And we're off...

London here we come! Less than four hours until our flight for Stockholm leaves. Jossi and Pelle will come and get us at the airport and drive us home for a few hours sleep. Then we have to get up at 2.40am for the bus in to town. After that another bus to the airport and at 6.40 tomorrow morning our flight to London leaves from Skavsta.

Can't believe it's really happening now, I mean, I remember just after christmas when it was soooo close haha and now it's only hours!

And I'm sure it's going to be fab concert once again! Those boys really know how to put on a live show! + I've been good this year, I only looked at the setlist so I'm going to be surprised the whole way through. Actually I'm proud of myself cause I really didn't think I could keep myself from the spoilers but I did =D

Will write again when I get back on monday... or maybe I'll save the wring until tuesday... hmm

No Tour DVD

If this is true... then I don't know anymore. What on earth were they thinking?? There are thousands of Westlife-fans who don't get to see them live on tour. Their joy every year is the tour DVDs. As for us who actually get to see them every year, we all want the DVD so we can remember what a great tour it was and what a great night we had. And I honestly believe that no Westlife fan at all would want a Greatest Hits Vol2 DVD instead of a live DVD. So what on earth are BMG thinking? If we are to believe in what Steve said it was supposed to be recorded in Belfast but BMG scrapped it. That means that their intention was in fact to record a live DVD so why change their minds? I really can't believe it. Fine, it's not the hardcore fans that makes the money but even if you're not a hardcore fan, wouldn't it be alot funnier to see a live DVD instead of a long boring interview and a collection of musicvideos that was made with as little money as possible that everyone already have seen a million times before? Sorry for all the rambling but I just had to get this out of me. And I'm right, right?

Whether (spelling?) you're a Westlife fan or not please sign these petitions! No-one knows if it will help but if it does help there will be thousands of very happy Westlife-fans. And it will certainly make my day! And if you actually are a Westlife-fan I hope you give a damn and do it cause it won't take more than 2min. Would be great if everyone could tell everyone they know about it aswell since it obviously will have a much bigger effect if alot of people sign them!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lovetourdvd/

http://www.westlife.com/ubbthreads/showflat....

http://www.westlife.com/ubbthreads/showflat....

Again, sorry for the rambling but for me as a Westlife-fan it is important. We all know what happned with the tour 2002 and it cannot happen again!

New Brian Interview - Very Long and Very Intresting!

