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Sippers, Happy New Year. 
Welcome to this episode of the 

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Tea With Me podcast with me, she
and Todd. 

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As you can see from the message 
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Before we get into this episode 

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and look, I know it's a new 
year. 

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I know you're, you've got time 
in between Christmas and New 

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Year. 
You're a little bit bored. 

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Your, your, your belly's a bit 
bigger. 

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Whatever. 
You just want to get into this 

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I'm not going to hang around and

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keep you. 
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2025. patreon.com has TV 

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You can just go back, watch all 
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The special challenge. 
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The Roast of Willy that you can 
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And throughout the year, we do 
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description, but lazy boys and 
lazy boys goes there, me, 

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And listen, if your New Year's 
resolution was for there to be 

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less lazy boys in 2025, haha, 
jokes on you is going to be way 

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more. 
So keep an eye on that. 

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And look, could this be the year
mysteries come back? 

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I don't. 
I'm just saying I don't. 

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I don't know. 
I would love to. 

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I would love. 
That's one thing I think a lot 

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of people around the world would
like to see this year as what a 

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lot of people will be asking 
Santa for, for, for. 

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And I'm like, that's crazy. 
It's 11 1/2 months away. 

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But. 
But look, before we get in this 

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OK, Look, it's a new year. 

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What a way to start the year I'm
looking at I'm looking at a 

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crowd of guys right now who are 
shaved up Mickey Bartlett 

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trouser and pants around his 
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looking smooth. 
He's looking smooth. 

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He's got his back to me, but I 
can still see it looks like he's

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got a got a Turkey and a 
headlock with his legs, but I'm 

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not is because he is an avid 
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Honestly, look, I you know 
there's probably people with 

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birthdays in January. 
I'd started January which which 

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is just annoying but if you want
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manscape.com you should go tea 
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What might you get them, Shane, 
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I would get. 

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I would go for the Chairman Pro.
Yeah, I would go or the long. 

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Have one hand that you could 
show us. 

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And do I have one done? 
I have to get up. 

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What the fuck where here? 
Where you left it. 

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Look at this. 
Look at that and that's one 

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that's one of those products and
there ain't nothing wrong with 

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that. 
It's a little bit, eh, thinner 

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at the at the base. 
No, they don't like that and 

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thick at the top. 
Hey, I'm still in fact. 

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And sometimes that's good 
because some people I like just 

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the same, the same with the 
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But I actually think it's better
than being fat at the base and 

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thin at the top. 20% off in free
shipping if you go to mazda.com.

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Used to offer Co tea with me a 
cheque out. 

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That's 100% on with the episode 
Girth at the top at the summit. 

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That's how you've gone the whole
way up a mountain. 

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You're like going to be a wee 
small base count. 

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No base count a fucking seven 
star hotel resort. 

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Look at that big thick top to 
that. 

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You'd use that for any. 
You could use that for anything.

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Anything. 
Shaving related. 

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Or sticking up your tree is just
11 months away guys. 

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Chris for coming against Look, 
this episode is something I've 

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been trying to make happen for a
long time. 

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These guys have have been doing 
shows in Belfast and around the 

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place and I've always floated 
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Or should we try and get them? 
And it's never worked out 

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before. 
We haven't had the right 

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contact. 
But when I started seeing Boys 

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Life putting up some tech talks 
on Instagram stuff, I said guys 

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come to the pod and finally 
they're doing a press day in 

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Belfast. 
At the end of last year we 

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managed to get them and I'm 
obsolete buzzing because let me 

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tell you right now, a lot of 
people, a lot of people in 

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Ireland will go like guys, you 
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even boys only like yeah, some 
of the songs are good and stop 

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lying to yourself. 
We love it and I love it. 

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I grew up a boys on fan. 
I became a big Westlife fan, my 

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favourite boys on songs, as 
explained the the Lad love me 

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for a reason, the first CD 
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Different Beat, which which is 
an anthem and then massive 

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Westlife fan. 
And I've loved Westlife through 

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through the ages and I love 
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And sometimes I'll still put on 
Boys in a Westlife on the 

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Spotify playlist. 
And then I find out a good few 

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years ago that Brian McFadden 
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They get together and they call 
boys life. 

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And I said how the probably held
they come up with that. 

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Where's that name come from? 
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if Boys in a Westlife combined, 
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I can't believe it. 
They've been turned right. 

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I think the guys were saying was
supposed to be just one tour, 

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just some shows. 
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just kept going because people 
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They do. 
They do the hits of both and now

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they're making new music as 
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They've got a song like that 
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last year called I would, which 
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And if you're like, I think if 
you're a fan of picture this you

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have had on and that kind of 
sound, I think you'll love it. 

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Something different from what 
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I've been wondering this podcast
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Please enjoy this episode of the
Tea with Me podcast with Brian 

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McFadden and Keith Duffy AKA 
Boys life. 

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Happy New year lazy on this 
podcast, try and ask questions. 

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People don't normally ask or not
ask stock questions, but what's 

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what's the question someone will
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Will you just and really roll 
your eyes like for comedians, 

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it's how do you write your 
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You know, I guess the like I'd 
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Westlife and boys own as well as
it's normally when people have 

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never met you before. 
So how did this all start? 

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Like, oh, sweet Jesus crazy. 
Like it's 30 years. 

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We'll have to go right back to 
30 years and give it all so that

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I think when people ask vague 
questions like that, just go. 

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So tell me about yourself. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah. 
The worst questions usually are 

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usually asked when you're about 
to do ATV show. 

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And they have this thing with 
every TV show you ever do in the

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UK or Ireland or whatever. 
They have they they have, what 

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do they call it? 
Research. 

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The research call. 
Yeah. 

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And they get one of these 
juniors to call you and they ask

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you the most ridiculous 
questions. 

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You know what I mean? 
We're going on the show to sell 

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a tour. 
We've been gone for 30 years and

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they're gone. 
So tell us who you are and we're

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like when they, when one of our 
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he'll do the research. 
I'm having a hernia taking out 

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that day unfortunately. 
Did you ever have like, things 

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you would do during interviews 
back in the day of the band? 

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Did you ever have things you 
would do to amuse yourself 

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during it like I would do? 
Because I did AI think it was 

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for the Irish news? 
They did like a health. 

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They were doing like talking 
about you and your health and 

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well-being and that kind of 
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And they ask you about, you 
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breakfast? 
What do you have for lunch? 

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And every question I just tried 
to get eggs into it. 

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So I like breakfast, like eggs, 
lunch, omelette, dinner, poached

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day. 
Like always. 

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Just yeah. 
And there was maybe 12 

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references. 
I always and I'll tell a lie in 

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an interview all the time, but 
something silly like I used to 

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always lie about my dad's name 
so they're like, you know, or I 

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would tell us because I talk 
about that a lot in stand up. 

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What should I called Brandon, 
Jeff, Michael. 

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I'd always put something he 
hated it. 

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So I did that to amuse myself. 
But did you ever have a thing 

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you would do to in? 
Westlife, we did, we had a few, 

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we had a few kind of code words 
and stuff like if there was a, 

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if there was a gorgeous girl 
interview, especially if you're 

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abroad, you know, and they're, 
they're not fallen English. 

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I'm used to call a belt. 
That's a belter, right? 

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Yeah, yeah. 
So if you're like, oh, yeah, 

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yeah, yeah. 
The album's out next week. 

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You know, we just. 
We just under your breath. 

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Yeah. 
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And we'd have other words then 
if we didn't like someone, we'd 

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be like we used to say for for a
boy was a bugle. 

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So we'd say the book. 
So we didn't like. 

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Yeah, we'd like. 
We'd say to that I. 

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Don't even know. 
Bugle mate, it's a boy. 

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It's the Irish for boy, right? 
OK, so if it was a car, if it 

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was Colleen, we'd say Carl. 
So we didn't like them. 

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We'd be like scoot the book, get
rid of him or get rid of her. 

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Scoot the call. 
Right. 

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So they know then, right? 
You're finished. 

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Let's go. 
You get some some of the real 

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diehard fans that literally 
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before you even arrive in the 
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You know what I mean? 
Or they smell like that anyway. 

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But then when the odd time Louis
was your travel with us, you 

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know, you'd meet with these 
girls and and to be home, to be 

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home. 
And he'd say Peggy Dallas, 

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Patrick Pierce, the smell is 
fierce. 

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Or he'd say NAWWNAWW, not a 
well, woman. 

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I am I love what you are doing. 
I think for a couple of times 

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I've commented on anytime I've 
seen a video like come do the 

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podcast some point, but I get 
like you get asked to do stuff 

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all the time. 
So I'm, I'm buzzing to do this 

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interview because I love what 
you are doing and I and I love 

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both bands like growing up. 
Thanks for having us man. 

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Thanks for. 
Having us, I was saying earlier,

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let me because we were talking 
about eh boys on the Westlife 

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songs. 
There's one song in particular. 

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I'm sure you get this all the 
time of like my favourite songs.

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Just my favourite songs out. 
I got that. 

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You'll be able to tell me the 
year the A Different Beat album.

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96 Was it 95? 
Yes, and I. 

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I wouldn't know. 
I would have been it when I got 

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that and there was AI got. 
AI was probably 50. 

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And I got a a ghetto blaster for
Christmas and I got that album. 

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No way. 
So you were that cool 8 year old

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kid with a ghetto blast on your 
shoulder playing boys on I would

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have beaten you open the skill 
game they're. 

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Just hanging at the basketball 
court. 

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I wonder if you have to do a? 
Podcast to get sex. 

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Yeah, we'll go down to the 
basketball courts and, you know,

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pump on my boy ball music 
playing. 

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Oh my God, but this? 
What song was it? 

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This song a different beat. 
Oh, the song. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Very caveman ask. 

