered colossal venues around the world, McFly are excited to return and showcase their infectious and soulful electro-pop sound.
Two years in the making, McFly recently launched the ground-breaking Super City.
The website provides fans with unrivalled access to the band. It has citizens rather than visitors, where fans can subscribe to access further content including albums, demos and web-chats.
A week's free access to Super City comes with each ticket purchase via email.
As well as Super City, November saw the release of McFly's fifth record Above The Noise, and another top five single Shine A Light, with UK hit-maker Taio Cruz.
With a fan base that now stretches around the world and having recently entered a joint venture with their original major label home, McFly have succeeded beyond their own expectations.
"We just didn't have any fear," says singer Tom Fletcher. "We learnt to completely rethink what McFly could be."
Tickets for the show are on sale now priced £14 and £28.50 (plus booking and transaction fee).
Go to www.theticketfactory.com or call 0844 338 8000."
This is Staffordshire
"Hollyoaks Music Show is to return to T4 and 4Music for a Christmas special.
The hour long episode will be filmed ‘as live’ and feature performances from acts including Jason Derulo, McFly, Alexis Jordan, The Wanted and Tinchy Stryder.
Earlier this year, the show gave No.1 selling artists Jason Derulo and The Wanted their first British TV appearances and this year both acts have gone on to storm the international charts.
As part of the ad-fund deal, fashion brand Matalan, has secured title sponsorship of the programme."
MusicWeek
"Jeff Bridges, McFly and others talk to us at the Tron: Legacy premiere!
Thanks to our friends at Wrigley's 5 gum, we managed to squeeze ourselves on to the red blue carpet for last night's UK premiere of Tron: Legacy. WE MET JEFF BRIDGES!
Jeff was obviously utterly amazing (the full Jeff interview is below) considering it was colder than Gillian McKeith's crotch.
As well as Jeff, we bumped into McFly who had a few things to say about our recent review of their album, Shayne Ward looking like a bit if a muscle Mary, Alison Goldfrapp who got jiggy with Matt and a whole bunch of others."
Holy Moly
I Like Music julkaisi kahdeksan sivuisen haastattelun, voit lukea sen kokonaisuudessaan täältä.
Video Tron: Legacy ensi-illasta:
Tom oli eilisessä Xtra Factorissa:
Ja tässä haastattelu Espanjasta:
torstai 9. joulukuuta 2010
"You'll never find the evidence on me"
Dougie ja Tom paljastivat eilisessä webchatissaan seuraavan singlen: THAT'S THE TRUTH! Itse olen tyytyväinen heidän valintaan, se on mielestäni paras kappale koko levyllä. :)
Tässä tuo Jingle Bell Ball -esiintyminen, unohdin sen viime päivitykseen laittaa. Tällä kertaa Taio Cruzkin oli McFlyn kanssa lavalla.
McFly oli Portugalissa tällä viikolla muutamassa TV-ohjelmassa ja he pitivät myös MySpace Secret Shown. MySpace Portugal laittoi siitä videon MySpaceen:
McFly arrancam suspiros e gritos de euforia
MyPortugal Myspace Video
Tässä tuo Jingle Bell Ball -esiintyminen, unohdin sen viime päivitykseen laittaa. Tällä kertaa Taio Cruzkin oli McFlyn kanssa lavalla.
McFly oli Portugalissa tällä viikolla muutamassa TV-ohjelmassa ja he pitivät myös MySpace Secret Shown. MySpace Portugal laittoi siitä videon MySpaceen:
McFly arrancam suspiros e gritos de euforia
MyPortugal Myspace Video
sunnuntai 5. joulukuuta 2010
2 artikkelia
"Soldier, 26, teams up with McFly in Christmas No1 bid
A SOLDIER from South Devon is tipped for a Christmas number one after penning his debut single while posted in Afghanistan — and recording it with pop band McFly.
Xander Rawlins, 26 and from Kingswear, is a captain in the Grenadier Guards. He has written 1,000 Miles Apart, which is about leaving loved ones behind.
Xander was in charge of 30 men in Afghanistan and the video for his song shows the soldiers during their downtime.
The proceeds of the record will go to two charities Combat Stress and The Soldier's Charity.
Xander has been working on his song with members of the pop band McFly at their London studio. He met McFly when he played at the Troubadour music venue in London a couple of years ago with his band Rawlins.
Xander's band mates, brother Digby, 24, and pal Sam Phillips of Hope Cove, are also playing on the new single alongside a host of other professional musicians.
While serving in Afghanistan, Xander entertained the troops in the evening playing his guitar, a ukulele and a cornet.
The single is about soldiers leaving their loved ones at Christmas, something he knows a lot about, having worked away for the last four festive seasons. This year he will be on guard at Windsor Castle.
Proud parents Richard and Jayne, of Beacon Road, say the music industry is already very positive about Xander's song and they believe it has every chance of topping the charts this Christmas.
Jayne said: "He's always made a lot of noise and he's a very jolly, happy chap who loves singing and acting, so I'm not surprised at all that he's done this.
"I am quite surprised at how it has been received, which is very well so far and I'm very pleased for him because he enjoys it and he's doing something he always wanted to do."
"I think the single is excellent," Richard added.
"You would really need a music industry insider to judge whether it will reach number one.
"Like all these things, if it captures the public's imagination and they lock on to it's heartfelt feelings there's no reason why it shouldn't get there."
Xander is currently working on his first album, which he started writing whilst out in Afghanistan.
He's leaving the army next year and is in talks with various record labels with a view to carving out a career in the music industry.
The single 1,000 Miles Apart is due to be released on Monday December 13."
This Is Plymouth
"McFly star helps bandmate get over split with member of Saturdays
CARING McFly star Tom Fletcher is helping bandmate Dougie Poynter get over his split with Saturdays gal Frankie Sandford – by putting him up.
Dougie and Frankie called it quits for the second time last month. And the bass guitarist is getting all the support he needs from his mates.
Tom revealed: “Dougie has been staying at my house and is my new roommate. We’ve not lived with one another for four years so it’s interesting.
“He’s cleared the fridge of booze but he’s very good and cleans up his own pizza boxes.
“He’s bunking up and I’m keeping him warm on a cold night. That’s what friends are for.”
Speaking at the Cash For Kids 30th anniversary bash in Glasgow, Tom and fellow McFly star Danny Jones insisted their relationship with The Saturdays – who flew north from London with them yesterday – hasn’t soured.
Danny told us: “We saw them on the plane and said hello. It’s not a problem for us.”
Half the members of McFly got to the bash in the Hilton with The Saturdays on time, despite being delayed on the plane from London.
Tom explained: “We got stuck on the plane in Glasgow because the steps were frozen. We were stuck on the tarmac for 40 minutes.”
The boys were hoping to catch a flight from Edinburgh to Dublin to catch up with the rest of the band, before heading for Liverpool.
But they admitted they’ve already had a few scares in the snow.
The lads said: “We’ve been very lucky.
“We were on the fast lane on the motorway with no lights on and saw a horse trailer abandoned at the side that had separated from its vehicle.”
They revealed they wont be taking it too easy over the festive season and are looking forward to touring next year. Danny said: “Our new year resolution is to get fat and wear layers as well.
“In the summer we’ve got to worry as there’s more skin on show.
“Tickets for our tour are going on sale now and our shows always kick a**.
“The last tour we flew over the audience and we’d like to do it again.”
Daily Record
A SOLDIER from South Devon is tipped for a Christmas number one after penning his debut single while posted in Afghanistan — and recording it with pop band McFly.
Xander Rawlins, 26 and from Kingswear, is a captain in the Grenadier Guards. He has written 1,000 Miles Apart, which is about leaving loved ones behind.
Xander was in charge of 30 men in Afghanistan and the video for his song shows the soldiers during their downtime.
The proceeds of the record will go to two charities Combat Stress and The Soldier's Charity.
Xander has been working on his song with members of the pop band McFly at their London studio. He met McFly when he played at the Troubadour music venue in London a couple of years ago with his band Rawlins.
Xander's band mates, brother Digby, 24, and pal Sam Phillips of Hope Cove, are also playing on the new single alongside a host of other professional musicians.
While serving in Afghanistan, Xander entertained the troops in the evening playing his guitar, a ukulele and a cornet.
The single is about soldiers leaving their loved ones at Christmas, something he knows a lot about, having worked away for the last four festive seasons. This year he will be on guard at Windsor Castle.
Proud parents Richard and Jayne, of Beacon Road, say the music industry is already very positive about Xander's song and they believe it has every chance of topping the charts this Christmas.
Jayne said: "He's always made a lot of noise and he's a very jolly, happy chap who loves singing and acting, so I'm not surprised at all that he's done this.
"I am quite surprised at how it has been received, which is very well so far and I'm very pleased for him because he enjoys it and he's doing something he always wanted to do."
"I think the single is excellent," Richard added.
"You would really need a music industry insider to judge whether it will reach number one.
"Like all these things, if it captures the public's imagination and they lock on to it's heartfelt feelings there's no reason why it shouldn't get there."
Xander is currently working on his first album, which he started writing whilst out in Afghanistan.
He's leaving the army next year and is in talks with various record labels with a view to carving out a career in the music industry.
The single 1,000 Miles Apart is due to be released on Monday December 13."
This Is Plymouth
"McFly star helps bandmate get over split with member of Saturdays
CARING McFly star Tom Fletcher is helping bandmate Dougie Poynter get over his split with Saturdays gal Frankie Sandford – by putting him up.
Dougie and Frankie called it quits for the second time last month. And the bass guitarist is getting all the support he needs from his mates.
Tom revealed: “Dougie has been staying at my house and is my new roommate. We’ve not lived with one another for four years so it’s interesting.
“He’s cleared the fridge of booze but he’s very good and cleans up his own pizza boxes.
“He’s bunking up and I’m keeping him warm on a cold night. That’s what friends are for.”
Speaking at the Cash For Kids 30th anniversary bash in Glasgow, Tom and fellow McFly star Danny Jones insisted their relationship with The Saturdays – who flew north from London with them yesterday – hasn’t soured.
Danny told us: “We saw them on the plane and said hello. It’s not a problem for us.”
Half the members of McFly got to the bash in the Hilton with The Saturdays on time, despite being delayed on the plane from London.
Tom explained: “We got stuck on the plane in Glasgow because the steps were frozen. We were stuck on the tarmac for 40 minutes.”
The boys were hoping to catch a flight from Edinburgh to Dublin to catch up with the rest of the band, before heading for Liverpool.
But they admitted they’ve already had a few scares in the snow.
The lads said: “We’ve been very lucky.
“We were on the fast lane on the motorway with no lights on and saw a horse trailer abandoned at the side that had separated from its vehicle.”
They revealed they wont be taking it too easy over the festive season and are looking forward to touring next year. Danny said: “Our new year resolution is to get fat and wear layers as well.
“In the summer we’ve got to worry as there’s more skin on show.
“Tickets for our tour are going on sale now and our shows always kick a**.
“The last tour we flew over the audience and we’d like to do it again.”
Daily Record
"Tell me can you hear my voice, loud and clear above the noise"
McFly oli perjantaina Jingle Bell Ball -tapahtumassa Lontoossa ja radiokanava Key 103 laittoi videon McFlysta backstagella:
Romeo & McFly backstagella:
He esiintyivät myös 25.11. 40 Principales -radiokanavalla Espanjassa. Videoita on niin paljon, että laitan vain linkit:
Party Girl
All About You
Too Close for Comfort
Shine a Light
Falling In Love
Tässä vielä lista muista uusista videoista:
Koko Pop haastattelu 4.12.
Shine a Light Koko Pop (vain puolet)
Party Girl Koko Pop
Capital FM haastattelu, Jingle Bell Ball 4.12.
Shine a Light ft. Taio Cruz, Jingle Bell Ball
McFly kävi Irlannin vierailullaan muutamalla radio- ja tv-kanavalla. Voit katsoa RTÉ tv-kanavan videohaasttattelun tästä ja kuunnella Spin 103.8 radiokanavan haastattelun ja akustisen live-esiintymisen Shine a Lightista tästä.
He myös voittivat 4Music-äänestyksessä Parhaan musiikkivideon palkinnon, voit katsoa siitä videon täältä.
McFly teki haastattelun nettilehti Who's Jackin kanssa, voit lukea uusimman numeron täältä. Kuvia tuosta Who's Jack-photoshootista löydät täältä, kuvista kiitos Mission:McFlylle.
Romeo & McFly backstagella:
He esiintyivät myös 25.11. 40 Principales -radiokanavalla Espanjassa. Videoita on niin paljon, että laitan vain linkit:
Party Girl
All About You
Too Close for Comfort
Shine a Light
Falling In Love
Tässä vielä lista muista uusista videoista:
Koko Pop haastattelu 4.12.
Shine a Light Koko Pop (vain puolet)
Party Girl Koko Pop
Capital FM haastattelu, Jingle Bell Ball 4.12.
Shine a Light ft. Taio Cruz, Jingle Bell Ball
McFly kävi Irlannin vierailullaan muutamalla radio- ja tv-kanavalla. Voit katsoa RTÉ tv-kanavan videohaasttattelun tästä ja kuunnella Spin 103.8 radiokanavan haastattelun ja akustisen live-esiintymisen Shine a Lightista tästä.
He myös voittivat 4Music-äänestyksessä Parhaan musiikkivideon palkinnon, voit katsoa siitä videon täältä.
McFly teki haastattelun nettilehti Who's Jackin kanssa, voit lukea uusimman numeron täältä. Kuvia tuosta Who's Jack-photoshootista löydät täältä, kuvista kiitos Mission:McFlylle.
perjantai 3. joulukuuta 2010
Shine a Light soitettiin YleX:llä!!!
