|
K |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang clearly was the same for over a
year. |
|
M |
16 Months! |
|
K |
16 months. Do you get that
feeling when you go out every night of the week to
do that show for 16 month. (Michael thinking about an answer) Or does
it become a chore? |
|
M |
(laughing) noooo! It never becomes a chore, but it's.... You get used to it. It takes
stamina to do a 16 months run, to do that kind of length of time, because
you're doing the same thing night after night. The only thing that is
different is the audience. Some times audiences are better than others and
you can be having a run where you are thinking: No, the same old show
(moaning voice). And sometimes the audience will taking on you and lift
you to "I really love doing this tonight!". |
|
K |
Are you happy now, cause 16 months was a long time.
|
|
M |
Yeah, yeah,
yeah. |
|
K |
Have you got your mouth full of performing 8 nights a
week? |
|
M |
Oh yes! Not
forever, I mean I am sure a show will come along, something will come along
I love to come back onto the stage, but you do get a point where you think:
No, no, no. I love making records, I love doing concerts and I love doing
theatre, so it's great that I am able drifting. |
|
K |
You have a new album. |
|
M |
Yes |
|
K |
And a new tour. |
|
M |
Yes. I
actually planned it, cause I knew when I left Chitty I don't know what to do
with myself, cause I love working, I love keeping going, I love to keep
acting. So I was planning this album all the way through Chitty. And we
literally finished on the Saturday! A good party (Michael winking,
laughing, Thumbs up and laughing more) Yeah! Aparantly. |
|
K |
(laughing knowingly) |
|
M |
Yeah, you're
welcome. (brushing hand through his hair, Sighing). Never happen with a
party (to the audience). It's a ??? idea! And then I was in the
studio on the Monday. |
|
K |
A lovely story. How do you get to the fact ??? (sorry
clip stopped here) |
|
M |
The concept
of the album is to tell a love story. I wanted to tell a story of a love
affair. From meeting someone, from saying hello to them and falling in love
with them right the way to courtship, the committing to somebody. The great
honeymoon period in the relationship and the bit where all the crack starts
to appear. Then it goes horribly wrong (laughing). And then you come to the
end of it hopefully at a place where you say: You know, we are not together
anymore. Off you go. I hope you find love, I hope that I find love. It's not
going to be together. And at the very end I go out on the pull with Antonio
Banderas. I am doing a duet with him. |
|
K |
(laughing) You're
actually not...... (Here I am missing a tiny tiny bit of the interview) |
|
M |
Antonio and I
were in New York. During the Blackout! |
|
K |
Lovely. Describe. |
|
M |
Actually it
was fantastic. It was the most exciting thing. |
|
K |
Well all the lights went out. |
|
M |
Yeah, I was
in Time's Square, when the whole of the eastern sea-board went up and
initially everyone is really scared. We thought, is this an attack, is
this... you know everyone is very conscious of 9/11. When we realised it's
all going to be ok a party descended in New York. It's hard to describe it.
I've been there, you know... off and on every year over the last ten years
and there is always a noise going on, always a background humm, there's
always lights flashing, there's air-conditioning units, there's traffic....
Here there was no sound. There was nothing. Just people. Cars weren't
driving, because of the traffic lights were gone. Everyone was giving away
food, because all the freezers were gone down and no one could get out of
town. It was just brilliant. It brought out the best in everyone. (not
letting Kelly in to ask someone) I am trying to make this record. I took
along two candles, one for Antonio, one for Melanie, for their
dressing-rooms. I had to give them the next day, used! Thanks mate.
(Kelly laughing, Michael grinning broadly). It was lovely.
|
|
K |
You're in the Odyssey on the
21st of October. |
|
M |
I am |
|
K |
You're coming back. Big, big stadium. |
|
M |
I know, I
have never been there. Normally I have done the "Waterfront". |
|
K |
This is gonna be a minimum of 5,000 people.
|
|
M |
(looking
astonished and a bit shocked)..... Great. |
|
K |
You sing one for us after this. |
|
M |
Yeah sure.
The first song: "You had me from hello". |
|
K |
Oh that's from Jerry Maguire. |
|
M |
That's the
line from Jerry Maguire. |
|
K |
(shaking hands) You're
looking very trim. |
|
M |
(smiling)
Thank you. |
|
K |
He's trim looking! Michael Ball! (Michael leaving for
the stage to sing "You had me from hello"). |