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Isn't it Christmas Day? 
I was just sitting in my room by

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myself. 
I was like, it's done something 

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to me, this song. 
It's like, I'll tell you the 

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story behind that song. 
So Take That had brought out 

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their song Never Forget. 
No, no, no. 

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Is it Never Forget? 
We're at the end of the show. 

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They do this big lap in the air 
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robbed the whole idea from Queen
because it was Queen they got 

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there, you know? 
So it's trying to find something

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like an anthem for your band for
the end of a big arena show so 

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that you got everybody kind of 
doing the same gesture together.

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And and that's different. 
Beat was written and and put 

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together for the whole reason of
trying to get the trying to 

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create something new with it 
with an audience of going and 

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and it worked. 
But unfortunately the signal was

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like, yay. 
Oh, yeah, yeah. 

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But when you look at the back 
and all the people doing it, it 

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looks like Hitler's on stage and
they're all Nazis. 

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It was a like that that song is 
just different genre wise to 

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anything else. 
Yeah, because it was like. 

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An African African and stuff. 
Yeah, You know, we do it on tour

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as well. 
And we we we have Stevens voice 

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doing his verse still, so we 
kind of do what you wet with 

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Steven? 
Yeah, which is lovely to do. 

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Yeah, it's very nice. 
Nice. 

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Moment that that. 
Is a Arnold. 

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I like that that I, I don't know
that would be many people's like

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that's my favourite. 
I'm sure there's like a range of

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favourites on But that but. 
It's funny you should say that 

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because yesterday I was doing a 
live radio show, Andrada, and he

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he asked questions to the fans 
of their favourite Westlake song

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and the favourite boys on song 
and swear it again and different

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became work, Swear it again as 
different became so many times. 

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I couldn't believe it. 
No, I'm telling you lies. 

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It wasn't a favourite song. 
It was what the first two number

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ones were. 
So it was words and straight 

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again and people thought the 
first number one was different. 

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B. 
That's what. 

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It was no one likes them, no. 
It was number 1, so somebody 

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likes, yeah. 
Separate, let me very quickly 

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You gotta get it. 
Let's get back to this episode 

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of teams new podcast with my 
guest boys life. 

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You say no one likes a 
different. 

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Beat no different Beat I. 
Continent of Africa love a 

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different. 
Beat No, that is. 

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And you know what? 
We only started doing it 

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probably a year or two ago. 
And I'd never sung it before. 

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And I would say the first time I
sang it, I really felt it was 

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like, this is a great song to 
perform. 

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Yeah. 
Wherever we do it, what we do is

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we get the local kind of kids 
dance school and we give them 

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the opportunity to come on stage
on that song and we teach them 

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the in sound check. 
We teach them the hand movement.

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Yeah. 
So just for that song and every 

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show now we've every town we 
know from the local, the local 

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dances. 
If anyone saw that video on 

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black and white, what's on the 
stage going this way? 

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My first ever CD single. 
Love me for a reason. 

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Was it really my first ever CD 
single I. 

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Believe you're being so. 
Remember when I heard it? 

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I remember when I heard it was 
in the car when my cousin, my 

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granny and granda and my cousin 
had it on a on tape. 

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That is because I remember. 
Because that was December 94. 

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So I'd have been six or seven. 
I was 14. 

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And the case was 40. 49. 
The single was silver with the 

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half, kind of like the logo. 
The. 

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Oh yeah, the boys half silver. 
Half black. 

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That was great. 
I remember like just that was 

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probably just for the age you're
like you were trying to be 

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properly cool and me and my 
friend group, like me and my 

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cousin, if you're for me, it's 
like would have like taken into 

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like harmonised with that and 
stuff. 

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And then and like a year later 
you go like we can't do that. 

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But I remember like I remember 
enjoying. 

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What time are we starting the 
actual podcast? 

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Because there's no way this is 
going to make it into the finish

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court. 
Listen, love me for a. 

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Reason I love different. 
I love love me for a reason. 

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That's your credit gone. 
No, listen, I love it. 

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Do you remember? 
When he used to do a podcast to 

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get sex. 
But and, and everything you 

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like, I think what comes across 
what you are doing now is like 

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how much fun you guys and the 
audience are having because it's

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a celebration of, you know, 
everything you've done up until 

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now. 
And then I'm putting out new 

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music as well, because that's 
one thing I wondered. 

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I think that's why we're going 
so long, you know? 

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Yeah. 
Like, you have to remember the 

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boys only went down for what, 6,
five or six years? 

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Six years? 
I was in Westlife for six years.

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We're doing this nine. 
Yeah. 

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And I think it's because we have
so much fun, you know, there's 

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no, there's no kind of bad side 
to what we do at the moment. 

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There's no negative parts where 
you go. 

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We love doing this, but we hate 
that. 

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We just love all of it. 
Because basically, besides 

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having to do with the odd 
interview here and there, the 

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rest of it is just basically 
touring and being on stage every

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night, playing golf in the day 
and go to the bar afterwards. 

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We just have really good fun. 
Like I always wonder if we had a

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had that kind of crack in the 
days of West life and boys on 

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how long they might have lasted,
how long I would have lasted in 

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Westlife. 
Well, I was going to say it 

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seems more like on your own 
terms now. 

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Everything's on our own terms 
now, but I mean, we have to not 

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forget to look back of where we 
did start. 

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You know, we didn't start out to
do what we're doing now. 

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It was an autobiographical show 
where we we were talking, trying

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to give the fans an idea of 
life, that what life is like for

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us from our perception and, you 
know, talking about the people 

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that we'd worked with, the 
people that we were lucky enough

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to meet and to perform with, you
know. 

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And it was only when we sat down
and started to write this show 

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that we realised how lucky and 
how fortunate we had been in our

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careers to, to like especially 
for boys on because we started 

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off playing pubs and clubs and 
40 the back of a 40 foot flat 

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truck, you know, and then we 
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And it, you know, it was the 
Smash Hits roadshow that we 

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managed to get and we won the 
best new act on the road, which 

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then gave us the opportunity to 
form on the Smash. 

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It's show winners party, a poll 
winners party. 

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Which was the alt like that was 
the ultimate. 

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That was the. 
At the Year of Love Me for a 

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Reason and Will Smith was the 
host and that that kind of 

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launched us into because that 
was live on the TV and some 

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massive acts were on that show 
and and we got to perform on 

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that show and receive our 
reward. 

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Reward and that kind of because 
we've got the year before was to

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take that no, it was the best 
new band on the road is what we 

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want, but that's what we want as
well. 

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So it would become. 
This thing that whoever kind of 

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won that award would go on then.
Go on the following years and, 

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and when we were writing the 
when we were writing the 

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autobiographical show, you know,
you sit back and you realise 

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that we'd, we'd performed with 
Pavarotti and there's a great 

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backstage story from Pavarotti. 
And, you know, on the same bill 

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that day, we had to we had to 
share mics with people for the 

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last we were singing that song. 
You know, we are the world. 

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We are the children. 
And we're, we're swapping mics 

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and, you know, the camera pans 
across and there's B.B. 

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King, Joe Cocker, Lionel Richie,
shame, you know, Mariah Carey, 

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Keith. 
You know, so brilliant, you have

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to hear the right. 
Story I love. 

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The so, so like we said earlier,
like back in those days, the 

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record company would kind of 
treat you like you're a sellable

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commodity and they need you on 
your shelf because you only have

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a shelf life. 
Yeah. 

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And there's no I was a very 
young dad. 

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I like I have a 28 year old son 
now and. 

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So what age were you when you 
had your son? 

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I was 20 when when we found out 
he was coming and I was 21 when 

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he was born. 
I know. 

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I never knew that you were in 
the band. 

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The boy band thing. 
We, we, it was, he was born in 

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96 and we started in 93. 
So we were only three years into

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it. 
And, and, you know, I had that 

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responsibility, you know, and, 
but time away from home was 

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constant and you couldn't enjoy 
your success or your fame or 

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whatever because you were so 
tired all the time. 

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Yeah, concert touring was was 
great because you had the day to

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yourselves to do what you 
wanted, which was usually die of

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a hangover. 
And but a promotional tour was 

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different. 
You're up in the morning at 4:00

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or 5:00 in the morning to do 
live TV, live radio. 

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There wasn't digital back then. 
It was all, it was all film. 

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So you're doing photo shoots for
three different magazines during

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the day. 
You've got a stylist there. 

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You have to change your clothes 
for every look for each page of 

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the magazine. 
It takes ages to get the lights 

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right because and if they have 
to wait for the Polaroid to heat

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up before they can look to see 
if it's right. 

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So it becomes a very monotonous,
long, tiresome day. 

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And unfortunately, sleep 
deprivation, it just ruins 

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everything. 
You know, you can't see the wood

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for the trees. 
So where we should have been 

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really high in life and loving 
what we're doing, we were 

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knackered, tired, and we didn't 
get much time off. 

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So even like if we finished work
in London at 7:00 or 8:00 in the

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evening and we were back in at 
six the next morning, we were 

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literally going home for it. 
To get into sleep in your own 

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bed, to fly back to London first
thing the next morning, That's 

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what you used to do just to get 
some downtime, right? 

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To see your family, you know. 
So you know, we got to a stage 

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where we were doing our biggest 
concert ever back home in 

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Dublin. 
What? 

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Year would this have been 
roughly? 

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This would have been 98. 
It was our biggest show to date.

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We were, I think it was 70,000 
people. 

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We were on the show, which is. 
Already, yes. 

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And you already, yes. 
We were on the show, we were 

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there so. 
We, we, we planned this. 

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We so we were introduced to Jack
Daniels by our tour manager and.

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Lovely fella by the way. 
He's not another support actor 

447
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:31,880
to clarify. 
So, so sorry. 