YleX soitti Shine a Lightin tänään kuten he lupasivat! Sain sen kasetille nauhoitettua (kyllä, vanhalla kasettisoittimella), sieltä sain sen äänitettyä kännykällä ja sitä kautta tietokoneelle. Laatu on surkea, mutta kyllä siitä selvää saa. Voit ladata tiedoston tästä. Se ei ikävä kyllä myöskään ole mp3-tiedosto, vaan AMR-audio. Minulla se ainakin toimii QuickTime Playerillä, toivottavasti se toimii teilläkin! Haluan vielä kerran kiittää teitä kaikkia, jotka toivoitte McFlyta ja toteutitte yhden unelmistani. Ja iso kiitos myös YleX:lle!
P.S. en nyt viikonloppuna ole kotona, mutta jos on tarvetta, voin maanantaina yrittää saada paremman laadun tuosta radiosoitosta.
And if there are any non-Finnish people reading this, our mission to get McFly played in Finland succeeded! They didn't play All About You last week because they didn't have it, but they played Shine a Light today. If you want to listen to the audio of it, you can download it here. It's not the best quality and it's not an mp3 file (it's AMR-audio, it should work on QuickTime Player at least) but it's better than nothing, right? Thank you for your support. ♥
P.S. en nyt viikonloppuna ole kotona, mutta jos on tarvetta, voin maanantaina yrittää saada paremman laadun tuosta radiosoitosta.
And if there are any non-Finnish people reading this, our mission to get McFly played in Finland succeeded! They didn't play All About You last week because they didn't have it, but they played Shine a Light today. If you want to listen to the audio of it, you can download it here. It's not the best quality and it's not an mp3 file (it's AMR-audio, it should work on QuickTime Player at least) but it's better than nothing, right? Thank you for your support. ♥
keskiviikko 1. joulukuuta 2010
McFlyta YleX:llä ja artikkeli
Jos seuraatte minua Twitterissä, tiedättekin jo tästä - sain YleX:ltä sähköpostia eilen. He sanoivat, että syy, miksi he eivät soittaneet All Abou Youta viime perjantaina, on se, että heillä ei yksinkertaisesti ole sitä. He antoivat kuitenkin listan kappaleista, jotka heillä on erinäisillä kokoelmalevyillä: Shine A Light, Party Girl, Transylvania, Do Ya, Lies ja One For the Radio. Kuka olisi arvannut että heillä onkin vain uudempia kappaleita! Joka tapauksessa, he antoivat minun valita yhden kappaleen, jonka he soittavat perjantaina klo 18.00-20.00. Valitsin Shine A Lightin! Toivottavasti valintani miellyttää teitä kaikkia jotka toivoitte McFlyta. Muistakaa kuunnella perjantaina! :)
Super Cityssä alkoi tänään pioneer pre-sale ensi kiertueelle, ja se jatkuu tänään klo 20.00 asti (Suomen aikaa), muistakaa siis ostaa lippunne jos olette Englantiin menossa McFlyta katsomaan! :)
Tom laittoi Youtubeen videon kun hän pystyttää joulukuusen Giovannan, Georgian, Dannyn ja Dougien kanssa:
Ja sitten artikkeli:
"McFly tour star 'petrified' of dancing
Those with McFly tickets to the band's upcoming tour are unlikely to see Harry Judd busting out any dance moves.
The drummer has revealed he found his recent dancing experience on a BBC Children in Need special "petrifying".
Harry took on The Saturdays singer Rochelle Wiseman for a special edition of Strictly Come Dancing for the charity event last week.
"I had five days of rehearsals and I'm dancing on Strictly Come Dancing with Ola Jordan - it was probably the most petrifying thing I've ever done in my life," he told the Press Association.
"It's very scary but it's for a great cause. I'm very versatile, aren't I? Drummer, dancer, actor..."
The band's Danny Jones added: "We got a lot of enjoyment out of watching him rehearse."
Starting at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on March 12th, the band are to play at a number of arena venues around the country as part of a new UK tour, before winding things up at London's Wembley Arena on April 1st."
Viagogo
Super Cityssä alkoi tänään pioneer pre-sale ensi kiertueelle, ja se jatkuu tänään klo 20.00 asti (Suomen aikaa), muistakaa siis ostaa lippunne jos olette Englantiin menossa McFlyta katsomaan! :)
Tom laittoi Youtubeen videon kun hän pystyttää joulukuusen Giovannan, Georgian, Dannyn ja Dougien kanssa:
Ja sitten artikkeli:
"McFly tour star 'petrified' of dancing
Those with McFly tickets to the band's upcoming tour are unlikely to see Harry Judd busting out any dance moves.
The drummer has revealed he found his recent dancing experience on a BBC Children in Need special "petrifying".
Harry took on The Saturdays singer Rochelle Wiseman for a special edition of Strictly Come Dancing for the charity event last week.
"I had five days of rehearsals and I'm dancing on Strictly Come Dancing with Ola Jordan - it was probably the most petrifying thing I've ever done in my life," he told the Press Association.
"It's very scary but it's for a great cause. I'm very versatile, aren't I? Drummer, dancer, actor..."
The band's Danny Jones added: "We got a lot of enjoyment out of watching him rehearse."
Starting at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on March 12th, the band are to play at a number of arena venues around the country as part of a new UK tour, before winding things up at London's Wembley Arena on April 1st."
Viagogo
tiistai 30. marraskuuta 2010
Stara kirjoitti McFlysta!
Suomalainen "juorusivusto" Stara kirjoitti eilen artikkelin McFlysta:
"Poikabändin fanituote: “Aidon kokoinen seksinukke”
Lukuisat supertähdet ja suosikkiyhtyeet ovat julkaisseet itsestään myyntiin sankoin joukoin erilaisia fanituotteita. Tuotteiden skaala on lähes rajaton, sillä fanien rahoja yritetään saada haltuun monin tavoin. Nyt brittiläinen poikabändi McFly on keksinyt perin erikoisen fanituotteen.
Yhtyeen jäsenet Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd, Danny Jones ja Dougie Poynter aikovat nimittäin tuoda myyntiin aidon kokoiset pumpattavat versiot itsestään. Kyseessä on siis seksilelu, jolla yhtyeen fanit voivat kuvitela olevansa intiimissä kanssakäymisessä poppareiden kanssa.
- Haluamme McFly-seksinuket. Minusta sellainen olisi todella hauska. Ostaisin itse takuulla yhden. Toisaalta niiden tulisi voida sopia sekä naisille että miehille, Danny Jones kommentoi suunnitelmaa BANG Showbiz -julkaisulle.
Aiemmin toinen brittiläinen suosikkiyhtye JLS julkaisi oman kondomimallistonsa. Nyt Jones vitsaili, että heidän ehkäisyvälineensä olisivat todennäköisesti liian pieniä käytettäväksi. Yhtye teki viime viikolla yllätyskeikan Lontoon Heathrow’n lentokentällä, kun uusimman terminaalin jouluvalot sytytettiin."
Stara
Ei ehkä paras mahdollinen aihe, mutta kuten Dannykin on sanonut: "any press is good press". :D
"Poikabändin fanituote: “Aidon kokoinen seksinukke”
Lukuisat supertähdet ja suosikkiyhtyeet ovat julkaisseet itsestään myyntiin sankoin joukoin erilaisia fanituotteita. Tuotteiden skaala on lähes rajaton, sillä fanien rahoja yritetään saada haltuun monin tavoin. Nyt brittiläinen poikabändi McFly on keksinyt perin erikoisen fanituotteen.
Yhtyeen jäsenet Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd, Danny Jones ja Dougie Poynter aikovat nimittäin tuoda myyntiin aidon kokoiset pumpattavat versiot itsestään. Kyseessä on siis seksilelu, jolla yhtyeen fanit voivat kuvitela olevansa intiimissä kanssakäymisessä poppareiden kanssa.
- Haluamme McFly-seksinuket. Minusta sellainen olisi todella hauska. Ostaisin itse takuulla yhden. Toisaalta niiden tulisi voida sopia sekä naisille että miehille, Danny Jones kommentoi suunnitelmaa BANG Showbiz -julkaisulle.
Aiemmin toinen brittiläinen suosikkiyhtye JLS julkaisi oman kondomimallistonsa. Nyt Jones vitsaili, että heidän ehkäisyvälineensä olisivat todennäköisesti liian pieniä käytettäväksi. Yhtye teki viime viikolla yllätyskeikan Lontoon Heathrow’n lentokentällä, kun uusimman terminaalin jouluvalot sytytettiin."
Stara
Ei ehkä paras mahdollinen aihe, mutta kuten Dannykin on sanonut: "any press is good press". :D
maanantai 29. marraskuuta 2010
Videoita + artikkeli
YleX ei sitten soittanut McFlyta. :( No ei se mitään, ehkä heillä oli paljon toiveita ja he soittavat sen tällä viikolla!
McFly oli Irlannissa vieraana Late Late Toy Show'ssa perjantaina ja he esittivät Shine A Lightin:
Ja tässä haastattelu Live 2010:n backstagelta:
Paul Morley The Guardian -lehdestä haastatteli McFlyta The Alan Titchmarsh Show'n jälkeen:
ja tässä tuohon haastatteluun liittyvä artikkeli:
"Paul Morley Showing Off... McFly
Paul Morley describes McFly's ascent from guitar-toting teeny-boppers to 'entertainment hosts' for the multimedia generation
Time to meet McFly, who, while I wasn't really looking, over six years, since they were all teenagers, have released 16 singles, four Top 10 albums, including a debut that meant they replaced the Beatles as the youngest band to enter the album charts at No 1 – selling enough records to place them high up on the list of the most successful British pop groups of all time. They started out as perky bright-eyed pop rock cousins of Busted, when Britpop went teenybop and boybands held (if not necessarily played) guitars on Top of the Pops, and that debut album, Room on the 3rd Floor, which went on to sell over 800,000 copies, did not seem to be of any interest as music to anyone over the age of 10. I might be getting this wrong, but it seems that every album they have released since, give or take their fourth Greatest Hits collection, has improved upon this age limit, so that their second album Wonderland would be of no interest to anyone over 13-year old, while their latest album, their fifth studio release, Above the Noise, will be of no interest to anyone over 22 – although if you are over 22 and have never heard Prince, Green Day, A-ha, Duran Duran, Hanson, Pet Shop Boys, the Killers, the Monkees, Billy Idol or INXS, then you will be easily won over by some of the tracks.
McFly are described on their Wikipedia page, where all knowledge rests, for the moment, as pop punk and pop rock, but they can also be defined as a boyband, in that they are mostly designed for the benefit of girls. That actually might be changing with the smarter, more refined and sonically more varied Above the Noise, which is produced by weathered, hip hop-weaned international commercial pop specialist Dallas Austin, who has brought with him experience picked up working with acts such as Madonna, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, the TLC of CrazySexyCool, as well as the Sugababes circa Push the Button. I might be getting this wrong, but McFly now sound not like a lightweight, trivial cartoon version of an energetic pop group but an energetic, cleverly calibrated version of a trivial cartoon pop group. Someone, possibly the members of the group themselves, have been thinking about what they are, and what they must do to continue being what they are, and have approached a set of problems – some of them to do with the erosion of the role of the record company and the rise of the internet as the main place where you communicate with others – and come up with a variety of solutions. These solutions are not particularly inspired, but they do mean that McFly have managed to survive this far into a career that is always on the verge of ending.
This might not mean that the music is anything special, but then a group like McFly are not a part of the music scene in a way that anyone over the age of 30 would understand. They are a part of some new scene, which doesn't have a word yet, and which isn't necessarily as simply magical, revealing and ravishing as old time pop, and which fabricates the idea of magic, fun and excitement in ways that will seem very contrived, perfunctory and formulaic to older pop fans.
If you are to judge a band such as McFly on how they are progressing as a pop group manufactured, by themselves and others, within very strict guidelines, to appeal to a very choosy series of markets where demands and expectations are constantly shifting, to keep having hits even as fashions change and technology realigns entertainment realities, then with the release of Above The Noise they deserve a good four stars. Coming to the album as a traditional rock critic, I might be coming in at a shade under two stars, aggrieved by what is in the end an ordinariness superficially, if deftly, disguised as something possibly extraordinary. As a new kind of critic, though, one not yet invented, some sort of observer whose skills include knowledge of marketing, fashion, video, styling, fun, games, social media, teenage urges, the rampant infantilism of consumers, music genres, remixing, the recycling and repetition of information, the seductive force of gossip, website design, and the way they all fit together, one who is gauging the success and achievement of McFly in terms that are more about their flexibility, impact and presence as a multimedia based entertainment host that is in transition, there might be at least three and a half stars on the table.
This entertainment host still closely resembles the late 20th century idea of what a pop group was, but also points the way to something that will eventually combine and enhance thrills currently contained in other mediums, and which will respond to the hopes, fears and desires of their audience, and exploit their interests, needs and recommendations in ways that we can now only imagine. The result might be closer to a kind of easily accessed dream than anything we might be familiar with because of MTV and the MP3. I might have got this wrong, but perhaps the pop group, as represented provisionally by the likes of McFly, will develop into some sort of elaborately designed destination where you travel, one way and another, to experience shifting forms of pleasure, and maybe deeper forms of intrigue, delight and challenge, that you have designed yourself in abstract consultation with your chosen entertainment host.
In the present, where such talk is liable to bring out the worst in people who think such reasoning is bonkers, and not a little paranoid, I interview McFly founder Tom Fletcher and guitarist Danny Jones. They've just been interviewed live on The Alan Titchmarsh Show in between Michael Parkinson and Gloria Hunniford. (My own immediate pressure under the circumstances: to be a little more Parky in my McFly interview than Titchmarsh.) They've just performed what is still called for old time's sake their latest single, and Alan Titchmarsh acts as if the pop world is pretty much what it was in 1973. McFly do too, in the way they hold their instruments, whirl through various poses and project their personality, but there's something about them, perhaps some form of self-confidence, or maybe the way they are festooned in jewellery and tattoos and combine a twinkling feminine energy with their composed, liquid neo-manliness, that suggests they are on the verge of travelling back to the future.
