WHERE ARE THEY NOW? James Fox – Talk About Pop Music

28 12 months previous James Fox represented the UK at Eurovision in 2004, however was there a lot love for anybody to carry on to that evening?

James Fox (no relation to the actor with the identical title) was born in Wales in 1976, James Richard Mullett. By the point he went to highschool, he may play the piano, drums, harmonica and the mandolin. He performed native pubs as a teen and fashioned the boyband Drive 5 on the age of 24. Regardless of supporting Liberty X, they achieved no industrial success themselves and broke up three years later. James auditioned for the 2003 sequence of Fame Academy utilizing the title ‘James Fox’ and got here fifth. He later wrote a tune for that 12 months’s winner Alistair Griffin’s debut album. James used his new discovered fame to enter the Eurovision Music Contest the next 12 months and carried out the tune “Maintain Onto Our Love”, written by Gary Miller and Tim Woodcock.

As with a lot of the UK entries within the early 2000’s, “Maintain Onto Our Love” didn’t do effectively and got here sixteenth out of 24 finalists, nonetheless higher than Jemini’s terrible 2003 entry that earned 0 factors! The tune did do pretty effectively commercially and reached No.13 on the singles chart. James took his time in coming again with a observe up or an album and spent the following few years supporting and touring with the likes of Lulu, Moist Moist Moist, Will Younger and Natasha Bedingfield. He lastly landed a cope with impartial label Plastic Tomato and launched the EP “Six String” in 2007. The next 12 months he wrote and recorded “Bluebirds Flying Excessive” for his favorite soccer crew Cardiff Metropolis as they made it to the ultimate of the FA Cup. The only went to No.15 within the chart. 2008 lastly noticed James launch his first full album. Titled “Rocking Chairs And Lemonade”.

Neither the album nor the singles “Increased” or “Say What You Like” made the UK high 40 and James made for the London stage showing in Chess and The Beatles stage present, Let It Be, the place he performed Paul McCartney. James has solely launched a few singles since, “Landlocked” in 2012 and “Hope” in 2018. He largely confines himself to stage work and the odd occasional music gig to small, chosen audiences. His final recognized look was on the Eurovision present Let Me Be The One in 2022, the place he shared the stage with Lindsay Dracass, who represented the UK in 2001.