Radio City Liverpool Interview 18-09-2001 Breathless plays. Jingle plays (grand announcement with choir) - "And now, live, on
the award winning Joe Ferguson Show, please welcome the biggest Irish export
since Guinness in a can – The Corrs" [laughter] Joe: What about that eh?
Sharon: Very ominous -
Andrea: and frightening!
Joe: I thought it was pretty good, can I play that again? I
like the (imitates sound on jingle) Dan (producer) can you
get that up again? You see because we've got Andrea and we've got Sharon,
hello good morning everyone.
Andrea and Sharon: Good morning.
Joe: We're going to play that again here we go..
Jingle plays again- "And now, live, on the award winning Joe Ferguson
Show, please welcome the biggest Irish export since Guinness in a can -
The Corrs" [laughter] Joe: I quite like that actually!
Toss the Feathers plays in the background. Joe: Hi Sharon, hi Andrea - oh God I've just pulled everything
down! This is quite nice because it's been over a year since I spoke to
you Sharon over in Belfast.
Sharon: That's right yeah, it's been ages.
Joe: And the last time I saw Andrea was backstage in Manchester
and she didn't give a monkey's who'd just walked past her.
Sharon: Who'd walked past her?
Joe: Andrea.
Sharon: But did you walk past her?
Joe: Oh yeah.
Andrea: So you're the one that I didn't give a monkey's about?
Joe: Yeah.
Andrea: I can't believe that.
Sharon: Joe you've got to stop harbouring such grudges!
Joe: I'm not harbouring a grudge at all. And by the way Miss
Corr I didn't like your tone there.
Andrea: Oh really!
Joe: Yeah.
[laughter] Andrea: Just watch it!
Joe: OK. Listen how have things been with you the last couple
of weeks? - and by the way we really appreciate you coming down to see
us with what's happening in the world and what-not.
Sharon: Not at all, not at all.
Joe: Can I just ask you your thoughts, your views about what's
been happening over the last couple of days or so?
Sharon: I think it's um, I mean I just think it's absolutely
staggering, I think it's just staggering what's happening um, I think it's
just so sad to watch all these husbands and wives hopefully waiting for
their partners that there probably not going to... I think it's just devastating
for the world. I know myself and Andrea were just talking this morning
and we're very fearful of what's going to happen over the next month or
so, what it's going to mean to the whole world.
Joe: It's one of those things where you just don't know what's
going to happen but all you can do is just wish for the best really and
just pray.
Sharon: Yeah just pray.
Joe: Not that we're trying to scaremonger anybody at all.
Sharon: No, no.
Joe: Just trying to get on with it. Alright, on with The Corrs
then, how have you been?
Andrea: Good, grand we're just um, we've just been over in Australia,
we played on the opening ceremony of the Goodwill Games and we did a few
gigs there which we're about to go back out and do more and also go to
Japan and oh, go to a lot of places - Manila and...Jakarta, Singapore,
yes we're kinda touring.
Joe: I'm glad you said the tour is still definitely on because
a lot of the internet sites were saying they heard a rumour that the Australian
leg of the tour might have been cancelled, any truth in that?
Sharon: No there's absolutely no truth in that, I mean the thing
for us is about this tour is that we'd already cancelled the whole of this
tour last February because Andrea was so sick, her ears were so bad she
couldn't fly; so for us to even consider cancelling again would just be
absolutely crazy. This is something we felt we'd promised for a long time.
Joe: Andrea we saw in one of the pictures what you were wearing
in Australia - it might have been the Goodwill Games I'm not too sure -
it was see-through!
Andrea: No, you've probably super-imposed my head on someone
else's body.
Joe: No no no no...
Andrea: You get the Daily Sport or what is it?
[laughter] Joe: No it was black, it was cool, and it was like fish-net
kind of stuff on it.
Sharon: Oh no that's your ?? skirt that's not see-through.
Andrea: What on the legs part as a skirt?
Joe: No it was, it was - Sharon butt out of this one - Andrea
it was see-through!
Andrea: Was it my skirt?
Joe: It was your skirt and possibly all of it.
Andrea: The top was see-through as well was it?
Joe: There were bits of it - you see now you're confusing me.
Andrea: Of course I'm confusing me, confusing you - I would
never wear something see-through.
Joe: There were bits and pieces.
Andrea: Probably of my knees, God forbid there was lace around
my knees?