No longer innocent, bouncing teenagers, not of a world where releasing records and promoting them is relatively simple and crude, McFly are still located in the lingering, sweetened middle of the road, trapped a little by their name and their early association with Busted, compelled to maintain a pleasant, patient, non threatening demeanour, needing acting and diplomatic skills as well as the capacity to always appear enthusiastic. (More ways to accurately judge the boyband – how well they summon up enthusiasm for everything they do in public, which to some extent these days is a lot of their lives. McFly are a throbbing five stars in this area.)
There's a little pop experimentation on show on their new album, but the real experimentation comes with how they are set up as a business operation, and how they use their web site to fabricate connections with their fans and potential fans. This business is all about selling subscriptions to the world, the idea, the lifestyle, the fragrance, the attractiveness, the general views, the products of McFly.
They talk about wanting to be the biggest group in the world, as if there can still be such a thing, and such a thing can emerge from a novelty group that seems so assembled and plastic, and that was so unashamedly teeny. If, again, a key element about a boyband to analyse and grade is their ambition, and the ability to re-invent themselves, and shed skins, and manipulate as much as possible their own fate, then McFly are a full flowing five stars. I'm still old fashioned enough, although I might be right, to consider that what will make them the biggest group in the world will still have something to do with the form and content of their music, and that if they can produce a soundtrack as powerful as their ambition, self-belief and sense of purpose, as their knowledge of how to reach their target audience, as their ability to schmooze the likes of Alan Tichmarsh on live television, then they might yet make it. Or, they might become the biggest pop group in the world when such a thing means only playing to their subscribers, who are ultimately McFly's employers, who really only want them for one thing.
Time to say goodbye to McFly, and consider that if boybands should be judged on their ability to sell themselves as if there is no doubt at all that what they do is important and brilliant, then I give them four stars and a showbiz kiss.
• This article was amended on 29 November 2010. Danny Jones, guitarist in pop band McFly was mis-identified as the band's bass player, Dougie Poynter. This has been corrected."
The Guardian
McFly oli Irlannissa vieraana Late Late Toy Show'ssa perjantaina ja he esittivät Shine A Lightin:
Ja tässä haastattelu Live 2010:n backstagelta:
Paul Morley The Guardian -lehdestä haastatteli McFlyta The Alan Titchmarsh Show'n jälkeen:
ja tässä tuohon haastatteluun liittyvä artikkeli:
"Paul Morley Showing Off... McFly
Paul Morley describes McFly's ascent from guitar-toting teeny-boppers to 'entertainment hosts' for the multimedia generation
Time to meet McFly, who, while I wasn't really looking, over six years, since they were all teenagers, have released 16 singles, four Top 10 albums, including a debut that meant they replaced the Beatles as the youngest band to enter the album charts at No 1 – selling enough records to place them high up on the list of the most successful British pop groups of all time. They started out as perky bright-eyed pop rock cousins of Busted, when Britpop went teenybop and boybands held (if not necessarily played) guitars on Top of the Pops, and that debut album, Room on the 3rd Floor, which went on to sell over 800,000 copies, did not seem to be of any interest as music to anyone over the age of 10. I might be getting this wrong, but it seems that every album they have released since, give or take their fourth Greatest Hits collection, has improved upon this age limit, so that their second album Wonderland would be of no interest to anyone over 13-year old, while their latest album, their fifth studio release, Above the Noise, will be of no interest to anyone over 22 – although if you are over 22 and have never heard Prince, Green Day, A-ha, Duran Duran, Hanson, Pet Shop Boys, the Killers, the Monkees, Billy Idol or INXS, then you will be easily won over by some of the tracks.
McFly are described on their Wikipedia page, where all knowledge rests, for the moment, as pop punk and pop rock, but they can also be defined as a boyband, in that they are mostly designed for the benefit of girls. That actually might be changing with the smarter, more refined and sonically more varied Above the Noise, which is produced by weathered, hip hop-weaned international commercial pop specialist Dallas Austin, who has brought with him experience picked up working with acts such as Madonna, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, the TLC of CrazySexyCool, as well as the Sugababes circa Push the Button. I might be getting this wrong, but McFly now sound not like a lightweight, trivial cartoon version of an energetic pop group but an energetic, cleverly calibrated version of a trivial cartoon pop group. Someone, possibly the members of the group themselves, have been thinking about what they are, and what they must do to continue being what they are, and have approached a set of problems – some of them to do with the erosion of the role of the record company and the rise of the internet as the main place where you communicate with others – and come up with a variety of solutions. These solutions are not particularly inspired, but they do mean that McFly have managed to survive this far into a career that is always on the verge of ending.
This might not mean that the music is anything special, but then a group like McFly are not a part of the music scene in a way that anyone over the age of 30 would understand. They are a part of some new scene, which doesn't have a word yet, and which isn't necessarily as simply magical, revealing and ravishing as old time pop, and which fabricates the idea of magic, fun and excitement in ways that will seem very contrived, perfunctory and formulaic to older pop fans.
If you are to judge a band such as McFly on how they are progressing as a pop group manufactured, by themselves and others, within very strict guidelines, to appeal to a very choosy series of markets where demands and expectations are constantly shifting, to keep having hits even as fashions change and technology realigns entertainment realities, then with the release of Above The Noise they deserve a good four stars. Coming to the album as a traditional rock critic, I might be coming in at a shade under two stars, aggrieved by what is in the end an ordinariness superficially, if deftly, disguised as something possibly extraordinary. As a new kind of critic, though, one not yet invented, some sort of observer whose skills include knowledge of marketing, fashion, video, styling, fun, games, social media, teenage urges, the rampant infantilism of consumers, music genres, remixing, the recycling and repetition of information, the seductive force of gossip, website design, and the way they all fit together, one who is gauging the success and achievement of McFly in terms that are more about their flexibility, impact and presence as a multimedia based entertainment host that is in transition, there might be at least three and a half stars on the table.
This entertainment host still closely resembles the late 20th century idea of what a pop group was, but also points the way to something that will eventually combine and enhance thrills currently contained in other mediums, and which will respond to the hopes, fears and desires of their audience, and exploit their interests, needs and recommendations in ways that we can now only imagine. The result might be closer to a kind of easily accessed dream than anything we might be familiar with because of MTV and the MP3. I might have got this wrong, but perhaps the pop group, as represented provisionally by the likes of McFly, will develop into some sort of elaborately designed destination where you travel, one way and another, to experience shifting forms of pleasure, and maybe deeper forms of intrigue, delight and challenge, that you have designed yourself in abstract consultation with your chosen entertainment host.
In the present, where such talk is liable to bring out the worst in people who think such reasoning is bonkers, and not a little paranoid, I interview McFly founder Tom Fletcher and guitarist Danny Jones. They've just been interviewed live on The Alan Titchmarsh Show in between Michael Parkinson and Gloria Hunniford. (My own immediate pressure under the circumstances: to be a little more Parky in my McFly interview than Titchmarsh.) They've just performed what is still called for old time's sake their latest single, and Alan Titchmarsh acts as if the pop world is pretty much what it was in 1973. McFly do too, in the way they hold their instruments, whirl through various poses and project their personality, but there's something about them, perhaps some form of self-confidence, or maybe the way they are festooned in jewellery and tattoos and combine a twinkling feminine energy with their composed, liquid neo-manliness, that suggests they are on the verge of travelling back to the future.
No longer innocent, bouncing teenagers, not of a world where releasing records and promoting them is relatively simple and crude, McFly are still located in the lingering, sweetened middle of the road, trapped a little by their name and their early association with Busted, compelled to maintain a pleasant, patient, non threatening demeanour, needing acting and diplomatic skills as well as the capacity to always appear enthusiastic. (More ways to accurately judge the boyband – how well they summon up enthusiasm for everything they do in public, which to some extent these days is a lot of their lives. McFly are a throbbing five stars in this area.)
There's a little pop experimentation on show on their new album, but the real experimentation comes with how they are set up as a business operation, and how they use their web site to fabricate connections with their fans and potential fans. This business is all about selling subscriptions to the world, the idea, the lifestyle, the fragrance, the attractiveness, the general views, the products of McFly.
They talk about wanting to be the biggest group in the world, as if there can still be such a thing, and such a thing can emerge from a novelty group that seems so assembled and plastic, and that was so unashamedly teeny. If, again, a key element about a boyband to analyse and grade is their ambition, and the ability to re-invent themselves, and shed skins, and manipulate as much as possible their own fate, then McFly are a full flowing five stars. I'm still old fashioned enough, although I might be right, to consider that what will make them the biggest group in the world will still have something to do with the form and content of their music, and that if they can produce a soundtrack as powerful as their ambition, self-belief and sense of purpose, as their knowledge of how to reach their target audience, as their ability to schmooze the likes of Alan Tichmarsh on live television, then they might yet make it. Or, they might become the biggest pop group in the world when such a thing means only playing to their subscribers, who are ultimately McFly's employers, who really only want them for one thing.
Time to say goodbye to McFly, and consider that if boybands should be judged on their ability to sell themselves as if there is no doubt at all that what they do is important and brilliant, then I give them four stars and a showbiz kiss.
• This article was amended on 29 November 2010. Danny Jones, guitarist in pop band McFly was mis-identified as the band's bass player, Dougie Poynter. This has been corrected."
The Guardian
perjantai 26. marraskuuta 2010
Pioneer pre-sale Super Cityssä & McFly Espanjassa
1. joulukuuta alkaa Super Cityssä pre-sale eksklusiivisesti pioneereille. Jokainen pioneer voi ostaa korkeintaan 4 lippua bändin tulevalle Iso-Britannian kiertueelle. Tässä vielä päivämäärät:
12 March 2011 Nottingham Trent FM Arena
14 March 2011 Belfast Odyssey Arena
16 March 2011 Dublin 02 Arena
18 March 2011 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
19 March 2011 Manchester MEN Arena
20 March 2011 Brighton Centre
22 March 2011 Cardiff CIA Arena
23 March 2011 Bournemouth BIC
26 March 2011 Glasgow SECC
27 March 2011 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
29 March 2011 Liverpool Echo Arena
30 March 2011 Birmingham LG Arena
01 April 2011 London Wembley Arena
Espanjan TV-kanava Cuatro laittoi videon El Hormiguero-ohjelman backstagelta, voit katsoa sen alta.
Ja muistakaa kuunnella YleX:ää tänään klo 18.00-20.00 jos he vaikka soittaisivatkin McFlyta! Tahdon kovasti kiittää teitä kaikkia jotka olette toivoneet McFlyta ja erityiskiitos @mission_mcfly, @SuperGazette, @McFly_United ja @frenchmcflyteam sanan levittämisestä! Soittavat he McFlyta tai eivät, iso kiitos teille! ♥
12 March 2011 Nottingham Trent FM Arena
14 March 2011 Belfast Odyssey Arena
16 March 2011 Dublin 02 Arena
18 March 2011 Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
19 March 2011 Manchester MEN Arena
20 March 2011 Brighton Centre
22 March 2011 Cardiff CIA Arena
23 March 2011 Bournemouth BIC
26 March 2011 Glasgow SECC
27 March 2011 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
29 March 2011 Liverpool Echo Arena
30 March 2011 Birmingham LG Arena
01 April 2011 London Wembley Arena
Espanjan TV-kanava Cuatro laittoi videon El Hormiguero-ohjelman backstagelta, voit katsoa sen alta.
Ja muistakaa kuunnella YleX:ää tänään klo 18.00-20.00 jos he vaikka soittaisivatkin McFlyta! Tahdon kovasti kiittää teitä kaikkia jotka olette toivoneet McFlyta ja erityiskiitos @mission_mcfly, @SuperGazette, @McFly_United ja @frenchmcflyteam sanan levittämisestä! Soittavat he McFlyta tai eivät, iso kiitos teille! ♥
torstai 25. marraskuuta 2010
El Hormiguero & artikkeleita
McFly on tälläkin hetkellä Madridissa, ja eilen he vierailivat El Hormiguero-ohjelmassa:
Ja Bliss-lehti laittoi McFlyn haastattelun Youtubeen:
Sitten artikkeleihin..
"Shine A Light…. on Synthpop? The Transformation of Modern-Day McFly.
I feel no embarrassment in the admitting to the following: five years ago I sat amongst fellow squealing teenage girls, wore an ‘I Heart Busted’ T-Shirt’…and subsequently danced around like a loon to the protégés of these musical messiahs, a then little known band called McFly.
The band’s first single ‘Five Colours In Her Hair,’ released in 2004, had a pre-chorus of playful ‘Do’s', multi-coloured t-shirts and extras pretending to head-bang…quite simply, I was sold. For the next two years, McFly had two platinum albums, four number one singles, a throng of female teenage fans and the opportunity to make a truly horrendous film debut with a then-sober Lindsay Lohan.
But then, the inevitable. Indifference. Lacklustre sales of a hastily released third album, ‘Motion In The Ocean,’ all led to the same road: cheeky-chappy, safe, pop-rock was officially on its way out.
Feeling disgruntled, and therefore desperately creative, McFly left the safe haven of their long-lasting record label, Island (a subsidiary of Universal) and created their own: Super Records. If the title wasn’t embarrassingly optimistic enough, the subsequent release of fourth album ‘Radio:Active’ as a freebie with the Mail On Sunday spoke volumes: the McFly formula was a bedraggled musical mess.