448
00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:33,920
I was just clarifying he wasn't 
another supporter. 

449
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,520
No, no, no, no. 
But they, we, we spoke about 

450
00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,960
Jack Daniels in all the 
magazines that we were in and 

451
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,120
Jack Daniels saw all the credits
they were getting. 

452
00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:44,680
So they got in contact with us 
and said they'd like to support 

453
00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,000
our after show party for this. 
So we, we were touring all over 

454
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,560
Europe, all over the UK in a 
bigger arena tour. 

455
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,800
But the show in Ireland was in 
the RDS, outdoors in the, in the

456
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,640
RDS, which I think it holds 
anything from 30,000 to 70,000. 

457
00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,960
So it was the biggest gig we had
done to date at home and, and it

458
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:02,880
was packed. 
It was, it was manic and it was 

459
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,000
so exciting because we were 
home, all our friends and we'd 

460
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,520
know social media back then. 
Yeah. 

461
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,160
So nobody knew when you weren't 
performing in Ireland or when 

462
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,520
you went on TV, people just 
thought you were enjoying 

463
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,440
yourself over in the Bahamas. 
They didn't realise you're in 

464
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,440
Southeast Asia, in Australia and
South Africa. 

465
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,320
You're working, working, working
the whole time. 

466
00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:19,760
Yeah. 
So when you got back to Dublin 

467
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,920
and then to do a big show like 
this, it's really special for 

468
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,040
you because you get the show, 
what you've been doing, your 

469
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,000
crafts that you've been learning
all these years. 

470
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,840
You get to be on the big stage 
with the big bells and whistles,

471
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,120
the big production. 
And you've got all your your 

472
00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:34,880
friends, your peers, your 
families, all there to see the 

473
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,280
show. 
And it's really special, you 

474
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,560
know. 
And we have planned a massive 

475
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,120
big after show party because it 
was the last show of the tour. 

476
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,360
We're all heading off on two 
weeks holidays, which we had 

477
00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:45,760
another holiday in over two 
years. 

478
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,000
So it was everybody was at the 
end but we we could get through 

479
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,120
it because we knew we had a 
break. 

480
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,440
See the light at the end of the 
tunnel and we had stilt walkers 

481
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:58,680
and those paper mache U2 heads. 
Remember they made them of the 

482
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,240
Five boys own lads and they had 
the paper mache heads there 

483
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:02,440
sounds. 
Like a Wolf of Wall Street 

484
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:03,560
party. 
Yeah, it was in. 

485
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,840
The strippies, it was nuts. 
It was nuts. 

486
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,640
It was great and we couldn't 
wait for the party. 

487
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,400
But the show was two hours long 
and, you know, it was a great 

488
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,000
energetic show. 
And I used to do that song. 

489
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,160
But you. 
Yeah, but it was wrong. 

490
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,680
That came out and sang with me 
because I used to do a song that

491
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,720
I wrote and Roman come into the 
back of vocals and I I got on my

492
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,640
clothes for the last show. 
I got on my clothes, put on the 

493
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,840
Velcro and we were wearing these
kind of dodgy and quiz show host

494
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,120
type blue suits and all mine and
Velcro. 

495
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,200
And when I'm doing my song and 
had long hair at the time and I 

496
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,320
pulled off the suit and I had a 
tricolour on in hot pants and 

497
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,640
hot pants tricolour was on. 
It was left wearing on stage, 

498
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,000
you know. 
But before we went on stage that

499
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,880
night and everybody's really 
excited and pumped up, Louis 

500
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,800
Walsh came into the dressing 
room and he says boys, boys, you

501
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:49,960
can't take your holidays 
tomorrow. 

502
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,000
How we going? 
What are you talking about? 

503
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,400
We're definitely taking holidays
tomorrow. 

504
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,560
No, no, no, I need you to be in 
Dublin Airport at 8:00 in the 

505
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,120
morning. 
Pavarotti is sending his private

506
00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,480
jet to pick us up and bring it 
to modern. 

507
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,440
You're performing with Pavarotti
and France. 

508
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,720
You can't turn down Pavarotti. 
You have to be there. 

509
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:13,440
So no need for that language. 
But it ruined my story with 

510
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,160
language. 
But anyway, the next morning I'm

511
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,960
thinking we like the after show 
party. 

512
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,960
How are we going to make it at 
8:00 in the morning? 

513
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,480
We're going to go partying. 
It's going to go all night. 

514
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:23,400
Like we're going to be in the 
heap. 

515
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,440
So throughout the midst of the 
night, the lads found out that 

516
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,040
the concert in in modern, it 
wasn't on the next day, it was 

517
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,440
on in two days time. 
They were flying us out the next

518
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,920
day because they needed, they 
needed the jet back to go and 

519
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,640
pick somebody else up and they 
wanted to start to do sound 

520
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,760
check and because the but the 
concert wasn't on till the next 

521
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,480
day. 
And but the jet wasn't going to 

522
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:44,960
be available for us the next 
day. 

523
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,840
So if we if we didn't go the 
next morning, you have to go to 

524
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,760
Dublin airport, get a scheduled 
flight to to Rome and then get a

525
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,480
connected flight from Rome. 
And when the five was travelled 

526
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,480
together at that point in time, 
we just created a stair 

527
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,520
everywhere we went, of course. 
And it was a nightmare to go 

528
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,640
anywhere. 
And I'm kind of thinking I can 

529
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,440
have a really, really good 
night, get a taxi straight from 

530
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,200
the bar to the airport. 
The private jet will be waiting 

531
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,480
for me. 
I'll get on the jet and that 

532
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,640
goes directly where I need to 
be. 

533
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,920
Now that sounds sensible. 
Perfect, perfect. 

534
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,240
So anyway, I, I'm the we all 
arrived at the airport the next 

535
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,960
day, all hungover, are still 
drunk and the lads had this, 

536
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,720
this information that I didn't 
know that the, the gig wasn't on

537
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,800
that day. 
So they said no, no, that plane 

538
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,960
doesn't look safe. 
And to this day they'll swear 

539
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,520
blind that the plane looked 
dodgy and the plane looked like 

540
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,840
a, you know, a love tube but 
wings on it and all the rest. 

541
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,880
But we at GQ Magazine travelling
with us because at that stage of

542
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,880
our career we were trying to get
to an older audience and to 

543
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,480
become more credible and more 
cool. 

544
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,000
So having GQ Magazine doing a 
whole photo shoot on this trip 

545
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,400
to Modern and I was going to be 
great. 

546
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,840
So we had a journalist 
representative from the from the

547
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,320
record company and a 
photographer travelling with us.

548
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,160
And I'm the only one that got on
the plane. 

549
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,240
The rest of the boys all went 
home to bed. 

550
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,640
I said no, we'll get a scheduled
flight from Dublin Airport 

551
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,480
tomorrow. 
And somebody had to go because 

552
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,080
the journalist and the 
photographer was gone. 

553
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,720
Yeah. 
So I thought, right, just just 

554
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,000
stay with it, You'll be fine. 
So the flight was grounded for 

555
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,440
about an hour and my hangover 
was starting to kick in. 

556
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,280
So, you know, the little small 
bottles of red wine you get in 

557
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,640
the. 
I start drinking the little 

558
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,240
bottles of red wine just just to
keep me hangover at Bay. 

559
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,360
Right. 
So we get on the plane anyway. 

560
00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,240
And, and I entertain them on the
plane, on the flight, all the 

561
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,440
way over to Modern, that, 
whatever. 

562
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,280
And there's hundreds of fans 
outside the hotel. 

563
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,440
It's all chaos when we get over 
there because there's so many 

564
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,400
fans playing Ricky Martin, 
Lionel Richie, Glory Estevan, 

565
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,160
Mariah Carey all together, you 
know. 

566
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,800
So I just couldn't wait to get 
to my bed. 

567
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,920
It was about 3:00 in the 
afternoon by the time we got 

568
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,760
there. 
And I just couldn't wait to get 

569
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,160
to my bed. 
I was so tired. 

570
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,320
So we get into the hotel, 
checked in and obviously I have 

571
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,320
no management with me. 
I'm on my own, no tour manager 

572
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,720
because they're not coming till 
tomorrow. 

573
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,640
So I go up and I get into bed 
and I literally just take off my

574
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,560
clothes, close the curtains, 
make the room as dark as I 

575
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,720
possibly can. 
I get into bed in all years. 

576
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,920
Bang, bang, bang in the door. 
And I who the hell is that? 

577
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,840
Right. 
So I get out of bed and I kind 

578
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:02,960
of peep my head around the 
corner. 

579
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:03,440
I go. 
Hello. 

580
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,160
Because Mr Keith. 
Mr Keith? 

581
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,320
Yeah. 
And your car is waiting outside.

582
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,520
I said my car For what? 
To go where? 

583
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,360
Oh, you must go to the venue now
and then soundtrack with the Mr 

584
00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:18,560
Pavarotti. 
I'm going. 

585
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,960
Well, we're doing. 
We're singing no matter what 

586
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,520
night. 
I don't even know the lyrics of 

587
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,080
that song. 
Because Ronan and even. 

588
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:27,520
Sing the lead focus of that 
song. 

589
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,360
All I had to learn was the back 
of vocals. 

590
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,280
Now I have an idea. 
You don't want me. 

591
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,320
This is a This is a full 
orchestra. 

592
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,760
It's 200,000 people outdoor live
gig and modern full live session

593
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,600
band, full orchestra and a 
choir, right? 

594
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,160
And they want me to go and sound
check with Pavarotti, right? 

595
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,760
Who's singing full operatic no 
matter what in Italian. 

596
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,160
That's right. 
So there's nothing to do. 

