New Interview Of McFLY
McFLY's New Interview
McFlying HighFew rock bands make a habit of self-deprecation. Modesty and awe-struck deference are not qualities we habitually equate with celebrity. But global success, hysterical adulation and a string of number one hits have failed to create noxious brats out of McFly. “Well, we’re not such big celebs, are we?” argues bassist Dougie Poynter. “It’s a bit lame to let it all just go to your head. There’s absolutely no reason to walk around thinking you’re brilliant.” “When we see famous people we’re really intimidated,” adds Danny Jones (guitar/vocals). “We act like total geeks. We all say, ‘Ohmygod. Look who that is!’”Today the foursome ? Dougie, Danny, Tom Fletcher (guitar/vocals) and drummer Harry Judd ? are entertaining in their new home recording studio. The furniture isn’t yet in situ. “Take a seat,” they chorus, proffering the one chair in the room and arranging themselves cross-legged on various boxes and cushions. McFly is a band that attracts superlatives. The youngest ever group ? outstripping The Beatles ? to reach number one with their debut album, they routinely fill 10,000-seat-arenas in sell-out tours. They’ve won a Brit Award for Best Pop Act and recorded a single for the Teenage Cancer Trust with that eminence of the rock world, Roger Daltrey of The Who.And now the release of a new single, Please Please, coincides with the launch of a new Hollywood film, Just My Luck, in which they play themselves. The film stars the flame-haired teenage actress/model/singer Lindsay Lohan, a multi-millionaress of precocious talent and jaw-dropping beauty. Veteran of such Disney products as Herbie Fully Loaded and Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen, Lindsay is ? in the boys’ estimation ? a real star: the kind that turns them all into drooling, tongue-tied geeks. And now, after months of denials on both sides, Harry, 20, discloses, that during the filming of Just My Luck, he enjoyed a brief romance with her. “It’s weird,” he admits. “I’ve spent a year denying it, but now I’m supplying it: I did spend the night with her. She still isn’t admitting it. She said in one magazine interview, ‘I didn’t touch him, but my friend did’.”“So perhaps we were all hallucinating.” Laughs Tom. “Or maybe she’s got a very short memory.” Adds Harry, ruefully. So what was the truth? Predictably, when the boys first met Lindsay, 19, they were dumbstruck. “There was so much sexual tension,” says Danny. “She is so fit and has a very scary presence, a real star aura about her. I don’t think she ever became approachable. No one wanted look stupid in front of her, so we all stopped making immature jokes. Of course, I wanted to get off with her. And I thought she fancied me at first. She invited us all out for a meal with her family. And she asked for my phone number.” “But when we got to the restaurant she asked Harry to sit next to her.” Recalls Tom. “And Dougie and I were left sitting with her sister, who’s 11 ? but still quite scary.” Adds Danny. So it was public school-educated Harry whom Lindsay singled out for attention. 'She has a real star presence. She has something about her,'he says.'when we first met her we could see why she'd made it. We sat together during the meal and she chatted to me about girls I'd been out with. She asked if I'd ever been out with an older woman, and I said I'd once dated a 30-year-old. After the meal, we all went on to a club in a limo. she said, 'Harry, you're sitting next to me.' Later, she introduced me to a few people as her boyfriend (her little joke) Then she said, 'Kiss me.' I was really nervous, I can tell you, because she's so super successfullll and talented. I thought' this is awesome'' Then she invited me back to her hotel: I left at eight the next morning.The band's songs-invariably self penned-often contains elements of autobiographies. Their hit The Ballad Of Paul K alludes to their fathers' midlife crises-and in Danny's case, has turned out to be unhappily prescient. 'While I was away filming in America my dad had an affair,' he says. 'He's left mum in such a mess. This new woman goes around saying, 'I'm going out with Danny from Mcfly's dad' And to think I helped him out when he was in debt. Danny, a no-nonsense 20- year- old Lancastrian educated by catholic priests at thornleigh College, Bolton, preserves a zero tolerence approach to parential infidelity. He has not spoken to his father, who is a prison officer, since he abandoned his mum, Kathy. Dougie, at 18, the youngest of the band, is also alienated from his absentee father, Gary. 'My dad vanished off the face of the earth for two weeks before I joined the band. Mum was in pieces when he went.' 'But we all had happy and fortunate childhoods in our own way, ' he says, and Tom concurs. Tom, 20, a graduate of Sylvia Young theathre school in North London, is the band's senior member and its most established song-writer. He wrote songs for the band Busted befor co-founding Mcfly-the quartet are named after the Michael J Fox character in back to the future films-with Danny just a little more than three years ago. Harry and Dougie were recruited after open auditions and success was instantaneous:their first two singles, Five colours in her hair and obviously, both entered the charts at number one. With rock star status came its inevitable corollary:instant recognition and the fawning devotion of droves of teenage fans. If the constant, clamorous attention gets onerous, the boys are good at hiding it. Danny- the perpatually genial:anxious not to give offence-often ends up chatting interminably to fans.'I always say hello and talk to them as if they're friends,' he says. 