YOU might be forgiven for believing that Brian McFadden is what he himself calls "a real prick". He did, after all, ditch his wife Kerry Katona during a phone call, slept with at least four well-known female pop stars then publicly humiliated Kerry not long after their relationship ended by recording the Almost Here duet with his 'New Love' Delta Goodrem, right? Wrong. In fact, none of these stories is true. At least that's what Brian told me during this interview, which he promised would be "totally honest". Partly, apparently, because he's still grateful I gave him his first serious interview when he was "just a kid starting out with Westlife!"! But more than that, McFadden is angry about - andanxious to undo - the negative image of himself thathas been perpetuated over the past two years, "by themedia in general and tabloids in particular". And which has left him feeling "Ireland isn't my home or a place to come to feel safe, but a place I feared coming back to" and his mum devastated. "To see my reputation destroyed in Ireland and read people slagging me and calling me this and that destroyed my mother," he says, with a passion that defines ourconversation in the Merrion Hotel during Brian's one-day visit to Dublin from London, where he now lives. "Every day she seemed to be onthe f**king Joe Duffy show defending me, denying some story." Maybe, but the "incredibly positive response" Brian got after his recent appearance on Tubridy Tonight makes him believe "the tide is turning" and the same, he hopes, will be true after this interview. But Brian and I did agree in advance not to "just go over the same old story" about how he was born and raised in Dublin, has one sister, got his gig in Westlife etc. He and I already told that tale in this newspaper six years ago. We also, three years later, did an interview with himself and Kerry which very much concentrated on her story. So, this time round, let's just bring up to date the life of this particular Brian, who now is 27, left Westlife in 2004 and a year later parted from Katona. But first, in that last interview,did I mislead readers by depicting himself and Kerry as a loving couple? Was all the handholding and kissing that day in a hotel in Portmarnock just a pose? "Let me answer that question this way. I was very young when I met her and no one ever loved me before," he responds, before adding, "of course" when asked if by this he means outside his family. "Of course, but that was the first time I was ever loved by a girl and I'd ever been in love, and it all overwhelmed me. And I just got lost." Maybe. But such an assertion really does need to be seen in the context of Brian telling me in 2001 that as a young teenager in school he was called "Fat Faggot McFadden" because he went to Billie Barry's stage school and "had no girlfriends". So is he now suggesting he always felt unworthy of love? "Definitely, and those feelings were still there when I was 19 and joined Westlife," he responds. "In fact, before joining Westlife I'd only ever kissed one girl! And even when we were touring at the start I'd get even more lonely looking at the other lads in the group with their long-time girlfriends - and I'm sure Mark had a boyfriend - whereas I had no one. So when Kerry came along and wanted me, that gap was filled and I felt good simply because I had someone to share everything with. Then she got pregnant, and everything went into even more of a mad whirl." In what sense? "It was such a shallow showbiz life being in Westlife," says Brian, that his relationship with Kerry, instead of making him feel "grounded", became "even more and more" part of that shallow fantasy. "I understand now why my private life became as artificial as my life in Westlife but at the time I didn't see it happening," he elaborates. "For example, I never stopped to think, 'You really should get to know this person before you have kids, think of marrying or settle down.' I never took the time to work that outuntil it had all run away with me. So then, when we had the first baby, bought a house, spent time together and Westlife became the same thing over and over, I woke up one morning and realised, 'This is not what I want to do with my life, I don't see myself being with this woman in 20 years, she's not who I'm meant to be with, we don't have anything in common.' "But, at the start, I didn't think of that. It was just, 'She loves me - who cares?' Another problem was that we became a 'showbiz couple', everyone was talking about us, paparazzi photographers were everywhere and that, too, swept me off my feet." Brian, tellingly, then pauses but only long enough to sip his Diet Coke. "But y'know what I hated hated, hated?" he asks rhetorically: "Hello! doing our wedding album. She loved it, I detested all the 'arms around each other', or 'sitting at piano' [photos], and I remember one day in Spain the guy gave us two water pistols and said 'Can you run around shooting each other?' and I said, 'I'm not doing this, you can keep your money, I'm f**king done with it.' "We'd a massive falling-out over this, me and Kerry, and I said it was the last time I'd do anything like that, and we never got the money from Hello! because we didn't give them what they wanted, even if they did use the photos. But even the wedding was a circus, with 400 people! We didn't know half of them, and most we'd met only once or twice! That's not a f**king wedding! Two people fall in love and celebrate it by getting married with their closest family and friends but we had f**king VIP passes for our wedding and special rooms in the castle where VIP guests could stay so they wouldn't have to mix with our families! It was ridiculous. "Then we got our wedding album with a picture of me and Ronan, me and Westlife, me and Louis Walsh! That's not a f**king wedding album. But then it wasn't a real wedding. We weren't getting married to tell everyone we were going to spend our lives together. We were getting married to have a big party and gets loads of money for it and to be showbiz. "We didn't even see each other on our wedding night! We got married, went back to the castle, I was with my mates, she was with hers, we went to bed at separate times and never had anything! Then the next morning Joanne [Byrne, Brian's PR woman] woke me to OK the wedding pictures for the press! So, I don't see my first marriage as a real