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Performance of Breathless
R: 'In Blue' is the CD, and that song, boy, you can't get any hotter than that! It's been number 1 for a bajillion years and everything, and you must be excited about that?
A: We are, we're thrilled about it. We're singing it for quite a long time. But its great that its taken off here. It's good to hear you all singing it beforehand (looking at the audience)
R: It's nice to look at the audience and every single person is mouthing the words. It's got to feel good. (cheers from the audience). So now you're at Radio City Music Hall, and its your first time there?
S: Yeah, its our first time, and we're really looking forward to it.
R: It should be really exciting. Have you been to that theatre ever to see it?
S: Well, we saw Riverdance there when it first came to NY a couple of years ago, and it was just a fantastic night. There's a great kind of atmophere around that hall.
R: Yeah, its been renovated, and its absolutely beautiful. It's very awe-inspiring to get out there on that stage. I think you'll love it. Now, who's birthday is it? Someone's birthday?
C: Mine! (in a little girl's voice)
R: When?
C: St. Patrick's Day!
R: Tomorrow is your birthday! Happy Birthday (cheers from crowd). How old are you going to be?
C: I'm going to be (pauses, laughs) 28.
R: Are you saying that as if that's old?
C: Well, its older then I was!
R: In three days, I'm going to be 39! That's even worse! Now who's getting married, I read somewhere?
S: I am
R: Congratulations. that'll be sometime in the next year or so?
S: Yeah.
R: Are you worried that its going to be alot of...well, you have a lot of popularity now, lots of paparazzi?
S: Yeah, I'm trying to keep it as low profile as possible. That's why I go live on American TV with it today.
R: Sure, well at least we didn't say the date.
S: No
R: How long have you been touring now?
J: We're touring about, how long is it, six, seven months now. Unfortunately we had to interrupt the tour because Andrea was sick with an inner ear infection. So we had to cancel alot of dates in Australiasia and the UK, but we've rescheduled those dates and we're going to go back and do them very shortly.
R: Excellent. When you're in the US do you go by bus, or take planes everywhere?
J: Planes and buses. Mostly planes.
R: Do you sleep in the bus like the rock star thing?
All: yeah
R: Now four siblings in one bus, do you fight?
S: What do you think? (laughing)
R: I think you do! I'm one of five Irish ones.
A: We're very good at it. We share a bus. (looks at Sharon and completely cracks up for some reason)
R: Were you often fighting when you were kids?
S: Oh, yeah.
C: All the time!
S: We're very good at it.
R: Yeah, Irish!
C: We've had a lot of practice.
S: We're talented in that area.
R: Now when you started to play instruments, did it just so happen that you all just picked ones that would make a band? Or was that a fore-thought--you were thinking--that would be a good thing?
J: They're instruments that we were drawn to individually. We all play piano, we were all taught piano by our father, and then we all sort of ventured into other muscial areas. Andrea with the singing, Sharon with the violin, Caroline with the drums.
R: Did your parents encourage you?
S: Very much. They loved music. They're musicians themselves. So music was all around us, we didn't know anything else. It just seemed like a perfect match.
R: How excited were you for the Grammy nominations? That must have felt great.
C: Surprised.
R: Were you surprised?
C: Yeah, it was like, Grammy nominations for us? We just thought no way. We just couldn't believe it.
R: You couldn't make it though because you were ill (to Andrea), right?
A: No, otherwise it would have been the boat, a ten day trip. We did think about it.
R: you did, for a moment?
A: Just for the nominations...
R: I've had one of those. They're very painful. They take a long time to get rid of.
A: The nominations?
R: No! (everyone cracks up) I'm still trying to shake it! No, the ear infection! Wiped me out for a long time.
A: Oh, it was horrible. It really was so painful, and pretty frightening because for 11 years we've been working, and this is the first time we've ever had to cancel, but thankfully its gone.
R: And luckily you'll reschedule so those people who have tickets
can get a chance to see you. Well, good luck tomorrow night. I know its
sold out over at Radio City and that has to feel great for you. "In Blue"
is the CD. The Irish siblings, there they are the Corrs!