Brian was on Sunrise this morning with co-host Danni Minogue to discuss the new season of Australia’s Got Talent premiering tonight on Channel 7 at 7:30pm EST! Check out the video below. We can’t wait for the new season!

Better late than never! Here is our exclusive mini interview with the talented Brian McFadden! Thanks for all your question submissions. Brian answered 10 questions, but I’ve only put up 9 of the answers for now. The other one may make its way online soon! Thanks to Brian and Jo for this amazing opportunity!

Check out our exclusive interview with Delta on Delta Daily!

This interview was taken in 2010.

Given that your previous two albums have been more acoustic based, have you found it strange performing WALL OF SOUNDZ live?
Not really. I find it more exciting as the mood of the show is a lot more high energy and you can really feel it in the room,

Do you feel the IRISH SON album still reflects who you are? If not, which of your albums is most indicative of who are you are and what you stand for?
Irish son lyrically will always reflect who i am as it is autobiographical. Set In Stone and Wall of Soundz are more abstracted from other peoples lives around me with the occasional piece of my life in it.
 
Which out of all the songs you’ve written and/or recorded is your all-time favourite and why?
It’s very hard to pick one song…. on the first album it would probably be Demons just for its epicness – The live orchestra the dark production. On the new album its gotta be WASTED, which you wouldn’t have heard yet. It’s a song thatI have listened to more than any other song i have ever written (I’m talking 15 times in a row everyday for 4 months).

You have done a couple of collaborations on your album WALL OF SOUNDZ – who else would you like to work with?
There’s no one in particular I want to work with right now. I think these moments just happen and it’s better not to force them.

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When Brian McFadden left popular Irish boyband Westlife in 2004, the singer/songwriter put out three successful albums as a solo artist. After releasing the meaty and introspective pop-rock albums “Irish Son” and “Set In Stone,” McFadden now takes on a lighter tone on his new LP “Wall Of Soundz.” The record features a contemporary synth-pop sound that he produced together with Darren Hayes collaborator Robert Conley.

“Wall Of Soundz” includes the smash single “Just Say So” (featuring Kevin Rudolph) that is the best-selling single in Australia this year. At this weekend’s ARIA Awards, Brian is up for two coveted Australian Music Awards including Most Popular Australian Single (for “Just Say So”) and Most Popular Australian Artist.

Engaged to Aussie pop singer Delta Goodrem, the happy-go-lucky Brian now shuttles between Syndey and Los Angeles. I caught up with Brian this past week from his home in Australia to talk about his new album, the fun he had making synth-pop music, his chemistry with Robert Conley and how he looks back at his time with Westlife. Interesting, fun chat that shows off a different side of Brian.

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Brian and Delta were on the Hamish & Andy’s radio show this afternoon talking about their duet Mistakes and their future.

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From boy band phenomenon, stadium filler and tabloid fodder, through to dad, immigrant and rising pop star. Brian McFadden has experienced all the trappings of fame and fortune. Now at 30 years of age, the Irish singer is going through his own personal renaissance, as Lars Brandle discovers.

When asked to choose his three biggest career highlights, Brian McFadden is quick off the mark. Right up there is the first time he played to 80,000 fans at an open-air stadium, standing alongside his former Westlife bandmates. And there was the time he performed for and met the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Both are extraordinary moments, the kind you could dine off for the rest of time. And to round-out the highlight reel perhaps the first milliondollar cheque, or the inaugural world tour? Nope. McFadden instead recalls the time his single Just Say So (featuring Kevin Rudolph) topped the Australian singles chart.

“I never thought in the twilight of my career, if you will, that I’d ever get back to that. I thought my days of getting No. 1s was in the past,” he tells TMN. “It meant more to me than any other No. 1 I’ve ever had.”

That McFadden ranks Australian chart success alongside an audience with the Pontiff and those early tastes of the “big league” shows just how far he’s come. The lad from Dublin is a changed man. He’s now at home in a new country, he’s got business on his mind and his musical output is a world away from his pop fare with Westlife.

On his latest effort, McFadden has turned away from the generic pop-ballad-with-key-change formula and ventured down a more synthetic route. One new track he’s road-testing introduces a rap, performed by Marvin Priest. McFadden knows he’s not getting any younger, and pop music shows little respect for the aged.

“I’m probably the oldest pop artist out there at the moment,” McFadden muses. “If you take away rock bands and established artists like Elton John and you just consider pop music — people like Justin Bieber, or even Gaga, who is an older artist — there’s probably no-one older than me doing it at the moment.”

When TMN calls, McFadden’s voice is swamped in an aural haze of beats and synths. He’s in the studio, laying down tracks with US-born Rob Conley, his collaborator on the Wall of Soundz album. His third solo set spawned Just Say So, the top-20 hit Chemical Rush, and airplay smash Mistakes, a duet with his fiance Delta Goodrem. However, Wall of Soundz debuted at a disappointing No. 27 on the ARIA Albums Chart in May, well-down on the No. 5 opening of his 2008 sophomore solo album Set In Stone.
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Brian and Delta were on The Kyle and Jackie O Show this morning talking about the music video for ‘Mistakes’ and Brian expresses his hatred for Delta Airlines. ‘Mistakes’ is released on iTunes September 17. Be sure to vote for ‘Mistakes’ on the Hot30 Countdown.

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Perez has an exclusive interview with Brian where they talk about Brian’s attempt to crack America, Delta, Westlife and Kerry Katona. Check it out below.

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