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Host: What’s going on everyone? I’m Nevin Martell from GetMusic.com, with me tonight it’s both a pleasure and an honour to have with me Lava/Atlantic recording artists: The Corrs. Sitting in front of me to the left I have Andrea, Caroline, Jim and Sharon. What’s going on guys?
All: Hi.
C: How are you?
N: So, tonight, we’ll be taking live questions from the Internet audience and then you’ll be playing three songs. And uh, without further ado and because we already have several thousand questions waiting to be answered. Normally I’d sit here and banter for hours but uh, the high-pressured situation. Um, so we’re just going to take the first one, from uh, marty2634. And uh, he wants to know, have you guys been, you know, at all surprised by the tremendous success that you’ve enjoyed over here in the States with Breathless?
J: Ehm, with Breathless, ehm, I think you could say that we met this with delight. Absolute delight at last. Because we’ve been, eh, we’ve been trying to have, to have a hit here in America for quite awhile. We’ve been coming back, touring, doing lots of promo for the past 5 or 6 years. (Andrea giggles in the background) So at last, uh, it’s actually, uh, taken off and uh, we’re really happy.
N: Cool. And I think, always the sign of success here in America…
J (To Andrea): What are you laughing at?
A: I thought you said the last 5 million years.
All laugh
A (in mock serious voice): That’s great. We’ve made it! Finally!
N: But I mean, you guys have a Pay-Per-View special now. I mean like how much more successful do you need to be? Like a Pay-Per-View special courtesy of the Corrs.
A: I know.
N: That’s a pinnacle right there.
A: Yeah, it is. It’s great.
S: Yeah.
N: Whose idea was that? Was that the record company? Like “we finally feel like you’re Pay-Per-View ready”? Or were you guys just felt like you wanted to expose yourselves to more Americans that way?
S: I think it was just an idea. I think, I think maybe our manager came up with it along with the record company. It’s just; it just seemed like a really great idea you know.
N: Cool. And uh, do you want to do a little promo for that? Like the time and the date? How much? (Laughs) Noooo. (Shakes Head)
All Laugh
J (To no one): How much? (Laughs again)
S: Five million.
N: Wow, all right.
C: Kind of expensive.
A: You’re always encouraged to buy it four or five times, cause you’ll always see new things.
N: Yes, through repeated viewings, many things come out. And of course, another sign of success: you guys sold out Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Which, you know, is a phenomenal little marker in a career. A milestone right there. Uh, what was that like playing there? It’s a gorgeous venue.
S: It was great.
C: Yeah, it was great. I mean, um, we wanted to do it, um, St Patrick’s night, but we did it on the 16th, which is the night before. Um, and uh, we always wanted to do Radio City. And its just one of those gigs, were, you know, in your career you always want to do. And uh, erm, we finally got to do it that night. Ehm, so, ehm, we had a great time doing it. I think we went out right afterwards, and had a bit of a celebration afterwards. It was great.
N: You THINK you did…
C (Laughing): Yeah!
N: ...but you can’t remember.
All Laughing
A: We got home three days later and…
J: We’ve got selective amnesia.
Caroline giggles
N: Right. Did you guys stick around in New York for St Patty’s? Or did you have to go onto another gig?
S: No, we spent the next…actually we did an early morning TV show the following morning and then…
N: Oof.
S: Um, we went back for the afternoon. Then we went out because its Caroline’s birthday. So we had a big celebration on St Patrick’s Day.
N: Oh, excellent.
S: It was great fun. It was great to celebrate in New York.
N: Cool.
S: Actually, it was the first time on St Patrick’s Day we had some time off in years.
N (in overly serious, joking voice): Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. (Laughing)
S: No, it was great.
N: It was a good thing though…So are you guys going to be over here for a little while now? Or are you guys doing some more gigs? What’s the plan for the Corrs for the next six months?
J: Ehm, for the next six months…oh…while we’re over here, we’re doing a fair bit of promo, a couple of radio gigs. We’re also shooting the video for a song called All The Love In The World. It’s the third track we wrote with, eh, Mutt Lange. And that’s going to take place in Los Angeles. Then after that, well we’re basically going to, eh, prepare for Sharon’s wedding (sly smile on face). And after that, we’re going to tour Australia, tour, um, Thailand and Indonesia. Ehmmm…Malaysia; couple of other places. And then back to America again hopefully after that.
N: Wow. Now, my questions is, (wry smile, looking at Sharon) how do you fit the honeymoon into the touring schedule?
A: Very carefully.
S: All you do is, you just take it out and you go “I won’t be around. I’m just not available.” (Laughs, then a glare at Nevin)
N: No comment for that time. Um, all right, we’re going to take a question from dj…qzguy (confused)…and they said, um, I love the song Somebody For Someone. Will that be a single at all over here in the States?
A: Um, it could be. You know, it depends on…We’d probably; we’d probably do a remix of it I think, if we were going to. Em, but uh, a lot of people like it too. It’s good to hear they like it. Yeah, uh, who knows? We’ll see.
N: To return to the current single, All The Love In The World, what’s going to be the video concept? Have you guys mapped out a director, or location, all the kind of stuff?
C: Well, it’s going to be part of a movie as well. Uh, the new Julia Roberts movie…coming out. Ehm (To Jim) what’s it called again? I’ve forgotten the name.
N: Runaway Bride 2?
All: Nooo. (Laughing)
S: Revenge of the Runaway Bride.