marriage. It was a showbiz marriage, a fantasy." Perhaps. But also present at that wedding was Brian and Kerry's first child, Molly, who was six months old. So hadn't her birth - as the birth of a first child can for many a man and woman - snapped McFadden awake to reality? "No, because, again, I was too young to understand what it meant and though this is a terrible thing to say, I was so immature that having a child was like getting a dog," he responds, honouring his promise to be totally honest. "It was more like, 'Cool, having a kid will be fun,' never considering what was involved in being a father or thinking, 'I've got a job that keeps me occupied 365 days a year.' "And I do think if Molly hadn't come along in the first place, we never would have married. We were engaged and called it off, but two weeks later came the pregnancy and it was back on. I definitely feel if we didn't have kids, the marriage wouldn't have lasted as long as it did. In fact, when Kerry got pregnant with our second child, Lilly, our relationship was over but we couldn't even consider breaking up so we had another goat it." Back in 2003, therefore, when I interviewed Brian and Kerry they weren't faking affection, they were having "another go at" the marriage. "That is true, but to everyone else looking at us, it seemed like we were two, young happy people always in love," Brian responds. "Yet, deep down, I wasn't. And, obviously, that stag night story started our marriage off badly and if I'm to be completely honest, the day my marriage ended was that stag night,before I even got married. That was the time I felt, 'This is not supposed to be.' That was the first crack and everyone saw it." Hardly. In fact, last time round, Brian asked me not to mention what he now describes as "the blow job Igot from a lap dancer" andI didn't! "Well, at first I denied it ever happened but then I was taken to court for defamation of character for calling her a liar and that [case] went on for three years," he says. "And I asked you not to mention it not just because of my marriage but because I was still in Westlife and we had 12-year-olds buying our records, reading interviews, I had to be responsible over that." Fair enough. But speaking of Westlife, Brian seems just as eager to put on the record the "real reasons" he left the group - which is, let's face it, fundamentally, as with U2, a multimillioneuro-making music machine. Yet, that, as it transpires, is precisely why McFadden finally had to leave. And the breaking point was Westlife recording Mandy. "We'd worked our arses off doing the Turnaround album, which was mostly original songs . . . brilliant," he says. "But then we put out the single Hey Whatever but it only went to number three - as far as I'm concerned, it just didn't get the record company support it deserved. "Then Simon Cowell says, 'I told you what happens when you want to make your own albums. You're going to be dropped, but I have the record that will save your career,' and he played Barry Manilow's Mandy. Then, to me, he basically tarnished a great album by kicking it off with Mandy and I decided, 'I can't do this music any more.' I couldn't stomach the idea of doing the rounds singing Mandy but the other lads were happy to do that. Yet, they didn't write songs, they have no need to be creative at that level, they want to be successful, so if singing Mandy will make them millions that's what they'll do. Whereas I'd rather be number three with a song we wrote." The "final straw" for Brian came when Paul Higgins, head of security and his best friend in the group, took time out from working with them and then it was decided that the band didn't want him back. But Brian's split didn't come until "after a press conference at the Meteor Awards" when "nine out of the 10 questions asked by the press" were about Brian's private life, and the other members of Westlife later "lashed into" him, saying "that was a f**king disgrace", and he left. McFadden also reveals that even if, on that night's RTE news reports of Westlife's break-up, his four fellow-members of the group were "highly emotional" it wasn't because of him leaving. 'NO, it was because they thought this was the end of Westlife, the end of their careers," he says. "But they had asked me to reconsider and I did. I said I'd finish the tour because I wanted a final payoff! Yet, they were going to split upbut then Louis Walsh - who is my friend now but wasn'tthen - talked them out of that and they came back to me and said 'We don't want you to do the tour.' "They didn't want me making any more money if I wasn't to be involved after that. But I love the lads and they are there if I need them. Yet I've never regretted leaving Westlife and wouldn't go back. Sometimes I think, 'I could have had millions if I stayed!' but I don't make music for money any more. It's not that I'm rich. After my divorce, I hit rock bottom. But I've made money from my solo career because the royalties are coming in for songs like Real to Me. Besides, if I'd stayed in Westlife I'd never have had my first solo records or met Delta, and these are the things that matter to me now, apart from my kids." Indeed. And given that Brian loves his children very much and says they haven't been damaged by the marriage break-up because "they get so much love from all sides", he feels duty-bound to reject a story that appeared in this newspaper. It suggested that he is worried about his children in relation to Kerry's current husband Mark Croft and her mother's recent claim that she is "an out-of-control coke head". Brian insists, "No, the guy she's with is a good man and the kids have a great nanny, so they're safe." He claims he did once warn Kerry "she'd have to go to a clinic for her coke problem" or he'd "take the kids", and says "she's not doing coke any more". But does McFadden even talk to his former wife these days? "No." Not even for the sake of the children? "If I had to speak to her, I would, for the kids." But why, as is obvious, is Brian so angry at Kerry? "Because she screwed me, she screwed my career by lying and she knew it was destroying my career and let it happen," he responds, before returning to the story that he's supposed to have ditched Katona during a phone call. "What actually happened is that I was in New York, she'd taken the kids and was living with her mum. She phoned me and asked, 