Should you wish for someone to get a party started; maybe with a few cheery disco ditties sung by a cheerful lad with a trilby hat at a rakish tilt and a grin as broad as the stage itself; you could do a lot worse than the nation鈥檚 favourite, Olly Murs.
Olly has shown himself to be quite the showbiz trouper since he first appeared on The X Factor in 2009, any slight rawness he may have felt over of coming second to Joe McElderry must have long ago been soothed by the four subsequent No.1 singles鈥擯lease Don鈥檛 Let Me Go, Heart Skips a Beat, Dance With Me Tonight and Troublemaker鈥攖he five Top Ten hits, and the fact that three of the four albums he has released have gone to No.1 (his first, Olly Murs, had to make do with No.2. The shame!). He is also something of a Big Weekend veteran, having taken to the main stage at Carlisle in 2011 and again at Derry-Londonderry鈥檚 Big Weekend in 2013.
So who better to open the main stage at this year鈥檚 event? No one, that鈥檚 who.
Should you wish for someone to get a party started; maybe with a few cheery disco ditties sung by a cheerful lad with a trilby hat at a rakish tilt and a grin as broad as the stage itself; you could do a lot worse than the nation鈥檚 favourite, Olly Murs.
Olly has shown himself to be quite the showbiz trouper since he first appeared on The X Factor in 2009, any slight rawness he may have felt over of coming second to Joe McElderry must have long ago been soothed by the four subsequent No.1 singles鈥擯lease Don鈥檛 Let Me Go, Heart Skips a Beat, Dance With Me Tonight and Troublemaker鈥攖he five Top Ten hits, and the fact that three of the four albums he has released have gone to No.1 (his first, Olly Murs, had to make do with No.2. The shame!). He is also something of a Big Weekend veteran, having taken to the main stage at Carlisle in 2011 and again at Derry-Londonderry鈥檚 Big Weekend in 2013.
So who better to open the main stage at this year鈥檚 event? No one, that鈥檚 who.