All laughing
C: Um, it’s going to be part of that, so. Ehm, we’re going to. I don’t know really…we have to…it’s going to be intere…(Looks at Jim because he’s laughing) Hello?
J: Revenge of the Runaway Bride.
C (Look of disinterest in Jim): Um, yeah. It’s going to be, um…
A: I’m there with you.
C: It’s going to be part of the movie, then it’ll be out as well. You know we’ll have shots of the movie, I think. I’m not quite sure…
S: We’re going to do it on the set where they filmed it, so. Yeah, I think its Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Billy Crystal. That’s a pretty good cast.
N: Interesting.
A and S: Yeah.
S: It is interesting, isn’t it?
N: Is it a romantic comedy? With…Billy…I dunno (Look of apprehension)
A: We have no idea.
N: Interesting line up. Uh, all right. Um, we’re going to have a question (looks at question and laughs) We’re having a question from ShaDelCorr and they want to know, uh, what is going to be the next video following the new single? Do you guys have a third video? People just want to know? They can’t get up to this…they’re already at the second video, the third video.
A: Well, a video maybe they haven’t seen yet, as well, that we shot for One Night. Because we’ve also done a Spanish version of it as well, with an artist called Alejandro Sanz. And, um, so we shot a video for that recently enough too. That’s another one.
N: Don’t you mean Una Noche?
A: Una Noche? Yeah…it’s not by 98 degrees. Isn’t that another band?
N: Yes, yes it is. There’s a Una Noche. (Cell phone starts ringing)
A: I got this surprise yesterday…
Nevin reaches in his pocket and pulls out his cell phone
Caroline giggles
N: This is the embarrassing part of the interview where my mum calls.
S: I can’t believe his phone’s on.
Jim laughing in the background then all start laughing.
N: I’m going to lose my job for that.
A: This is what happened yesterday, right? I was watching MTV. Well not really, but it said “Oh and coming back next, ehm, we’re going to get the winner of the most, the video you want to see most”, right?
N: Right.
A: And um, this guy was holding up a placard, with all this…and I saw Una Noche. And I (makes face of surprised joy, big smile) HEYYYY! Right? (Laughing) And that was me the whole break…then I realised…98 degrees. (Laughs) So I was deflated. And that was very funny, wasn’t it?
N: Yeah!
S (with Caroline echoing): Taxi for Andrea.
Jim waves his arm like he’s hailing a cab. Andrea gets up to leave.
N: We can all sit tight. You guys can talk to my mum later (reaching for his cell phone). I’m sure she has a lot of questions. But we’ll be taking questions mostly from the Internet audience.
S: We were expecting that call.
N: Before we go on, I want to remind everybody, if they haven’t picked up a copy of In Blue, you can do so right now at store.getmusic.com. And the official Corrs website is Corrs.net. Don’t be confused by thecorrs.com or anything like that. It’s Corrs.net. A very specific URL. Um, all right, we got a question now from greeneggs and they want to know, what do you guys feel are the worst stereotypes that you Irish folk have for the Americans?
A few seconds of bewildered silence from the Corrs.
S and A: Ohh, Americans.
N: Like what’s the reverse stereotype that you have for Americans.
A: Just outfits and stuff.
S: What?
A: You know like where?
N: Oh, the jogging outfits.
S: We kind of stereotype them as kind of…um.
A: You know the type. Golf trousers.
N: Yeah.
S: Golfing trousers. (To Jim) You played.
J: Yeah, not anymore though. Not anymore.
N: We’re loud. We’re obnoxious apparently.
C (giggles): They say that, yeah. (Laughs)
N: They.
C: They.
N: The Corrs would never say anything disparaging about Americans.
C: We would never. No…what else is there?
A: Let me see.
N: We have the fanny packs (Which to Americans means bum bags or waist packs)
A: Great teeth.
C: Oh yeah.
Andrea smiles and bursts out laughing. She turns around to look at Jim and he’s laughing.
C: People mention the weight, the weight factor. Or some people…
N: Yes
Jim and Andrea are still laughing
C: …the waist thing. (Laughs)
A (pointing at her teeth): Great teeth…great teeth.
N: Great teeth. Fattest country in the world but great teeth though.
C: Lovely teeth.
N: Great teeth. Yeah, great. Just keep your eyes on the face, don’t look down.
S: Ummm
N: Yeah, there’s some good things.
S: I don’t think there’s much. I don’t think the world, you know. I suppose with globalisation people know each other much better now. And they understand countries a lot better now. We’re all kind of mixed these days. So I think a lot of these stereotypes are gone, especially about the Irish. I mean, cause you know, we’re like the leprechauns with the cows in the kitchen, living in mud huts. You know, that’s our stereotype.
C: No TV’s. Somebody asked me, do we have TV’s at home. Somebody did ask me that. And this is a long time ago, and I went “What?” I mean you’ve got to be kidding! Right? (Laughs)
N: You know, we were taking bets before. We were wondering if any one in an interview had ever asked you where you got your name? Like if any…
Jim starts laughing.
S: They did…and they also asked us how we met.
Nevin bends over laughing.
N: Around the kitchen.
Sharon giggles.
C: Yeah.
N: Wow. Obviously someone didn’t do their research. It’s like asking the Partridge family, “So how did you guys come together?” You know, like? Alright, we’re going to take a question from, um, tossthefeathers2001, and it says, what’s your favourite winding down activity after a gig? What do you guys do to chill out? Post, post-show?