597
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,480
I had to go. 
I'm on stage there with 

598
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,000
Pavarotti, who hasn't a word of 
English, you know, and, and the 

599
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,360
song starts and I'm waiting for 
him to start and he's waiting 

600
00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:07,120
for me to start and I'm supposed
to start because it was Ronan's 

601
00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:10,560
vocal to start. 
And that look, I, I, I did my 

602
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,120
best, you know, but I can't 
imagine it was that good. 

603
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:18,440
He was looking at me like A10 
heads, you know, I just wasn't 

604
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,560
ready for it, you know. 
So anyway, we did that. 

605
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,760
I was mortified. 
There's another story that goes 

606
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,240
on. 
I ended up meeting Joe Cocker in

607
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,480
the bar back in the hotel and go
add no point going to bed now. 

608
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,760
Come on, let's have a point. 
And then I think we had a 3K 

609
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,840
race inside the hotel when we 
were drunk, but that's another 

610
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,880
story. 
God rest his soul, and so the 

611
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,680
next day anyway for. 
A second I thought you met with 

612
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,040
Pavarotti. 
I was like, please tell me you 

613
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,280
won because. 
I know what Joe Cocker so. 

614
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,160
What a Pavarotti think when you 
whipped out the tricolour hot 

615
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,200
pants. 
That was in the show in Dublin 

616
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,680
the night before. 
He hadn't seen that yet, but I 

617
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,160
was going to show. 
I was going to show him the next

618
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,280
night. 
That would have been the night 

619
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:50,480
to do. 
Absolutely. 

620
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,840
So the next night we're all 
wearing white suits. 

621
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,160
This is this is on on YouTube. 
And I didn't. 

622
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,120
I forgot all I've seen. 
This. 

623
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,320
The so I'd forgot. 
So anyway, we're the backstage 

624
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,560
dressing rooms are in all these 
Marquis and it's real pushed 

625
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,560
like 5 star Marquis, you know, 
and Mariah's dressing rooms 

626
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,640
beside ours. 
And the carpet in the dressing 

627
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,560
room is like 3 inches deep, 
really comfortable lush red 

628
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,640
velvet carpet. 
And I am absolutely hanging out 

629
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,760
the stage. 
The dressing room had all the 

630
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,520
rider in it, the blue M&M's in 
one bowl and the green M&M's in 

631
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,080
another bowl, the bottle of 
vodka, the bottle of JD, the 

632
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,360
bottles of wine, the beer. 
I mean, we were being really 

633
00:28:24,360 --> 00:28:27,160
spoiled, you know, and we still 
have the journalist and the 

634
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,360
photographer there who were 
there for the sound check as 

635
00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:30,800
well, by the way, which is 
mortifying. 

636
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,720
But I'm lying down on the 
dressing room floor and the 

637
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,640
white suit just to try and get 
15 minutes sleep before we go on

638
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,280
stage. 
Now backstage, the security is, 

639
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,440
is all the Secret Service, the 
Italian Secret Service, right? 

640
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,000
Because of the names that were 
backstage. 

641
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,760
And your your, your backstage 
pass was a laminate that you had

642
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,720
to wear around your head with 
your photograph on it. 

643
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,320
And like, it's, it's the 
security is really, really 

644
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,440
tight, you know. 
So we're, I'm lying in the 

645
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,880
dressing room and we're all in 
the dressing. 

646
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,880
The five lads as stylist, makeup
artist, the journalist, the 

647
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,280
photographer and a tour manager 
and Mark Plunkett. 

648
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,240
And there's a knock on the 
dressing room door and then you 

649
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,320
hear this lady going, oh, hello,
Mr Mark, Luciano's wife would 

650
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,840
like to meet the boys and one 
second, please. 

651
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,240
And he closes are goes duster, 
duster, that's me. 

652
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,720
Get up, get up and go wow, what 
he's just got on your feet. 

653
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,640
Line up, lads. 
And it was like a royal lineup, 

654
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,240
you know, so we're lined up and 
this lady comes in and the tree 

655
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,280
kids is hello, hello, hello, 
grand and doing all the 

656
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,760
niceties. 
She goes out. 

657
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,760
I'm back in the floor having a 
Kip banging the door door opens.

658
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,440
Mr Mark is that Luciano's 
manager, would like to say hello

659
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,280
to the the boys. 
One second, please don't start 

660
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:33,880
on your feet. 
I'm getting up now. 

661
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,360
And this goes on three or four 
times, you know, And this is a 

662
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,920
story against myself, but it's 
funny, so I don't mind telling 

663
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,440
you. 
And it's true, right? 

664
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,120
So after three or four times, 
I'm gone. 

665
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,480
What the hell is going on? 
We're here for Pavarotti in 

666
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,960
France. 
Who the fuck is this Luciano 

667
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,160
guy? 
And I said, who's this fucking 

668
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,920
Luciano guy I'm known as? 
Said you're messing. 

669
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,640
I said I'm not fucking messing. 
I'm trying to have a Kip here 

670
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,480
and there's some guy called 
Luciano and you're not messing, 

671
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,520
are you? 
No, it's Luciano Pavarotti. 

672
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,120
That's his name. 
I thought, oh, Jesus. 

673
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,280
I thought like Pavarotti was 
named like Pavarotti Murphy or 

674
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,600
Pavarotti Smith or something. 
Pavarotti Murphy. 

675
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,800
I didn't know. 
So yeah. 

676
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,400
So that was just that was the 
story against yourself. 

677
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,160
I didn't know who have already 
his real name was. 

678
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,960
That's a wild, that's a wild one
to say you've gigged with. 

679
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,160
When he's dead, no, God rest 
them. 

680
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,360
And Joe Cocker's passed away at 
the B.B. 

681
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,480
King. 
You know the amount of people 

682
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,560
that I performed there that that
Morris Gibb, Robin Gibb, Yep, 

683
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,520
there's so many people have 
performed the best. 

684
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,520
Part of those Did you know that 
he actually wears a Union Jack G

685
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,560
string I? 
Would have healed so much it 

686
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,720
was. 
Just a bit of balance on the 

687
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,160
stage. 
You know the lads that try 

688
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,680
corner hot pants. 
It might have been AG string, it

689
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:51,560
could have just actually been 
hot. 

690
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,000
I don't know. 
I couldn't. 

691
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,280
I didn't know that you actually 
used up. 

692
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,600
You guys supported boys on back 
and I didn't know. 

693
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,960
Yeah, I didn't know you guys 
were up. 

694
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,240
That's how we not so we started 
the very first games. 

695
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,960
We don't was we started on the 
UK, their first UK and not their

696
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,680
first. 
Our first tour was supporting 

697
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,160
them in the UK and all over 
Europe as well. 

698
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,360
Who else did you did? 
You nobody, just boys on our 

699
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,760
next tour was our own. 
So this is said, we started in 

700
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,880
pubs, in clubs and trucks. 
Westlife literally went straight

701
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,000
to our Arena Stage, right? 
They went straight to supporting

702
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000
us. 
So they didn't have to do the 

703
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:23,720
hardship. 
So he did. 

704
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,160
We're working together nine 
years and I tell these stories, 

705
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,200
goes man, can't believe you had 
to do all that shit. 

706
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:30,600
Why? 
Do you just want to take that or

707
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,360
something? 
That 70,000 that outdoor show 

708
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,800
was that like. 
Yeah, that was that. 

709
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,000
You know, I thought now at that 
stage we'd actually stopped 

710
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,520
supporting boys on and they 
brought us back just for that 

711
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:40,920
one, right? 
Because we don't. 

712
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,360
I think they've done 2 tours, 
wasn't it? 

713
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,160
We did the first UK tour and 
then we did your European Tour 

714
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,400
the following. 
Year it was 9899 because we 

715
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,160
split up at the end of 99. 
Yeah. 

716
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,360
And then the next tour we did 
was our own tour straight in 

717
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,520
after that. 
I've in my mind anywhere you 

718
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,600
guys did shows and do shows you 
get a great turn out with stand 

719
00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,880
up. 
I found like definitely this 

720
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,240
year I've tried to do more 
European shows in English 

721
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,120
speaking countries and there's a
couple you go, it's only 40 

722
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,880
seater will do it, but there's a
few about the cancel like Milan.

723
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,360
Yeah, I was like, boys put me 
in. 

724
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:10,880
Milan. 
Why did? 

725
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,560
Why did you say Milan? 
Because we just cancelled it. 

726
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,440
Normal. 
Did you? 

727
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,640
We just cancelled. 
That makes me feel so much 

728
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,920
better. 
The three of us. 

729
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,520
Yeah, yeah. 
Yeah, yeah, we're all the guy 

730
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,120
told you. 
The sound 0 Let's. 

731
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,800
Go back. 
But you want us to talk with the

732
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,200
good gigs. 
Let's not talk with the negative

733
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,600
shape you have, Pavarotti. 
Yeah, fuck Milan. 

734
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,040
That comes from the three boys. 
You know what's crazy though, 

735
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,920
because I know what you're 
saying about the place that 

736
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,560
don't speak English. 
I always thought that as well. 

737
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,680
Like we struggled in places like
France and Spain for a while as 

738
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,400
well, and Italy. 
But weirdly enough, the places 

739
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,600
that literally speak no English 
at all. 

740
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,200
Southeast Asia is our biggest 
territory. 

741
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,160
Well, that's what I was going to
ask because I was saying that 

742
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,320
it's so hard to predict what 
what numbers you'll do in 

743
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,280
certain places. 
So you sometimes you just go 

744
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,760
when you see what it's like. 
But we're surprised you have 

745
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,600
where, where basically? 
Right, Asia. 

746
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,280
But it years later we kind of 
figured out why it was because 

747
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,240
they don't understand the lyrics
that we're saying. 

