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Before we inform you with the latest McFly news, we'd like to ask your attention for the American SOPA/PIPA plans. As you might have noticed, together with 75000 other sites, we've gone black yesterday to protest of the bills scheduled to be voted on January 24, 2012.

I hear you saying: "What are SOPA and PIPA? And what does that have to do with me?" This video below explains it all. We highly recommend you to watch this video, as it affects the entire online world.



The American government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube, Tumblr and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that's for a fix that won't work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

You can find more information via fightforthefuture.org (right click to open in new tab).


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IS Another British Pop Invasion On The Way?
(Source: Billboard.biz)

The pop-rock band (@mcflymusic) has claimed 17 U.K. top 10 singles and six top 20 albums since 2004.

Most recently, the cheeky quartet of guys have expanded their appeal to a wider (and older) audience, thanks to their foray into reality TV competitions. Drummer Harry Judd (@mcflyharry) won the latest edition of "Strictly Come Dancing" (the parent show of America's "Dancing With the Stars") while in December, bassist Dougie Poynter (@dougiemcfly) was crowned champion of the famous-people-stuck-in-a-jungle show "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!"

It happens that the author of this article, Keith Caulfield from Los Angeles, is associate director of charts at Billboard. He tweeted earlier to Tom: "Just throwing this out there... Come to L.A. and @Billboard will fling open its doors to you and the boys". This was later confirmed by the Billboard Twitter account: "Make it happen! ;) RT @billboard @tommcfly @keith_caulfield spreaks the truth - we'd love to have you stop by for a visit @mcflymusic". So is it possible, McFly on a billboard in Los Angeles? It could happen, never say never! To be continued.

In any other news... Someone has uploaded the USTREAM we've been looking for. Too bad she has Super City content on her YouTube account. Anyway, it's only a part of the entire stream. But at least it's some thing right?! ;)



Also, a very interesting article caught our eye; Glee's Kevin McHale talking about the new Glee season... If you want to read the full article, click the source link below. We've copy pasted the interesting parts for us McFly fans.

Kevin McHale Talks 'Glee' Season 3: Artie's New Love Interest, Learning Spanish & Michael Jackson
(Source: Huffington Post)

The cast of "Glee" often acknowledges that Kevin McHale is one of the best dancers in the group, even though his character is in a wheelchair.

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HuffPost TV caught up with McHale to talk about the highly-anticipated Jackson tribute, Artie's new love interest and what band he's been trying to cover on "Glee" since Season 1. Hint: Darren Criss is also a big fan of the British quartet!

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You're also a huge fan of McFly, so when are we going to hear McFly on "Glee"?

I think I have another year, hopefully, to convince Ryan to let me do a McFly song. But the problem is that I have no idea which song. It was the same with the whole Michael Jackson thing. They knew that I really wanted to do Michael, but I could not pick a Michael song, so they kind of did it for me. But they knew Michael Jackson. They don't really know McFly, so I'm really going to have to go in and kind of sell it. There needs to be an entire presentation.

I think "All About You" would be a great fit for Artie, especially if he's trying to serenade a girl. That would be a nice one, right?

Yeah, "All About You" would be incredible. I know Darren [Criss] and I talked about doing "All About You." We both love McFly.

"Glee" returns from its winter hiatus on Tues., Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. EST on Fox.

Exciting isn't it? Fingers crossed guys, fingers crossed!

Other exciting news. We might be hearing the new demo's during the Up Close and Personal tour this spring. According to most friends of McFly the new songs are sounding awesome. Fletch shat his pants from excitement (according to Danny) and David Spearing was completely blown away whilst listening to them. Bring on the new tour!


Other new articles: (right click to open in new tab)
- Music News: McFly to perform for Saracens Rugby Club at Wembley Stadium
- Flecking Records: Dougie Poynter has the best do (Dougie, Harry, Danny and Tom in the top 5)
- The JC: Hanoar's celebrity finale
- Metro: Alfie Boe: Full-frontal was scary and stupid, but I'm proud of my manhood (Title's a bit odd, but Tom's mentioned in this article)
- New Magazine: Chelsee Healey: I've tried to fancy Lucien (Harry & the other McFly lads are mentioned in thie article)


New photographs: (right click link/photo to open in new tab)

- Super City: McFly On Tour 2011
- Dean Sherwood Official: McFly On Tour (check out all three portfolios, quite some McFly photos online)

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