The week has been a busy one for Jonathan Ansell. On Wednesday he had half-a-dozen telephone interviews to do to promote his forthcoming concert tour.

The following day he was booked into a central London studio to do interviews of varying lengths for at least 20 different radio stations via the internet.

Personable as he is, he doesn’t seem to mind the chore of talking to journalists and presenters he has not spoken to before and may never meet, describing the experience as “good energy”.

For Bradford, the news is that a year after appearing at the Alhambra in the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman musical version of the 1960s British movie Whistle Down The Wind, Jonathan is coming back to town.

This time the 29-year-old blond bombshell, with two best-selling albums since his success with the pop opera boyband G4 – runners-up on X Factor, who went on to have three hit albums – is on his first solo nationwide tour.

Except that he won’t exactly be on stage by himself when the show goes on the road in Dartford on June 3. Two male singers have been signed up to accompany Jonathan; a third remained to be chosen when we spoke earlier this week.

“We are trying to work out whether we are going to go with a female for the third. The other two are not from G4; they are ex-colleagues from different shows – a mixture of great singers,” he says.

As much as he enjoys the face-to-face contact with a concert audience, he is hoping to develop his career as a singer-actor.

“I love the challenge of doing a role on stage, interpreting a character. I was really fortunate in my debut role in Whistle Down The Wind, but I feel a bit disconnected as a character.”

He did not attribute that feeling to the dyslexia he was diagnosed with at London’s Guildhall School of Music, but the learning disability that can impair reading, speaking and spelling does affect him.

He says: “When I’m learning a lyric, I might see the beginning of a word and then guess what the end is, I’ll interpret what I think is there. That’s one hindrance, but it’s a weird thing that it (dyslexia) can be a positive.

“Throughout my career it’s enhanced my ability to think outside the box. It was considered a hindrance with my schooling, but outside of that it enables you to jump to answers without the process of getting there.”

He cites Richard Branson as the pre-eminent example of somebody with dyslexia who has been spectacularly successful.

Those familiar with the book The Gift Of Dyslexia won’t find that surprising. Jonathan said his parents gave him a copy of the book by Ron Davis and Eldon Braun.

Through it he learned that although dyslexics are not all the same, they share particular abilities such as enhanced intuition, are highly aware of their environment and are curious about how things work. They conceptualise in pictures instead of words and think and understand using all their senses.

It’s hard to say if the fans who send messages to Jonathan’s forum are more sympathetic because of this. What is evident is that they like what he does on stage, and are keen to let him know it, but careful not to presume too much.

“I am really fortunate, my fan base is really aware of the line,” he says. “They’ll meet me before or after a show, but then they’ll leave you alone. If they see me in a restaurant they’re a bit embarrassed – they are amazingly respectful of my life.”

Unlike interviewing journalists he may speak to only once, he has a regular rapport with fans; the most loyal of them clearly enjoy passing on their appreciation, telling him which concerts they cannot get to and which ones they hope to attend.

However, being in the public eye does not mean that an artist is owned by his or her public. In Jonathan’s case, that privilege belongs to his wife Debbie and their five-and-half-month-old daughter Siena – his little family, as he calls them.

His tour schedule of 24 concerts will allow him to return home to the flat in Battersea, south of the Thames, where they live.

The tour ends on July 5. “The booking agent was able to extend the tour through June, but we didn’t want it to be too extensive. It’s better to leave them wanting more.

Jonathan Ansell And Friends Sing The Music of G4 is at St George’s Hall on July 1, starting at 7.30pm. The box office number is (01274) 432000.