Desperate times call for desperate measures…Pop Music is no longer calling for people pretending to play guitars, it’s instead calling for blatant auto-tune and a dose of so called ‘cool’ – Taio Cruz taking a dirty picture, Enrique sampling Lionel Richie, Lady Gaga detailing the deceiving abilities of her sexual organs…McFly needed to get musically dirty to survive in the contemporary market. Their latest song, entitled ‘Shine a Light,’ not only re-unites the band with their once-abandoned record label, utilises the talents of mega-pop-producer Dallas Austin but features none other than Taio Cruz. Yes. That’s right. US and UK RnB Super-star and man who wears sunglasses indoors, Mr Cruz.
The blatancy and desperation of this ploy would be a little too much to bear….if it weren’t quite so genius. Cruz’s song-writing skills have created slowly simmering synth-pop accompanied by a sultry McFly in monochrome shades. I feel like I’m watching an alien band. They walk around in a cage, rhythmically nod their heads against some flashy, futuristic speakers… meanwhile Cruz resembles a Madame Tussauds waxwork in his scarily over-posed chorus stance.
Whether it’s musical survival…or musical prostitution, I like the fact that ‘Shine a Light’ showcases a stupidly dressed Mcfly feeling far too uncomfortable to dance. McFly may have abandoned their Indie- record label pursuits with their tails between their legs…but maybe this change in direction will finally mean they can stand on them again. The move from Multi-Coloured to Monochrome has never felt this good."
The Edge
"Album review: McFly – Above the Noise
You might not know who they are, but if you do you’ll be excited to know the British band McFly has a new album that’s just been released. It’s called Above the Noise, and it’s their fifth studio album. It’s a completely new sound for the band. They started out as a punky-pop group trying to imitate a little of Blink 182 and the Beach Boys, but they’ve taken more of a pop-rock almost hip hop like twist, and it’s left something to be desired.
For fans of their music you’ll be surprised when you hear the album. If you haven’t already heard their singles “Party Girl” or “Shine a Light,” it’s extremely different from anything they’ve ever done. This album is more reminiscent of something a male version of The Saturdays might do. That’s not to say it isn’t good, it’s just different. The band collaborated on much of this album with American artists Taio Cruz, Dallas Austin and NazTokio, who are all hip hop centred artists. All of the 13 songs on the album are unique, varying in their hip hop and pop-ness. There are a couple songs which remain somewhat close to Mcfly’s old sound: “If U C Kate,” “I Need a Woman” and especially “I’ll Be Your Man,” which is a classic power-pop ballad and very reminiscent of their second album, Wonderland.
The band has done a lot of promotion for this album: creating a new website titled “Mcfly- Super City,” changing their logo to be more futuristic and even creating a 40 minute long mini film featuring the band (but only vampire versions of themselves). It’s hard not to wonder why they’ve made this change. Is to jump on the vampire/ Lady Gaga loving bandwagon that seems to be taking over the globe? Or is it because they truly feel that their musical love lies in the pop genre? Since we’ll never know the answers, we just have to accept it and come to terms with the change. The band’s heart is still there, they’re still personable and genuine, which shows through in their music. It’s easy to forget, but they are a young band who seems to be ever changing – maybe they just haven’t found their sound yet?
The album is good if you like fast tempos, catchy lyrics, hip hop and pop. They are all talented, and they are versatile enough that they can pull off their new sound; the risk they took with this new album is commendable. In the end, the fans will decide whether they like it or not. Above the Noise is currently number 4 in the charts, and considering what the current trend in music is, it will probably continue to rise. I hope this new sound will prove fruitful for the band – if it is, let’s hope it’s here to stay; if it isn’t, let’s hope they have the sense to go back to basics."
The Cascade
"McFly's empathy for X Factor stars
McFly are sticking up for controversial X Factor contestant Katie Waissel.
Frontman Tom Fletcher chose Katie as one of his favourites, and reckoned it is tough for her to adjust to her instant fame, after she has continued to grab the headlines.
"There's some really good talent this year like Matt Cardle and Rebecca Ferguson, Cher Lloyd and Katie Waissel," he said.
"It's tough because there are some talented people and they just become from nobody to the most famous person in the country. It's hard for them to deal with but it's an incredible opportunity. They have people judging if they're good enough to do our job, which is a horrible thing."
Bandmate Harry Judd added: "People are entitled to their opinions. I don't know why people have such a dislike when they don't know her.
"Our fame was all spread out but theirs is so condensed into months and it's front page news."
Danny Jones chipped in: "What makes it harder is you're doing your thing and singing, and you come out to a world of opinions and everyone's judging you. It must mess with your head."
:: McFly's new album Above The Noise is available now."
Belfast Telegraph
Jos ette halua lukea huonoa arvostelua, älkää lukeko tätä seuraavaa...
"Album review: McFly - Above The Noise
Sorry, not good enough
McFly did a clever thing. When their contract with Universal was up, they formed their own label. This is clever because McFly were over. Not over in a never-sell-another-record sense. But over in a bubble-has-burst and now all we have is a sticky floor kind of way. But that sticky floor still has enough fans to sell records and gig tickets and, as it turns out, Habbo Hotel-style websites, enabling the band to directly market to them, free from record company hand wringing. In fact, McFly can probably identify the people who are going to buy this album by name, email and colour preference. Clever.
But this could also be the point where McFly prove what good song writers we were always told they were by making a record free from all commercial considerations. But they're not really in that place. The problem with McFly is they never wrote their 'Back For Good' and so have never crossed over from being a band that girls who were slightly too young to like Busted like, into a band that people-who-don't-normally-like-that-sort-of-thing tip their appreciative hats to. Which is a shame since they always seemed capable of more than they creatively achieved.
And so, few people reading this are wondering what this album actually sounds like, or whether the songs recapture the magic of 'Obviously' or 'It's All About You'. Which is also a shame. Or perhaps it's simply the pop equivalent of natural selection. What use does anyone have for McFly in 2010.
'Above The Noise' begins with a virtual computer voice and those noises computers only make in films and a lot of nonsense about downloading Harry, Dougie and whatnot. This was an irritating idea back when Prince first thought of it and now it's irritating and dated. You are not from the future and if you were we don't believe the future will make those noises.
The song the computer voice introduces is 'End of the World' (following Take That's current preoccupation with Armageddon). McFly's 'End of the World' is what
'Thriller' would sound like if it had been made by Lee from Steps. It also features a baffling snatch of melody from War of the Worlds (the current production stars Jason Donovan, Liz MccLarnon and Rhydian, btw. Tickets still available.)
We're only on track two and already we'd like to stop listening and forget this album ever existed. 'Party Girl' has the sort of noises McFly probably imagine Lady Gaga uses but with such sub-Lou Pearlman boyband songwriting and "woah woah" backing vocals that we're transported instantly to a time when pop had an identity crisis and a fondness for overdriven, overplayed ROCK guitars. It's rubbish.
'iF U C Kate' fails on so many levels. Firstly, Britney already made that joke with 'If You Seek Amy'. Secondly, it's a shit joke (The Spice Girls' unreleased 'C U Next Tuesday' is funnier. Well, a bit). And thirdly, it shows just how cluelessly unsure of themselves as songwriters, they've become. You know you can say fuck on records now, boys? Just say it. Fuck, fuck, fuck. No one really cares. What does it sound like? Again, no one cares. But for the record, it sounds like Cliff Richard trying to sound like Prince (only not as good as that would actually be).
'Shine A Light' (what a vacuous title) has got Taio Cruz on it. We're not sure what either party gets out of the deal. 'I'll Be Your Man' sees McFly ditch their boyish Beatlesque pop rock completely and stumble idiotically into wavering R&B falsetto jizz. At which point the CD was removed and thrown into the street in the hope of inciting a student riot.
McFly's fifth studio album, Above The Noise sounds like the third album of a third rate boyband who'd already gone downhill by their second. Truly fucking awful."
Holy Moly
Ja muistakaa toivoa McFlyta YleX:llä!!! Tarkemmat ohjeet täällä.
Ja Bliss-lehti laittoi McFlyn haastattelun Youtubeen:
Sitten artikkeleihin..
"Shine A Light…. on Synthpop? The Transformation of Modern-Day McFly.
I feel no embarrassment in the admitting to the following: five years ago I sat amongst fellow squealing teenage girls, wore an ‘I Heart Busted’ T-Shirt’…and subsequently danced around like a loon to the protégés of these musical messiahs, a then little known band called McFly.
The band’s first single ‘Five Colours In Her Hair,’ released in 2004, had a pre-chorus of playful ‘Do’s', multi-coloured t-shirts and extras pretending to head-bang…quite simply, I was sold. For the next two years, McFly had two platinum albums, four number one singles, a throng of female teenage fans and the opportunity to make a truly horrendous film debut with a then-sober Lindsay Lohan.
But then, the inevitable. Indifference. Lacklustre sales of a hastily released third album, ‘Motion In The Ocean,’ all led to the same road: cheeky-chappy, safe, pop-rock was officially on its way out.
Feeling disgruntled, and therefore desperately creative, McFly left the safe haven of their long-lasting record label, Island (a subsidiary of Universal) and created their own: Super Records. If the title wasn’t embarrassingly optimistic enough, the subsequent release of fourth album ‘Radio:Active’ as a freebie with the Mail On Sunday spoke volumes: the McFly formula was a bedraggled musical mess.
Desperate times call for desperate measures…Pop Music is no longer calling for people pretending to play guitars, it’s instead calling for blatant auto-tune and a dose of so called ‘cool’ – Taio Cruz taking a dirty picture, Enrique sampling Lionel Richie, Lady Gaga detailing the deceiving abilities of her sexual organs…McFly needed to get musically dirty to survive in the contemporary market. Their latest song, entitled ‘Shine a Light,’ not only re-unites the band with their once-abandoned record label, utilises the talents of mega-pop-producer Dallas Austin but features none other than Taio Cruz. Yes. That’s right. US and UK RnB Super-star and man who wears sunglasses indoors, Mr Cruz.
The blatancy and desperation of this ploy would be a little too much to bear….if it weren’t quite so genius. Cruz’s song-writing skills have created slowly simmering synth-pop accompanied by a sultry McFly in monochrome shades. I feel like I’m watching an alien band. They walk around in a cage, rhythmically nod their heads against some flashy, futuristic speakers… meanwhile Cruz resembles a Madame Tussauds waxwork in his scarily over-posed chorus stance.
Whether it’s musical survival…or musical prostitution, I like the fact that ‘Shine a Light’ showcases a stupidly dressed Mcfly feeling far too uncomfortable to dance. McFly may have abandoned their Indie- record label pursuits with their tails between their legs…but maybe this change in direction will finally mean they can stand on them again. The move from Multi-Coloured to Monochrome has never felt this good."
The Edge
"Album review: McFly – Above the Noise
You might not know who they are, but if you do you’ll be excited to know the British band McFly has a new album that’s just been released. It’s called Above the Noise, and it’s their fifth studio album. It’s a completely new sound for the band. They started out as a punky-pop group trying to imitate a little of Blink 182 and the Beach Boys, but they’ve taken more of a pop-rock almost hip hop like twist, and it’s left something to be desired.
For fans of their music you’ll be surprised when you hear the album. If you haven’t already heard their singles “Party Girl” or “Shine a Light,” it’s extremely different from anything they’ve ever done. This album is more reminiscent of something a male version of The Saturdays might do. That’s not to say it isn’t good, it’s just different. The band collaborated on much of this album with American artists Taio Cruz, Dallas Austin and NazTokio, who are all hip hop centred artists. All of the 13 songs on the album are unique, varying in their hip hop and pop-ness. There are a couple songs which remain somewhat close to Mcfly’s old sound: “If U C Kate,” “I Need a Woman” and especially “I’ll Be Your Man,” which is a classic power-pop ballad and very reminiscent of their second album, Wonderland.
The band has done a lot of promotion for this album: creating a new website titled “Mcfly- Super City,” changing their logo to be more futuristic and even creating a 40 minute long mini film featuring the band (but only vampire versions of themselves). It’s hard not to wonder why they’ve made this change. Is to jump on the vampire/ Lady Gaga loving bandwagon that seems to be taking over the globe? Or is it because they truly feel that their musical love lies in the pop genre? Since we’ll never know the answers, we just have to accept it and come to terms with the change. The band’s heart is still there, they’re still personable and genuine, which shows through in their music. It’s easy to forget, but they are a young band who seems to be ever changing – maybe they just haven’t found their sound yet?
The album is good if you like fast tempos, catchy lyrics, hip hop and pop. They are all talented, and they are versatile enough that they can pull off their new sound; the risk they took with this new album is commendable. In the end, the fans will decide whether they like it or not. Above the Noise is currently number 4 in the charts, and considering what the current trend in music is, it will probably continue to rise. I hope this new sound will prove fruitful for the band – if it is, let’s hope it’s here to stay; if it isn’t, let’s hope they have the sense to go back to basics."
The Cascade
"McFly's empathy for X Factor stars
McFly are sticking up for controversial X Factor contestant Katie Waissel.
Frontman Tom Fletcher chose Katie as one of his favourites, and reckoned it is tough for her to adjust to her instant fame, after she has continued to grab the headlines.
"There's some really good talent this year like Matt Cardle and Rebecca Ferguson, Cher Lloyd and Katie Waissel," he said.
"It's tough because there are some talented people and they just become from nobody to the most famous person in the country. It's hard for them to deal with but it's an incredible opportunity. They have people judging if they're good enough to do our job, which is a horrible thing."
Bandmate Harry Judd added: "People are entitled to their opinions. I don't know why people have such a dislike when they don't know her.
"Our fame was all spread out but theirs is so condensed into months and it's front page news."
Danny Jones chipped in: "What makes it harder is you're doing your thing and singing, and you come out to a world of opinions and everyone's judging you. It must mess with your head."
:: McFly's new album Above The Noise is available now."
