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Win Tickets to<br />
Tom Jones!<br />
Summer just wouldn’t be the same without live<br />
music from Haydock Park and, after a year-long<br />
hiatus due to COVID, live music is back with a bang<br />
with some huge names, including Tom Jones and<br />
Olly Murs, to look forward to this summer. <strong>Local</strong><br />
<strong>Life</strong> have two pairs of tickets for the Tom Jones<br />
concert on Saturday 28th <strong>Aug</strong>ust to give away to<br />
readers!<br />
But first up at Haydock Park this<br />
summer is Olly Murs. <strong>Local</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
caught up with the legend<br />
himself earlier his month<br />
for a chat about his return<br />
to Haydock Park on<br />
Saturday 17th<br />
<strong>Jul</strong>y.<br />
Are you looking forward to finally getting back out<br />
on the road again?<br />
Yeah, I can’t wait! I did Haydock Park a few years back,<br />
great energy, great vibe so it will be good to get back<br />
on stage, get my mic out, get my ears in, get my dancing<br />
shoes on, and just get out there and perform. Can’t wait!<br />
This has been the longest period that you’ve gone<br />
without live shows or touring. How are you going<br />
to get rid of the rustiness?<br />
It’s been two years as I hadn’t toured since 2019, but I’m<br />
born ready - there’s no rust here, get the WD40 out! I’m<br />
actually excited to get out there again and start singing<br />
- I think it’s just something that I’m born to do, I enjoy it.<br />
What was it like to go out in lockdown wearing a<br />
mask and not get stopped every five minutes?<br />
I hated it because I like seeing people’s faces, it felt really<br />
eerie. Everyone didn’t really speak and was really quiet,<br />
you couldn’t really see people’s facial expressions, and I<br />
didn’t enjoy it very much to be honest. I just get this<br />
really weird vibe when I go shopping. I know we’re<br />
all doing it for a good reason, but I can’t wait to see<br />
people’s faces again. That’d be nice.<br />
A lot of people know you from The Voice but you<br />
have a new TV show coming soon, <strong>St</strong>arstruck<br />
Yes, I’m hosting the show. It’s something I’ve wanted<br />
to do for quite some time to get back on TV again,<br />
on a primetime Saturday night. It’s pretty much a<br />
modern-day version of ‘<strong>St</strong>ars In Their Eyes’ but it’s got<br />
a new format, it’s got new ideas, we have a celebrity<br />
judging panel on there.<br />
Did you think back when you did your first audition<br />
for X Factor you would, a decade later, become this<br />
all-round entertainer doing television, voiceover<br />
acting and of course singing?<br />
I never expected any of this, I was very lucky. I knew<br />
I was an entertainer more so than just a singer,<br />
I knew there was a few more strings to my<br />
bow, that I was a jack of all trades! Singing is
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