748
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,120
But I think the reason why bands
like Boys own Westlife and a lot

749
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,640
of a lot of boy bands are 
massive. 

750
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,400
Yeah, in Asia is as well. 
A lot of our songs are quite 

751
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,720
simple melodies, so they they 
just kind of sing along the 

752
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,320
melodies and sometimes they 
don't even know what we're 

753
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,400
singing. 
But it seems to really work in 

754
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,000
Southeast Asia. 
Where was the 1st place she went

755
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,760
outside UK and Ireland? 
For boys on, obviously we were 

756
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,920
before Westlife. 
And when we first landed in 

757
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:33,480
Jakarta and Indonesia, it was 
just mental like we, we, we the 

758
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,160
aeroplane was being taken off to
an isolated part of the airport.

759
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,680
And we, we thought it was for, 
for security reasons. 

760
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:39,920
We had no idea it's because of 
us. 

761
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,840
Yeah, Yeah. 
And it was only when we were sat

762
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,920
there wondering and everybody on
the plane was wondering why the 

763
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,600
plane? 
And there's police all around 

764
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,000
the plane. 
I wonder why. 

765
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,640
There must be a bomb on the 
plane or something. 

766
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,440
We didn't, we didn't know what 
was going on. 

767
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,200
And then and then the armed 
military police got on the plane

768
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,200
and escorted the five, myself, 
the plane. 

769
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:56,160
And we thought we were in 
trouble. 

770
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,680
We didn't realise the airport 
had been overrun by fans who 

771
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:00,920
knew we were coming in on that 
flight. 

772
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,280
And there was 12 motorbikes. 
We were all put into a 

773
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,520
Volkswagen van and there was six
points in front of the six bikes

774
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,480
behind and we got. 
An armed escort straight through

775
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,679
in the in true Jakarta to our 
hotel. 

776
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,360
We never actually stepped foot 
in Jakarta airport. 

777
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,000
For the first 3 or 4 times he 
went it was like that off the 

778
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,199
plane and just out a fence. 
You didn't even didn't even 

779
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:22,320
check your passports were just 
gone. 

780
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,560
There was no social media there,
so none of that was ever 

781
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,920
documented. 
You know what I mean? 

782
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,520
But that gives a glimpse in the 
what I've heard you guys talk 

783
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,520
about that and so many music 
artists of saying like you never

784
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,280
see a place you never truly see 
like a. 

785
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,639
City where we do now since we 
started a boy's life. 

786
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,360
We take time to breathe. 
Yeah, we play a lot of golf. 

787
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,040
So we, you know, if a golf 
course is all we get to see, 

788
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,760
will so be it, because golf 
courses are, you know, sometimes

789
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,960
the nicest part of the city that
you might be in. 

790
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,760
But we see a lot more now since 
we do this. 

791
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,080
But yeah, back back in the 90s, 
it was airport, hotel, hotel, 

792
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,000
lobby, venue, you know, venue 
after show. 

793
00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:01,280
You know, just like if you think
back to those days and you're 

794
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,680
like, I cannot remember the 
difference between any of the 

795
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,760
Southeast Asian countries 
because all I remember is an 

796
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,920
aeroplane, a car, a hotel room. 
You don't even see the front of 

797
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,480
the hotel. 
You're underneath the car park 

798
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,720
up through the kitchen, straight
up and into your room. 

799
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,320
And then you see the venue and 
you're gone. 

800
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,280
So I can't even remember what 
the different countries look 

801
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,760
like or where they are because 
every day is the exact same as 

802
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,240
that. 
You know, you've no interaction 

803
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,080
with anybody at all except for 
the people in your in your 

804
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,560
bubble and everything just 
blends into one thing. 

805
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,880
So for six years, when I think 
of a day's work in West, like 

806
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,240
most of them will be like that. 
Wake up in a hotel room, 

807
00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:38,240
somebody comes to get your hair 
and makeup, gives you clothes. 

808
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,640
Five. 
You end up together into a lift,

809
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,960
into a car, into a studio, into 
a gig at home, and that's it. 

810
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,480
There's nothing. 
There's nothing else outside of 

811
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,280
that. 
There's no going into a shop or 

812
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,560
going into a pub. 
Like, you know, people talk 

813
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:50,560
about what are the after 
parties. 

814
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,120
Like we, we couldn't have after 
parties in those days, could we 

815
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,960
couldn't go anywhere. 
It was like we could have our 

816
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,920
own little drink back in the 
hotel in our room. 

817
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,680
But there was no going to clubs 
and stuff like that back then. 

818
00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:00,840
Yeah. 
So weird. 

819
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,200
You see, if you're doing a 
concert, obviously the the fans 

820
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,040
will find out what plane you're 
coming in on and and what hotel 

821
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:07,440
you're staying at and blah blah 
blah. 

822
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,480
But when you're doing a 
promotional or they don't, 

823
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,960
unless there's somebody in the 
record company leaking out the 

824
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,400
information, they don't get it. 
So I remember going like 

825
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,680
Bangkok, the first time I was in
Bangkok, I couldn't believe the 

826
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,200
wealth and the poverty. 
You know, on on the Gable wall 

827
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,680
of a mansion, you have a 
shantytown, right? 

828
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,680
And that's how close it was. 
It was, it was it was a culture 

829
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,520
shock, complete culture shock 
for us, you know, coming from 

830
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,600
there's no middle classes there.
No, I'd never been on an 

831
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,720
aeroplane before. 
Boys on. 

832
00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:36,280
They know I'd never left Ireland
before. 

833
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,320
So it was a massive culture 
shock for me, me, but we did in 

834
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,680
those days. 
We had security all right, but 

835
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:47,160
we'd go off to the markets in 
Bangkok and we did get to see on

836
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:51,360
the promotional tour, you know 
what I mean, a place called Path

837
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,240
Pong, Christmas market. 
We were big as a ping pong back 

838
00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:57,240
then. 
There were Christmas bubbles. 

839
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,520
Is there places with boys life 
that use use wanna go? 

840
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,600
Like maybe places you haven't 
been, but somewhere you. 

841
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,960
You know, you just certain 
places we love to go. 

842
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,760
Yeah. 
Like we're, we're going down to 

843
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:14,520
Sun City this time next year. 
It's South Africa, OK And we're 

844
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,800
invited down there to perform at
the play golfer Gary Player, the

845
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,200
legends, for his 90th birthday. 
We did his 80th birthday, we did

846
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,920
his 84th birthday. 
And that's a place that we'll 

847
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,200
really look forward to going to.
Yeah, we're going. 

848
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,000
We're going all over Australia 
on the next door. 

849
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,840
And there's a place in Perth 
called Umm Juda Loop. 

850
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,240
Juda Loop, which is one of my 
favourite golf courses. 

851
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:37,880
There's 27 holes, see a picker, 
18, and it's an old quarry. 

852
00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:40,840
But I just remember when Brian 
and I were down there last, it 

853
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,560
blew my mind, you know? 
I love the idea that you're sure

854
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,760
be a strong golf and it's like 
Augustus and Andrews just like 

855
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:48,600
no. 
Idea. 

856
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,960
It literally is, yeah. 
Like when we're when we're 

857
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,360
actually looking at the tour 
dates we're looking at, right? 

858
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,520
We're playing Birmingham, right?
We'll stay the belfry there, 

859
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:59,320
We're playing Cardiff both there
we go Celtic Manor and the only 

860
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,040
problem is our Irish tour, so 
we're doing Belfast, Galway, 

861
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,760
Cork and Dublin. 
The only problem is in January 

862
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,480
is going to be absolutely free. 
At this time of year, because I 

863
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,160
mean, obviously up here you're, 
you're spoiled for golf course 

864
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,080
Up here down in Cork, you've got
the old head can sell, which we 

865
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,120
absolutely love. 
You know, if we're playing 

866
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,720
Galway, we'd probably go to to 
Mayo to play golf. 

867
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,400
Or Ross Point or something like 
that. 

868
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:22,400
Yeah. 
Go somewhere. 

869
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,720
Yeah, yeah. 
Look at us. 

870
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,720
It's too cold. 
We're fair weather golfers, man.

871
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:29,960
We don't like the rain or the 
wind. 

872
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,920
But that's that's going to be 
the beauty as well because we'll

873
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,400
have no golf play now for the 
whole month of January and then 

874
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,440
come the end of February when we
head down to New Zealand, but 

875
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,760
we're down there, we've got like
25 shows in New Zealand, 

876
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:40,880
Australia. 
So we're going to be there for 

877
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,760
the goods of a month. 
I had a tough one playing every 

878
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,080
day. 
I did New Zealand for the first 

879
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,160
time earlier this year. 
Was it last year? 

880
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,600
I was this year. 
Tough one on Monday night, New 

881
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:50,720
Zealand. 
Oh, really? 

882
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,000
It was just, venue was lovely, 
staff were great. 

883
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:58,920
It was just. 
That was it. 

884
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:00,240
Just we. 
Just. 

885
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,400
Couldn't get it going. 
We couldn't get it really. 

886
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,240
But Australia was, I've done 
Australia last two years and it 

887
00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:09,200
is unreal to just expect, no, 
obviously there's a mix of 

888
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,920
people there, but to play the 
people that are from home, yeah,

889
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,760
when they see you come out 
there, yeah. 

890
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,520
And you see like just the love 
in the room and and you know, 

891
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:18,720
people see each other people 
that. 

892
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:21,600
Went Irish people are so much 
nicer and kinder to each other 

893
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:24,320
away from Ireland. 
You know what I mean? 

894
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,280
It's a vitamin D. 
We go to an Irish bar in Ireland

895
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,960
or in the UK and we're slagged 
from a height. 