'Do you love me any more?' I said, 'No, not like I did at the start.' She said, 'Neither do I, we have to end it.' I said, 'You're right,' left it at that, then got another call, saying, 'I've spoken to Max [Clifford, the famous publicist], I'm having a press conference to say we're separating, I want to move on with my life,' and to tell you the truth I felt relieved, though I felt sad for the children. "But after that press conference she phoned again and said, 'I'm having nothing to do with this, you're the one leaving me, I'm not agreeing we're breaking up, I don't want to break up.' I said, 'So are we getting back together?' She said, 'No.' But those first press stories said it was a mutual decision. Yet then the Star knocked on her front door, gave her flowers, said, 'We're sorry to hear about your marriage break-up,' and in front of all the paparazzi and journalists she said, 'Don't forget, he left me, I didn't leave him,' and the line they used was, 'I didn't want to break up.' "I didn't mind at first. Yet then it spiralled into what it did. All of a sudden it's, 'He done me over the phone, rang from New York, said he didn't love me any more, wanted to break up.' Then came the stories I was with other women." Was Brian? "I was, like f**k!" Didn't he even have sex with one of those four female pop stars who were, potentially libellously, named inthe tabloids? "None of them! Then another story said I was gay,going out with some person. But I didn't sleep with oneperson after I broke up with Kerry, didn't kiss one girl, didn't even go out and talkto a girl. I was just thinking, 'I have the kids to sort out. The last thing I need is another girl I have problems with.' So I withdrew." So how did Delta enter the story? Actually, at first Brian "didn't know about her history on Neighbours or that she'd sold a million albums in England." He just needed "the right voice" for Almost Here, a song he'd written, heard her sing Lost without You, realised hers was that voice, sent her a recording with the song and she agreed to do the duet. "But Delta and I were rumoured to be together even though we met only that once to do the duet and didn't see each other for three months!" he says. "And Kerry was at that recording session. She met Delta, saw she was a nice girl. And actually at the time, she had no hair because she was going through chemo. [Delta was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 2003] But I too just thought, 'She is a nice girl.'" Yet while they were recording Almost Here didn't Brian get any kind of romantic buzz, any sense that he was attracted to Delta? "No" he says, categorically. "I was going through the end of a marriage and, even at that stage - just before Kerry and I broke up, though our marriage had been gone for six months - I wouldn't even humour the thought of another woman. Besides, Delta was dating [the tennis player] Mark Philippoussis. But I've written a song for my next album and it came out of something she said when we were recording Almost Here. Her mother had said to me, 'Mark wants to marry her. She's only 19, tell her not to get married.' So I did tell Delta, 'Don't marry the guy just because he asked you. You're too young and obviously you're not happy.' But she'd noticed I wasn't either, and said,'What about you? You're not happy.' Then I said, 'But my life is set in stone,' and you know what Delta said? 'Nothing is set in stone.' "That's what the song is about. But she wasn't being romantic. She was being defensive, thinking, 'Who is this guy? How dare he talk to me like that?' Yet that is when I began to think, 'Maybe I don't have to stay in this. OK, we're seen as this golden couple, it's not supposed to end because of the kids, but I am f**king unhappy, drinking every day, she doesn't love me any more, we don't have a sex life, I can get out of this.' And Kerry felt the same way." Not long afterwards, Brian got that phone call in New York. However, "things didn't get romantic" for himself and Delta until Ireland on Sunday ran a story that annoyed him at the time but later led to the couple becoming lovers. "They had a headline, 'Is Delta the reason for Brian and Kerry's split-up?' and after that Delta called me to say even journalists in Australia were ringing her to ask about the story and we just laughed at the whole idea, but that's how our friendship began!" he says. "I didn't meet her again until we shot the video and then the world's paparazzi were trying to get even one shot of us to increase the story. But we didn't get together until later, when we were promoting the single. At one point, our friendship became so close we just looked at each other and realised, 'This is it!' "Then, after we sang together on the royal performance and had a few drinks, we kissed for the first time. That's when everything fell into place for me. And it's not just that Delta loves me. Or I love her. Our love for music is the same and we are so creative as a couple. Our sitting room has a TV, grand piano, guitars and that's it! Everything is about making music. We wake up in the morning, start singing, or write a song. I've actually written 150 songs in the past two years, one will be my new single, and then I'll choose 12 for my second album. So life is great!"! Meaning, maybe, that Brian McFadden is happier now than he's ever been? "Absolutely, on all levels," he says. "And I think everything is going to get better. I hit the low then ended up higher than ever before. And even though people say success is about how many albums you sell, how many number ones you have, to me it's about someone saying, 'I love that song you wrote'and about being creative. That's what I am, now, whereas in Westlife there was no room to be creative, nothing to create for." Speaking of creativity, I had better end by asking Brian one shamelessly obvious question. Earlier he described his marriage to Kerry as his "first" so is he secretly married to Delta and, eh, creating their own kids! "No! But what the f**k is it about Ireland that as soon as two people get together they're asked, 'When are you getting married?" he responds, laughing. "You are the fourth Irish journalist in a row to ask, 'So, wedding bells?' But if we're getting married, Joe, we'll let you know!" © Joe Jackson Brian McFadden's single 'Only a Woman' is out next month Joe Jackson *taken from Brians Myspace page