Joe: Right.. OK. I'll just agree to disagree with you on that
one.
Andrea: It's a mortal sin actually I think you're right I'll
go to confession immediately.
Joe: I will show you the picture someday.
Andrea: OK I'll look forward to seeing myself in something see-through
for a change.
Joe: Alright we'll take a bit of music here and we'll come back
with The Corrs, you're staying with us for a while yeah?
Andrea: OK we are.
Joe: We'll play some more music. We'll take a break and get
the lovely ladies fed and
watered and back after this.
-------All The Love in The World Live plays------ Joe: From the "Live in London", it will be out in DVD and also
video if you're into the 20th century that is. We're here with Andrea and
Sharon Corr and I'm not in a bad mood I promise you. What are you laughing
at?
Andrea: What laugh?
Joe: I just heard a (makes noise) in the background.
Sharon: There's no laughing believe me.
Andrea: It was the Lucozade on your jeans!
Joe: Shut up!
[laughter] Joe: Um, Andrea?
Andrea: Yes Joe?
Joe: Andrea Corr.
Andrea: Yes Joe Ferguson.
Joe: Now I've been a huge fan of The Corrs since the start.
Andrea: Great.
Joe: Not exactly the tone I was looking for, but...
Andrea: I know because I know what's coming Joe.
Joe: Right. Blank number one - and I told Sharon this the last
time - Sharon doesn't even remember it anyway. Sharon how's the flowers?
Sharon: What do you mean...oh they're dead Joe but thank you.
Joe: Did you hear that? she said "what...?" It takes me years
to keep on talking to you lot.
Sharon: They were lovely the flowers were fantastic but I'm
afraid they're dead!
Joe: Yeah a bit like my career after this bloody interview if
that's the way it is! But Andrea you blanked me in Brown Thomas [a department
store in Dublin] first of all.
Andrea: I did?
Joe: Yeah.
Andrea: When? what were you doing in Brown Thomas and what was
I doing?
Joe: Well you were shopping and I was shopping.
Andrea: Yeah and what did you say to me, how did I blank you?
Joe: To be honest I didn't say anything to you.
Andrea: Well that's funny that I didn't start up perking up
a conversation with someone I didn't recognise at the time.
Joe: Well I walked over and thought God no I couldn't just be
bothered but we caught each other's eye and you thought "Jeez I recognise
him" and then you walked off and I thought God! And the second time was
at Manchester and I was interviewing Jim...
Andrea: Yeah?
Joe: And I was in the corridor and you walked past and you looked
at me as if to go "where do I know him from?"
Andrea: Brown Thomas!
[laughter] Joe: Comedy with a capital K!
Andrea: The shoe department!
Joe: I have no idea which department it was, I was just down
to interview people and I just had a hour to spend. But I thought God!
how many times did they come into Cool FM how many times did I interview,
how many times did I piss them off like back home.
Andrea: Yeah...And can you imagine the audacity of somebody
like me not perking up a big conversation at the shoe department? That's
a disgrace and I'm sorry truly.
Joe: Are you?
Andrea: Are we? am I?
Joe: Yeah.
Andrea: Yeah.
Joe: Hooray! (claps) Andrea: All is forgiven, it's OK now isn't it Joe?
Joe: Yes it is he got the official apology. Health wise is everything
alright?
Andrea: Yes it is it's much better now, thank you, I'm fine.
Joe: Alright, any truth in the fact that when you were coming
over on the boat...
Sharon: The fact!
Andrea: Any truth in the fact!
Joe: Shut up!
Andrea: OK.
Joe: Any truth... you're talking to your man with Lucozade in
his pants! Any truth.. Dan help me out here what's the word I'm looking
for?
Dan: Rumour!
Joe: Any truth in the rumour that you were violently sick on
the boat coming home just after the ear infection?
Andrea: Uh yeah I was.
Joe: Anybody see you?
Andrea: Well it was kind of obvious because I had a sick bag
and I also went to the toilet and was in the bathroom for quite a while.
Joe: Too much information! You're not as attractive as you were
five minutes ago.
Andrea: I don't think I was attractive five minutes ago you
were giving out to me.
Joe: I was not.
Andrea: Do you usually give out to people you're attracted to?
Joe: Who says I was attracted to you?
Andrea: But I was attractive five minutes ago.
Joe: Yeah but so was Dan but that doesn't mean I'm gay!
