Post by Dave on Sept 23, 2005 17:17:00 GMT
I'm surprised that there isn't already a board or thread about G4 
so now I'm putting that right. But why today? you may ask. Well, I was told today that over on the main two G4 bulletin boards (the official one and G4-online) there is currently a LOT of speculation about a possible collaboration between G4 and... Hayley 
And who started this speculation? None other than G4 themselves! They said it in an interview that you can read by downloading the BBC press office radio programme guide for the week of Proms in the Park - as it's in adobe acrobat .pdf format, I've copied it all below (except the photo).
The G4 fans all seem to LOVE Hayley and they are excited about this possible collaboration. I am too, as if it happens, it will be great publicity for Hayley and will get her more airplay on mainstream radio and tv. Their latest speculation is that as Hayley is not mentioned on their next album tracklisting, there could be a single. OK. it's still unconfirmed but... this might now make sense as Hayley's solo single has been pulled.
We shall see! Dave. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
"The G Factor
BBC Proms In The Park
Saturday 10 September 7.30pm BBC RADIO 2, BBC TWO and bbc.co.uk
G4 are set to serenade the crowds under the stars at this year’s BBC Proms In The Park. Runners-up in last year’s X Factor competition, the classically trained singers already have a self-titled debut album under their belts and are working on a second. The lads take time out to chat to Sarah Ward about their whirlwind year and their forthcoming performance at Hyde Park.
G4 – Jon Ansell, Mike Christie, Matt Stiff and Ben Thapa – are looking forward to performing at Proms In The Park and are not in the least bit daunted by the fact they will be singing in front of a 40,000- strong crowd. “Forty thousand people head-banging to Bohemian Rhapsody?” laughs 22-year-old Jon from Bognor Regis. “That will be so cool! Being in the open air like that, with so many thousands of people, is going to blow us all away. We’ll be in awe of the situation.” Mike, 23, from Surrey, agrees. “We’re really excited and it’s incredible to be a part of it. It’s always something you hear about every year, and we couldn’t have imagined this time last year that we’d be singing at it and have great people performing with us. It’s just a real honour to be doing it and we’re really looking forward to it.”
They’re performing three numbers at Hyde Park – their own unique version of Queen’s hit, Bohemian Rhapsody, which has been a firm favourite with fans, along with Nessun Dorma and My Way. “We’re so used to performing with backing tracks that when you get an orchestra, it’s really exciting,” says Mike. “It’s kind of going back to our roots and classical training.”
G4 met at the Guildhall School of Music and began life busking together in Covent Garden. “It was definitely fun,” smiles Jon.“We were talking about it the other day, actually, saying how cool it was just to turn up and sing. We’d have gone out the night before and had a few pints after college, turn up the next morning, all looking really groggy and sing. An audience would then stop, you’d get applauded, and a few quid would get chucked in. Then you would pop out for lunch or a cup of coffee and dip in to what you’d made to pay for it. It was a really lovely way of living,” he says. “If we went busking now I don’t think anyone would give us any money because they all think we’re millionaires!” laughs 25- year-old Matt, from Grimsby. “After the show, it was like ‘Oh, so you’re all millionaires now?’ No, we’re not!”
“We did go busking once during The X Factor, trying to win votes. Once you stopped singing, though, people would run up to you to get your autograph,” laughs Mike. “But it was a real buzz going out on the street and singing live. It was an experience so many people had never come across and something that people of all ages enjoyed. “There were little kids and mothers saying that it was great, because they couldn’t sit their kids through three hours of opera but they could just listen to us performing Nessun Dorma. It’s just hearing the live voices there and then on the streets. It gave them a buzz and it gave us a buzz too,” he says.
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“Lots of people cried, too!” laughs Jon. “A couple of guys came up when were singing and were so touched. Somehow, that’s a great thing that music can do for people. That is what music is about and to have that, even a couple of times, just makes me go funny. I have fond memories,” he says. There have been rumours that the boys are set to duet with Sir Cliff Richard; although it hasn’t come about due to too many other things happening at the same time, the lads would certainly look forward to it if it were to happen.
Perhaps there’s someone else they would like to collaborate with in the future? “We have duets with Lesley Garrett, Robin Gibb and Hayley Westenra guaranteed now,” says Jon. “There are also ideas of maybe doing something with Brian May. To have a member of Queen performing on some of our music is going to be amazing, because we’ve covered a lot of their stuff in very different ways, and the accolade of them supporting us back is going to be very touching for us.”
G4 have recently finished their first tour of the UK and Ireland and were supported by fellow X Factor contestants, Voices With Soul. “I think that we forget that there are so many aspects of the job as well as singing, and when you turn up for the tour and see a live audience it brings it all back to the reason we wanted to do it in the first place – performing to a live audience,” says 22-year-old Cambridge-born Ben. “It was something that we did in a slightly different way when we were training classically. But I think to go back to that at a much bigger level is something that we all get a huge buzz out of.” “It was amazing; really good fun,” smiles Mike. “It was a complete sell-out and it was just brilliant to meet the fans face to face, people who have supported us and got us to where we are now. And it’s that hour-and-a-half on stage that is something we really enjoy and it’s definitely one of the highlights of our career.
We also sang at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s just such an awesome venue, and that’s when we sang live for the first time with Lesley Garrett and Robin Gibb. It was an amazing experience.” However, Matt found the whole experience of singing with Robin Gibb a very surreal moment. “Before we sang our song, the presenter said:‘Ladies and gentlemen… Robin Gibb!’ But Robin said:‘No, no, no… G4!’ It’s a very surreal experience when someone wants to work with you and we’re relatively new to all of this. It was a great moment,” he smiles.
G4... part of the classic night out, Proms In The Park"
so now I'm putting that right. But why today? you may ask. Well, I was told today that over on the main two G4 bulletin boards (the official one and G4-online) there is currently a LOT of speculation about a possible collaboration between G4 and... Hayley 
And who started this speculation? None other than G4 themselves! They said it in an interview that you can read by downloading the BBC press office radio programme guide for the week of Proms in the Park - as it's in adobe acrobat .pdf format, I've copied it all below (except the photo). The G4 fans all seem to LOVE Hayley and they are excited about this possible collaboration. I am too, as if it happens, it will be great publicity for Hayley and will get her more airplay on mainstream radio and tv. Their latest speculation is that as Hayley is not mentioned on their next album tracklisting, there could be a single. OK. it's still unconfirmed but... this might now make sense as Hayley's solo single has been pulled.
We shall see! Dave. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
"The G Factor
BBC Proms In The Park
Saturday 10 September 7.30pm BBC RADIO 2, BBC TWO and bbc.co.uk
G4 are set to serenade the crowds under the stars at this year’s BBC Proms In The Park. Runners-up in last year’s X Factor competition, the classically trained singers already have a self-titled debut album under their belts and are working on a second. The lads take time out to chat to Sarah Ward about their whirlwind year and their forthcoming performance at Hyde Park.
G4 – Jon Ansell, Mike Christie, Matt Stiff and Ben Thapa – are looking forward to performing at Proms In The Park and are not in the least bit daunted by the fact they will be singing in front of a 40,000- strong crowd. “Forty thousand people head-banging to Bohemian Rhapsody?” laughs 22-year-old Jon from Bognor Regis. “That will be so cool! Being in the open air like that, with so many thousands of people, is going to blow us all away. We’ll be in awe of the situation.” Mike, 23, from Surrey, agrees. “We’re really excited and it’s incredible to be a part of it. It’s always something you hear about every year, and we couldn’t have imagined this time last year that we’d be singing at it and have great people performing with us. It’s just a real honour to be doing it and we’re really looking forward to it.”
They’re performing three numbers at Hyde Park – their own unique version of Queen’s hit, Bohemian Rhapsody, which has been a firm favourite with fans, along with Nessun Dorma and My Way. “We’re so used to performing with backing tracks that when you get an orchestra, it’s really exciting,” says Mike. “It’s kind of going back to our roots and classical training.”
G4 met at the Guildhall School of Music and began life busking together in Covent Garden. “It was definitely fun,” smiles Jon.“We were talking about it the other day, actually, saying how cool it was just to turn up and sing. We’d have gone out the night before and had a few pints after college, turn up the next morning, all looking really groggy and sing. An audience would then stop, you’d get applauded, and a few quid would get chucked in. Then you would pop out for lunch or a cup of coffee and dip in to what you’d made to pay for it. It was a really lovely way of living,” he says. “If we went busking now I don’t think anyone would give us any money because they all think we’re millionaires!” laughs 25- year-old Matt, from Grimsby. “After the show, it was like ‘Oh, so you’re all millionaires now?’ No, we’re not!”
“We did go busking once during The X Factor, trying to win votes. Once you stopped singing, though, people would run up to you to get your autograph,” laughs Mike. “But it was a real buzz going out on the street and singing live. It was an experience so many people had never come across and something that people of all ages enjoyed. “There were little kids and mothers saying that it was great, because they couldn’t sit their kids through three hours of opera but they could just listen to us performing Nessun Dorma. It’s just hearing the live voices there and then on the streets. It gave them a buzz and it gave us a buzz too,” he says.
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“Lots of people cried, too!” laughs Jon. “A couple of guys came up when were singing and were so touched. Somehow, that’s a great thing that music can do for people. That is what music is about and to have that, even a couple of times, just makes me go funny. I have fond memories,” he says. There have been rumours that the boys are set to duet with Sir Cliff Richard; although it hasn’t come about due to too many other things happening at the same time, the lads would certainly look forward to it if it were to happen.
Perhaps there’s someone else they would like to collaborate with in the future? “We have duets with Lesley Garrett, Robin Gibb and Hayley Westenra guaranteed now,” says Jon. “There are also ideas of maybe doing something with Brian May. To have a member of Queen performing on some of our music is going to be amazing, because we’ve covered a lot of their stuff in very different ways, and the accolade of them supporting us back is going to be very touching for us.”
G4 have recently finished their first tour of the UK and Ireland and were supported by fellow X Factor contestants, Voices With Soul. “I think that we forget that there are so many aspects of the job as well as singing, and when you turn up for the tour and see a live audience it brings it all back to the reason we wanted to do it in the first place – performing to a live audience,” says 22-year-old Cambridge-born Ben. “It was something that we did in a slightly different way when we were training classically. But I think to go back to that at a much bigger level is something that we all get a huge buzz out of.” “It was amazing; really good fun,” smiles Mike. “It was a complete sell-out and it was just brilliant to meet the fans face to face, people who have supported us and got us to where we are now. And it’s that hour-and-a-half on stage that is something we really enjoy and it’s definitely one of the highlights of our career.
We also sang at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s just such an awesome venue, and that’s when we sang live for the first time with Lesley Garrett and Robin Gibb. It was an amazing experience.” However, Matt found the whole experience of singing with Robin Gibb a very surreal moment. “Before we sang our song, the presenter said:‘Ladies and gentlemen… Robin Gibb!’ But Robin said:‘No, no, no… G4!’ It’s a very surreal experience when someone wants to work with you and we’re relatively new to all of this. It was a great moment,” he smiles.
G4... part of the classic night out, Proms In The Park"