Only one week left

Only one week left to London, and only 6 days until we take the flight to Stockholm. Gonna be so much fun! I really can't wait!

Don't really know what else to write...

Congrats to Miki Ando who won the figureskating earlier today!!

Berntsson Was More Than Just Amazing!!

What a fantastic Freeprogram he did!! I've never ever seen him skate as good before! Almost everything was perfect. He did his jumps and the tripple axel- trippel toelop was amazing!! And what a personal best he got!! When people normal skate a new personal best it's usually just a few points or just half a point but his was 20, 42 points better!! AMAZING! I'm so happy for him and also for Adrian (or who ever it might be) that because of this can skate in the next worldchampionships in Gothenburg! I'm soooo going to be there!!

Bragdguld nästa??

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Berntsson nia i VM
- efter rekord och personbästa

Tokyo.
Till discotoner och med glittrig skjorta glänste konståkaren Kristoffer Berntsson vid VM i Tokyo. I ett stort sett felfritt fritt program slog han personbästa med över 20 poäng och slutade på nionde plats. – Det här var mitt bästa åk i karriären, det kändes jättebra i kroppen, säger Berntsson till TT.
Berntsson inledde sitt fria program med att sätta den inledande hoppkombinationen trippel Axel-trippel toeloop. Sedan flöt allt på. Berntsson tvekade aldrig, han utförde de tekniska momenten strålande och spelade ut det konstnärliga registret fullt ut i discodanserna. Enda lilla missen var en tvåfotslandning på trippel flip. – Alla 13 momenten gick bra. När jag var 14:e på VM i Moskva åkte jag bra. Men det här var otroligt mycket bättre. Jag har lyft mig till en högre nivå. – Det var en otrolig upplevelse och en otrolig publik som gav mig stående ovationer.

Personbästa

Domarna belönade honom väl och den 24-årige göteborgaren fick 140,20 poäng för sitt program – vilket innebar personbästa med 20,42 poäng. Totalt fick Berntsson 206,29 poäng, 21,59 poäng bättre än sitt tidigare personbästaresultat. – När man sätter alla hoppen och alla andra moment, då får man poäng. Den här poängen hade räckt till brons i EM senast.

TT: Hur förklarar du personbästa med över 20 poäng?

– Jag vet inte hur jag ska förklara det. Det har gått kanon på träning och jag är i form. Det handlar sedan om att gå ut och lita på det. Berntsson låg på 15:e plats inför det fria programmet, men åkare efter åkare fick se sig slagna av Berntsson, som till slut fick se sig slagen av åtta åkare.

Franskt guld

Det blev inget tredje VM-guld i följd för schweizaren Stephane Lambiel. Han misslyckades i det korta programmet och låg bara sexa inför fria programmet. Även om han gjorde det näst bästa friprogrammet av alla så räckte det bara till brons. Ledaren inför det långa programmet, den regerande Europamästaren Brian Joubert från Frankrike, vann före hemmaåkaren Daisuke Takahashi, som hade det bästa fria programmet. Målet för Berntsson var en topp tio-placering, eftersom det skulle innebära att Sverige får starta med två manliga åkare i VM i Göteborg nästa år. – Det här var en härlig kick med tanke på VM hemma i Göteborg. Nu ska jag njuta av det här, titta lite på kollegorna och semestra lite i Tokyo innan vi åker hem på måndag.

aftonbladet.com

Got a job!!

Woohoooo!! McDonald's just called to say that I got the job! Hmm... don't really know what to write... nice to know what to do during the summer though haha =P Woohoooo!!!!!

Brian to collaborate with Mark

Press Release for the New Single (from Bryan's myspace)

April 20th marks the release of the new single from Ireland’s most controversial pop star, Brian McFadden.

Having spent much of the past year in the dark of the studio, but never far from the limelight, Brian’s self-penned song is the first track from his second solo album.

