Lopez Blogs

That boyband blog I keep wanting to do keeps getting pushed further and further back. By the time I get round to it, it will be completely irrelevant. Having said that, after yesterday's love spaff over the Robbie & Gary duet (Robbary? Garobbie? Gobby?!), I've been listening to the greatest hits of Take That (post 2006) while packing for a lovely week away in the cottage down in the hidden countryside of East Sussex. Cannot wait. All this Robbie love has reminded me that it's nigh on 10 years since the appearance of my second favourite male singer of all time (Simon Curtis, you're third!) William of Young, so this week's update is mainly focused on what the charming chappie is up to...

William of Young - the latest:

William has been seriously dabbling with his acting for a while now, hasn't he? There was Mrs Henderson Presents (with some music. Yay!); then he was rather spiffing as Nicky Lancaster in Noel Coward's The Vortex on the very boards of London's own West End Wendy theatre district (which as someone quite rightly pointed out wasn't in the West End at all but rather in Manchester. A Manchester Theatre Mandy!); you may have missed him voicing Roald Dahl's Danny Champion Of The World but it's still available at all good audio book emporioums as we speak; and of course most recently he's guested in Skins and uh, Miss Marple (surely Doctor Who must be needing him soon?!) Anyway, early in 2011, William will be back on UK screens in a spooky new drama called Bedlam. Apparently it's about residents in an apartment block that is the former site of a victorian mental asylum. Lordy. It's bound to be utterly terrifying. I'm quaking at the horrors of the wardrobe already :P

And, though this isn't 'new' news, William of course has been knocking around with Groove Armada and recorded a song with them called History. The track seems to have been around forever and a day, but is finally getting a release - and a rather good video has popped up on youtube (thanks Dan Project 76!!). It gives William a bit of a boot into the world of dance that he's always been threatening to delve into rather than the toe-dipping that has gone on in the past (mainly with Fred Falke remixes)... It's essentially Small Town Boy by Bronski Beat for 2010, but so very well done that it's hard to complain. If you search around you will probably come across a Grum remix here or there, and both mixes are a real testament to how versatile William is as a vocalist. Utterly delightful and quite shameful that I haven't blogged about this properly before. Oh and the "viral video" above is a proper clever piece of work :)

Top 21 songs of the week:

21 ~ Eric Saade, It's Gonna Rain
20 ~ Kylie, All The Lovers
19 ~ Same Difference, Shine On Forever
18 ~ Brandon Flowers, Crossfire
17 ~ Gabriella Cilmi, Love Me Cos You Want To
16 ~ Alesha Dixon, Drummer Boy
15 ~ Bright Light x 2, Love Part II
14 ~ McFly, Party Girl
13 ~ Ace Of Base, All For You (VID)
12 ~ Amy Meredith, Lying
11 ~ Sophie Ellis Bextor, Not Giving Up On Love
10 ~ Maroon 5, Misery
09 ~ Maroon 5, Give A Little More
08 ~ Eric Saade, Masquerade
07 ~ Scissor Sisters, Any Which Way
06 ~ Kelly Rowland, Shake Them Haters Off
05 ~ Robbie Williams/Gary Barlow, Shame (NE)
04 ~ DeeDee, Balls
03 ~ Kylie, Get Outta My Way
02 ~ Darin, Lovekiller
01 ~ Gravitonas, Religious (1 week)

Next week: Some interviews (ooer!); The X Factor - auditions week two; possibly the boyband post; the embargoed thingy! MY HOLIDAY!!!