C: Have a beer. (Giggles)
A: Ehm.
S: It’s not Yoga, that’s for sure. (Laughs)
A: Ehm.
S: We usually have a beer or something.
C: Or talk…
S: Or talk.
C: Chat.
N: What’s the pre-show ritual? Do you guys have any extensive like…
C: Have a beer. (Laughs)
All laugh
J: We don’t really have one. Not like other bands. We just, we just tend to pace a lot. And we go quiet. Especially if it’s a big gig. You know, if we’re sitting there, we go quiet.
N: Okay. You guys don’t do the drum circle or stuff like that?
A: No.
N: Okay. Uh, lets see. A question from minolasvarsenger and they want to know, are you guys going to do any special charities? Or are you guys going to do any special one off gigs like that in the future? Are there any charities that you guys support on a routine basis?
S: Well, we’ve done quite a few. We, we recently did one in Trafalgar Square for, ehm, for the Nelson Mandela fund for children, and also for the Prince’s Trust, which is, um, run by the Prince of Wales. So, ehm, we do a lot of stuff like that. Anything that kind of, um, grabs our attention we generally become involved in. We’ve done a lot in the past. And we’ll do a lot in the future.
N: Cool, cool. Um, we’ve got a question following up on some comments you guys made before, from Andrea, and she wants to know, she says, I’m from Spain, and they want to know if Una Noche’s recording at all was difficult for you guys?
A: Um, god it was. Um, well I mean, singing in a different language, you know, is very difficult. Um, but it was very challenging as well. I actually loved it. And it sounds, it seemed, much more romantic in Spanish, you know? It was like, I’m not going to speak it well, but you know there’s something so lovely and sensual about it with the languages. It’s really nice. So it was one of the really challenging things, nice things to do actually. But it was. It was difficult.
N: Cool. Now do you guys…you guys have done some songs in Gaelic before, have you not?
A: No.
N: Wasn’t there one on the first record? My bad, maybe just a strange title I didn’t understand.
A: Well, there’s traditionals.
N: Right
A…stuff, there’s no singing on them.
N: Do you guys have any plans to do, like a Gaelic only record?
A: Ah, no. It’d probably sell 2 copies.
All laugh
N: Ahhh, you never know
S: Our roots are based in, you know, pop music.
N: Okay.
S: You know, just because we’re from Ireland, it doesn’t necessarily follow that we would do a record in Irish.
A: Also, when you write, you’re singing in your own language in your mouth, you know. It would be difficult to…
N: Yeah. Speaking of pop, I wanted to ask, you know, working with Mutt, what’s your guys’ favourite Def Leppard song? I know I asked you guys when I interviewed you before but you gotta have a Def Leppard moment?
Silence from the Corrs
N: Um, it’s like “we’ve never heard of them” hehehe.
A: I really like Stuck in a Moment, the new single…
All laugh
J: Ah, he’s done, he’s done a lot of great tracks with AC/DC. They tend to stand out a little more to us than…
S: Or the Cars…
J: Or the Cars…
N: Bryan Adams?
S: That’s one of my favourites
J: Yeah
N: Yeah, he’s fantastic
S: Yeah, he’s done a lot of great stuff.
C: Bryan Adams has done great stuff
N: Oh yeah.
S: We weren’t really Def Leppard fans, really.
J: Everything I do, I do it for you, Bryan Adams
N: Good song, good song. Now on the other hand, Mitchell Froom, who is…why, why did you guys end up deciding to work with him? Obviously a very different producer from Mutt.
S: He’s done a lot of work with Crowded House and we, we, we’ve always loved the band Crowded House, and loved the recordings. Thought they were so organic, and beautiful recordings. Um, we knew he’d, we especially knew he’d done, he did the Unplugged, the MTV Unplugged album with us. And that was just such, I think that was the nicest recording experience we ever had which is really…it was beautiful. It was really, really nice. So we got on so great with him, we just knew we wanted to work with him on the album.
N: Nice. Now do you guys have any plans to release that over here? Cause you know, when it came out, it only came out internationally.
J: We hope it will be released, yeah. It’s just a matter of time. Ehm, uh, we know the record company definitely as plans to release it here. They just released a video that we shot, quite awhile ago in Ireland called Lansdowne Road. And ehm, it’s a huge rugby place that we played in, in Dublin. It was a great gig for us and was just released here. So ehm, yeah, it’s only a matter of time.
N: Okay, cool. Question from emmaridge, and they want to know, what the least desirable part of being famous is for you guys? Like what you do absolutely detest about your job…if anything?
A: Actually, detest is a little strong. But, ehm, everybody, ehm, has their, you know, your vulnerable moments and your shy moments and I think if you let down at all your moments, regardless of what you’re feeling, its difficult. Ehm, can make you very self-conscious and that’s not really very nice. Umm, and making up. Getting made up…I really, I really you know. I love doing it for pleasure, but for TV and stuff its kind of tedious.
N: Well, I hope we didn’t put you through anything unreasonable tonight.
A: You don’t know how much we have to put on you see.
N: See, I’m a man, I steer so far clear of that area.
S: It’s great…great for you.
N: Yes, thanking God every day. Yes. Um, all right, we have a question for Sharon, actually she, they want to know, are you excited, your big day is almost coming. Um, congratulations to both of you.
S (big grin): Thanks very much.