896
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,560
Yeah, we, we were gigging down 
in Australia and we went to an 

897
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,000
Irish bar and they sang Ole Ole 
Ole for two hours before we sang

898
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:37,840
a song. 
And everybody was just so 

899
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,680
delighted to see Keith and Brian
are going. 

900
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,760
Where were you when we were 
gigging back home? 

901
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,200
Ireland's always like that 
though. 

902
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,560
It's even when we were kids, you
go to Spain and as soon as you 

903
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,400
see an Irish part that has an 
Irish breakfast, you're like, Oh

904
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,520
my God. 
Yeah, the first thing we did was

905
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,680
go to find Irish. 
Irish, yeah. 

906
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,160
Yeah, yeah, we're gonna have our
breakfast. 

907
00:39:57,240 --> 00:40:01,560
Yeah, I am, yeah. 
But when you when you guys got 

908
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:06,160
together to do like an 
autobiographical show when that 

909
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,760
was done? 
Straight up during that we use 

910
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,240
already going like we're doing 
this again. 

911
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,800
Well, no, because we're the 
first tour we put on sale, so 

912
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,360
that really, really quickly. 
So when we started to do the 

913
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,840
first tour, we put on the second
tour, right, for a few months 

914
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,680
later. 
And it just kind of happened 

915
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,240
that every time we do a tour we 
go OK, so on the second round of

916
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:27,520
the the autobiographical tour, 
we started getting feedback from

917
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,560
people. 
We only did 5 or 6 songs in that

918
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,520
show, right? 
So like we tell that Pavarotti 

919
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,880
story and then we'd sing no 
matter what because that's the 

920
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,800
song you're saying about, right?
So we kind of did the song that 

921
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,840
went with the story and people 
are going, look, we've got like 

922
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,320
21 #1 singles in the UK. 
We're doing 5 or 6. 

923
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:44,000
So like we want to hear more the
music. 

924
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,880
So we said, why don't we just go
out and just do the songs, 

925
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,800
forget about the stories and the
screens and just sing the songs.

926
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,320
So then we started doing that 
and then that kind of expanded 

927
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,960
because the first time we did 
it, we actually got the backing 

928
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,720
tracks. 
There were Filipino karaoke 

929
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:58,320
backing tracks off the Internet.
They weren't even, they weren't 

930
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,600
even ours. 
Now we're like where he's like 

931
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,560
me, bollocks, get the band 
because how much it cost to put 

932
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,800
a band on behind us, He says. 
Now we just do tracks. 

933
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,040
I was like, what tracks? 
He surely you have the Westerns.

934
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:09,200
I don't have them because have 
you got? 

935
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,520
He had a couple of boys on ones.
I was like, what about all the 

936
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:12,960
Westlife ones? 
You gonna sort that out? 

937
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,000
I love the idea of you boys on 
YouTube just ripping MP3 before 

938
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,160
the show. 
You know, here's the guy saying 

939
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,160
we were singing swear it again. 
And the BV's was literally for 

940
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:25,040
Filipino backers, singers like 
I'm never going to say goodbye. 

941
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:27,440
And they're like cheese, the 
boys. 

942
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,080
Have a bit of a weird. 
Accent on that, they got a bit 

943
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,000
of a twang. 
So then we realised then we 

944
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,560
can't do because it was getting 
bigger and bigger. 

945
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,840
We're like, you know, this is 
alright if you're going out to a

946
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,560
couple 100 people. 
Obviously we're starting to sell

947
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,200
out venues with like 1500 people
like we can't be. 

948
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,080
Skipping out on giant screens 
there. 

949
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,720
Was a part in the middle there 
when we went from selling out in

950
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:49,280
four hours every show. 
Yeah. 

951
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,040
And we decided to do the backing
track singing and the promoter 

952
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,440
at the time booked the wrong 
venues. 

953
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,160
So we've done a full tour in the
academies, which are kind of 

954
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:03,280
like acoustic venues, you know, 
sticky beer floors, no seats, 

955
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,800
you know, beer, beer being 
poured everywhere. 

956
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,000
And these venues would hold 
anything from 600 to maybe 1500 

957
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,320
or whatever. 
It just didn't sell. 

958
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,120
Some venues were 35% sold so 
many. 

959
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,960
And we taught the whole concept 
of boys own and Westlife was a 

960
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,240
great idea. 
But like we put on sale, it's 

961
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:21,520
sold out. 
And all of a sudden we're in a 

962
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,240
position now and we're on stage 
and it's a little bit eggy and 

963
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,000
we're kind of going, Oh my God, 
this is not working. 

964
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,320
It's just a two of us on stage 
with a, with a boys on or a 

965
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,600
boy's life backdrop. 
And it just, it just didn't seem

966
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:34,920
to be working. 
And we didn't know what was 

967
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,920
wrong because it had been so 
successful until this moment. 

968
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,320
And the two of us were getting a
little bit disheartened by the 

969
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,000
whole thing kind of going. 
I look, maybe we've had our 

970
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,560
phone. 
Maybe it's time just to, you 

971
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,520
know, hang up the dancing shoes 
and walk away. 

972
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,680
Yeah, back to McDonald's and 
this we're playing, we're 

973
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,440
playing Birmingham and in the 
Academy and I think the venue 

974
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:58,440
hold with 1200 and we sold maybe
7 or 800 and this promoter came 

975
00:42:58,440 --> 00:42:59,880
in and said guys, great to meet 
you. 

976
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,760
I love the concept, I love the 
brand. 

977
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,840
He said I want to put you out on
tour. 

978
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,600
I want to put a full live band 
behind you. 

979
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,000
All female musicians are going 
to get them all to wear like 

980
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,400
blonde bobbed wigs, 5 girls on 
stage, full live band, full 

981
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,360
production, proper theatres, 
town hall, city halls. 

982
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,400
And I'm going listen man, were 
you at the gig tonight? 

983
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,240
Yeah, yeah, we didn't even sell 
out here is you're doing it all 

984
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:23,960
around. 
Trust me, you're doing it all 

985
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,160
wrong. 
Your fans are of that age now 

986
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,360
where they want a nice velvet 
comfortable seat, they want 

987
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,160
catering, they want bar, they 
want a restaurant, they want 

988
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,400
they want they want wine, they 
want to be looked after. 

989
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,240
You know, he said, I said, he 
said I'm going to promise you 

990
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:41,160
this minimum guarantee on this 
and and he goes, you know, can 

991
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,560
we do the deal? 
I said, look, man, I'll take 

992
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,320
your money, but it's not working
and all you want to do is throw 

993
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,160
more money at it. 
He goes, let me worry about 

994
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,640
that, it's a minimum guarantee, 
let me worry about that. 

995
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,200
And we shook hands with him and 
he sold it the tour. 

996
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:56,200
And it was. 
Just yeah. 

997
00:43:56,240 --> 00:44:01,680
What year was? 
That yeah 29, 2020, 2017 because

998
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,640
Boys on tour, then 2018-2019. 
2017 was the first tour. 

999
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,200
Was it? 
Yeah, 2018, so it's. 

1000
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:10,760
Probably the end of 2017 into 
2018 and it was unbelievable. 

1001
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,000
We were delighted. 
Now a lot of the musicians 

1002
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,560
didn't work out and we ended up 
going back to Boys owns original

1003
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:20,360
musical director who still works
with us now and we got him in to

1004
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,960
put a new band together. 
But it worked great. 

1005
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,480
But how we know how well it 
worked. 

1006
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,640
We were doing a theatre in 
Newcastle are we were doing 

1007
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:33,600
finishing up the tour, the 
Academy tour in in Newcastle and

1008
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:38,720
literally like about 800 yards 
down the road was the theatre 

1009
00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:41,320
that we're going to play in the 
new tour next year. 

1010
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:42,600
Like 12 months later. 
Yeah, is. 

1011
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,400
That the time, time, time. 
Time site, theatre or whatever 

1012
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,760
you call it. 
So they the tickets for that 

1013
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,400
went on sale that day right 
where we were playing the 

1014
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,040
tickets of being on sale for 6 
months it held 1200 people. 

1015
00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:00,760
We sold 300 tickets and just 
down the road 40 yards, the 

1016
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,400
theatre that held 1800 sold out 
in one day. 

1017
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,720
On the day, on the day we were 
playing, so we're going to go 

1018
00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,200
through sold out that today, but
we've got to go on here tonight.

1019
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:11,480
We've been selling for six 
months. 

1020
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,080
It does show you how important 
promoters are. 

1021
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,440
You know, a lot of people just 
think you put on a show, it's 

1022
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,240
there's really is an art to it, 
you know? 

1023
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,760
I did knew that theatre you're 
talking about Newcastle, Yeah. 

1024
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,200
At the start it. 
Started here I think it's called

1025
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,800
the time and some time where 
theatre or something it's bound 

1026
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,000
to be the same 1 So it's like an
Opera House candidate. 

1027
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,240
Yeah, that's that's 
predominantly what we do now 

1028
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:36,200
with all those types of venues. 
We did it to. 

1029
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:38,920
So I've done the comedy club and
you. 

1030
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,800
It's always for me. 
I'll do the comedy club and then

1031
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,200
it's. 
Do you jump then to the local 

1032
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:44,800
theatre? 
Theatre. 

1033
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,680
Yeah, but sometimes the jump is 
way too big and that in 

1034
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,480
Newcastle that place holds like,
I don't know, 1200 or something.

1035
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:57,320
Like you say. 
We had maybe 250 on the on the 

1036
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,840
on the floor sheet and we were 
trying to move it. 

1037
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,120
You know, we go to a small 
venue, couldn't move it. 

1038
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:03,960
One of the shows, the tour. 
Oh really? 

1039
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,680
It was because sometimes that 
happens on the audience. 

1040
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,920
Look around. 
I've got a great start for you 

1041
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,200
when I was in my first solo 
tour. 