“Like Only A Woman Can” is an open and frank love-song to someone who has helped the writer find redemption. ‘It is a song about Delta’, explains Brian, ‘but equally it’s me admitting the mistakes of my past, while looking forward to the future’.

In recent months Brian has collaborated with numerous luminaries including Paul Barry (Enrique Inglesias/Cher) and Phil Thornalley (Natalie Imruglia/The Cure). The net result is a more mature artist than we have previously known. Brian claims that he has never been happier and more focussed. “Right now is the best place I’ve been in my life. I’m really enjoying writing and recording the album and personally things have never been better!”

Apart from his success as a recording artist McFadden can feel justifiably proud of his achievements as a songwriter. With solo records reaching Number 1 in UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Holland Belgium and Australia, he has also been critically recognised with his song ‘Demons’ being featured in the U.S. TV series ‘Lost’. In addition, Brian has also written songs for artists as diverse as Il Divo and Girls Aloud, as well as the theme for the Theme for the Commonwealth Games.

Future projects include further writing with Delta Goodrem, a collaboration with Westlife’s Mark Feehily as well as the completion of the new solo album and the development of the BMF label internationally. “I admire artists like George Michael who had the guts to establish their own identity in the business and that’s what I aspire to do”.

Although McFadden’s name appears on over 50 million CDs throughout the world, he stresses that this release means most to him. “I am proud of my past, but I’m really excited about my future”.

Not much but...

...atleast he got mentioned in swedish press!

Kristoffer Berntsson kom på 15:e plats i kvalet i det korta fria programmet. Göterborgaren fick 66.09 poäng och det gav en finalplats i konståknings-VM i Tokyo.
Berntsson körde ett bra program satte sina hopp. Han klarade en trippel-dubbel kombination och en trippel axel. Europamästaren Brian Joubert från Frankrike leder efter kvalet. 24 åkare får vara med i finalen.

He did all his things, the jumps wasn't great (apart from the trippel axel which was really good!) but he did them! And the choreography is amazing!! I like it better and better every time! Definatley worth watching!

My absolute fave skater, Stephane Lambiel, didn't skate as good as he usually does but he's in 6th place so if he does a good freeprogram he could win... hopefully! But on the other hand, Brian Joubert skated amazingly good!! So I actually think he will win tomorrow but we'll see...

Niklas Hogner and Angelika Pylkina skated their freeprogram a few hours ago and will probably end in 17th place! Well done ;)

Should Be Sleeping

I really should be sleeping right now. I only woke up early to watch Niklas Hogner and Angelika Pylkina skating in the figureskating world championships but when I looked up what times they were going to skate I looked at eurosport.com instead of eurosport.se så all the times was one hour wrong. But that's not it. Eurosport had dissapeared from my TV and been replaced with channel 9 so I had to search for it and then I couldn't find it since it was TV-shop on it. But what makes it even worse is that now I don't have channel 2! Guess that has dissapeared aswell... hmm...

So right now I'm pissed off at my TV while whatching marathon :S

Anyways, good luck Niklas and Angelika!!!

Mr Cowell or whatever his name is...

This is entierly (spelling?) for my lovley Lisa haha

50 things you need to know about Simon Cowell

http://radaronline.com/features/2007/03/simon_cowell_facts_1.php

Don't know what happened..

I really haven't got a clue what happened yesterday but for the first time in 4 years I made a lutz that looked good but that's not all... I also dared to fall on the ice while jumping which led to that I almost did an axel which hasn't happened in over 5 years. And then the most chocking thing of all... I was about 3cm (don't know what it's called in english sooo...) från att gå ända ner i spagat!! I mean... what is happening? Why now? I'm gong to do that axel perfectly on tuesday, last practise of this season..

anyways... gotta go to school now and do that increadibly boring group-thingy

15 days left

New Setlist!

Westlife changed the setlist again! And now it's way better than I could ever have hoped for! I really can't wait now!! And they droped the one song I really can't stand (no Lisa, not the one you think of) and replaced it with a song that, well, they "have to sing" and dropped another song and replaced it with a song I would never ever would have thought they'd sing! And also added an extra song that is one of my absolute fave westlife songs ever! Feels like this is going to be the best tour ever!! I know I said that I hated the setlist but after these changes... OMG!!

Lövånger

Just got back from Lövånger where we were on "Phösar-utbildning" all weekend. Was soooo funny! The first thing we did was to get to know eachother. But ofcourse we couldn't just stand up and tell the others, we had to paint it! So we got a paper and some crayons each and strated painting so that we later on could show eachother our sooo nice pictures while we talked about ourselves and a few other things.

hmm... I really can't remember all things we did...

