Backstage with Blunty...

SHOWBIZ EXCLUSIVE!

We headed to the Royal Concert Hall this week to meet 'army posh boy turned crooner', James Blunt. I'd interviewed him before and he was a little...umm, un-cooperative. Nice enough, just not an easy interview so wasn't sure what to expect this time...

We were left to it, which is so much nicer-no PR/managers keeping an eye on things! And he was a thoroughly lovely, bloody nice bloke! He even seemed a little nervous. Turns out I want James Blunts' life. His home is now Ibiza, where, in the winter-during off peak season-is when the 'weirdest parties' occur. He claims he has his own nightclub there, called 'Bluntys Nightclub' with a sign which reads 'where everybodys beautiful'. What...seriously?! He doesn't have his own yacht...yet. His 'office' is in London and he's currently on a world tour. On his rider he just asks for 'booze' for the after parties. Sounds alright...

He is incredibly Posh! So we put him up against our very own resident Posh boy, Dangerous Dave for a 'POSH OFF'. Who knows their prefects from their polo players?

Oh...and he revealed *EXCLUSIVELY* that he would be playing at the Royal Wedding!!! Check out the video below...

Blunty, Dangerous Dave, Sam and I in super glamorous dressing room...

Backstage with JLS...

A few weeks ago, I was given the task of fulfilling every 13 (and in some cases 30) year old girls dream, by going backstage at Nottinghams Arena to interview JLS in their dressing room. Being 28 and not so enamoured by boybands as i used to be I tried to take myself back to the 13 year old in me...when i was OBSESSED with Take That! All I wanted from life was to marry Mark Owen. Every night I used to kiss each of my favourite posters. I once threw the worlds biggest crying/hysterical fit when my mean older brothers locked themselves in my room and said they were gonna graffitti Marks face...I didnt speak to them for a week after that...I was so traumatised. I tried to think of way of marrying him. In hindsight...really quite glad that didn't work out....(i am STILL shocked by his womanising ways...naughty Mark!)
So I wasn't surprised to turn up and find hoards of teens waiting outside the back of the Arena gates, desperately trying to get a glimpse of the boys. I wanted to smuggle them all in with me as I sensed their frustration that I didnt love them as much as them and didn't deserve to get past security...I hadn't even made a banner OR wearing a JLS hoodie?!

The boys were lovely, we sat in their dressing room, amongst purple leather studded outfits (nice!), champage (obviously) and a bowl of fruit. Left to our own devices, no watchful eye from any tour managers, Pr etc, just me, the boys and our producer Jen alone in a room. If this was me and Take That 15 years ago I would've definately been asking them to marry me in tears by now. In fact I think I would probably be the same now if given the chance...but this time it would be Barlow....Anywaaaaay!

We had a great chat, found out that Marvin IS back together with Rochelle from the Saturdays...but they're not moving in toegther yet. JB is dating a dancer, Aston also has a girlfriend, but Oritise is single and on the look out! And rather flirty.... They're biggest celeb crush is Eva Longoria, they run straight to the hotel after a gig as a decoy to fans and they've seen Lily Allens boobs. They claim to not use chat up lines...however they did guess my age at 'around 18-21'?! Don't care if that is a line, i'm having that!! ;)

Girl Power

Had the pleasure of interviewing two awesome female artists in the last week. First of all was the brilliant Adele...who turned up with her little sausage dog Louis, who contributed to the interview with some comedy barking! She's so cool to interview-none of this media trained 'say what the record company want you to say' scripted answers. So refreshing after the likes of many, naming no names *cough* Duffy, Alexandra Burke *cough*, who actually only say what they're told to say. Adele is very funny and just very real and lovely! Am addicted to 'Rolling in the Deep'...

Louis the sausage dog...ruff



Next up was Claire Maguire. If you haven't heard of her yet she's tipped for 'big things' in 2011. You heard it here first! Even if i heard it from someone else....Just have a look at some of her videos to see why. She came in and sang live at 10am in the morning, which can't be easy, and has an AMAZING voice! You know someones a good singer when they sound better live! Reminds me of Tori Amos/Annie Lennox. Not a bad comparison! Cannot get her song 'The last Dance' out of my head...have a look at the video below (if you can sit through some pretty ropey filming!). I thought it was a love song, but turns out she wrote it straight after the death of Michael Jackson...nice tribute! Tis immense...have a listen...