söndag 3 april 2011
onsdag 30 mars 2011
McFlys Broken Bus
"A COOL-headed McFly fan came to the rescue after the band’s tour bus broke down as they left their BIC gig on Wednesday night.
The band were due to play a second gig for charity in London at 1am.
Bournemouth University student Gemma Diaper, 24, said: “Dad was driving me home after the concert when we came across the bus on the top of the hill behind the BIC.
“I didn’t realise McFly were inside until Harry popped his head out the window. He was having a cigarette and Dougie got out as well.
“I told them how much I had enjoyed the gig and it was then that I realised their bus had broken down. One of its wheels had buckled.
“Danny got out and they were all just standing there.
“They were quite calm but their manager was in a flap because they were due to perform in London early the next morning.
“I was surprised they didn’t have any contingency plans and gave them the number for United Taxis. Three cabs arrived at about 11.45pm. The band and their manager got into one and their crew followed in the other two. I still can’t believe we just stumbled on McFly by sheer chance.
“It’s not the first time I’ve met the band. I’ve been a fan since I was 17 and have chatted with them before at signings.”
Despite the odds, McFly arrived in time to perform at their charity gig in London.
Vocalist and guitarist Tom Fletcher, who posted on Twitter to say their tour bus had broken down, later tweeted: “Just finished at the club. Knackered! Off home now. Had a fun night.” "
Xxx McFluCrew
Wembley; live stream
För er som inte är medlemmar på Super City men funderar på att bli det, ni har tills slutet av Above the Noise Tour att bli pioneers sen tar platserna slut.
Xxx McFluCrew
onsdag 23 mars 2011
The Brighton Source: LIVE McFLY
Live: McFly
With this aside, I think it is only fair to recognise some of their new songs as being more mature too and in places even really good. Yes, I said it. Really good. McFly are an important band. We need them. They need us. For a few hours I forgot who I was watching and I was more struck aside with the air of a real band playing real songs. Perhaps I was fooled, I mean, I am pretty sure they still don't write or produce their own music. And so what!
Their gig was engulfed in showers of screams which were good enough to penetrate not only my body but my trusty ear plugs and I was nearly blown up twice with their flames and confetti blasting machines. A tighter show than you have ever seen before and cameras which projected screaming girls onto the screens made the Brighton Centre feel like Wembley. They loved it. Would I see them again? No probably not, but it was nice to know they were real and it was nice to know they cared. It can't go on forever though.
The Citizen: McFly @ MEN Arena, Manchester
There were giant beach balls, a flying stage, fireworks, a bizarre but equally impressive rap, guns firing T-shirts into the crowd, and at the back of the stage, a gas-powered flaming sign that threatened to engulf the drummer.
This is what happens when you give a manufactured band creative control over their own show — but somehow, McFly pulled it off.
Yes, they were preaching to the converted — the near capacity crowd inside the MEN Arena was predominantly female and predominantly teenage, although there was a dedicated brigade of terrified dads and a good few cougars too — but the cult band, who are semi-credible these days, delivered an all-guns-blazing lesson in entertaining the masses.
McFly sing the old favourites (All About You, Five Colours In Her Hair and Obviously) as well as their latest stuff (That's The Truth, Party Girl and the Thriller-inspired End Of The World) in a strong two-hour set.
And it has to be said: these boys write very good pop songs and Tom Fletcher is at the centre of that.
He has very much adopted the Gary Barlow role.
But Danny Jones is the main man these days. Front stage centre, he’s the Robbie Williams of the band.
Heavily tattooed, with all the swagger and confidence of a bona fide rock star, the Bromley Cross lad even ditched his guitar midway through the show, donned a pair of shades, and ripped into an adrenaline-fuelled cover of Tinie Tempah’s Pass Out.
That a band like McFly can get away with this shows how far they’ve come.
They have broken away from those contrived beginnings and now are firmly in control of their own musical destiny.
The encore is brilliantly nostalgic.
One For The Radio is anthemic. In fact, it is McFly’s anthem, neatly summing up their refreshing philosophy on musical snobbery.
Then the rather lovely ballad, The Heart Never Lies, rounds off the show.
All done? Nope. This is McFly.
A second encore is demanded, deserved and delivered.
They belt out the infectious Shine a Light, and everyone, dads included, goes home happy.
xx McFluCrew
måndag 21 mars 2011
The Star: Sheffield Review
THE world needs McFly. In a business cursed by Autotune and wannabe stars spying X Factor as the path to success, these four young men continue to buck the ‘boy band’ trend by embracing the G-word: guitars.
They’ve had to adapt, evolving from the teen euphoria of early hit 5 Colours In Her Hair to the slick pop of Party Girl, here opening the kick off date of their Above The Noise Tour.
But McFly remain a pop act with a rock band fighting to get out, manifesting itself in Quo-style feet apart guitar stances and Danny Jones’s sleeve tattoos.
Then there was the metal reworking of Tinie Tempah’s Pass Out, a spark of genius that saw Danny go Linkin Park for arguably the night’s highlight.
With this show happening immediately after bassist Dougie Poynter’s rehab, there was a palpable sense of gratitude that the quartet had returned to Sheffield with the likes of Lies and All About You. And while numbers were down, there was no skimping on fireworks or a platform that allowed them to play above their fans in between launching t-shirts into the crowd.
The demographic may be a curious one – kids with flashing bunny ears to Hollyoaks doubles and mums – but the McBlokes seem to be having as much fun as ever, while showing pop addicts what an instrument looks like.
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xx McFluCrew
Swedish Pioneer Presenter!
Heeej vill bara tipsa om att den svenska tjejen Moa är pioneer presenter i
Brighton ikväll! http://supercity.mcfly.com/atthetour
Kul att en svensk fick bli pioneer presenter!! Ni kan kolla om på klippen nu iallafall.
Xx McFluCrew