Hello!
A big McFly-style "YAY!" to everyone who is reading this online diary that I, Tom from out of the McFly am writing for you, the McFly fans, to read and read and read. Hey, maybe you could print it out and put it on your wall, next to pictures of the band McFly that I am in, with my friends Danny and Dougie and Harry.
It's me! Tom! I stand next to Danny and in front of Harry, in case you're not sure which one I am. I'm also the one who sings the first verse on our big hit singles 'Obviously' and 'All About You', which a lot of people really like, even older people who don't normally like pop songs from out of the charts, they like songs like those. It's true, I read it in a paper.
I think they like the way me and Danny swap over the singing. Sometimes I sing the first bit and then we sing a bit together and then he sings the next bit, and sometimes Danny sings the first bit and then we sing a bit together and then I sing the next bit. I love the way we do that, and our fans (that's YOU!) love it too. I know, cos they (sorry, you!) tell me all the time.
That's one of the great things about being Tom from out of the McFly. I get to sing on these smashing pop songs, and while I'm singing, Danny gets to do his special sucky-in-face posing, and the cameras leave me alone to concentrate on getting my singing just right. Then we do the singing together bit, and they go and look at Dougie for a bit, cos he's a good-looking fella, Dougie.
Plus all this practising means that I'm really getting my 'chops' together. That's what proper 'musos' say when they mean that they can play the guitar really, really well and don't have to look at their fingers hardly ever. I still look at my fingers a bit sometimes. There's a really fiddly bit at the beginning of 'That Girl' which I have to look at my fingers to play properly.
In actual fact, it's so fiddly, it gave me blisters when I first learned it. But that's proper rock, blisters. I bet Kurty Cobains out of the Nirvana used to get blisters when he first learned how to play 'Smells Like Team Spigot'. One of my blisters got so big I had to pop it with a badge pin (it was a McFly badge! One with Harry on it!!) or it would've leaked all over my guitar. I love my guitar. I can't have blister juice all over the 'fretboard'. That's what the bit you wiggle your fingers all over is called, by the way.
Urr! I just re-read that last bit, and it was quite gross, wasnit? Sorry. I did go and wash my finger as soon as I'd popped the blister. It's SO important to be clean when you're in a proper rock band. Clean and punctual, that's the way we do it in the McFly. We've never been late for a 'gig', and we've never been dirty. Apart from once when Danny tripped over the curb on the way out of the 'tourbus' and got dirt all over his hands. He even got a little bit stuck in a cut. But then, that's what the proper rock stars mean when they say that 'The Road' is really hard, and really tough. So I guess that makes us, the McFly, even MORE rock! Hurrah!
Anyway, that's all I've got to say right now. I've got to go and clean my teeth and then get my beauty sleep, or I'll be all tired and crosspatch in the morning and won't be able to 'rock' the 'house'.
Nighty night!
Tom (from out of the McFly)
