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Gareth Gates – Skeletons
For some reason this morning, I found myself listening to Gareth Gates’ albums on Spotify whilst at work.
I think that I was tempted by the notion of listening/dancing along to his cover of ‘Spirit In The Sky’ from all those years ago (Comic Relief 2003), and it spiraled out of control from there…. I was disconcertingly familiar with his first album “What My Heart Wants To Say ” (inclusive of tracks that never made it to single – blimey!).
I didn’t really listen to the “Go Your Own Way” album all that much when it came out in 2004, and haven’t really to this day. Whilst there are one or two good songs on it, the majority of the album is a little poor in my opinion. Having said that, I did stumble across ‘Skeletons’ which I really liked!
Never released as a single, here’s a fan montage put together by someone on YouTube, using ‘Skeletons’ as the audio track.
And now, some pictures of Gareth to highlight how yummy he is…! 
P (any excuse dear reader, any excuse! heh).
Add comment September 28, 2009
Touring Les Misérables production
It has just been announced that Les Misérables is to tour to celebrate it’s 25th anniversary.
The press release is as below.
I am a little dubious about the suitability of the casting of – the ever hot - Gareth Gates (pics via link) as Marius… that said, I am sure that he is eager to break the mould and try something serious for a change, and good luck to him, especially if it gets the kids interested in this type of musical! I think that the rest of the cast announced thus far looks very strong.
They’ve not yet announced the casting of Fantine, and though I’m sure that they won’t, part of me dreads that they may try to get Susan Boyle for this… erk!
Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce that John Owen Jones will star as ‘Jean Valjean’, Earl Carpenter as ‘Javert’ and Gareth Gates as ‘Marius’ in the exciting new 25th anniversary production of the World’s Longest Running Musical “LES MISÉRABLES,”. The production will have spectacular new designs inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo and will embark on a major international tour commencing in the UK at the WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE CARDIFF on 11 December 2009 where it recently went on sale, breaking all box office records in the theatre’s history! Current tour schedule attached.
Broadway and West End star John Owen Jones was recently hailed by the New York Post as the best Jean Valjean since Colm Wilkinson. As well as starring in “Les Misérables” in both the West End and on Broadway he has also appeared as ‘The Phantom’ in “The Phantom of the Opera” at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Earl Carpenter who is currently playing ‘Javert’ in the West End production of “Les Misérables” has also starred as ‘The Phantom’ in West End as well as the starring role of ‘Darryl Van Horne’ in “The Witches of Eastwick” at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Gareth Gates needs no introduction. A multi million selling popstar who still has the 2nd best selling single this decade. More recently he has played the title role of ‘Joseph’ in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre and was a semi finalist in ‘Dancing on Ice’ 2008.
The magnificent score of “LES MISÉRABLES” includes the songs, ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ (currently the world’s most popular song!), ‘On My Own’, ‘Stars’, ‘Bring Him Home’, ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’, ‘One Day More’, ‘Empty Chairs at Empty Tables’, ‘Master Of The House’ and many more.
“LES MISÉRABLES” originally opened in London at the Barbican Theatre on 8 October 1985, transferred to the Palace Theatre on 4 December 1985 and moved to its current home at the Queen’s Theatre on 3 April 2004 where it continues to play to packed houses. When “LES MISÉRABLES” celebrated its 21st London birthday on 8 October 2006, it became the World’s Longest Running Musical, surpassing the record previously held by “Cats” in London’s West End.
Seen by over 56 million people worldwide in 42 countries and in 21 languages, “LES MISÉRABLES” is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals ever written, with new productions continually opening around the globe. There have been 34 cast recordings of “LES MISÉRABLES”, including the multi-platinum London cast recording and the Grammy Award-winning Broadway cast and complete symphonic albums. The video of the 10th Anniversary Royal Albert Hall Gala Concert has sold nearly two million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling musical videos ever in the UK. There are over 2,000 productions of the Les Misérables School’s Edition scheduled or being performed by over 100,000 school children in the UK, US and Australia, making it the most successful musical ever produced in schools.
Cameron Mackintosh’s production of “LES MISÉRABLES” is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel and additional material by James Fenton. The original London production of “LES MISÉRABLES” was adapted and directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird.
This new production will be directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell and designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the works of Victor Hugo and John Napier. Original costumes by Andreane Neofitou, lighting by Paule Constable and sound by Mick Potter.
Further information (including dates and venues) can be found on the official production website.
Add comment June 30, 2009
Finally! Gareth Gates in something skimpy! :oP
Came across the below story on the news last night – BRING ON THE LOINCLOTH is all I can say!! 
Wed 26 Nov 2008
Gareth Gates stars as ‘Joseph’ from 9 Feb 2009
From 9 Feb 2009, Gareth Gates will make his West End stage debut starring as ‘Joseph’ in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, at the Adelphi Theatre .(Lee Mead currently playing ‘Joseph’ leaves the show on Saturday 10 January – then the part will be played by a understudy until Gareth Gates takes over the role.)
Gareth Gates was runner-up in the first ever Pop Idol in 2002. He has since had four number one singles and sold 3.5 million records to date. Earlier this year, Gareth appeared in ITV1’s “Dancing on Ice” and went on to participate in the “Dancing on Ice” UK Tour. Gareth is about to open in “Cinderella” at the Wimbledon Theatre.
Gareth says of his West End debut: “I have a lot to thank “JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT” for as it is the reason I first started singing, after being chosen to play the lead in a school production when I was eight years old. Ever since then it’s been a dream of mine to appear in a West End musical. I am really honoured to be appearing at the Adelphi, stepping into that famous coat and really can’t wait to get stuck in!”
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, opened at the Adelphi Theatre 17 July 2007, following previews from 6 July 2007, to mainly positive notices from the popular press: THE EVENING STANDARD says, “It offers a seductive blend of camp, kitsch.” THE TIMES says, “The show is a reminder of how splendidly versatile Lloyd Webber can be. Nor has Rice written jauntier lyrics.” THE STAGE says, “Rice and Lloyd Webber’s score remains as infectious as ever.”
This is a new staging of the 1990’s London Palladium production, which was directed by the late Steven Pimlott, and is once again designed by Mark Thompson and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast.
The show has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber & lyrics by Tim Rice.
The musical retells the biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colours. Themany famoussongs include ‘Any Dream Will Do’, ‘Close Every Door To Me’, and ‘One More Angel in Heaven’.
Add comment November 27, 2008
Hurrah! A record day for DarkAeon’s Demented Declamations!
WHOOP!
In the last few minutes, my blog’s stats have just informed me that today has seen my blog have the largest number of hits to it since I began, taking the day that I published my “Dawn Goes Lesbian” review/post written on February 22nd down into second place (finally!).
The main reason for today’s unexpected success seems to be due to the lovely people at two of the Gareth Gates fan message boards here and here whom have been checking the blog out (especially the Dancing On Ice page), leaving lovely comments and saying nice things on their forums. Much appreciated guys! (See Greg – I am not the only fan of Mr Gates hehe! x)
As well as that, I have received a great response to many of my other posts [my review of Gone With The Wind is my most popular post on my blog over-all] with many newbies coming in via search engines and whatnot.
For some reason, a lot of ‘weird’ searches will bring you to my blog it seems – here’s an example of just a few of them…
- fisting
- +westlife +leathers
- deminted little girl pictures
- cottageing in mnachester
- sucked off
- declamation funny competition
- dawn wants to be a lesbian (not just once, but twice!)
- manchester nude cleaners
- the test dawn porter did to show if she
…. and so it goes on hehe! It seems that there’s a lot of random (and filthy!) searches that will bring you to my blog – and now I’ll probably get twice as many hits for posting them all in this post hehe! You do not want to see what came up on the stats for most of the Dawn searches – utter filth hehe!! Ahh well, these are nothing compared to some of the ones that I’ve seen on friend’s blogs!! The standard of spelling and grammar utilized by my searchers does seem slightly alarming though.
So, as well as having a decent day on the searches and linked items, I also have my lovely group of subscribers to my blog who get my posts either delivered to them via e-mail, or else have it tagged in an RSS reader. If you fancy doing this, it’s free and easy enough to subscribe to my ravings via the link on the toolbar on the right hand side of this blog. I very much appreciate my subscribers and the time they make to take an interest in what’s going on in my life – lovely bunch of people! D
Anyways, enough of my talking about stats – just wanted to share this unexpected piece of news with you all, and to take the opportunity to thank folk for the fantastic number of hits that this blog’s had in the past few months!
As always, thanks for reading xx
Add comment May 5, 2008
Dancing on Ice
So, work offered me the chance to go and watch Dancing on Ice : The Tour at the O2 Arena last week. I occasionally enjoy watching this on TV (albeit I’ve only sat down and watched Series Two on a regular basis) and as it was in work’s private suite and Stu was coming along with me, I thought ‘why not’?! )
I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised with how good the show was! The ever fabulous Andy Peters presented it, Brian Connolly was our guest judge, and Torville and Dean were just mind-blowing.
Amongst the stars competing this year were Chris Fountain, David Seaman, Bonnie Langford, Susanne Shaw and Gareth Gates (YUM!) hehe.
Bonnie Langford won our show (yay) though I do think that on this occasion Chris Fountain deserved to win!
More information on the Dancing on Ice tour, including skaters, ticketing information and a short video can be found on their website.
My head of department was also in attendance at the show and so she got to meet Stu, which was a daunting but nice process which seems to have gone rather well – yay! D
After seeing Gareth Gates in lovely spandex and lycra whilst out on the ice, I do appear to have become somewhat infactuated with him again… so here’s a collection of pictures and clips for no reason other than to go ‘PHWOAR’ over hehe *blush* His official website is www.garethgates.com and even if you dislike the guy, you gotta admit that he has a very swish and chic website – very well formatted/programmed! So well, that I cannot link to it through WordPress due to the flash content it seems.
Thanks for reading xx
8 comments May 4, 2008
