Well hopefully… Donny and Marie Osmond might be back in the UK this Autumn of 2009.  They are due to release an album together and that hasn’t been done since 1977 – so about time me thinks.  And the word, straight from the horses mouth (sorry Donny, your not a horse by any stretch of the imagination) is that they are in talks now to come over and either promote the album or perhaps perform a live show.

This is all following their phenomenal success at The Flamingo in Vegas where they are currently putting on a wonderful show to rave reviews.

One of those reviews comes in the form of Radio DJ Alex Belfield of www.celebrityradio.co.uk who flew over to see the show and to interview Donny Osmond.

To read the full article AND listen to the great interview go here:

Alex Belfield Interview with Donny Osmond

The interview is about 30 minutes long and what a fun and entertaining interview, I loved Alex’s style of interviewing because our Donny was able to be himself (not that he isn’t always) and they both came out with some cracking jokes. 

I feel the need at this point, however, to point out that this trip of Donny and Marie’s is not set in stone yet, as reported by Donny’s assistant Tina Salmon on Donny’s website donny.com, this is still in the talking stages and NOTHING is signed yet, so please go ahead and save your pennies for this possible appearance by our lovable brother and sister duo but do not rely on it yet, watch this space for confirmation when and if that comes.  And hey, if you save some money for this and nothing comes of it, you have some savings for Christmas instead, so can’t be bad!

THE best moment for most of the over 5,000-strong crowd at Genting’s Arena of Stars must have been when Donny Osmond, all of 51, came down the stage to meet his fans.

There are a couple of nice photo’s included as well – one of the moment Donny goes into the crowd but unfortunately the picture is a little small but never mind.

Anyway enjoy..

Do you want to know what else I think about this stunning piece of photography taken by Jeremy Hall?

No you do not! Get yourselves over to Jeremy’s What’s Gotta Stay  Website and take a gander (after placing cushions on floor, or perhaps get on the floor first and then view the photo, good time saver)..

Go on, go, scoot.. you can always come back here and tell me your reaction in the comment area after you have recovered, I mean finished looking at it – especially if you feel your comment may not be right for Jeremy’s site LOL I know, how about one comment there, one here LOL..

No seriously go check it out, again some wonderful work by Jeremy, Kudos to you JH.

If for some reason the linked “what’s gotta stay” above does not work for you, I know you will be chomping at the bit to get over there so just use the link in my “Featured Links”  list over there on the right hand side of this blog, in the side panel (scroll down a bit to see it).

As you know I have also created a “Squidoo Lens” also called Osmonds Galore and today decided to have that discussion mainly there as well as here because I would also like to hear from other people who have attended other artists concerts and perhaps bought VIP packages to the event and I know that we are more likely to get people other than Osmond fans commenting over at Squidoo, it would be interesting to find out if it is the same for every artists event, don’t you think?, this is the link for the lens:

Osmonds Galore at Squidoo

Just highlighting some of the article over at Squidoo these are my two major problems with the VIP Packages are:

• Tickets, well I got row 12, I think this should be a ticket in the first four rows at this price!
• Way too many packages sold to make even more profit which means your “Actual” time talking to the artist is roughly 30 seconds, what can you say in that time to your idol? Not a lot I’m guessing, perhaps something along the lines of “errr, splutter, errr, bye” and then your moved on!

From a personal point of view I know I have been very lucky in the past 5 years meeting Donny lots of times and being able to have a decent conversation with him (none of which cost me anything other than time perhaps waiting around). BUT I feel sooo bad for those lifelong fans who have never met their idol, who probably scrimped and saved to buy this package and then to finally meet them (nervously of course, so you can barely form sentences or think coherently) and then find your not allowed even a full minute to say something at least sensible to this person whom you will probably never meet again!

To be honest it incenses me because as far as I can see all that is simply down to LiveNation selling too many VIP packages..

VIP Means “very important person” – things that make you go “hmmmmmm”

So please pop on over to the lens and tell us what your thoughts are, did you enjoy your VIP package? tell us what you did and did not enjoy, tell us there, here or in both places if you like and have the time.

This is a link straight to the first “post” of mine there called “It goes beyond being just a fan of The Osmonds, they are like family”

But whilst your there, do check out the rest of the page too, lots of things on there AND….

It’s free, by the way, if you want to make your own Squidoo Lens – they also monetize the page for you and you can get paid a percentage of what the page earns via all kinds of things such as Ebay, Amazon and Google Adsense ads and you can then choose to donate a percentage of your earnings to any of their extensive list of charities.

If you want to see my Squidoo Profile page, go here: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/SusanneUK

And if you want to make one of your own, on any subject then click this: Make Your Own Squidoo

If you are not sure how to do it or any part of it let me know, you can get my email addresses from the contact page here at Osmonds Galore.

If you do build a lens, please let me know here or over there so I can “favorite” it for you, which gets it more viewers etc.. I hope you will return the favor.

I have also just created a new category here called “Squidoo” so that I can then highlight other Squidoo Lenses – so may not be about The Osmonds because perhaps I will find a “hobby lens” by an Osmond fan and that would be cool to link to, don’t you think?

Anyway, enough babble from me, go check it out for yourselves.

Sue