Belfast Telegraph
Jos ette halua lukea huonoa arvostelua, älkää lukeko tätä seuraavaa...
"Album review: McFly - Above The Noise
Sorry, not good enough
McFly did a clever thing. When their contract with Universal was up, they formed their own label. This is clever because McFly were over. Not over in a never-sell-another-record sense. But over in a bubble-has-burst and now all we have is a sticky floor kind of way. But that sticky floor still has enough fans to sell records and gig tickets and, as it turns out, Habbo Hotel-style websites, enabling the band to directly market to them, free from record company hand wringing. In fact, McFly can probably identify the people who are going to buy this album by name, email and colour preference. Clever.
But this could also be the point where McFly prove what good song writers we were always told they were by making a record free from all commercial considerations. But they're not really in that place. The problem with McFly is they never wrote their 'Back For Good' and so have never crossed over from being a band that girls who were slightly too young to like Busted like, into a band that people-who-don't-normally-like-that-sort-of-thing tip their appreciative hats to. Which is a shame since they always seemed capable of more than they creatively achieved.
And so, few people reading this are wondering what this album actually sounds like, or whether the songs recapture the magic of 'Obviously' or 'It's All About You'. Which is also a shame. Or perhaps it's simply the pop equivalent of natural selection. What use does anyone have for McFly in 2010.
'Above The Noise' begins with a virtual computer voice and those noises computers only make in films and a lot of nonsense about downloading Harry, Dougie and whatnot. This was an irritating idea back when Prince first thought of it and now it's irritating and dated. You are not from the future and if you were we don't believe the future will make those noises.
The song the computer voice introduces is 'End of the World' (following Take That's current preoccupation with Armageddon). McFly's 'End of the World' is what
'Thriller' would sound like if it had been made by Lee from Steps. It also features a baffling snatch of melody from War of the Worlds (the current production stars Jason Donovan, Liz MccLarnon and Rhydian, btw. Tickets still available.)
We're only on track two and already we'd like to stop listening and forget this album ever existed. 'Party Girl' has the sort of noises McFly probably imagine Lady Gaga uses but with such sub-Lou Pearlman boyband songwriting and "woah woah" backing vocals that we're transported instantly to a time when pop had an identity crisis and a fondness for overdriven, overplayed ROCK guitars. It's rubbish.
'iF U C Kate' fails on so many levels. Firstly, Britney already made that joke with 'If You Seek Amy'. Secondly, it's a shit joke (The Spice Girls' unreleased 'C U Next Tuesday' is funnier. Well, a bit). And thirdly, it shows just how cluelessly unsure of themselves as songwriters, they've become. You know you can say fuck on records now, boys? Just say it. Fuck, fuck, fuck. No one really cares. What does it sound like? Again, no one cares. But for the record, it sounds like Cliff Richard trying to sound like Prince (only not as good as that would actually be).
'Shine A Light' (what a vacuous title) has got Taio Cruz on it. We're not sure what either party gets out of the deal. 'I'll Be Your Man' sees McFly ditch their boyish Beatlesque pop rock completely and stumble idiotically into wavering R&B falsetto jizz. At which point the CD was removed and thrown into the street in the hope of inciting a student riot.
McFly's fifth studio album, Above The Noise sounds like the third album of a third rate boyband who'd already gone downhill by their second. Truly fucking awful."
Holy Moly
Ja muistakaa toivoa McFlyta YleX:llä!!! Tarkemmat ohjeet täällä.
keskiviikko 24. marraskuuta 2010
Above the Noise #20 albumilistalla & The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Above the Noise ylsi sijalle 20 Iso-Britannian virallisella albumilistalla. Ottakaa huomioon, että suurin osa latasi sen Super Cityn kautta, ja sitä ei lasketa mukaan albumimyynteihin. Voit katsoa koko albumilistan täältä.
McFly oli eilen vieraana The Alan Titchmarsh Show'ssa, haastattelu ja esiintyminen alla.
"They’re not just back, but have guaranteed themselves a future.
Frankly, it's a miracle this album exists at all. After all, all the usual credibility-gap closers – numerous Beatlesque albums, gigging at the Barfly, releasing on an indie label – still haven't quite shifted the perception of McFly as Busted Club Juniors, while their absence has seen the surprise renaissance of boybands like they used to be. Clearly, then, to stand any hope at all, they need to have even more of a plan B than, well, Plan B did.
In fairness, the crazed despair and raised eyebrows that the recent singles have been greeted with on YouTube would suggest that that's exactly what they've got. But, intriguingly, even the breathtaking Bad Romance homagery of Party Girl and perfectly serviceable of-the-moment pop of Shine a Light are little preparation for the delights in store here. Dallas Austin may have seemed an unlikely production choice, but he deploys the same sci-fi surefootedness he brought to TLC's FanMail, along with – read on, purists, and despair – a veritable truckload of synths. And, perhaps just as surprisingly, the foursome all rise to the challenge remarkably.
Harry and Dougie, for instance, cope manfully with hurling their rhythm section rollicks from the dancehall to the dancefloor, what with Take Me There being borderline Balearica and Nowhere Left to Run sitting but a tiny tweak from all manner of housey goodness. Danny's familiar rasp, hormonally charged at the best of times, comes positively alive in such lusty surroundings, especially on I Need a Woman's alone-in-bed musings. Sauce! Tom, meanwhile, is a revelation, drifting through in a fabulously lost falsetto, and those who doubted he could convincingly tackle an RnB slow jam – pretty much everyone, probably – should ready themselves for the outright shock and awe of the magnificent I'll Be Your Man.
Alright, so they do lose their way somewhat towards the end, but thankfully before that we've been treated to the likes of End of the World, which flicks audaciously between ultra-futurist reveries and a retread of Eve of the War in a Queenly guitar fashion, and standout iF U C Kate, which takes similarly royal cues to become a flawless facsimile of Revolution-era Prince. It's the most radical break we can remember at this stage of a band's career since Everything but the Girl's jaunt into jungle, and one that confirms that McFly are not only conclusively back, but they might just have guaranteed themselves a future."
BBC
McFly oli eilen vieraana The Alan Titchmarsh Show'ssa, haastattelu ja esiintyminen alla.
"They’re not just back, but have guaranteed themselves a future.
Frankly, it's a miracle this album exists at all. After all, all the usual credibility-gap closers – numerous Beatlesque albums, gigging at the Barfly, releasing on an indie label – still haven't quite shifted the perception of McFly as Busted Club Juniors, while their absence has seen the surprise renaissance of boybands like they used to be. Clearly, then, to stand any hope at all, they need to have even more of a plan B than, well, Plan B did.
In fairness, the crazed despair and raised eyebrows that the recent singles have been greeted with on YouTube would suggest that that's exactly what they've got. But, intriguingly, even the breathtaking Bad Romance homagery of Party Girl and perfectly serviceable of-the-moment pop of Shine a Light are little preparation for the delights in store here. Dallas Austin may have seemed an unlikely production choice, but he deploys the same sci-fi surefootedness he brought to TLC's FanMail, along with – read on, purists, and despair – a veritable truckload of synths. And, perhaps just as surprisingly, the foursome all rise to the challenge remarkably.
Harry and Dougie, for instance, cope manfully with hurling their rhythm section rollicks from the dancehall to the dancefloor, what with Take Me There being borderline Balearica and Nowhere Left to Run sitting but a tiny tweak from all manner of housey goodness. Danny's familiar rasp, hormonally charged at the best of times, comes positively alive in such lusty surroundings, especially on I Need a Woman's alone-in-bed musings. Sauce! Tom, meanwhile, is a revelation, drifting through in a fabulously lost falsetto, and those who doubted he could convincingly tackle an RnB slow jam – pretty much everyone, probably – should ready themselves for the outright shock and awe of the magnificent I'll Be Your Man.
Alright, so they do lose their way somewhat towards the end, but thankfully before that we've been treated to the likes of End of the World, which flicks audaciously between ultra-futurist reveries and a retread of Eve of the War in a Queenly guitar fashion, and standout iF U C Kate, which takes similarly royal cues to become a flawless facsimile of Revolution-era Prince. It's the most radical break we can remember at this stage of a band's career since Everything but the Girl's jaunt into jungle, and one that confirms that McFly are not only conclusively back, but they might just have guaranteed themselves a future."
BBC
maanantai 22. marraskuuta 2010
Frougie & One Direction
"Dougie Poynter - Dougie Poynter Splits From Frankie Sandford
McFly's Dougie Poynter has been dumped by girlfriend Frankie Sandford for the second time.
Dougie Poynter is devastated after girlfriend Frankie Sandford dumped him for a second time.
The McFly bassist and The Saturdays beauty - who reconciled earlier this year following a brief split in February - broke-up again last week after Frankie moved out of the house they shared.
A friend of Dougie's told the Metro newspaper: "He is devastated. He didn't see it coming at all and still doesn't know why. They were planning to settle down and were actually house-hunting.
"It's the second time Frankie has done this after she dumped him in February but came back in tears and said she made a mistake."
Another pal claims that Frankie's love of partying maybe to blame for the separation as Dougie and his bandmates Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd and Danny Jones are not interested in celebrity bashes.
The friend said: "Frankie always seems to be out partying, playing the celeb scene. The McFly lads don't really do that."
Although the couple battled to save their relationship after reconciling earlier this year, Frankie realised things weren't working out.
The source said: "Frankie felt they had gone as far as they could. They split earlier this year but got back together to make things work but sadly it didn't. Frankie has moved out of the place they shared."
Dougie - who had dated Frankie for almost two years before she dumped him last week - recently confessed he was waiting for her to propose.
He said: "I'm waiting for her to ask me. We're new school. We wait for the women to ask us. I'll have a big diamond please!"
Contact Music
"McFly feel “threatened” by X Factor’s One Direction
The four-piece boyband – Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter – are concerned the young ‘X Factor’ band may steal their Guinness World Record for youngest group with a number one album.
Tom exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “How old are One Direction? I hope we’re safe by the time they release an album. I think we’ll be alright but I’m feeling a bit threatened right now. If they beat us do we have to give back our record? I hope not!”
The group also admitted while they are huge fans of the ITV1 show, they aren’t sure whether they would be successful if they were to enter the talent competition.
Tom added: “It’s incredible, I wish I was a part of it. It’s the best possible platform for launching a music career. To be able to go on and perform in front of such a huge audience is incredible, but obviously it’s difficult to be given the opportunity to go and do that.
“I think maybe we’d get to Boot Camp and they’d make us dance or something and they’d be like, ‘Where did this guy come from?”
Unreality TV
McFly's Dougie Poynter has been dumped by girlfriend Frankie Sandford for the second time.
Dougie Poynter is devastated after girlfriend Frankie Sandford dumped him for a second time.
The McFly bassist and The Saturdays beauty - who reconciled earlier this year following a brief split in February - broke-up again last week after Frankie moved out of the house they shared.
A friend of Dougie's told the Metro newspaper: "He is devastated. He didn't see it coming at all and still doesn't know why. They were planning to settle down and were actually house-hunting.
"It's the second time Frankie has done this after she dumped him in February but came back in tears and said she made a mistake."
Another pal claims that Frankie's love of partying maybe to blame for the separation as Dougie and his bandmates Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd and Danny Jones are not interested in celebrity bashes.
The friend said: "Frankie always seems to be out partying, playing the celeb scene. The McFly lads don't really do that."
Although the couple battled to save their relationship after reconciling earlier this year, Frankie realised things weren't working out.
The source said: "Frankie felt they had gone as far as they could. They split earlier this year but got back together to make things work but sadly it didn't. Frankie has moved out of the place they shared."
Dougie - who had dated Frankie for almost two years before she dumped him last week - recently confessed he was waiting for her to propose.
He said: "I'm waiting for her to ask me. We're new school. We wait for the women to ask us. I'll have a big diamond please!"
Contact Music
"McFly feel “threatened” by X Factor’s One Direction
The four-piece boyband – Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter – are concerned the young ‘X Factor’ band may steal their Guinness World Record for youngest group with a number one album.
Tom exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “How old are One Direction? I hope we’re safe by the time they release an album. I think we’ll be alright but I’m feeling a bit threatened right now. If they beat us do we have to give back our record? I hope not!”
The group also admitted while they are huge fans of the ITV1 show, they aren’t sure whether they would be successful if they were to enter the talent competition.
Tom added: “It’s incredible, I wish I was a part of it. It’s the best possible platform for launching a music career. To be able to go on and perform in front of such a huge audience is incredible, but obviously it’s difficult to be given the opportunity to go and do that.
“I think maybe we’d get to Boot Camp and they’d make us dance or something and they’d be like, ‘Where did this guy come from?”
Unreality TV
lauantai 20. marraskuuta 2010
The Sun - Breaking Poynter
"DOUGIE POYNTER from MCFLY is down in the dumps.
He has split from THE SATURDAYS singer FRANKIE SANDFORD - and she pulled the trigger. Poor Dougie is gutted but I'm sure it won't take him long to get over it.
The pair, who lived together, seemed a bit of an odd couple, even though they were beginning to blend into the same person.
He liked mucking about with his mates while Frankie preferred going to West End clubs.
At least Dougie can concentrate on rebuilding his lizard collection.´"
The Sun
Tämä on tällä hetkellä ainoa sivusto, josta tästä löytyi tietoa, joten se voi olla vain pelkkä huhukin.. Mutta joka tapauksessa, Dougie-parka :(
He has split from THE SATURDAYS singer FRANKIE SANDFORD - and she pulled the trigger. Poor Dougie is gutted but I'm sure it won't take him long to get over it.
The pair, who lived together, seemed a bit of an odd couple, even though they were beginning to blend into the same person.
He liked mucking about with his mates while Frankie preferred going to West End clubs.
At least Dougie can concentrate on rebuilding his lizard collection.´"
The Sun
Tämä on tällä hetkellä ainoa sivusto, josta tästä löytyi tietoa, joten se voi olla vain pelkkä huhukin.. Mutta joka tapauksessa, Dougie-parka :(
Children In Need
Harry tanssi eilen Englannin Tanssii Tähtien Kanssa -ohjelman voittajan Ola Jordanin kanssa Children In Needissä The Saturdaysin Rochelle Wisemania vastaan. Ensimmäisessä videossa on Rochellen esiintyminen ja tokassa videossa Harryn esiintyminen.
McFly myös esitti Shine A Lightin siellä:
Ja Ella Prendergast Let's Talk Disability -kampanjasta lisäsi Youtube-kanavaansa McFlyn haastattelun:
McFly myös esitti Shine A Lightin siellä:
Ja Ella Prendergast Let's Talk Disability -kampanjasta lisäsi Youtube-kanavaansa McFlyn haastattelun:
perjantai 19. marraskuuta 2010
Artikkeleita ja videoita!
Olettehan jo huomanneet, että toivomme McFlyta ensi viikon YleX:n X-ryhmän perjantaitoiveisiin? Jos et, muista katsoa edellinen päivitys!! Se on tärkeää :)
Tänään tulee BBC1:ltä klo 21.00 Suomen aikaa Children In Need, jossa McFly esittää Shine A Lightin ja Harry tanssii Englannin Tanssii Tähtien Kanssa -ohjelman voittajan kanssa. Ikävä kyllä en löytänyt yhtään sivustoa, mistä sitä voisi katsoa livenä, mutta eiköhän molemmat löydy huomenna Youtubesta. Tässä on ensin "muutama" video:
Sitten artikkeleita.. Joita on taas monta!
"15,000 sign up to McFly online club
More than15,000 fans around the world have signed up to McFly's Super City online subscription offering since it launched at the start of November.
The band released their new album - Above The Noise - through the dedicated site two weeks ahead of its full release. Subscribers will also receive a variety of exclusives during their subscription period.
The band had set a target of 10,000 subscribers in the first six months, but had exceeded this on the first day of the site going live.
An annual subscription costs £40, or monthly membership can be purchased for £6. In total, the site generated £400,000 in its first two days.
Sales through the site are currently not chart eligible in the UK."
Music Week
"It’s funny, this is exactly what we did when we met Harry McFly
Except our legs were certainly not together.
We haven’t watched Children In Need since our mum’s friend’s daughter’s dog’s sparrow had a bath in baked beans outside Argos in town, but watching Harry from McFly prancing about in this tight number is a perfectly good excuse to sack off our Friday night plans.
Here’s a few pictures from tomorrow’s show, which sees Harry and Rochelle Saturdays competing in a Strictly Come Dancing special. Although it all looks a bit cheesy for us, dancing like a twat would be a small compromise for getting thrown around like the small Polish lady.
We should probably say something about Rochelle. Umm… it looks like she borrowed Suri Cruise’s high heels? There."
3am (sivulla on kuvia Harryn Children In Need-esiintymisestä)
"Marlborough fan's McFly heroes
McFly fan Robert Dobie, 17, who was played the band’s tracks while he was in a coma, got VIP treatment when two of the group visited Marlborough on Monday to autograph their latest CD.
Two years ago Robert was desperately ill in Bristol Children’s Hospital over Christmas and New Year when severe food poisoning left him fighting for his life. Doctors told his parents Bob and Michelle, he died twice.
McFly band member Dougie Poynter was delighted at Robert’s recovery. He said: “That is a really touching story and we are delighted if we helped.”
Robert of Rabley Wood View, was stuck for words when he met the band members. “It’s been amazing to meet them,” he said.
But his mother Michelle said: “When he was in intensive care the nurses played Rob his McFly CDs non-stop.
“Although he couldn’t answer us, we knew he could hear the CDs playing and this went on for nearly seven days.
We are convinced the band helped Rob come back to us and this is something we shall never forget.
“Meeting them brings back memories of those long dark days and nights doing whatever we could not to let our son die.”
Bassist Dougie Poynter said that as soon as they heard he was in the huge queue, they asked for him to be brought to the front so they could have a chat.
He said: “His mum told us how they played our CDs to him and that she believed this had helped bring him round. We are delighted if we helped in any way.
“We have invited him to our gig next year at Birmingham and we will get him backstage to meet all of us and we’ll get the other two to sign his album as well.”
Gazette & Herald
"Rochelle Wiseman goes up against Harry Judd on Strictly Come Dancing for Children In Need
It’s The Saturdays vs McFly this Friday night
Move aside Ann Widdecombe, Kara Tointon and Gavin Henson - it's time for our favourite pop stars to give glitter and hip-wiggling a go.
The Saturdays' Rochelle Wiseman and McFly's Harry Judd will be hitting the Strictly dancefloor as part of the Children In Need extravaganza this Friday night.
Rochelle, 21, will be dancing the American Smooth with partner Ian Waite, and Harry, 24, will be putting down his drumsticks to take on the Paso Doble with Strictly pin-up Ola Jordan.
'Tomorrow is the big Strictly day..eekk!!! I'm super nervous! Oh well, it's allllll for charity...x' Rochelle Tweeted before filming.
For an added twist, Rochelle will be dancing to McFly's All About You, and Harry will be showing off his moves to The Saturdays' hit Ego.
Children In Need kicks off this Friday night from 7pm on BBC1."
Now
"McFly – Above The Noise (Review)
6 years ago when Danny, Dougie, Tom and Harry released their first single ’5 Colours In Her Hair’, many wouldn’t have believed that in 2010 they would be still together, releasing their fifth studio album with fans still lapping up their music in their droves? What’s even more surprising is the direction that they have taken. Marketed as a more talented (and better looking) Busted, they sold out Arenas and had screaming fans wherever they turned. However in 2008 the band released “Radio:Active” on their own label and the record being their lowest album chart position of their career the boys needed to rethink their brand. ”
Above The Noise” see’s the guys ditch their punk/pop roots and instead opt for collaborations with the likes of Taio Cruz (who helped produce the album) to help them stay “relevant”. They have also unsurprisingly returned to their old Record Label Island. But does the new sound work?
The album kicks off with “End Of The World”, an in your face Pop/Rock/Dance crossover which sets the theme for the rest of the album. 70′s disco vibes are also present and although its a good way to kick the album off it’s a bit all over the place, too much going on but no substance to back it up. Tom and Danny’s vocals are also totally overpowered by the beat. One of the weaker songs, but luckily things do improve.
Lead single “Party Girl” is totally different to anything McFly have released before. Aimed solely at fans of ‘Twilight’ and ‘The Vampire Diaries’ (the video sees the guys play the blood sucking creatures) its a up-tempo pop number with a darker feeling behind it. The guitar rift still shows hints of what McFly were (remember they are a boy band who actually play instruments) but at the same time showcases a more mature and darker sound mixed with Electropop.
Two tracks that initially stand out for me, mainly because of the subject matter. “If U C Kate” and “I’ll Be Your Man”. Both because they refer to a girl called ‘Kate’. “I’ll Be Your Man” is one of the standout tracks on the album, Tom solely on vocals on a beautiful slow number with the lyric “Because they all went away when I found you, Katy”. I’m not sure who the lyrics refer too on both tracks but as a Mcfly fan back in the mid noughties I did know that Tom had a massive crush on Katie Holmes. Whoever ‘Kate; is she has clearly made a lasting impression on Fletcher and the boys with the name dropped on both tracks.
Second single “Shine A Light” is up next and of course features RnB singer/writer/producer Taio Cruz. Unfortunately it is one of the worst songs on the album in my opinion, but McFly know what they are doing enlisting Cruz’s help. Taio has himself notched up 2 UK number one singles as well as writing and producing tracks for Cheryl Cole, The Saturdays and JLS. Not my personal favourite however it’s not hard to see why it was released as a single.
Other highlights on the album include “Nowhere Left To Run” which has a soaring Electropop/Dance chorus, Danny’s vocals suiting the song perfectly. It would be a great single choice. “I Need A Woman” is a Motown styled track which blatantly rips of Ben E. Kings’s “Stand By Me” as soon as the intro kicks in. Other than that it’s a good pop song. “This Song” again has a great pop melody, something McFly have always been able to produce in abundance.
The album closes with “Foolish”. A bad end to an average album. One of the weaker songs and the addition of auto-tune only makes it more embarrassing, Danny and Tom can sing they don’t need the gimmicks that many pop bands do. “Above The Noise” may be a welcome change and will certainly help them back on their feet after “Radio:Active”, however I’d much rather go and listen to “Room On The Third Floor” and “Wonderland” to remind me of the Pop band they once were, and what I secretly wish they still were.
Skip To: I’ll Be Your Man, I Need A Woman, Nowhere Left To Run
Just Skip: Shine A Light, Foolish
Rating: **½"
M is For Music
"Mcfly - Mcfly Hoping For Sex Doll Replicas
McFly think it would be ''funny'' to release a range of sex dolls in their own likenesses for their male and female fans to buy.
McFly want lifesize sex dolls of themselves .
The group - comprising Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter - think it would be "funny" to create raunchy replicas that their male and female fans could buy.
Danny said: "We want McFly sex dolls! I think it would be really funny. I'd buy one. They should definitely be suitable for both guys and girls though."
While the 'Party Girl' hitmakers want their own range of sex dolls, the band won't be following in the footsteps of chart rivals JLS and releasing a range of condoms, as they think their line would probably be "too small" and unsafe for the general public.
Harry joked: "Our condoms wouldn't be very safe. They would be too small for everyone else to even use!"
Danny added: "It's not a good move for anyone if we branch out into condoms."
Meanwhile, Dougie - who has been dating Frankie Sandford for almost two years - claims he won't get engaged to The Saturdays star until she proposes to him.
He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "I'm waiting for her to ask me. We're new school. We wait for the women to ask us. I'll have a big diamond please!"
However, if the pair do tie the knot in the future, Frankie could be in for a shock, as Dougie admitted he has a penchant for dressing in women's clothes.
He said: "I think I suggested it thinking, 'It's one of those things that'll never happen,' but I turned up today and they had it prepared. I've actually dressed up as a woman quite a few times. It's become a bit of a habit for me. I enjoyed wearing tights!"
McFly performed a secret gig at Heathrow's Terminal 5 on Wednesday night (17.11.10) for the official switch-on of the airport's Christmas lights."
Contact Music
Tänään tulee BBC1:ltä klo 21.00 Suomen aikaa Children In Need, jossa McFly esittää Shine A Lightin ja Harry tanssii Englannin Tanssii Tähtien Kanssa -ohjelman voittajan kanssa. Ikävä kyllä en löytänyt yhtään sivustoa, mistä sitä voisi katsoa livenä, mutta eiköhän molemmat löydy huomenna Youtubesta. Tässä on ensin "muutama" video:
Sitten artikkeleita.. Joita on taas monta!
"15,000 sign up to McFly online club
More than15,000 fans around the world have signed up to McFly's Super City online subscription offering since it launched at the start of November.
The band released their new album - Above The Noise - through the dedicated site two weeks ahead of its full release. Subscribers will also receive a variety of exclusives during their subscription period.
The band had set a target of 10,000 subscribers in the first six months, but had exceeded this on the first day of the site going live.
An annual subscription costs £40, or monthly membership can be purchased for £6. In total, the site generated £400,000 in its first two days.
Sales through the site are currently not chart eligible in the UK."
Music Week
"It’s funny, this is exactly what we did when we met Harry McFly
Except our legs were certainly not together.
We haven’t watched Children In Need since our mum’s friend’s daughter’s dog’s sparrow had a bath in baked beans outside Argos in town, but watching Harry from McFly prancing about in this tight number is a perfectly good excuse to sack off our Friday night plans.
Here’s a few pictures from tomorrow’s show, which sees Harry and Rochelle Saturdays competing in a Strictly Come Dancing special. Although it all looks a bit cheesy for us, dancing like a twat would be a small compromise for getting thrown around like the small Polish lady.
We should probably say something about Rochelle. Umm… it looks like she borrowed Suri Cruise’s high heels? There."
3am (sivulla on kuvia Harryn Children In Need-esiintymisestä)
"Marlborough fan's McFly heroes
McFly fan Robert Dobie, 17, who was played the band’s tracks while he was in a coma, got VIP treatment when two of the group visited Marlborough on Monday to autograph their latest CD.
Two years ago Robert was desperately ill in Bristol Children’s Hospital over Christmas and New Year when severe food poisoning left him fighting for his life. Doctors told his parents Bob and Michelle, he died twice.
McFly band member Dougie Poynter was delighted at Robert’s recovery. He said: “That is a really touching story and we are delighted if we helped.”
Robert of Rabley Wood View, was stuck for words when he met the band members. “It’s been amazing to meet them,” he said.
But his mother Michelle said: “When he was in intensive care the nurses played Rob his McFly CDs non-stop.
“Although he couldn’t answer us, we knew he could hear the CDs playing and this went on for nearly seven days.
We are convinced the band helped Rob come back to us and this is something we shall never forget.
“Meeting them brings back memories of those long dark days and nights doing whatever we could not to let our son die.”
Bassist Dougie Poynter said that as soon as they heard he was in the huge queue, they asked for him to be brought to the front so they could have a chat.
He said: “His mum told us how they played our CDs to him and that she believed this had helped bring him round. We are delighted if we helped in any way.
“We have invited him to our gig next year at Birmingham and we will get him backstage to meet all of us and we’ll get the other two to sign his album as well.”
Gazette & Herald
"Rochelle Wiseman goes up against Harry Judd on Strictly Come Dancing for Children In Need
It’s The Saturdays vs McFly this Friday night
Move aside Ann Widdecombe, Kara Tointon and Gavin Henson - it's time for our favourite pop stars to give glitter and hip-wiggling a go.