[laughter] Joe: It was the truth... Dan you're a nice man, but you know
I'm already looking after an ex-wife for God's sake.
Andrea: OK I never got sick at all on the Sea-Cat home.
Joe: Did anybody ask you to sign the sick bag?
Andrea: No they didn't, not that particular sick bag, (laughter)
there
you are gross!
Joe: Would you have signed it, if they had?
Andrea: No, I think I would have not given them the sick-bag.
Joe: Are you sure?
Andrea: Yes I'm sure, I would sign something else but not the
sick bag!
Joe: We're here still with Andrea and Sharon Corr, they've got
the greatest hits coming out, they've also got the new single, we'll talk
about that soon; we'll play more music and we'll be back after this.
Commercial break Joe: We're back with Andrea and Sharon Corr, or as I like to
say now Andrea Corr and Sharon Bonnar.
Sharon: Aha, hello.
Joe: Congratulations.
Sharon: Thank you very much
Joe: How's married life treating you?
Sharon: It's absolutely lovely, I'm loving it, it's great.
Joe: OK go into more details.
Sharon: Oh no come on I just like marriage!
Joe: No I mean come on everybody wants to know about it.
Sharon: Well I mean it was, you know it was wonderful and couldn't
have gone any better. We had a fantastic day and a lovely honeymoon. We're
just really enjoying having done it and being together.
Joe: Did you read, not that you would, but did you read any
of the press whenever you got back; did any of the family tell you what
they were talking about?
Sharon: Actually because we didn't leave for our honeymoon til
a day or so later I actually saw most of the press before we left and it
was all really lovely and positive and very nice.
Joe: It was, even The Irish Independent was nice which shocked
and stunned me!
Sharon: Yeah, yeah i know (laughs) it was all very nice
and well-wishing.
Joe: Well I gave my best to Gavin in Belfast the other week.
Sharon: Did you, that's nice, good
Joe: Yeah he didn't blank me, not like your sister.
Sharon: OK (laughs) Joe: Andrea it was a joke!
(silence) Joe: Oh God she's not speaking to me now! Andrea? Andrea?
Sharon: She's frightening you! (laughs) Joe: Andrea, stop it I'll tell Giles!
(laughter) Joe: Right we're going to play a game called "name your own
tune" do you mind?
Andrea: OK yeah
Sharon: Oh no we won't be able to!
Joe: You never know, just think you've had three albums, well
three official albums. You've got the greatest hits coming out, you've
also got the new single coming out so we've decided to play "name your
own tune" and I think you'll get a kick out of this. Are you ready? So
what we need is One: the full title and I mean the full title so it could
be a re-mix or it could (Sharon coughs)... could someone get a mop
for Sharon there?
Sharon: What?
Joe: I just thought you were going to cough a lung up...so you
have to name the whole single, the full title and which album it came from.
Sharon : (laughs) OK!
Joe: What? It's not as if it's like rocket science!
Andrea: No ok go for it.
Joe: Right. Don't worry there's only another fifteen minutes
of this interview to go. Which one are we here... I need the bottom up...
(laughter) Joe: What? I can work this stuff on my own without a producer!
Which on are we going for, the second one? Right this one...
Plays 2 seconds of Breathless "Go On..." Andrea: Breathless.
Joe: Right, from?
Sharon: From In Blue.
Joe: From which album?
Sharon: In Blue!
Joe: Is the right answer.
Sharon: Thank you!
Joe; Right are you ready for the second one? Name this tune,
name your own tune.
Plays one chord from What Can I Do Sharon: What Can I Do
Andrea: Talk on Corners
Joe: No, no it's not.
Sharon: It is!
Joe: No it's not, I asked for the full title and the album.
Plays clip again Joe: What is it?
Andrea: What Can I Do, album version on Talk On Corners
Joe: No, well it is the album version but which version is it?
Sharon: It's the un-remixed version which is the album version?
Joe: No.
Andrea: The version that The Corrs did?
Joe: No.
Andrea: What are you talking about?
Joe: It's the duet, the secret track on the Talk On Corners
album!
Andrea: The duet?
Joe: Yeah.
Andrea: OK Joe what are you playing at?
Sharon: Oh Joe this is the one you've done isn't it!
Joe: I have no idea what you're talking about Sharon!
Sharon: You did something like this before!
Joe: No I..I..I..I..I...(sings) I love you very much...No
this is actually a secret track, Dan play it there, here we go.. you honestly,
you've never heard this before?
Sharon: The hidden track is it?..OK
Joe: Here we go..
Track plays, What Can I Do intro doo doo, doo doo.....
(Joe singing) I haven't slept at all in days
[Sharon and Andrea laugh] It's been so long since we talked
(Andrea singing) And I have been here many times,
I just don't know what I'm doing wrong
(Andrea and Joe singing together) What can I do to make you love me
What can I do to make you care,
What can I say to make you feel this
What can I do to get you there
Joe: Alright what do you think of that, honest to God what do
you think of that?
Andrea: It's fantastic, it's fantastic, I mean we don't know
who actually did that but they've really got a beautiful voice.
Joe: There you go!
Andrea: It does make me feel like falling in love!
Joe: And it's on the first, not the re-mix album , it's on the
first album!
Andrea: Wow! it's funny how your memory just goes sometimes.
Joe: I know well isn't it, well there you go listen stay with
us for a while and we'll play some more music, we'll play a track, any
track you want, which track would you like us to play?
Sharon: Of ours?
Joe: No Sharon the Glitter Band!
Sharon: Well it's a fair question, you know - "what track would
you like us to play?" - we could decide to play something from someone
else; we are musicians and we do like other people's music; ok play the
new one
Joe: OK we'll play the new one, Dan hit it!
------------Would You Be Happier plays------------- Joe: We're still here with Andrea and Sharon Corr, so you enjoyed
that little bit of ...well, singing.
Sharon: It was fabulous.
Joe: You see you've got that tone again, you have that tone!
Sharon: You're paranoid (laughs). Joe: Yes I probably am. But listen here's the question - are
you happy?
Sharon: Um yeah, absolutely, very.
Joe: Was that Andrea?
Andrea: No that was Sharon but I'm happy too.
Joe: Oh why?
Andrea: Why?
Joe: Yeah.
Andrea: Um...
Joe: Well Sharon was well known for being in a loving relationship,
am I right in that Sharon?
Sharon: Yeah that's true.
Joe: Well Jim...Jim's an attractive man but you know, that's
just not me. And Caroline, well, bangs the drums. But Andrea all of a sudden
now you seem to be in the press which you always were, but it's now a nice
thing - can we talk about this just for a minute or so?
Andrea: Um if you want.
Joe: Not too much.
Andrea: OK.
Joe: So you're in a relationship now yeah?
Andrea: That's enough thanks!
[laughter] Andrea: Thanks very much that'll be fine.
Joe: Oh come on.
Andrea: Yeah, yeah I am, I am.
Joe: So you're happy? You're more than happy to be in a relationship.
Andrea: Yes thank you very much.
Joe: How long do you think it'll last?
Andrea: Um, I don't plan on it ending.
Joe: Oh, well...at any time?
Andrea: Yeah not any time.
Joe: Ah, well I'm up in Liverpool just in case.
Andrea: Yeah but you see, you don't like me at all.
Joe: What?
Andrea: You don't like me at all.
Joe: Who said that?
Andrea: You said it.
Joe: I didn't say that.
Andrea: You did.
Joe: I did, I did, I did not! Sharon?
Andrea: As soon as you got into the realities of a person getting
sick you didn't like them anymore.
Joe: No not in the slightest, Sharon can I bring you into this
argument just for a moment?
Sharon: Um, yeah, ok.
Dan (producer): We've got like one minute now.
Joe: Alright we know just leave us alone for a minute! Jesus.
Sharon you know how much I like Andrea, right or wrong?
Sharon: Um, I think, I know as much as...yeah I mean of course
you like Andrea.
Joe: Thank you very much...Andrea?
Andrea: OK I'm sorry Joe. I apologise, I'm sorry I misconstrued.
Joe: OK if you ever get dumped, or you dump him, you know you've
always got a friend just up the road.
Andrea: Great, ok well that will always lift my spirits.
Joe: Man I need some spirits. Well listen, good luck in the
future..
Andrea: Thanks.
Sharon: Thanks Joe.
Joe:...thanks very much for taking time to come up with us.
Good luck with the new album, also the new single we'll play a track off
the new..as a matter of fact the album will be the best of album next week
for the whole week yeah?
Andrea: Great thank you.
Joe: OK, Andrea and Sharon Corr, thanks a lot.
Sharon: Thank you bye!