1042
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:15,280
And. 
I'm playing in love, playing in 

1043
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,360
Liverpool. 
In a massive. 

1044
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,960
Yeah, the watch with the Empire 
holes, like 3 or 4000 or 

1045
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,080
whatever, huge, massive place 
and I'm playing it. 

1046
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,080
But the day I was playing it was
when Liverpool had won the 

1047
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,520
Champions League and they were 
having their parade, which was 

1048
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,760
literally outside. 
So I'm on stage and I've done 

1049
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,600
the sound check and there's a 
piano on stage, so I'm just 

1050
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,600
playing a few songs on the stage
and have the rest of the band 

1051
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,960
had gone and I look up because 
shit better get off the doors 

1052
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,560
and be open. 
I said to the guy at the back, 

1053
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,960
excuse me? 
He said when did the doors open?

1054
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:50,440
He goes, they're open. 
Not one person I ended up to, 

1055
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,160
I'm not lying. 
There was ended up being about 

1056
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,880
18 people in the day because 
most people couldn't get in and 

1057
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:57,320
literally performed 18 people 
that. 

1058
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,600
Night. 
Well, sometimes. 

1059
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,640
And that's like the thing I had 
Newcastle. 

1060
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,640
Like sometimes the audience look
around and go, this feels empty 

1061
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,600
and they can't get it and they 
feel awkward and comfortable. 

1062
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:10,000
But sometimes it's magic where 
everyone just comes together and

1063
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,320
we're all together the most of 
this. 

1064
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:12,520
And we'll have a great one. 
Yeah. 

1065
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,360
Because I just told you I was. 
I was in Dubai two nights ago. 

1066
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:16,120
Yeah. 
Was it? 

1067
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,000
No, I came back last night and 
we did a show in a beautiful 

1068
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,760
theatre. 
It was amazing and if there had 

1069
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,000
been like double the people, it 
would have been great. 

1070
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,680
But it was it was one of those 
ones where it was like the 

1071
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:28,120
audience that were there were 
great. 

1072
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,080
But sometimes you just you wish 
they could just bring the walls 

1073
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,000
in. 
It's those nights when you're 

1074
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,960
backstage ready to go on and you
know you're going on the 10 

1075
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,760
minutes and there's a RIP or a 
tear the curtain and you just 

1076
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:40,800
have a little lookout and go, oh
shit. 

1077
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,320
We performed at the World Cup 
and guitar, we performed before 

1078
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:47,800
on the picture. 
Yeah. 

1079
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,880
Halftime. 
Holland, Argentina serious 

1080
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,520
before we were just before 
kickoff, right OK, but it was 

1081
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,600
the brilliant thing. 
So we were so excited. 

1082
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,400
FIFA brought us out, flew us 
out, put us up everything and 

1083
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,120
we're like are we will we try 
and get things up to some FIFA 

1084
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,360
bringing us out they'll sort us 
out we're performing before the 

1085
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:05,440
game. 
So I said in perfect. 

1086
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,120
We perform both sit down, watch 
Messi, watch Argentina, Holland 

1087
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:10,960
unbelievable. 
So we're about to go on. 

1088
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:12,920
We said listen, can we? 
Can we stay and watch the game 

1089
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:13,600
after? 
No. 

1090
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,080
No, we were escorted out of the 
venue. 

1091
00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:19,440
Before kickoff, straight out the
door came off. 

1092
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,520
They're like, no, you don't 
listen, we've got your stuff in 

1093
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,400
the van. 
Couldn't fucking believe it. 

1094
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,120
They. 
Flew us over in first class, 

1095
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,360
they put us up in a five star 
hotel, they paid us a load of 

1096
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,000
dollars to sing at the game. 
We didn't even and they kicked 

1097
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,520
us in. 
We just assumed. 

1098
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,280
And we were there. 
We wanted to, we wanted to go 

1099
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,920
and see the England game. 
So we contacted the people that 

1100
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,640
the contacts we had and they 
told us where to go to get the 

1101
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,640
tickets. 
They charged us 3 grand for two 

1102
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,120
tickets. 
We had the goals. 

1103
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:46,600
We were like we were there for 
four or five days. 

1104
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,040
We can't go to a World Cup and 
not do nothing but just see the 

1105
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,560
pitch and leave. 
We said we have to go to a game.

1106
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:52,640
We. 
Went to a game but we got 

1107
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:56,720
nosebleeds. 
France game and it was, we were 

1108
00:48:56,720 --> 00:48:58,280
charged a lot, but we couldn't 
believe it. 

1109
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,560
We were standing on there on on 
the pitch going right. 

1110
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,560
This is going to be so exciting.
It was just the blood. 

1111
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,200
This a bit, yeah. 
Can we go and watch the game 

1112
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:04,720
now? 
No. 

1113
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,640
You're like, can we, can we just
not leave? 

1114
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,320
Their stuff out the dress they. 
Brought us in the tunnel, so we 

1115
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:10,720
were in the tunnel with the 
teams and all that. 

1116
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:12,920
We're going. 
What does it matter if we just 

1117
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,960
stay here and watch the game? 
Don't look at messy. 

1118
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,280
Don't look at them. 
Plus, people like, you know, if 

1119
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,560
you went to a bar to watch it 
locally, it probably sounded 

1120
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,720
like you guys were lying. 
A barn We guitar. 

1121
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,800
We're still looking for it. 
You're saying the people after 

1122
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,480
the game we were on start? 
Of that show. 

1123
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:30,920
Yeah, right. 
That was great experience though

1124
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,400
it. 
Was amazing to be there. 

1125
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,440
I have to say it was a good work
up and I think that you know the

1126
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,680
fact that there wasn't that 
booze culture over there because

1127
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,440
when we went to the England 
France game, like the 

1128
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:41,920
atmosphere, the stadium was 
wonderful. 

1129
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:43,960
You know those families, 
everyone and everyone was 

1130
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:45,160
enjoying it. 
You never felt, you know 

1131
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,720
sometimes you go to these games 
you feel a bit like it's a bit 

1132
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:49,560
tense and stuff. 
It was lovely. 

1133
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:52,400
And the structures they had, it 
was like the stadium for the 

1134
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,640
England, France game was 
literally whatever it was. 

1135
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,120
Like let's say there was 50 rows
of seats and it was just 

1136
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:58,680
literally all the same. 
The holy rows. 

1137
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,040
You could walk from the top, 
right down. 

1138
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:04,840
Yeah, it was just perfectly. 
That people like enjoy on the 

1139
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,480
podcast whenever I have like 
travel chaos when something goes

1140
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,720
wrong, yeah, I'm I'm susceptible
the fucking things up with 

1141
00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:13,440
travel. 
I'll get I'll get in time wrong,

1142
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:14,880
go to the airport or do 
something. 

1143
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,520
So we had a great time to buy 
when there was 2 minutes to do 

1144
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,320
stand up with a brilliant time. 
The show was actually the show 

1145
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,840
was one of those ones. 
It was like could have done more

1146
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,400
people, but the people that were
there were great. 

1147
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,320
And we had it. 
We had a good time and went to 

1148
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,480
see the Eminem concert and stuff
and we had a good time. 

1149
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,840
And it had been like too good, 
you know, everything worked out 

1150
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:35,640
too well. 
Yeah. 

1151
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,720
And we're sit. 
I can't do my chickens too 

1152
00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:38,680
early. 
We were sitting. 

1153
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,800
We got in the in the airport to 
fly home yesterday morning and 

1154
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,360
we all separated. 
Someone want to go shopping? 

1155
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:50,560
Other guy was flying business. 
So I went to Giraffe Cafe, sat 

1156
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,640
down and got myself some food, 
set my rucksack down. 

1157
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,480
I'm out of a bomb bag now. 
I've been against the bomb bag 

1158
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:00,360
for back up until now, 36. 
Years I've been above no period 

1159
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,720
bomb bag but not what not like 
up here. 

1160
00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:05,840
I don't know. 
I actually think the crossbodies

1161
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,240
worse. 
I think it's better to just 

1162
00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:08,400
embrace NAFTA. 
Were you? 

1163
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:15,120
Wearing Louis Vuitton shorts. 
I ain't got Joker trousers with 

1164
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,920
slip black slip on shoes and no 
socks. 

1165
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,760
Are you sure you're from You're 
not from Essex? 

1166
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,560
I've got to a point where I go 
to bomb bags. 

1167
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,160
Just part of me now, just want 
to travel. 

1168
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:26,400
Just want to. 
You'll never see me. 

1169
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,320
It is your travellers cheques, 
isn't? 

1170
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,000
It it is your Fanny packs, 
great. 

1171
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,640
I've got, you know, I've got my 
eye drops in it, everything 

1172
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,640
right. 
So I get I get sorted. 

1173
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:38,920
I sit down at a table to eat and
I'm like not cutting the fine 

1174
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,720
time wise. 
But my mates at the gate and I 

1175
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:43,160
say text me when I need to go 
when they, because we're in the 

1176
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,720
last boarding group. 
So I'm like when they start 

1177
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:47,560
boarding tell me I'll come down 
and I set my stuff down at my 

1178
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,160
food. 
Halfway through my food he texts

1179
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:52,040
me need to go. 
So I said right so I paid the 

1180
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,120
bill, get my bomb bag on, let's 
go. 

1181
00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:00,200
Got on to the flight like got 
on, sat down and just turned 

1182
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,160
him. 
I was like I don't have a bag, 

1183
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,080
laptop, wallet. 
Oh no. 

1184
00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:09,440
So I said to the guy in the 
plane, I go like my I've left my

1185
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:12,200
bag in the airport, he said. 
You have any medication in it? 

1186
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,920
And I said because I was like 10
minutes left my mate, my mate 

1187
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,880
Willie D nudge me. 
He goes fucking say hey, 

1188
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:20,600
Medicaid and I did have an 
inhaler in it. 