N: Do you feel like you’re going to get enough of a break to thoroughly enjoy it? Are they (gesturing at the others) giving you enough of a break.
S: Uh, without a doubt. Yeah, without a doubt.
N: Cool. Is the wedding going to be in Ireland? Or are you going somewhere else?
S: I’m not saying when or where it is. (Rolls eyes and Caroline laughs)
N: God forbid the paparazzi is watching.
C: They probably already know.
S: The wedding police are watching. (Giggles)
N: Yeah. I don’t quite understand what the infatuation is with other people’s marriages who you don’t know. It’s a very strange thing.
A and S: Yeah.
A: It’s funny.
N: Um, lets see here. Byebyemisscanadianpie wants to know, were you guys as close as children as you appear to be towards one another now?
C: Ehm, I suppose we’ve always been quite close because we were sort of brought up that way with our parents and we kind of stayed that way. But we always didn’t get on. It’s not like an ideal, like we’ve always had this amazingly close relationship where we just love each other all the time. We were like any other family. We fought. Ehm, we’re all quite strong-minded people. And in that scenario, you’ve got strong-minded, four very strong minded people, we have a tendency to kind of have battles. So I mean, we always happened to be, we look kind of, I suppose, where people see it’s probably not exactly, um. I mean we are ourselves but hem, they don’t see the other side, if we have an argument or a dispute or something like that. So eh, it’s a…we worked at it, you know. We’ve worked together for 10 years, we had to, you know.
N: Definitely. Now do you guys like, schedule time in every part of the day where you guys aren’t together so you do have a break, personally and professionally from each other?
S: It happens naturally, doesn’t it?
J: It kind of does. Ehm, when we first started out, ehm, particularly when we came to America first. We were doing absolutely everything that we could do. And so our days consisted of getting up at about 6 o’clock in the morning and spending practically 18 hours a day together. Thankfully, we don’t have to do that anymore. Cause I think (laughs) we’d be long gone.
S: That would have put quite a strain on our relationship.
J: We would have long disintegrated if we would’ve had to maintain that, that hectic schedule. So its, its easier now. It’s easier.
N: They’re being very selective folks. That’s right, they’re on Getmusic. Very, very selective. They’re showing the love to all the right people. (Laughs) Um, lets see here, uh, liljimlovesjim wants to know how many of your songs are autobiographical, and how many do you write from, like you know, a third person fictional standpoint?
A: Ehm, I think most of them are autobiographical in that there’s always you in them, you know what I mean? Whether it’s an embellishment or a fantasy of yourself but it is your heart or elements of it or things you want to explore. Ehm, so I guess I do. I think it is. Except for the ones that are complete stories. Like Queen of Hollywood, you know, that hasn’t happened to any of us in that tragic tale, you know, so.
N: Is that one where you decided to step away a bit? We would hope that never happens to any of us. Lets see here, greeneggs wants to know have you guys had any chance to visit the fine Irish pubs here in New York City since you’ve been.
S: Yeah, we’ve been in quite a few of them.
A: We’ve played in one.
N: Really?
A: We’ve played in a few. Like St. Patrick’s Day with, ehm, with…WPLJ or, ehm, a radio station. Yeah.
S: Tir Na Nog wasn’t it?
A: I remember when we first came…
C: We first came to New York, we did go into a few because…I remember when we first came to New York was when the World Cup was one. So the Irish pubs were just full…everywhere was full of Irish people. So, I mean it was a great time, actually. We’d go in and have a few, you know, a few beers.
A: I wasn’t allowed. I was under age
C: She was under age.
A: And its funny in Ireland, because you know, we’d been drinking for years. Like, not solidly of course.
All laughing
J: We’re not raised on that Andrea.
A (giggling): Ten years later…(makes motion like drinking from a glass). But then you know, you come to America. And our manager comes in to me; told me actually, scare tactics, that I’d be put in jail.
S: If she tried to…
A: If I tried to drink in the pub. It stopped me alright.
N: Now, how different is the New York version of St Paddy’s from, you know, the full on Irish celebration in Dublin? Like the huge Dublin parade.
J: Believe it or not, it’s actually celebrated an awful lot more over here. I mean the parade that New York puts on is second to none. Unfortunately, we had a situation this year because of, uh, foot and mouth disease we actually had to cancel the parades on March the 17th. But ah, they had it pretty recently, but I don’t think there was as good a turn out. But New York is known for it. America is known for it, for celebrating St Patrick's Day a little bit more than the Irish do. The Irish just tend to go out and get absolutely trollied.
All laughing.
S: Drunk.
J: That’s what they tend to do.
C: Get rotten.
J: We, that’s what we tend to do.
N: Whereas over here, it’s like a huge celebration, the non-Irish are suddenly Irish. It’s a big party.
S: It’s a good party.
N: How do you guys feel about, like everyone, like in America pretty much saying that they have Irish heritage in them? It’s kind of the cool thing to be, you know.
S: It’s amazing how cool it is. And you would rarely meet someone that doesn’t have some part Irish.
C: Or Italian, or…
S: It’s a hell of a mix.
C: It’s because, you know, America’s a relatively new country in comparison to everywhere else. So I mean in the sense that people have roots everywhere, as it were.