The Saturdays' Rochelle Wiseman and McFly's Harry Judd will be hitting the Strictly dancefloor as part of the Children In Need extravaganza this Friday night.
Rochelle, 21, will be dancing the American Smooth with partner Ian Waite, and Harry, 24, will be putting down his drumsticks to take on the Paso Doble with Strictly pin-up Ola Jordan.
'Tomorrow is the big Strictly day..eekk!!! I'm super nervous! Oh well, it's allllll for charity...x' Rochelle Tweeted before filming.
For an added twist, Rochelle will be dancing to McFly's All About You, and Harry will be showing off his moves to The Saturdays' hit Ego.
Children In Need kicks off this Friday night from 7pm on BBC1."
Now
"McFly – Above The Noise (Review)
6 years ago when Danny, Dougie, Tom and Harry released their first single ’5 Colours In Her Hair’, many wouldn’t have believed that in 2010 they would be still together, releasing their fifth studio album with fans still lapping up their music in their droves? What’s even more surprising is the direction that they have taken. Marketed as a more talented (and better looking) Busted, they sold out Arenas and had screaming fans wherever they turned. However in 2008 the band released “Radio:Active” on their own label and the record being their lowest album chart position of their career the boys needed to rethink their brand. ”
Above The Noise” see’s the guys ditch their punk/pop roots and instead opt for collaborations with the likes of Taio Cruz (who helped produce the album) to help them stay “relevant”. They have also unsurprisingly returned to their old Record Label Island. But does the new sound work?
The album kicks off with “End Of The World”, an in your face Pop/Rock/Dance crossover which sets the theme for the rest of the album. 70′s disco vibes are also present and although its a good way to kick the album off it’s a bit all over the place, too much going on but no substance to back it up. Tom and Danny’s vocals are also totally overpowered by the beat. One of the weaker songs, but luckily things do improve.
Lead single “Party Girl” is totally different to anything McFly have released before. Aimed solely at fans of ‘Twilight’ and ‘The Vampire Diaries’ (the video sees the guys play the blood sucking creatures) its a up-tempo pop number with a darker feeling behind it. The guitar rift still shows hints of what McFly were (remember they are a boy band who actually play instruments) but at the same time showcases a more mature and darker sound mixed with Electropop.
Two tracks that initially stand out for me, mainly because of the subject matter. “If U C Kate” and “I’ll Be Your Man”. Both because they refer to a girl called ‘Kate’. “I’ll Be Your Man” is one of the standout tracks on the album, Tom solely on vocals on a beautiful slow number with the lyric “Because they all went away when I found you, Katy”. I’m not sure who the lyrics refer too on both tracks but as a Mcfly fan back in the mid noughties I did know that Tom had a massive crush on Katie Holmes. Whoever ‘Kate; is she has clearly made a lasting impression on Fletcher and the boys with the name dropped on both tracks.
Second single “Shine A Light” is up next and of course features RnB singer/writer/producer Taio Cruz. Unfortunately it is one of the worst songs on the album in my opinion, but McFly know what they are doing enlisting Cruz’s help. Taio has himself notched up 2 UK number one singles as well as writing and producing tracks for Cheryl Cole, The Saturdays and JLS. Not my personal favourite however it’s not hard to see why it was released as a single.
Other highlights on the album include “Nowhere Left To Run” which has a soaring Electropop/Dance chorus, Danny’s vocals suiting the song perfectly. It would be a great single choice. “I Need A Woman” is a Motown styled track which blatantly rips of Ben E. Kings’s “Stand By Me” as soon as the intro kicks in. Other than that it’s a good pop song. “This Song” again has a great pop melody, something McFly have always been able to produce in abundance.
The album closes with “Foolish”. A bad end to an average album. One of the weaker songs and the addition of auto-tune only makes it more embarrassing, Danny and Tom can sing they don’t need the gimmicks that many pop bands do. “Above The Noise” may be a welcome change and will certainly help them back on their feet after “Radio:Active”, however I’d much rather go and listen to “Room On The Third Floor” and “Wonderland” to remind me of the Pop band they once were, and what I secretly wish they still were.
Skip To: I’ll Be Your Man, I Need A Woman, Nowhere Left To Run
Just Skip: Shine A Light, Foolish
Rating: **½"
M is For Music
"Mcfly - Mcfly Hoping For Sex Doll Replicas
McFly think it would be ''funny'' to release a range of sex dolls in their own likenesses for their male and female fans to buy.
McFly want lifesize sex dolls of themselves .
The group - comprising Tom Fletcher, Harry Judd, Danny Jones and Dougie Poynter - think it would be "funny" to create raunchy replicas that their male and female fans could buy.
Danny said: "We want McFly sex dolls! I think it would be really funny. I'd buy one. They should definitely be suitable for both guys and girls though."
While the 'Party Girl' hitmakers want their own range of sex dolls, the band won't be following in the footsteps of chart rivals JLS and releasing a range of condoms, as they think their line would probably be "too small" and unsafe for the general public.
Harry joked: "Our condoms wouldn't be very safe. They would be too small for everyone else to even use!"
Danny added: "It's not a good move for anyone if we branch out into condoms."
Meanwhile, Dougie - who has been dating Frankie Sandford for almost two years - claims he won't get engaged to The Saturdays star until she proposes to him.
He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "I'm waiting for her to ask me. We're new school. We wait for the women to ask us. I'll have a big diamond please!"
However, if the pair do tie the knot in the future, Frankie could be in for a shock, as Dougie admitted he has a penchant for dressing in women's clothes.
He said: "I think I suggested it thinking, 'It's one of those things that'll never happen,' but I turned up today and they had it prepared. I've actually dressed up as a woman quite a few times. It's become a bit of a habit for me. I enjoyed wearing tights!"
McFly performed a secret gig at Heathrow's Terminal 5 on Wednesday night (17.11.10) for the official switch-on of the airport's Christmas lights."
Contact Music
torstai 18. marraskuuta 2010
Toivotaan McFlyta YleX:n X-ryhmän perjantaitoiveisiin!!
Suomeksi/Finnish:
Ajattelin nyt pistää pystyyn yhden haasteen: saada YleX:n X-ryhmä soittamaan McFlyta perjantain toiveohjelmassaan. Minä tuskin yksin saan heitä McFlyta soittamaan, joten tarvitsen teidän apua! On varmaan helpompaa toivoa kaikki samaa biisiä, ja on varmaan todennäköisempää että heillä on joku vanha McFlyn biisi, joten toivotaan ALL ABOUT YOUTA! Voit toivoa täällä. Itse kirjoitin "toivebiisisi"-kohtaan "McFly - All About You (tai mikä tahansa McFlyn biisi)" ja perusteluksi voitte kirjoittaa jotain omaa, tai jättää sen tyhjäksi. Yleensä he kuitenkin soittavat hyvin perustellut toiveet, joten olisi hyvä jos keksit siihen jotain. Siinä ei myöskään kysytä sähköpostiosoitetta tms, joten voit lähettää saman toiveen monella eri nimellä/nimimerkillä! En usko, että he vielä huomisessa ohjelmassa sitä soittavat, mutta yritetään saada ensi viikon (perjantai 26.11.) ohjelmaan mukaan McFlyta. Yrittäkää saada kaverinne, sisaruksenne, vanhempanne, isovanhempanne, serkunne ja pikkuserkunnekin toivomaan! WE CAN DO THIS!!
English:
So I decided to try and get a Finnish radio channel YleX play McFly. We are requesting McFly's All About You (because it's more likely that they have an old song than a new song) and WE NEED YOUR HELP!! This is very simple and all you have to do is go here and write this to the following spaces:
Toivebiisisi: McFly - All About You (tai mikä tahansa McFlyn biisi)
and "nimesi" means "your name", so just type it in the space at the bottom. You can change your name with every request and request it as many times as you want to! The more requests, the more likely they're gonna play it. They have a special show for requests every Friday at 18.00-20.00 (GMT+2) and they probably won't play it tomorrow, so let's try and get them play McFly next Friday, November 26th, so we have a week to send our requests. Spread the word and get as many people involved as possible! WE CAN DO THIS!!
Ajattelin nyt pistää pystyyn yhden haasteen: saada YleX:n X-ryhmä soittamaan McFlyta perjantain toiveohjelmassaan. Minä tuskin yksin saan heitä McFlyta soittamaan, joten tarvitsen teidän apua! On varmaan helpompaa toivoa kaikki samaa biisiä, ja on varmaan todennäköisempää että heillä on joku vanha McFlyn biisi, joten toivotaan ALL ABOUT YOUTA! Voit toivoa täällä. Itse kirjoitin "toivebiisisi"-kohtaan "McFly - All About You (tai mikä tahansa McFlyn biisi)" ja perusteluksi voitte kirjoittaa jotain omaa, tai jättää sen tyhjäksi. Yleensä he kuitenkin soittavat hyvin perustellut toiveet, joten olisi hyvä jos keksit siihen jotain. Siinä ei myöskään kysytä sähköpostiosoitetta tms, joten voit lähettää saman toiveen monella eri nimellä/nimimerkillä! En usko, että he vielä huomisessa ohjelmassa sitä soittavat, mutta yritetään saada ensi viikon (perjantai 26.11.) ohjelmaan mukaan McFlyta. Yrittäkää saada kaverinne, sisaruksenne, vanhempanne, isovanhempanne, serkunne ja pikkuserkunnekin toivomaan! WE CAN DO THIS!!
English:
So I decided to try and get a Finnish radio channel YleX play McFly. We are requesting McFly's All About You (because it's more likely that they have an old song than a new song) and WE NEED YOUR HELP!! This is very simple and all you have to do is go here and write this to the following spaces:
Toivebiisisi: McFly - All About You (tai mikä tahansa McFlyn biisi)
and "nimesi" means "your name", so just type it in the space at the bottom. You can change your name with every request and request it as many times as you want to! The more requests, the more likely they're gonna play it. They have a special show for requests every Friday at 18.00-20.00 (GMT+2) and they probably won't play it tomorrow, so let's try and get them play McFly next Friday, November 26th, so we have a week to send our requests. Spread the word and get as many people involved as possible! WE CAN DO THIS!!
keskiviikko 17. marraskuuta 2010
Iso-Britannian kiertuepäivämäärät, Studio Five + artikkeleja!
Danny ilmoitti tänään webchatissään tarkat päivämäärät heidän vuoden 2011 kiertueelleen! Tässä ne ovat:
Marraskuu:
Saturday 12th NOTTINGHAM, TRENT FM Arena
Monday 14th BELFAST, Odyssey Arena
Wednesday 16th DUBLIN, O2 Arena
Friday 18th SHEFFIELD, Motorpoint Arena
Saturday 19th MANCHESTER, MEN Arena
Sunday 20th BRIGHTON, Centre
Tuesday 22nd CARDIFF, Arena
Wednesday 23rd BOURNEMOUTH, BIC Arena
Saturday 26th GLASGOW, SECC Arena
Sunday 27th NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena
Tuesday 29th LIVERPOOL, Echo arena
Wednesday 30th BIRMINGHAM, LG Arena
Huhtikuu:
Friday 1st LONDON, Wembley Arena
Ja jos olet pioneer, sinulla on mahdollisuus ostaa liput konsertteihin 2 päivää ennen normaalia myyntiä.
Ja McFly esiintyi tänään Studio Fivella:
Sitten artikkeleihin.. ja niitä onkin monta!
"McFly: 'We deserve recognition'
McFly have opined that they deserve more recognition in the music industry.
The quartet, who released their debut album in 2004, believe that they deserve more credit than they are given for surviving in the industry for seven years.
"I think we deserve a bit more credit now. We should be recognised a bit more," Danny Jones told the Daily Star.
"McFly has got that name attached to it because we first released stuff with Busted, but that was seven years ago. We’ve seen a lot of old faces come back - these girls who have come back to watch us and now they’re women."
He continued: "This album is actually amazing if you open your mind to it - you can really enjoy it. For us to still be around and in the charts is an amazing achievement."
Jones also revealed that the band are planning a "spectacular" arena tour in the near future.
He added: "We’re going to launch the best arena tour you’ve ever seen. It’s gonna be like a rock, pop and entertainment show all in one. We’re gonna destroy the place.
"It’s early days, but we will try and make it spectacular. We like big production and fireworks."
McFly's new album Above The Noise is out now."
Digital Spy
"McFly
It may have been boyband-o-rama on last Sunday's X Factor, but one all-male pop combo that was shockingly overlooked was McFly. Surely eight years in the biz, racking up seven number one singles and five top ten albums in the process, must count for something? Regardless, the lads have sailed into the top five with their latest single 'Shine A Light', proving those coveted performance slots aren't the be-all-and-end-all. With their fifth studio set Above The Noise out this week, we checked in with Danny Jones to see if the boys are feeling confident.
Do you still get nervous on album release week?
"A little bit! We've already released it to fans on the Super City website though, so it's less scary. I get nervous about what the general public might think, but we believe in this album - it's one you can actually get into, as opposed to having four singles on it and the rest is rubbish. Any one of the songs could be a single."
Were you pleased with 'Shine A Light's' chart position?
"We're very pleased with number four. It's great to be up there with Rihanna and Take That and Katy Perry. There we are sitting just behind them!"
You beat Shayne Ward, who had an X Factor performance slot of course...
"I'd be lying if I said we weren't a little big smug! But what can you say about that? He's covered a Nickelback song! It just shows that if you've got a good song, it's going to climb up the charts X Factor or no X Factor. I feel a bit sorry for him because he had a great platform to get out there, but for some reason it's obviously not connected."
You were knocking about the X Factor studios last weekend - were you buttering up Mr Cowell for a performance slot?
