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YUNGBLUD announces free London show: “Let’s ride”
After dropping nine-minute single Hello Heaven, Hello, YUNGBLUD will be rounding off his big week with a free (and pretty intimate) gig in King’s Cross.
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Watch YUNGBLUD’s superb performance of Hello Heaven, Hello on Jonathan Ross
YUNGBLUD and his band were the musical guests on the latest episode of The Jonathan Ross Show, unleashing a shortened version of his recent nine-minute comeback single Hello Heaven, Hello.
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- Emily Garner
YUNGBLUD has dazzled TV viewers with a performance of his latest single Hello Heaven, Hello on The Jonathan Ross Show.
Unfortunately Dom Harrison and his band had to chop down the nine-minute epic to accommodate for scheduling on the programme, but nevertheless made the absolute most of the time they had to show off just how huge a song Hello Heaven, Hello really is.
And his rabid fanbase clearly agree, too, with one comment on YouTube reading: “Listened to the original. Wasn’t 100% convinced and thought, ‘Right okay, it'll grow on me…’ Then listened to this. YES YES YES. Not many things are better live. This is one of those things. Incredible.”
“They should have made room on the show for them to play the whole 9 minutes’ worth of song,” said another, while someone else posted: “It’s even better live. Them vocals, his charisma, this man is unique.”
“YUNGBLUD, your music always speaks to me on a deep level,” shared another fan. “In the live versions, it always hits different ’cause you can really hear and feel the emotion.”
Enjoy:
Also in the episode, Dom told the peculiar story of how used to think Rod Steward was his grandad, which you can watch below:
Announcing the single last week, YUNGBLUD said, “I’ve been discouraged from releasing a nine-minute and six second song as my first move back in a year because, in the modern world, it’s seen as a ‘risk’. I don’t see it that way at all – I see it as an opportunity. In my opinion, risk is an artist’s greatest tool – putting everything on the line in pursuit of the best evolution and art you can create. Without risk, there is no innovation.”
Speaking more specifically about the inspiration behind Hello Heaven, Hello, he continued, “Rock music is in my DNA. It’s the first genre I was ever exposed to; I grew up in a guitar shop with my dad and my grandfather. Rock music helped me find an identity as a human being.
“Hello Heaven, Hello is a journey of self-reclamation – a goodbye to the past and how you may have known or perceived me before, and a ‘hello’ to the future and where I’m going. It’s an adventure that is sonically more ambitious than ever before – a journey that is meant to be played in its entirety, never holding back or allowing its imagination to be filtered.”
Read this next:
- YUNGBLUD: “The way rock survives, thrives, prospers and gets bigger is if we all stick together”
- Oli Sykes: “I still feel like the underdog… But it’s important to stop smell the roses, and to be like, ‘This is fucking amazing, what we’ve achieved’”
- YUNGBLUD: “The world is ready for rock music and the world is ready for fucking rock stars”