N: Come here, it’s a giant melting pot. (Laughs) Uh, let’s see here, let’s take a quick reminder for everyone, if you haven’t sent in your questions, send in questions now. And if you haven’t picked up a copy of In Blue you can do so right now at store.getmusic.com. And I’ll remind you of course the The Corrs official website is Corrs.net. Not the corrs.com or anything. Corrs.net. It’s very confusing, I know. I’m sure you’ll get it right. Uh, let’s see here, we have a long question from kendall523, she says, hi, I’m kendall. And I met you guys while you were filming your Irresistible video. I want to thank Andrea especially for coming outside during her dinner to come say hello to me because she said I looked like a sick puppy. And that’s a quote.
A: I remember her. She made me, she broke my heart. I had to go out to her.
S: Why?
A: Because she just wanted to have an autograph so bad and…and Richard the security guy was trying to keep people away. But I couldn’t, I couldn’t, I literally couldn’t look at her out the window because I couldn’t stand it. So I came out there. I felt sorry for her. I mean, not sorry for her, but I wanted to give her what she wanted.
N: Right. She was giving you the puppy dog eyes? (Makes sad puppy face)
A: Yes, they worked, they worked. She should use them on everybody.
N: That’s just a horrible moment with a woman. When she gives you the puppy dog eyes. Cause there’s nothing you can do. You’re like “Take it all”. (All Laughing). “Whatever you want”. But actually kendall has a question, and she says, uh, me being an Irish step dancer, and you having a taste of Irish in your music, have you ever considered a few Irish step dancers come with you on tour, or dance on stage?
S: No, it’s not really our thing. But as I say we’re kind of…our roots are pop-y, it’s pop. We do have a traditional flavour in our music, but it, it never really extends to fully embracing everything Irish, you know what I mean. It wouldn’t include step dancers at all.
C: I could kind of see itself turn into Riverdance or something. Although Riverdance is an amazing, amazing show, but we, uh, it might be a bit strange. (Giggles)
N: Now there is some traditional instrumentation, though. There’s a. I know I’m going to pronounce this horribly, bah-rain.
C: Bah-ron.
N: Bah-ron. Um, now and you guys have used like other instrumentations, flavours like that on the albums. Um, you know, what, maybe you should explain first to the Stateside fans what a bah-rain is.
C: Well, ehm, I’ll be playing it a bit later on. It’s um, it’s basically a hand held drum and it’s made of goatskin. And you just play it with a stick. Or you can call it a tipper, just with one stick. And it’s a very traditional Irish instrument. I mean, you see it a lot in a lot of pubs. You know, people playing it at home. And very traditional Irish. We try and mix it in if we can in the music.
N: Let’s see here, apmitchy wants to know, can you please ask the guys do you use the Internet and do you look at the Corrs sites, and what is the silliest thing you’ve read about yourselves in the terms of Internet rumours?
J: Uh yes, I would log on from time to time and just try and correct some misinformation that gets on there from time to time. In fact, uh, I log on to this guy Mark over here, (Points to Mark off camera), put the camera on him. His website, he’s got an excellent website Corrboard.com. I tend to contribute to that as often as I can and just correct things. And uh, its also great, a great way for us to get a feel for where our fans are at, you know. And just to get general feedback.
S: And enjoy the enthusiasm. I’ve gone a few times, on a couple of sites. Its absolutely staggering that people can have such enthusiasm for you and what you do. It’s just, its brilliant. It’s lovely to see.
C: It’s very funny. People have conversations like “Oh, what do you think of Sharon’s new hair style?” or, or “What is”…and it’s like a total conversation about, you know, about us. It’s very…it’s lovely. I mean, it’s really nice to watch it, you know. People that interested you know.
A: It sounds like a group of people that have a similar hobby. I mean, I think when you…they all meet up and they become friends. And I think, look at groups of them that follow us around and I just think they have a wild time. They have a brilliant time and I’d love to be where they are sometimes, you know. And I got letters recently telling me they followed us the whole tour. And they apparently had the time of their lives, you know. All night, practically all the time, you know. And I just, uh, have a wonderful time together. And they all meet up as well. I just think it’s, I think it’s brilliant. I think, you know, if…I think for a group of people, when they get older and they looked back on the past. And they’ll go “God, can you remember when we did that?” It’s almost like, ehm, I don’t know what I was going to say anymore, but I think it’s great.
N: Would you like my jacket? You’re shaking.
C: Another taxi! Another taxi!
A: Am I?
N: You seem to be shivering. Do you want a jacket or something?
A: It’s a bit cold. (Nervous smile)
N (To Crew): Can we get her a…(To Andrea) Would you like a jacket or something?
A: No, I’m alright.
N: Okay.
A: Thanks though.
N: Um, let’s see here, um, familygag wants to know have you guys considered recording more standards like Linda Ronstadt did a couple of years ago? (Confused look on face) Not that I would ever…very strange comparison. Actually pop standards like, you know, old pop standards, anything like that.
J: Our parents, our mother in particular, used to sing an awful lot of Linda Ronstadt. But eh, I don’t know if it’s really for us. We tend to, uh, like writing our own music, and that’s what our forte is. Eh, we haven’t, eh, we wouldn’t rule out doing it, doing cover songs, ehm, doing standards in the future. We have done Fleetwood Mac, eh, Dreams. We have done Everybody Hurts by REM. You know, uh, possibly in the future. We generally tend to focus on writing our own music.
N: Cool. Now I’ve heard the cover of Dreams but I haven’t Everybody Hurts. Where did that appear? Was that on the Unplugged record or something?
A and S and C: Yeah.
C: Yeah, it’s on the Unplugged, yeah.
N: All right. And did you guys choose that? Just loved the song or?
J: Um, well we got, ehm, we’ve got asked to after that dreadful Omagh bombing, to play, eh, in Ireland. Eh, we, eh, got together with the host of uh, a very popular national TV show called the Late Late Show, in Ireland. Just in remembrance of the, of the victims and a concert basically for the survivors to try and generate some funds. And eh, the song that we came up with was, we thought we…We got U2 involved, we got a couple of other local bands involved as well. And um, we thought long and hard about it. We thought that Everybody Hurts by REM would be a very appropriate song to do.
N: Wow. All right. We’ve got a question now, dollyk0102 and they said, I can’t find any of the imported singles CD’s or videos of yours. Do you guys have any advice on how I could get them?
S: They’re usually in professional shops, really aren’t they? I mean they just…I don’t know. We personally wouldn’t know which shops they’re in or there locations. I think if you go around enough…
N: If you check them out…
S: Sometimes you find a real kind of Indie sort of record store that do a lot of different types of records rather than just mainstream music, you’d probably find imports there. But, um…
J: Getmusic.com
N: This man is king. We love him.
J (Laughs) Getmusic.com
N: Endorsed by the Corrs ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, store.getmusic.com, we actually do carry all your import singles.
S: Do you? (Laughs)
N: I was just about to plug it but…(motions towards Jim)…but he’s doing my job for me. Um, Jim, you know, we’ve got a question for you. It’s deep…it’s philosophical…its telling. Mazda20 wants to know, do you prefer boxers or briefs? (The girls start to laugh) We ask all the hard-hitting questions…
J: I find briefs very uncomfortable, so I’m a, I’m a. Sorry. I find BOXERS very uncomfortable, so I’m a briefs man.
N: All right.
C: Very sexy.
J: It’s all about function rather than form.
N: Uh, let’s see here. Toss2001 wants to know, what would you guys feel is your most memorable moment on stage. Like, a great gig moment?
J: When my trousers fell down and I showed everybody my briefs.
Girls giggle
S: I think Lansdowne Road was just staggering. Because it holds over 40,000 people. And uh, the nerves coming up to that event were just (closes eyes and shakes head) were just incredible for us. And just, I remember when the curtain raised, um, and you just saw that amount of people all there to see you. It was frightening. It was just…but really memorable you know, it was amazing. Such an adrenaline rush.
N: What was it like getting…I’m sure the crowd sang back to you a lot of the songs. What was it like, when you know; they were louder than you guys were on stage?
S: Brilliant. It’s the best feeling in the world, it really is. Its such a kind of…there’s just a great feeling of love in the crowd, you know. And when they sing together it’s a…its really lovely. It’s relaxing.
N: I mean, yeah, no, I can only imagine. If you guys could say, pick one of your song as the classic Corrs’ pub anthem, which one would you say, you know, is like the one that’s most hoisted a lager to? And sung along to?
S: Runaway probably, Runaway.
A: Yeah, maybe it would be but…Yeah, maybe Runaway.
S: I think Runaway, yeah.
N: Runaway for 20 points says Sharon.
S: Yeah (Laughs)
N: Let’s see, I’llhaveavodka wants to know do you guys ever, ever consider quitting the music business after the passing of your mother last year?
A: No
S: No
A: I think more so we realised what we had, you know. She loved it. And ehm, actually asked us, told us to keep going, you know. So um, yeah, not, I think we just delved into it too. I think it’s just, anybody who goes through that situation will find that you really do realise what you have. And uh, our strength together. And I think the music.
N: And uh, one of the songs actually on the record was written in response to that, No More Cry. Um, I imagine that was an incredibly hard thing for you guys to record and write. Or was it just more cathartic than painful?
A: It was. It was cathartic. I mean, I think it’s emotional to perform sometimes. Especially if Dad’s there. But um, but eh, it was like a scream. I mean the song is quite, a very offbeat song.
N: Uh-huh. It’s a rock song.
A: And its, its, it’s kind of really about rebelling against the pain. It was about helping. It’s not about going “oh poor me” and it’s more AHHH, you know.
N: And actually, that’s going to be one of the songs that you’re going to perform here tonight.
A and S: Yeah.
N: Cool. And uh, the other two songs are going to be, uh
A: Breathless and Somebody for Someone.
N: Excellent. Cool. Uh, we actually have about 12 more minutes of questions before we go to the performance everybody. But don’t forget to stay tuned if you don’t see anything happening in your little chat window its because you can watch the video stream of the Corrs performing three songs. And before we go out on the third song, we’ll be taking two final questions. So if you haven’t gotten your question answered up to the point of the performance, don’t worry. There’s still a chance, you know. We may show you a little love and answer your question you know. Uh, let’s see here, um, silversucks7 wants to know are you guys really confirmed to do the CBS Early Show program on June 11th. Are you dead set on doing that or is that just a tentative thing?
A: Uh, not its not confirmed.
N: You heard it here first.
S: We get a lot of TBC’s you know. To be confirmed.
N: The schedule just reads like one after…TBC’s.
A and S: Yeah.
N: Lets see here, on the opposite side of the questions, clubgirly2000 wants to know what’s the wildest thing you guys have seen at one of your concerts? Like what’s the strangest thing that’s happened? Um, either to you with a fan, like a fan interaction. Maybe a cool present?
A: What did we see? Like I remember t the beginning, and see, ehm, like really hard looking rockers that looked like they should be at AC/DC singing along to Runaway. I think that, that was quite shocking.
C: Yeah.
A: And great, you know. Flattery.
S: It’s kinda hard to think of those things. There’s so many experiences.
A: Shocking things…
N: Have you guys had any like, strange fans give you just like, maybe not awkward gifts but like, odd gifts that you just wouldn’t have expected someone to give you?
S: We have had some…
C: We get odd letters. And you get odd gifts.
A: Not on the stage.
C: Yeah, but not really on the stage. But you do get the odd stuff. I mean, you know. Most of it’s fine, but you just get the odd one with like, “Oh no! Cuckoo!” (Laughs)
S: Sometimes it’s like, fans reactions, you know. Cause we were in Pamplona, eh, in Spain at one stage. And uh, when the girls left the hotel and the Spanish fans are so enthusiastic. They were girls and they started to cling to you. Cling to the girls and wouldn’t let them go and they started crying. And that’s pretty incredibly. You know, just really, really crying.
N: I’d notch that up in the disturbing section of the…
S: It’s sweet.
J: File under disturbing…
S: It’s sweet though, they’re so natural. Really natural. And they’re just expressing themselves, which everybody should do.
N: Now where’s kind of like the strangest place you’ve played? Like the smallest country? Like where’s the, the foreign destination the Corrs have played a gig at?
A: That back garden was a bit odd.
S: In San Diego…That was the strangest destin…the strangest gig was in somebody’s back garden, in San Diego.
N: Who booked that tour?
S: I don’t know, but we’re trying to find them. (All laugh) Yeah, that was very strange. And it started to rain…and that wasn’t good. We’ve had a lot of great gigs. Rome was fantastic, playing the Vatican.
N: You played the Vatican? Wow.
S: Uh-huh.
N: Wow. Was his holiness present for the performance?
A: Yeah.
N: No pressure.
A: Nope.
S: Not bad pressure. No, that was lovely. A Christmas concert at the Vatican. So it was really beautiful.
N: That’s probably the coolest place to be at Christmas. The Vatican. You can’t really beat that.
S: Yeah.
J: We also performed with Pavarotti for this charity called War Child. For the children of Liberia. And uh, we also played with U2 quite recently in Miami. At their first two opening shows. And that was fantastic. We’ve also played with the Rolling Stones. Did their six gigs with them. And I think that was one of the biggest crowds, live audiences we’ve ever played to. It was in Mannheim and it was 110,000 people.
S: Yeah, yeah.
J: …outdoors. So, I mean, it’s either that in terms of the biggest audience we’ve played to is like the Prince’s Trust in Hyde Park or that Rolling Stones gig to 110,000 people.
N: Did you get a chance to, you know, pick Jagger and Richards’s minds for any, you know.
J: No, but Mick couldn’t make up his mind which one of my sisters he wanted. (All laugh) OH! Red card. (Holds up hand) Red card.
C: He’s dated well, hasn’t he?
N: Yes, so we’ve heard. Um, lets see here, the greatest fan name of tonight has to definitely be IloveAndreaCorrandshe’sbeautiful and that’s all one word. And they want to know, um, are you guys going to bring out anymore DVD’s of live performances in the near future? Either over here or overseas?
S: We’re not sure. We haven’t really made any decisions. But we really, we do really like doing live work. Really do like live performances, because they’re really what it’s all about. It’s why you do this. We recently did a live radio show in London. And actually one of our fans said that’s the best performances they’d ever seen us do. And you know, it’s just; it’s a lovely thing to record live. It really is. Its kind of where you show you’re, what you’re capable of.
J: I’m sure they are actually available. I don’t know if getting it at dot com does them. We have…some plugging. We have our Lansdowne Road gig is available on DVD. The Albert Hall concert is available on DVD. And also, the, um Unplugged MTV concert is available on DVD.
N: Wow. The official band discography right there.
A: Yeah. (Giggles)
N: Speaking of live performances, we have time for two more questions. And then we will be going to a three song performance from the Corrs. So, the first of the second two is, are any of you guys superstitious? And if so, do you have a good luck charm or anything like that? That you must have to perform optimally…
S (To Andrea): Your superstition of magpies. I don’t know if you have this tradition in the States but we salute them. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy…magpies.
N: Four for a boy…five for a…
S: I don’t even know the rest.
C: I’ll go out the door to find another one.
S: Yeah.
C: I get totally freaked out.
A: But you’re okay if you salute them. You’re alright then.
N: Is there a special salute?
A: You just got (saluting) “Hello. Salute Mr Magpie” or whatever. You don’t need to actually say that, but I do.
S: And Andrea can’t stand every time we’re about to take off or land. She holds onto my arm and I think I’m going to lose it. We’ll be found at the bottom of the sea some day and it’ll just be her hand holding onto my arm.
Andrea bursts out laughing
J: It’s all a bunch of baloney to me. I tend to defy superstition and purposefully walk under ladders. And I just don’t, don’t understand it at all.
A: There’s loads of them. On stage, I mean, I don’t know…I think there’s a touch of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) in everybody. I really do. Um, I really do, I really do.
S: Yeah, see??
Andrea starts touching her head in a rhythmic gesture of OCD-ism and starts counting. All laugh
J: Cross your legs five times.
More laughing.
