Pressparty: Tinie Tempah News October 2011

Tinie Tempah praises Prince William on his music knowledge

Pressparty — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:50:04 +0100

Tinie Tempah thinks it is great that Prince William knows about what’s going on in the charts.

The Frisky chart-topper met Prince William and wife Duchess of Cambridge at the Big Weekend Music Festival in Wales earlier this year and since then, they have formed a friendship:

“He's the future King of England and he knows a bit about what's going on in the pop charts. He's not making it up, it's real! It's a great time for someone like myself. Something's definitely happened."

Tinie Tempah is a contender for tomorrow’s number one spot for his feature on Labrinth's debut single 'Earthquake' but maybe beaten by Professor Green feat. Emeli Sandé's 'Read All About It'.

Watch Labrinth and Tinie Tempah perform 'Earthquake' on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, and Tempah's video for 'Till I'm Gone' feat. Wiz Khalifa below:

Tinie Tempah wants to work with Chris Martin and Gary Barlow

London Newsdesk — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:25:05 +0100

Tinie Tempah is putting plans in place for his follow-up album to 'Disc-overy' and he says that he would like to work with other big names from the UK like Coldplay's Chris Martin and Take That's Gary Barlow.

He told the Daily Star that he wants to work with artists that he respects:

"I want to work with people I’m a huge fan of and respect. It doesn’t matter who they are. The main thing is it works with the track and sounds good"

He hopes to work with some of the best-selling names to emerge in the last few years:

"Chris Martin, Gary Barlow, Big Sean, Dizzee Rascal, The Script, Shingai from The Noisettes are all people I’ve spoken to face to face and it’s looking really good".

Check out Tinie Tempah's live performance of 'Till I'm Gone' and his performance with Labrinth of 'Earthquake' on BBC Radio One's Live Lounge:

Tinie Tempah unveils extract from his new book

London Newsdesk — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:08:22 +0100

UK superstar Tinie Tempah has released an exciting extract of his new book, 'My Story So Far', to The Sun newspaper and in it he talks of meeting royalty, how he got his stage name and his dating life.

One particular memory that's as fresh in Tinie's mind as the day it happened is his encounter with Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton. He explains:

"I saw this guy in a baseball cap and his beautiful girlfriend, waiting for me. I looked under his cap and I froze. I know that face. They just looked like a very normal, happy couple — but it was the future king and queen, Prince William and Kate Middleton."

"He made a little joke about my trousers being so low, saying he thought they were going to fall off halfway through my performance and said he loves going to festivals but he goes incognito. His aide came out with a box of Soleros and there was only four in there but there were five of us in the room. William offered me one and I was like: 'No thanks'. I didn't want to deprive the future King of his Solero!"

Speaking about how he chose his famous moniker, the 'Frisky' hitmaker revealed it was born from an encounter with a thesaurus during class:

"I was flicking through a thesaurus, daydreaming and thinking what I could have as a name. I didn't get very far — I only got up to "A". I saw "angry" and beneath it the word "temper" stood out but I was aware that might sound a bit aggressive, a bit too much, so I randomly stuck "tiny" at the front. By playtime I was Tinie Tempah and that's what I've been called ever since."

The book is available for £14.99 from Ebury and is out now. Check out Tinie's latest collaboration with Labrinth, on 'Earthquake', below: