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Gareth Gates on the road with his Love Songs from the Movies tour
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26/02/2025
Gareth Gates hits the road with his Love Songs from the Movies tour – a theme which effectively takes him back to where it all began.
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Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Lance Sussex Newspapers and
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a huge pleasure to speak to Gareth Gates. Now Gareth, you are embarking, you've started
00:10
on a tour. Gareth Gates sings love songs from the movies, you're playing the King's Theatre
00:15
in South Sea and Guildford's G Live on this tour, and we're saying what fantastic rich
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pickings you have just encapsulated in love songs from the movies. But in a way, that's
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where you began, wasn't it, Unchained Melody? Yeah, my first ever number one and my biggest
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selling hit to date was Unchained Melody, made famous by the movie Ghost. And this gave
00:37
me the idea for the show, why not put together a show with all those big, big love songs
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made famous by movies. And so the songs in there from the likes of Titanic, Pretty Woman,
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Dirty Dancing, Armageddon, to name only a few. And it's a really great show we opened
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this week. And it was a roaring success. And I can't wait to bring it to the King's Theatre
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and also G Live as well. And you are heaping up the pressure on yourself
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because this is not just Gareth Gates, the performer, this is Gareth Gates, the producer.
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You've decided where it's going, you've cast it, you've decided on the songs, you've done
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everything. Why? Why do that? Well, it seemed a good time. It seemed a good
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idea at the time. It still seemed a good idea.
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Now I'm really enjoying being a producer, actually. It's something I've wanted to get
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into for quite some time. You know, but in the past, I've just been used to turning up
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to a gig, singing a few songs, disappearing home without a care in the world. But it's
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very different now. It's a completely different beast. I've literally done everything from
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programming exactly where we're going around the country, marketing the event, putting
02:00
together the cast. I mean, I've been in the industry for 23 years now, so I've lots and
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lots of friends I've worked with in some of the biggest shows that I've called upon, all
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backed by a live band. Again, players that I know and some of the best players in the
02:15
industry. You know, even booking people's hotels and travel. I mean, it's crazy.
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It's down to you, but presumably what it does give you is the ultimate creative, expressive
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freedom, doesn't it?
02:31
Yeah, I, you know, the set list, for instance, is all me. And, you know, there's so many
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love songs from movies. My initial list, I probably had about 58 options to go for,
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but for a two hour show, you probably need about 28 songs maximum. And so trying to whittle
02:57
that down was hard. But, you know, but knowing and being on stage, knowing that you've put
03:03
everything together is a really sort of...
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And to still be doing this 23 years after Pop Idol to sustain that success, that's really
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quite something. And you're saying that, you know, it is work ethic, isn't it? You're a
03:19
hard worker.
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Yeah, it's, you know, in this industry, you have to be hard working because it's tough
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at times, you know, and the nature of the industry, you know, there was years where
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X Factor would churn out another one of me and churn out another one of me.
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But where have they gone?
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Well, yeah, yeah. But you, you know, knowing that you constantly have to keep on trying
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to reinvent yourself, you know, in different, you know, I was a recording artist for many
03:58
years and had a lot of success with that. You know, I then entered into musical theatre.
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I did Joseph for Andrew Lloyd Webber on the West End. I did Les Miserables for Cameron
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Mackintosh. You know, I've done lots of musical theatre shows. You know, now this new avenue
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of producing as well as being in shows as well is a new string to my bow. And I'm really,
04:22
really loving it. And I think work ethic, but also trying to find sort of new things
04:29
to keep it fresh, you know, I think seem important too.
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Well, it sounds fantastic too. Good luck with the whole thing.
04:37
Really lovely to speak to you, Gareth. Thank you very much indeed.
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I appreciate it.
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