A: No, but um, I think that on stage I do things that if I want to get right, cause I think the whole night will go wrong if I don’t do it in a certain way. And there’s a few of them. I won’t say what they are cause people will know them. And because they probably think they’re natural. They were natural once but now I have to do them.
S: Like what?
A: Little things.
C: Now I’m interested.
A: Okay, in All the Love in the World, I um, when I get to “Love for a moment, love for a lifetime” I take the mike off (leans to her right) and I go to the side (motioning the mike stand to the left) And I put the thing to the left…three times! No I don’t.
All laugh
S: You’re nuts.
A: No, I put it to the left.
J: Taxi for Andrea (motions like hailing a cab)
A…and that way I hopefully get the high note. But it’s all actually psychological. It’s nothing to do with…my position doesn’t make the high note easier. But it’s just that…
S: Craziness.
C: She’s actually gone mad.
N: Your whole family is staring at you
A: The third taxi
C: There’s loads of taxis waiting, huh?
N: There’s a whole stand of taxis waiting.
J: A whole rank.
N: All right, last question before the performance. Uh, from Mrteeny2000, who may or may not be a suspicious guy himself. Who knows. He said I recently heard Breathless used as the music in a TV commercial.
J: AOL.
N: Did you guys get to approve when your songs get used like that and do you mind when your songs are used like that? Probably not.
S: It’s for AOL and it sounds very good. We’re very happy with it. It sounds great. They use a lot of the song in it.
N: AOL’s never heard of us.
S: I think that’s great
C: Who are they? (Laughs)
S: I’m plugging them, eh?
N: Noooo, we love AOL. (Sharon laughs hard) We’re big fans of AOL
A: The trailer for Chocolat as well.
S: Yeah, the trailer for Chocolat, yeah.
N: Ahh.
A: Oh yeah! It was in the Sopranos, which is really cool.
N: I was just about to bring that up the Sopranos thing. She came downstairs singing Breathless.
S: That is so cool. Cause that is such a brilliant series. I mean, you know, I mean its just fantastic that was great.
N: Are you guy’s big Sopranos fans?
S: I am.
N: Cool. Well, we’re going to go to a three song performance from the Corrs. All you guys must do is unhook your mikes and head to the stage. And in the meantime everyone, if you haven’t got a chance to pick up a copy of In Blue by the Corrs, or the last two records for that matter. Or an amazing collection array of imported singles and DVD’s, you can do so right now at store.getmusic.com. And if you want to go to the Corrs official website, you can go to Corrs.net. And of course, if you haven’t been to Getmusic.com in awhile you can check out the official Corrs page at Getmusic.com forward slash adult pop. And adult pop is one word. Um, we’re going to have three songs from the Corrs. We’re going to take two questions in the break between the second and third song. So if you still have a question and you’d like it answered, please send it in now. Please make it something a little bit more philosophical than like boxers or briefs you know. I think we’ve already covered that kind of ground. But, uh…
J: I have a question
N: Jim’s got a question
J: Can we turn the temperature up in here to freezing?
All laugh
N: It’s very cold in here tonight folks
A: It is ice cold
N: You can see my nipples if you look hard enough. Anyway, if you want to send us emails on how things are going, send us an email at events@getmusic.com. All these people scurrying here in front of me. It’s an amazing array. We just try to keep you entranced. While you wait for the amazing performance to begin. The mans head that you see now, that’s AJ. He’s wearing a classic Aerosmith t-shirt from 1986. Which I might tell you is from the Permanent Vacation tour. Which is also available in the get music store since I’m pimping things left, right and centre. Um, great record. Angel, Dude looks like a Lady…anyway. We don’t need to talk about class rock. That was AJ’s back. (Laughs) Um, like I said, we’re going to have three song performances from the Corrs, they’ll be backed up by two other musicians. So if you see two non-family members on stage, that’s who you’re looking at. And um, it’s on your guys’ cue. Whenever you’re ready.
Breathless is played. Andrea is smiling/laughing in parts
A: What are you laughing at? (Pointing to someone off camera) Mini (the Corrs video technician) Mini keeps smiling at me.
Somebody for Someone is played.
N…the first one comes in from susaninblueUK and she wants to know, that you guys have obviously been so successful in all corners of the globe. Musically as the Corrs, what do you guys see as the next plateau for you to achieve?
A: Musically?
N: Anything. Mentally. Physically
A: I think to get even better at song writing. I think that’s, that’s always…that’s the goal always. You know, to really express and touch people, ehm, very strongly. I think its always, its always better when its about yourself. You’re able to reach further. It’s not really a conflict, nothing like that.
N: That actually leads right into our final question which came in from flylikebutta, and they want to know, when its all said and done at the end of the day, what would you like people to get away after listening to the Corrs?
S: I think that music is great therapy. And I think that, um, very often we get letters from people who, you know, if they’re grieving or they’ve been through a particularly traumatic stage in their life, sometimes certain songs can have helped them through. And like, especially, one man wrote me at one stage his wife and himself, they’d had a, their child had been stillborn and um, Runaway helped him through it. He said it really, really, really helped him. You know, I think that if people can take therapy from music, if they can take that in some way we can identify with them and we all identify with each other, all around the world we have similar problems, we all go through the same things at different times. I think that’s wonderful.
N: Well, excellent. Well without further ado then, I just need to thank of course, the two lovely gentlemen in the back who have been helping you out all night. Anthony and Keith. Cool. Well, without further ado, here’s the last song.
No More Cry is played
A: Thanks
S: Thankyou
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