Anyways, next day! a few ppl were there to talk about alcohol and teambuilding thinggys. After the alcohol thinggy we tried what it feels like to be drunk haha! We had to wear some weird glasses that made the world around you look like... ehm... you're drunk (see pic, very sexy outfit I have to say haha). That was probably the funniest thing we did =P Was sooo not easy to walk on a line, carry a chair, walk in stairs and write something on a nollebricka.

After dinner it was time to do our spex infront of the others. The words my group got was ehm... weird!

- plaskirurg

- tämligen

- "flyg buss"

- fostervatten

- konspirationsteori

was so much fun to see all the other groups! Tuss, Kokos, Flufen and Em was defo the funniest!!

Did some more things but I'm bored of writeing now so...

My sweeties are coming!!

Anna and Sara have booked their flight to Skellefteå now!! Yaaaay! Or well, Sara booked it since Annas mind wasn't really there *hugs* I know there's about 9 weeks until they actually get here (11th-13th may) but atleast they're coming =D So now I'm very happy!! can't wait!

Getting closer

- 29 days left to Glasgow
- 24 days left to London
- 8 days to MRS exam
- 7 days left to my jobinterview
- 5days left to my other exam
- 2 days left to Lövånger
- 4 min left to OC hahaha

Been a while...

It's been a while since I wrote anything here... not that I have a clue what to write though. Went figureskating today but the ice was... well it broke while I was skating so that's no good at all haha! Other than that I've studied most of the day, very boring but very necessary! Exams next week and we're going on phösarutbildning in Lövånger all weekend so won't have any time to study then.

Bored

I was sooo bored a few hours ago. The only thing I could think of doing was washing up which ehm well... isn't very funny. So instead I created a Westlife forum =D It's all in swedish so if you don't understand swedish well, you get the point, don't join haha

Anyways here's the addy http://z6.invisionfree.com/WestlifeSweden/ *waiting for you all*

Mark interview

WESTLIFE STAR MARK FEEHILY CAME OUT TO THE WORLD TWO YEARS AGO.

SUNNY BURNS How are you finding Australia?

MARK FEEHILY Australia has been great so far. We went to Perth and had a few days off in the sun, but we have been skipping from place to place for the last few gigs.

SB You came out two years ago. Was it a big step?

MF It was enormous at the time. I’m lucky that I had the support of all my family, band members and fans. Since then it has all died down, which to be honest is what I want. I wanted to say it and then for it to go away. The less deal made about it the better. I want the message to be that it’s no big deal being gay.

SB So what made you come out?

MF It was an issue that I needed to sort out and I didn’t want to hide it any more. My entire life wasn’t a depression or anything like that. There were some elements that were really hard and at times I didn’t have time to think about it because I was so busy in the band. When the band slowed down, I realised that some part of my life was missing.

SB Did your family and band know beforehand?

MF My family and friends already knew. I also told the band a long time before I came out to the public. They are fine with it.

SB Do you have a boyfriend?

MF I met my boyfriend Kevin McDavid two years ago. He was also in a boy band called V.

SB Was he also a reason for you to come out?

MF Yes, I didn’t want to be going to the cinema or restaurants with hats on and worrying about people seeing me. That’s not me at all. So, I nipped it in the bud and started a relationship and came out. It has worked really well.

SB How did you meet Kevin?

MF We met at a charity gig in Dublin. Neither of us was publicly gay at the time and we didn’t know that each other was gay. It was really funny. We just connected and have excellent chemistry.

SB How is the relationship going?

MF It’s going fantastic. We just had a two-year anniversary at the end of January. We went to the charity concert where we first met and partied all that night. The next day I hired out a penthouse and got a dog as well. We just spent the entire day lounging around watching TV and getting room service. It was really nice. We also have a place in London together. He is just a missing piece of me that I haven’t had for so long and something I always longed to have and now I have it. It’s better than I thought it would be.

SB Are you doing anything for Mardi Gras?

MF No, because we have gigs in Melbourne and Brisbane. I was here last year, practically for the whole event. I saw the parade. It was one of the best nights of my entire life. This time we are just missing it by the skin of our teeth. I was really disappointed. I’m jealous that you all get to go to Mardi Gras.

Westlife’s latest CD The Love Album is out now.