"You know what? We'd love to perform on the The X Factor, because that show just dominates and I think we need a break like that. I'm not sure how we'd seduce him though. Hmm... I'd probably say, 'Come on man, what's wrong with you?! Can we be in your circle of friends too?' It's all Sony BMG acts so we don't have the right connections to get on there unfortunately. It would be absolutely immense if we managed it though!"
You're back with a major label for your new album. Why did you return?
"We wanted to take things up to the next level, particularly with advertising. We went back to our label and they were really excited about the project. They put us in touch with Dallas Austin and Taio Cruz and it all feels like it's been taken up a gear."
Is your new Super City website a way of keeping the independence you had before?
"Super City was something we really wanted to do, and it also gives our label a reason to invest in us. The deal is split straight down the line: 50/50. There's no competition between what we want and what the label wants and it's even for everyone involved."
Are you pleased with the results so far?
"Chuffed! I think it could be revolutionary. No other band offers the same insight we do, and it's open to the world rather than just the UK. We do webchats from the studio where we ask what songs fans want to hear in our shows. I give guitar lessons on there, Dougie's got his own little show and Harry has a section to introduce new bands - it's basically amazing!"
You have a new image - was that your idea or the label's?
"It was definitely ours! We look back at pictures and think 'Why the hell did people buy our records?' We thought it was about time we got ourselves down the gym and got ourselves a decent dress sense. It's almost like a new band - we were young when we first started, and what was cool then ain't cool at all now! Look at Madonna - she changes her look whenever she brings a new album out."
You've experimented with your sound on this LP - are you pleased with how it turned out?
"Definitely! There's not a song on there that I'd skip. We had such a good time doing it. We hadn't experienced working with other people before, so I think we were all pretty scared when we were suddenly flying out to Atlanta to work with Dallas, who is massive. Thankfully he was the right producer for what we wanted to do and he's become a good friend since."
We were you nervous about handing the reigns over to someone else?
"To be honest, I was really nervous about it at first, but we made sure we approached it from a positive angle, and you have to learn to trust other people's judgement. There was a moment where we had this song and I really wasn't into it, but Dallas loved it, so we carried on working on it and it turned out to be amazing. The beauty of being in a pop band is that you can be open to suggestions. A lot of musicians see their music as their baby and don't want it tampered with, but I think in this case taking on board other ideas worked out for the best."
Would you work with more US producers on future albums?
"We definitely want to work with Dallas if we can, and Max Martin would be great too. One thing a lot of producers out there were surprised about was that we can actually sing and play our own instruments - I think they were relieved to have some of the load taken off them!"
There's a track on the LP called 'iF U C Kate'. Is it a response to Britney's 'If U Seek Amy'?
"I haven't heard that Britney song?! That was actually the only track we didn't write. It was done by Dallas and JC Chasez. We were obviously a bit skeptical about it as we always write our own songs, but it was an amazing track and we really wanted it for our album."
Finally, McFly have been together for almost eight years now. What's next?
"It feels a bit early to say! We're going to keep writing amazing songs and working on the production side of things, and see where it takes us. Basically we just want to keep making good music. It's simple really!"
Above The Noise is out now."
Digital Spy
"Don't McFly make hot pilots! (and an air hostess)
McFly dress the part as they perform secret Heathrow gig
MCFLY reeeeally got into the spirit of things as they switched on the Christmas lights at Heathrow Airport last night.
We started drooling when we saw pop group McFly dressed up as (very dishy) pilots for the occasion at Heathrow Airport.
But the drooling stopped and the laughing started as we clocked Dougie who opted for an air hostess outfit instead!
The 22-year-old clearly borrowed some of girlfriend Frankie Sandford's clothes for the evening as he turned up at Terminal 5 International Arrivals in a short skirt and high heel shoes!
Dougie, Danny, Tom and Harry then surprised staff with a secret gig, belting out hits Party Girl and Shine a Light from new album Above the Noise as well as All About You and Star Girl at the very first ever airport gig.
The boys said: "We've performed in some weird and wonderful locations before, but Heathrow was really special.
"We were able to meet fans from all over the world and we're honoured that they stopped to share that magical moment with us."
OK! Magazine (sivulla on myös monta upeaa kuvaa)
"We still would.
It would be a little strange pulling nude tights down a particularly hairy pair of legs, but it’s a sacrifice we’d be willing to make for Dougie McFly.
Dougie dressed up as an air hostess as the boys switched on the Christmas lights at Heathrow Airport yesterday, because… well, there was no reason really, he just likes dicking about.
Meanwhile, Tom, Danny and Harry strutted around dressed as pilots, which – predictable as it is – we are totally digging. If our pilot looked like Harry, we’d risk being attacked with plastic forks to break into the cockpit. Although we don’t quite know what we’d do if we got in there – probably fall apart and blow a raspberry on his shoulder. Or something."
3am (sivulla on myös kuvia)
"The Fix: McFly become Pilots
Is there anything McFly can't do? They can sing, play instruments, write their own songs and, judging by their muscles, they're pretty nifty in the gym too. Well, now it seems that they've added flying aeroplanes to their CV.
Ok, so strictly speaking that's not entirely true, but they did dress up as pilots when they switched on the Christmas lights at London's Heathrow airport! Nothing like getting into the spirit of things, eh lads?"
4music (sivulla on lyhyt video)
Marraskuu:
Saturday 12th NOTTINGHAM, TRENT FM Arena
Monday 14th BELFAST, Odyssey Arena
Wednesday 16th DUBLIN, O2 Arena
Friday 18th SHEFFIELD, Motorpoint Arena
Saturday 19th MANCHESTER, MEN Arena
Sunday 20th BRIGHTON, Centre
Tuesday 22nd CARDIFF, Arena
Wednesday 23rd BOURNEMOUTH, BIC Arena
Saturday 26th GLASGOW, SECC Arena
Sunday 27th NEWCASTLE, Metro Radio Arena
Tuesday 29th LIVERPOOL, Echo arena
Wednesday 30th BIRMINGHAM, LG Arena
Huhtikuu:
Friday 1st LONDON, Wembley Arena
Ja jos olet pioneer, sinulla on mahdollisuus ostaa liput konsertteihin 2 päivää ennen normaalia myyntiä.
Ja McFly esiintyi tänään Studio Fivella:
Sitten artikkeleihin.. ja niitä onkin monta!
"McFly: 'We deserve recognition'
McFly have opined that they deserve more recognition in the music industry.
The quartet, who released their debut album in 2004, believe that they deserve more credit than they are given for surviving in the industry for seven years.
"I think we deserve a bit more credit now. We should be recognised a bit more," Danny Jones told the Daily Star.
"McFly has got that name attached to it because we first released stuff with Busted, but that was seven years ago. We’ve seen a lot of old faces come back - these girls who have come back to watch us and now they’re women."
He continued: "This album is actually amazing if you open your mind to it - you can really enjoy it. For us to still be around and in the charts is an amazing achievement."
Jones also revealed that the band are planning a "spectacular" arena tour in the near future.
He added: "We’re going to launch the best arena tour you’ve ever seen. It’s gonna be like a rock, pop and entertainment show all in one. We’re gonna destroy the place.
"It’s early days, but we will try and make it spectacular. We like big production and fireworks."
McFly's new album Above The Noise is out now."
Digital Spy
"McFly
It may have been boyband-o-rama on last Sunday's X Factor, but one all-male pop combo that was shockingly overlooked was McFly. Surely eight years in the biz, racking up seven number one singles and five top ten albums in the process, must count for something? Regardless, the lads have sailed into the top five with their latest single 'Shine A Light', proving those coveted performance slots aren't the be-all-and-end-all. With their fifth studio set Above The Noise out this week, we checked in with Danny Jones to see if the boys are feeling confident.
Do you still get nervous on album release week?
"A little bit! We've already released it to fans on the Super City website though, so it's less scary. I get nervous about what the general public might think, but we believe in this album - it's one you can actually get into, as opposed to having four singles on it and the rest is rubbish. Any one of the songs could be a single."
Were you pleased with 'Shine A Light's' chart position?
"We're very pleased with number four. It's great to be up there with Rihanna and Take That and Katy Perry. There we are sitting just behind them!"
You beat Shayne Ward, who had an X Factor performance slot of course...
"I'd be lying if I said we weren't a little big smug! But what can you say about that? He's covered a Nickelback song! It just shows that if you've got a good song, it's going to climb up the charts X Factor or no X Factor. I feel a bit sorry for him because he had a great platform to get out there, but for some reason it's obviously not connected."
You were knocking about the X Factor studios last weekend - were you buttering up Mr Cowell for a performance slot?
"You know what? We'd love to perform on the The X Factor, because that show just dominates and I think we need a break like that. I'm not sure how we'd seduce him though. Hmm... I'd probably say, 'Come on man, what's wrong with you?! Can we be in your circle of friends too?' It's all Sony BMG acts so we don't have the right connections to get on there unfortunately. It would be absolutely immense if we managed it though!"
You're back with a major label for your new album. Why did you return?
"We wanted to take things up to the next level, particularly with advertising. We went back to our label and they were really excited about the project. They put us in touch with Dallas Austin and Taio Cruz and it all feels like it's been taken up a gear."
Is your new Super City website a way of keeping the independence you had before?
"Super City was something we really wanted to do, and it also gives our label a reason to invest in us. The deal is split straight down the line: 50/50. There's no competition between what we want and what the label wants and it's even for everyone involved."
Are you pleased with the results so far?
"Chuffed! I think it could be revolutionary. No other band offers the same insight we do, and it's open to the world rather than just the UK. We do webchats from the studio where we ask what songs fans want to hear in our shows. I give guitar lessons on there, Dougie's got his own little show and Harry has a section to introduce new bands - it's basically amazing!"
You have a new image - was that your idea or the label's?
"It was definitely ours! We look back at pictures and think 'Why the hell did people buy our records?' We thought it was about time we got ourselves down the gym and got ourselves a decent dress sense. It's almost like a new band - we were young when we first started, and what was cool then ain't cool at all now! Look at Madonna - she changes her look whenever she brings a new album out."
You've experimented with your sound on this LP - are you pleased with how it turned out?
"Definitely! There's not a song on there that I'd skip. We had such a good time doing it. We hadn't experienced working with other people before, so I think we were all pretty scared when we were suddenly flying out to Atlanta to work with Dallas, who is massive. Thankfully he was the right producer for what we wanted to do and he's become a good friend since."
We were you nervous about handing the reigns over to someone else?
"To be honest, I was really nervous about it at first, but we made sure we approached it from a positive angle, and you have to learn to trust other people's judgement. There was a moment where we had this song and I really wasn't into it, but Dallas loved it, so we carried on working on it and it turned out to be amazing. The beauty of being in a pop band is that you can be open to suggestions. A lot of musicians see their music as their baby and don't want it tampered with, but I think in this case taking on board other ideas worked out for the best."
Would you work with more US producers on future albums?
"We definitely want to work with Dallas if we can, and Max Martin would be great too. One thing a lot of producers out there were surprised about was that we can actually sing and play our own instruments - I think they were relieved to have some of the load taken off them!"
There's a track on the LP called 'iF U C Kate'. Is it a response to Britney's 'If U Seek Amy'?
"I haven't heard that Britney song?! That was actually the only track we didn't write. It was done by Dallas and JC Chasez. We were obviously a bit skeptical about it as we always write our own songs, but it was an amazing track and we really wanted it for our album."
Finally, McFly have been together for almost eight years now. What's next?
"It feels a bit early to say! We're going to keep writing amazing songs and working on the production side of things, and see where it takes us. Basically we just want to keep making good music. It's simple really!"
Above The Noise is out now."
Digital Spy
"Don't McFly make hot pilots! (and an air hostess)
McFly dress the part as they perform secret Heathrow gig
MCFLY reeeeally got into the spirit of things as they switched on the Christmas lights at Heathrow Airport last night.
We started drooling when we saw pop group McFly dressed up as (very dishy) pilots for the occasion at Heathrow Airport.
But the drooling stopped and the laughing started as we clocked Dougie who opted for an air hostess outfit instead!
The 22-year-old clearly borrowed some of girlfriend Frankie Sandford's clothes for the evening as he turned up at Terminal 5 International Arrivals in a short skirt and high heel shoes!
Dougie, Danny, Tom and Harry then surprised staff with a secret gig, belting out hits Party Girl and Shine a Light from new album Above the Noise as well as All About You and Star Girl at the very first ever airport gig.
The boys said: "We've performed in some weird and wonderful locations before, but Heathrow was really special.
"We were able to meet fans from all over the world and we're honoured that they stopped to share that magical moment with us."
OK! Magazine (sivulla on myös monta upeaa kuvaa)
"We still would.
It would be a little strange pulling nude tights down a particularly hairy pair of legs, but it’s a sacrifice we’d be willing to make for Dougie McFly.
Dougie dressed up as an air hostess as the boys switched on the Christmas lights at Heathrow Airport yesterday, because… well, there was no reason really, he just likes dicking about.
Meanwhile, Tom, Danny and Harry strutted around dressed as pilots, which – predictable as it is – we are totally digging. If our pilot looked like Harry, we’d risk being attacked with plastic forks to break into the cockpit. Although we don’t quite know what we’d do if we got in there – probably fall apart and blow a raspberry on his shoulder. Or something."
3am (sivulla on myös kuvia)
"The Fix: McFly become Pilots
Is there anything McFly can't do? They can sing, play instruments, write their own songs and, judging by their muscles, they're pretty nifty in the gym too. Well, now it seems that they've added flying aeroplanes to their CV.
Ok, so strictly speaking that's not entirely true, but they did dress up as pilots when they switched on the Christmas lights at London's Heathrow airport! Nothing like getting into the spirit of things, eh lads?"
4music (sivulla on lyhyt video)
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