Post by Inside Australian Idol on Jan 16, 2004 1:34:54 GMT 10
Still a country boy at heart
January 16, 2004
Shannon Noll may have packed up his family and moved to the big smoke of Sydney.
But the Australian Idol runner-up from Condobolin in rural NSW is still a country boy at heart.
"With all of the work down here in Sydney it was just way too hard to not be here," Noll, who recently moved to the city with his fiancee and two children, said.
"If I end up buying a house here with a decent yard I am going to chuck some chooks in there - that's for sure. At least then I will be able to go outside and collect the eggs and feel a bit like I am on the farm."
However, it is unlikely Noll will ever return to the farm permanently.
Noll shot to national stardom after coming second to Guy Sebastian in the hit TV series Australian Idol in November last year.
The pair secured recording contracts with record label BMG Australia and Sebastian's album, Just As I Am, has gone platinum four times.
Fifth place getter Robert 'Millsy' Mills also signed a contract with the label this week.
It is rumoured drag performer Courtney Act, who just missed out on making the final 12 in the competition, will release a single with BMG as well.
Idol contestants Kelly Cavuoto and Axel Whitehead have been signed to host Network Ten's new look Video Hits program.
Noll, 27, said he was baffled that other popular contestants Paulini Curuenavuli and Cosima De Vito had failed to secure contracts.
"I am surprised that a couple of the girls have not been signed by anyone else," he said.
"It is a bit strange."
Millsy said he was glad to sign a deal before the next series of Australian Idol kicks off later this year.
"I was hoping I would get something because it is going to make it even harder if I didn't have a record deal when the next Idol comes up," Millsy said.
"There could be another cheeky young Australian dude, better looking than myself and with a better voice. There is always someone better."
Meanwhile, Noll's debut single, a cover version of the Moving Pictures hit What About Me, was released to radio stations in December and will be sold at record stores on January 26. His debut album, That's What I'm Talking About, is due for release in February.
"They are all songs from all over the place. There is one from Nashville, one from New York, a couple from London and Bryan Adams wrote one," Noll said, describing the album.
"It is a pretty good mix on their I reckon."
Noll wrote one of the songs on the album, The Way That I Feel, with his brother Damian.
The Australia Idol final 12 gang will kick off a national tour in Newcastle next week.
AAP
www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/15/1073877962972.html
January 16, 2004
Shannon Noll may have packed up his family and moved to the big smoke of Sydney.
But the Australian Idol runner-up from Condobolin in rural NSW is still a country boy at heart.
"With all of the work down here in Sydney it was just way too hard to not be here," Noll, who recently moved to the city with his fiancee and two children, said.
"If I end up buying a house here with a decent yard I am going to chuck some chooks in there - that's for sure. At least then I will be able to go outside and collect the eggs and feel a bit like I am on the farm."
However, it is unlikely Noll will ever return to the farm permanently.
Noll shot to national stardom after coming second to Guy Sebastian in the hit TV series Australian Idol in November last year.
The pair secured recording contracts with record label BMG Australia and Sebastian's album, Just As I Am, has gone platinum four times.
Fifth place getter Robert 'Millsy' Mills also signed a contract with the label this week.
It is rumoured drag performer Courtney Act, who just missed out on making the final 12 in the competition, will release a single with BMG as well.
Idol contestants Kelly Cavuoto and Axel Whitehead have been signed to host Network Ten's new look Video Hits program.
Noll, 27, said he was baffled that other popular contestants Paulini Curuenavuli and Cosima De Vito had failed to secure contracts.
"I am surprised that a couple of the girls have not been signed by anyone else," he said.
"It is a bit strange."
Millsy said he was glad to sign a deal before the next series of Australian Idol kicks off later this year.
"I was hoping I would get something because it is going to make it even harder if I didn't have a record deal when the next Idol comes up," Millsy said.
"There could be another cheeky young Australian dude, better looking than myself and with a better voice. There is always someone better."
Meanwhile, Noll's debut single, a cover version of the Moving Pictures hit What About Me, was released to radio stations in December and will be sold at record stores on January 26. His debut album, That's What I'm Talking About, is due for release in February.
"They are all songs from all over the place. There is one from Nashville, one from New York, a couple from London and Bryan Adams wrote one," Noll said, describing the album.
"It is a pretty good mix on their I reckon."
Noll wrote one of the songs on the album, The Way That I Feel, with his brother Damian.
The Australia Idol final 12 gang will kick off a national tour in Newcastle next week.
AAP
www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/15/1073877962972.html