What did you take from Broadway into it? Were you really ‘jazz hands’ in the studio? And I used it all for the album.” Yes, so your new album ‘ Pray for the Wicked‘ is out on June 22. She helped me get my tongue unstuck which is I guess a thing? But it’s really just about stomping your foot down and bellowing out the note and hoping that you hit it, that was the main lesson I learnt. I worked with a couple of people to help me – cool name drop – like Cyndi Lauper’s vocal coach. So I’m screaming top of my lungs, getting all this emotion out, then I have the highest song I have to sing so I’m just like, ‘I hope I hit it’. The schedule is gruelling on its own but vocally it is so exhausting because for me, as lead Charlie Price, I have three arguments back to back. I will say that Broadway are some of the most talented and hard-working singers. You’re known for having amazing range but was it a different style of singing? Did you have to have vocal training? I still don’t think I nailed it, but it was fun.” She said, ‘Just show me what kind of Northampton accent you can do,’ and I did it and she said, ‘OK, that’s a little Australian, but a good start.’ But I’m so glad I did it. I only had an hour of diction and accent training with this girl, Amy- Jo Jackson, who is amazing. Then I’m usually happy at the end because I’ve done something I’m so scared about and the reward is so much greater because of it.” I’m really freaking out, I don’t know if I can do it,’ and he said, ‘Trust me, it’ll be OK.’ I’ve learned that if I jump headfirst into something I’m terrified about, I subside all the anger and anxiety and fear so I can just get through the whole process. The day before, I called my manager Scott and said, ‘I don’t know if I can go. It’s been two years since the last record and you’ve been pretty busy. It made the Biggest Weekend even bigger, it was so great.” I love doing that, I love terrifying myself. On the drive up from London we were talking about the setlist and I said, ‘Well, I don’t want to play those two songs so let’s play one we’ve never rehearsed, that we don’t really know.’ So we listened to it about 10 times and then got on stage and played it and it went OK. You just got back from Wales: The Biggest Weekend.
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