McFly myös esiintyi Alan Carrin Chatty Man -ohjelmassa viime viikonloppuna, voit katsoa videon alapuolelta.
Tässä lista McFlyn tulevista TV-ohjelmista:
3.9 – GMTV (ITV1) 6:00 – 9:25
4.9 – The National Lottery’s Big Night (BBC1) 19:40
5.9.– Big Brother’s Little Brother (C4) 11:45
9.9. – This Morning (ITV1) 10:30 – 12:30
10.9. – Live from Studio Five (C5) 18:25 – 19:00
11.9. – 5:19 Show (BBC Switch BBC2:lla) 13:15
15.9. – The Michael Ball Show (ITV1) 15:00
(ajat ovat Englannin aikaa)
Yritän sitten myös saada videot mahdollisimman nopeasti päivitettyä tänne :) Tässä vielä erittäin hyvä artikkeli Guardianin sivuilta:
"McFly go DIY
Would you like these boys to call you up? McFly tell Will Dean how they took back control of their music – and are giving fans unprecedented access to their lives.
All yours for £50 a year . . . from left, Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter, Danny Jones and Harry Judd. Photograph: Sarah Lee/Sarah Lee for the Guardian
'YURRWANKAS!" shouts Dougie Poynter as he explains a common reaction from Britain's white-van men to his walking down the street. Despite being infuriatingly good-looking, wealthy and successful, this seems about as tricky as life gets for the four members of McFly.
While the band might not take themselves too seriously – the video to their song Transylvania had singer Tom Fletcher mugging along dressed as Nosferatu – they're earnest about trying to take a lead when it comes to having a lasting pop career in the 21st century. In 2004, just as their immediate precursors Busted were imploding, McFly became the youngest band to have a debut album go to No 1, beating the Beatles. Somehow, despite looking about 12 (they're actually between 22 and 25), they've been together nearly as long as Ringo and company, with bass player Poynter having left school at 15 to join the band. Which makes me feel terrible when I ask him if his "Howl" top is an Allen Ginsberg T-shirt. "No, it's AllSaints," comes the innocent reply.
After drummer Harry Judd and Poynter joined Fletcher and guitarist/singer Danny Jones, their first single, 5 Colours in Her Hair, topped the charts, the first in a run of seven No 1s. They sold out arenas, appeared in the Lindsey Lohan movie Just My Luck (Judd's one-night stand with Lohan was cheekily referenced in their 2006 single Please, Please), removed their shirts more often than is polite and earned a fortune in the process. Then they seemed to experience the kind of decline that befalls most pop groups after a good three-year knock: releasing a half-hearted greatest hits, parting company with their label and going decidedly off-radar.
But what could have been the beginning of the end for a band whose teenage fans were beginning to outgrow them actually gave McFly a chance to take their future into their own hands. Miffed by the greatest hits release ("It wasn't really relevant," says Judd), they started their own label and released their fourth album, Radio:Active, through the Mail on Sunday.
"At the time, we were trying to think about how we could do things differently and keep up with the record industry," says Judd of their decision to follow Prince in giving away new material with the paper. It seems to have worked: the newspaper added 300,000 to its usual 2.1m sale with the giveaway. To put that into context, the band's chart-topping second album sold 300,000 in total. They then released Radio:Active properly, and it still made the top 10. The subsequent sellout arena tour suggests the giveaway was a good move – but how about sharing page space with the less enlightened souls associated with the Mail? "Richard Littlejohn? What's that?" says Jones when asked. It probably didn't worry them too much.
Now able to spend daft amounts of (their own) money on music videos and flying stages – the pyrotechnics in the Lies video were supposedly funded by downgrading a flight to economy – the band felt liberated. A run of success abroad, combined with a new musical direction, was enough for Universal to ask them to rejoin the fold. The band agreed to a new 50/50 share deal, in which the label profits from tours and merchandise but the band make more on record sales than the usual 16%. Because Universal don't have to worry as much about losing revenue from CD sales, they've allowed McFly to offer all their music directly from their new website on a subscription basis.
When it launches, Super City, McFly's new web presence, will give fans unprecedented access to the band. The most active fans earn points that can lead to webchats and phonecalls; there are also video guitar lessons, the band's entire back catalogue, and social networks that aim to create a community tied directly to McFly. All this comes for a pocket-money-busting £6 a month, or £50 a year, with the first 100,000 fans being granted "pioneer" status that allows them more goodies. "It's cheaper than an album, and our fans spend so much money on us that we wanted to find a way to give them more access," Fletcher says.
If this digital gamble comes off (and it's a huge if), it could be the music industry's equivalent of Manchester United streaming games on their website. Even if only 10,000 "pioneers" sign up, McFly could still clear hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. It's a larger-scale take on the 1,000 true fans theory, which suggests that a band needs 1,000 paying fans to make a living. So how many people do they think will sign up? "We'll have to find out . . . " says a circumspect Fletcher, who even suggests he'll put demos up on the site before showing them to his bandmates, and that the site will give fans the chance to say what singles McFly should release and what songs to play live.
"We're just going to be completely open and show the fans everything," says Fletcher. "And why not? I think you have to be. The music industry is different now. In the olden days, that distance between you and your idols made it special. But now people are craving information, and you have to [provide it]."
Judging by comments on their videos on YouTube, what McFly's fans also crave is the band without their tops. In order to sate that particular appetite (and to launch the new site), they've made their own 30-minute movie, Nowhere Left to Run; judging by the trailer, it involves some vampire action and lots of shots of Judd sans clothing. "We were referencing people like Michael Jackson when he did Moonwalker. There aren't any rules, really. We just thought it'd be fun to make a movie," says Fletcher.
The video for their new single, Party Girl, is stuffed with clips from the film, and represents a step away from their early teenybopper take on Blink-182. The video whoomphs into life with Lady Gaga-style whirring synths while retaining the guitar-swinging-around-their-heads jollity that originally found them fame. It might well be this change in direction that allows McFly to survive (the song has gone straight on to the Radio 1 A-list), rather than any high-tech fan-corralling. And if all else fails, they can always just keep taking their tops off.
• Party Girl is out on Sunday. McFly's new album follows in November. "
Ja toinen artikkeli contactmusic.comista:
"Mcfly's 'International' Album
McFly have changed their sound to include more commercial pop influences, so they could ''compete on an international level''.
McFly changed their sound so they could "compete on an international level".
The British group dropped the guitars and rock influenced sound of their fourth album 'Radio: Active' to work with pop producers on their next single 'Party Girl', in order to attract a wider audience to their sound.
The band's frontman, Tom Fletcher told NME magazine: "We worked with producer Taio Cruz on this album! But we changed because we wanted to compete on an international level."
Another change the group - which also includes Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd - are championing is to use their website to debut their new material, and may in future use it as a platform for demos so their fans can choose which songs they eventually record, and give them chance to choose the band's set list for live shows.
Tom added: "We're just going to be completely open and show the fans everything. And why not? I think you have to be. The music industry is different now. In the olden days, that distance between you and your idols made it special. But now people are craving information, and you have to provide."
'Party Girl' is available from Sunday (06.09.10), and the band's album follows in November. "
Ehkä tämä tarkoittaa, että vihdoinkin voitaisiin kuulla poikia myös Suomen radiossa?? :)
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