'They ask for autographs, then they want a chat and sometimes, when I'm out with my family and just want a moment to myself, I spend hours talking. Once I ended up going home with a taxi driver to meet his kiddies. He said'my house is on the way to yours.' so I said 'okay, we'll go round then.' When I got there, they were all in too much shock to speak.'Dougie is an essex boy whose vowels have acquired a polished edge since he joined the group. 'I taught him 'posh',' quips in Danny, the joker in the pack, whose often-impenetrable Northern accent remains unleavened by a three-year sojourn in the South. (the boys have each brought homes, a stone's throw from one another, in the leafy Middlesex commuter belt.) In fact, it was the influence of well-spoken Harry-whose solidly middle-classed upbringing encompassed an education at uppinham school, Rutland-that softened Dougie's Basildon twang. Harry concedes that his upbringing was priviledged. His father, Christopher, works in the city, for Llyods insurance. Home was a lavish pile with pool.A couple of night's later, he and Lindsay found themselves at the same party. 'I was chatting to Jude Law and Sean Penn. Lindsay ignored me the whole evening. Then, at the end of the night, she asked me to go back to her hotel again. I said I was tired and declined. The last time I saw her was at the hollywood premier of the film. She gave me a kiss on the cheek: we exchanged a few words. I don't know if I'll see her again, at the british premier. It could be pretty awkward if I do. Perhaps she'll slap me for talking so openly about her.'If Lindsay is irked by Harry's candour, she could well be equally vexed by the lyrics of the band's latest single, which is a mischievious tribute to her charms. (the accompanying video-in which the boys appear naked but for strategically placed guitars, and features a nurse called 'Lindsay Albright'-will also, doubtless, tax to breaking point the limit of her good humour.) Prospective dates, too, have become abundant. The lads claim they have no difficulty in picking the genuine girls from the kiss-and-tell brigades, although Danny was once caught out. “A girl went to bed with him and sold the story,” reports Tom. “She said he wasn’t very good and kept his socks on. We thought it would ruin us. But it didn’t.” “It’s not a crime to go to bed with someone if you’re single, is it?” asks Harry, adding laconically, “It’s only a crime if they say we were rubbish.” The only band member who has a steady girlfriend is Tom, whose relationship with a drama school student ? he has always resolutely declined to name her ? predates his McFly days. “We were friends at school,” says Tom, who grew up with two siblings in Harrow, Middlesex, where his mum works with autistic children and his dad is a chaperone for child actors in plays and films. “We’ll have been together for three years in October. She does get a little bit worried when I go on tour, but if you’re really committed you find ways to make a relationship work. Are we serious? Yes. If we weren’t we wouldn’t have been together this long.” Rumours about putative relationships will, of course, continue to circulate. Danny’s name has been romantically linked with that of Kelly Osbourne, but he insists they are no more than friends. “I went on a night out with her and few mates in London last year. I’m still good friends with her now,” he says. “I was round at her parents’ house in Buckinghamshire. Her dad Ozzy came downstairs in his underpants and got some hot cross buns out of the fridge. He said, ‘Who’s your friend, Kelly?’ I was star-struck. He’s wicked.” Who would be his ideal date? “Kelly Clarkson!” he says, referring to the first winner of TV’s American Idol. “Dougie and I are fighting over her. Her voice! We both love her. We went to her concert. We could go on a double date with her.” Where would they go? “To Monkey World in Dorset,” says Danny, who has a talent for producing unexpected answers. “That would be cool.”Words like ‘surreal’, ‘awesome’ and ‘wicked’ pepper their conversation. They have not become jaded or cynically inured to the privilege that wealth and fame confer. They want to use their talent good effect. To this end they recorded a single for Comic Relief and co-headlined the Live 8 concert in Japan. Tom is financing his sister’s path through private school. Harry, a keen cricketer, has also raised money through charity matches, for teenage cancer sufferers. “My best friend in the whole wide world, James Gardiner, had leukaemia when he was 12. He survived and he fit is now, but it was an awful scene at the time and I tried to help him through it,” he says. “I also visit young cancer patients. If you can brighten someone’s day it is very rewarding.” After a few hours with McFly I find my own considerable brightened. They may be a pop phenomenon, but ? and I mean this as a compliment ? they are still four ordinary boys at heart.
posted by Mc & HD @ 9:56 AM
6 Comments:
wat the shit things that they said about harry and lindsay?????I can't believe this...
I don't know believe wich story about lindsay and harry?There's always a new one.Wat do you think owner?
yes i really wanna know about this gossip
I really don't know about this stupid things....cuz I'm just like you.I visit lindsay's sites and I read so many stories about them.you know I don't know to believe wich one of this stories?the storis in websites or in magazine articles....And you have to know it that I fucking hate lindsay lohan.and I'm really sad about just my luck movie ....but anyways I Don't know a thing about it.But the important person in the band for me is dougie not harry....
Oh well.but I heard dougie said lindsay lohan is cool.
Oh yeah I know that....But wat can I do???He loves so many persons....I don't know wat the hell is wrong with him?:d
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