1189
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,520
So I went yeah. 
And healer, he said he 

1190
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,520
asthmatic. 
I was like very I'm I'm just 

1191
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:28,360
smile. 
I said yeah, yeah, but they they

1192
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,000
couldn't get it. 
But because I'd say it, he's 

1193
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,000
like, you're going to contact 
lost property because I'd say 

1194
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,600
it. 
I was asthmatic and they were 

1195
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,240
the medical people had to come 
on. 

1196
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:39,200
Took you off the plane. 
No it didn't. 

1197
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,080
It would have been better if 
they took me off the plane but 

1198
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:43,920
everyone looks and it's so I 
like. 

1199
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,600
I haven't needed an inhaler in 
years. 

1200
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:46,760
I just bring them. 
To. 

1201
00:52:47,240 --> 00:52:52,480
Start hooking me, hooking me up 
to check that I was fit to fly. 

1202
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:53,960
And by the way, there's loads of
people from. 

1203
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,200
Here, have you had a surgery 
medication Was Viagra with they?

1204
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,160
Go, they go. 
Listen, we know you're very 

1205
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,520
asthmatic. 
And I'm like, and they said, I 

1206
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,160
just want to make sure. 
Are you happy to go without it? 

1207
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:09,720
You know, they're like, but 
you're very asthmatic. 

1208
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,000
You sure you want to go without 
it? 

1209
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,520
And I said yeah. 
And they said that, right? 

1210
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,680
Would so the broad overall this 
fucking machine start taking my 

1211
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:21,360
blood pressure, hooking me up to
a heart rate thing, check my 

1212
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,000
oxygen? 
Have to do. 

1213
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,680
I'll tell you what, it wasn't 
Ryan Air, that's for sure. 

1214
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:29,040
It. 
Was Emirates and then they there

1215
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:30,880
was loads of people from home on
the flight you. 

1216
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,200
Know. 
What's wrong? 

1217
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:33,480
What are you doing? 
You holding this up? 

1218
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:35,680
Fuck. 
I'm off. 

1219
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,960
And and it was awful. 
I made peace with it. 

1220
00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:42,160
I said to the boys went listen, 
it's happened. 

1221
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,720
There's no, I've got my 
passport, That's all I need. 

1222
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,480
It'll show up. 
I'll get the bag eventually. 

1223
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,080
So we're getting baggage reclaim
comes around. 

1224
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,640
I said the boys, I will laugh 
about this at some point. 

1225
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:56,720
My it goes to London Port 
Eagles. 

1226
00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:58,640
At least you have your car keys 
because I drove us to the 

1227
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,640
airport. 
Oh, no, no. 

1228
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:03,960
Car keys were in the rucksack. 
Oh. 

1229
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:07,760
Shit. 
If you're going to fuck up, you 

1230
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,840
might as a fuck. 
Up exactly fucking right, yeah. 

1231
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,400
How to get how to get an Uber 
back to the house. 

1232
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:15,560
Oh, disaster. 
From Dublin. 

1233
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:20,080
From Dublin to Belfast, yeah. 
How much was that 300? 

1234
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:28,000
£300 Fuck. 
Then my mate William goes, top 

1235
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,960
guy goes in the morning, as in 
this morning. 

1236
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,240
He goes, I'll pick you up, I'll 
take you to Dublin Airport to 

1237
00:54:34,240 --> 00:54:37,120
get your car. 
Come fight, Miss Berkey. 

1238
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,000
You're joking. 
What about the bag? 

1239
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,720
Have you not located the bag 
from Dubai? 

1240
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,800
I've got a case reference number
and we're working on. 

1241
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:49,200
Wow. 
Because they probably, I'd be 

1242
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:50,520
very surprised if you don't get 
that. 

1243
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,000
Yeah, no, but you know what does
the like a rucksack in the 

1244
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,400
middle of an airport. 
No matter. 

1245
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,440
What airport it? 
Might be blown off, actually. 

1246
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,560
Yeah, yeah. 
I made this analogy to my wife, 

1247
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,120
right? 
I go because like this always 

1248
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:05,360
happens to me. 
I said, listen, if you swim in 

1249
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:09,080
the Everglades once a year, 
you'll probably, you're never 

1250
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,120
going to get attacked by a 
crocodile if you go for a quick 

1251
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:12,680
dip. 
So people that fly once a year, 

1252
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:15,080
if you go into the Everglades 
once a year, you won't get back 

1253
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,960
rocket. 
But if you get in the Everglades

1254
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,640
every day or take a lot of 
flights, at some point you might

1255
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,240
get attacked by a crocodile. 
It's inevitable. 

1256
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:25,840
Absolutely. 
And I think that makes perfect 

1257
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:28,720
sense. 
If it makes sense to you, that's

1258
00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:30,080
good, sorry. 
I don't understand that I. 

1259
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,920
Don't fly every day, but I mean,
I'm in the water. 

1260
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,080
What's the fucking crocodile 
doing on an embers flight are? 

1261
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:38,560
You sure? 
I mean, there's more you. 

1262
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,920
Don't need that inhaler if 
there's lack lack of oxygen to 

1263
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,160
the brain I think. 
There's more opportunities for 

1264
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:44,880
me to get it wrong, right? 
Yeah, of. 

1265
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:45,840
Course. 
Yeah, right. 

1266
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,000
OK, I have to say I have the 
same. 

1267
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,760
Six times. 
I don't think that analogy is 

1268
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,120
going to take off but but. 
No way. 

1269
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,320
I've been flying to go to work 
for 30 years. 

1270
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:58,520
I've been flying out of Dublin 
Airport for 30 years, since 9331

1271
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:02,400
years, and back then I didn't 
care about flying, it didn't 

1272
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:03,600
bother me, I never even thought 
about it. 

1273
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,800
I've become very very, very 
aware of flying now and it's 

1274
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,800
something that I have to 
reconsider and think about. 

1275
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:13,840
My anxiety which I never 
struggled from or even even 

1276
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:17,560
experienced before is at an all 
time high for taking off in 

1277
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,200
London. 
Do you know what I mean? 

1278
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:20,920
Because it's exactly what you 
just said. 

1279
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,040
It's OK if you take a flight and
all these once a year you know 

1280
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,920
the chances are the are slim if.
You're in the Everglades one. 

1281
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:28,720
But if I if. 
I'm in the Everglades. 

1282
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,600
If I'm at a plane three times a 
week, I've more chance of being 

1283
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,160
on that one flight that's going 
to go fucking wrong. 

1284
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,400
By the way, I'm on a flight at 
6:00 this evening, so I'll just,

1285
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:38,120
I just gotta be sitting there 
tomorrow goes no fucking gas. 

1286
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,080
We were only talking about that 
you're going to lose something. 

1287
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:42,040
I'll be talking to him about 
you're. 

1288
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,520
Going to lose something. 
Tomorrow and you're going to 

1289
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:45,640
say, you're going to say to your
manager. 

1290
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,160
Tomorrow you're going to say, 
listen, if you're in the 

1291
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,160
Everglades every day of the 
year, women. 

1292
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,320
Just make sure you bring your 
inhaler trust. 

1293
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,480
Me, you'll need that analogy at 
some point. 

1294
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:58,800
Straggling with your man bag but
yeah. 

1295
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,560
Look, I'm confident I'm going to
get it back. 

1296
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,680
Had to fill out a form today 
describing the bag, what was in 

1297
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:04,680
it. 
I'm going to get a pack. 

1298
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:06,840
It's going to be able to open it
and see your wallet and you 

1299
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:08,520
should see your name on it. 
We're going to back. 

1300
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,400
It's going to be all, yeah. 
But it's like you said, if 

1301
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,560
somebody sees a backpack lying 
on the floor, they destroy 

1302
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:15,960
airports. 
You have done again, not on the 

1303
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,960
inside. 
Have to get through security 

1304
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:18,680
already. 
True enough. 

1305
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,000
Yeah, though I think it's going 
to be fine. 

1306
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,640
Either that or someone from from
what Pierce seen and go in 

1307
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,600
German's bag. 
What was your last search on on 

1308
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:28,880
your laptop? 
Well, well, we're all logged 

1309
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,520
into one Google account through 
my Google. 

1310
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,080
So I, I make sure my search 
history is deleted. 

1311
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:36,520
Is above board? 
Yeah, yeah. 

1312
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,160
Deleted or above board? 
Not to mention you're coming 

1313
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,640
from Dubai, so you're limited to
what you can search over there. 

1314
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,600
You're right, you're right. 
It's kind of VPN. 

1315
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,600
But if you guys through that 
Nord VPN who were sponsored by 

1316
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,480
do you have you guys ever fucked
up something trouble wise? 

1317
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:52,480
But I. 
Didn't know where you were going

1318
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:56,480
with that. 
Not that bad, right? 

1319
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,400
Not that bad. 
I I did, I well, it's a funny 

1320
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:00,720
story. 
It's another story that we used 

1321
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,640
to tell on the on the, on the 
autobiographical show. 

1322
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:08,640
So when boys on got back 
together in 2000 and at the end 

1323
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:13,000
of 2007 and we hadn't made the 
Better Together since 99. 

1324
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,800
So it was like, I mean, it was 
children in Needs asked us to 

1325
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,680
get back together to perform on 
the live Children in Need show 

1326
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:25,200
and to do a melody of sorry, a 
medley of three of our songs. 

1327
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,080
So we went into the dance 
studios to put together like 

1328
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,560
choreographed bits for the 
medley and we had a great time 

1329
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,800
and we all hadn't been together 
in literally 8 years, 7-8 years.

1330
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:40,440
But we after we went so well, 
our promoter said, you know, do 

1331
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:41,760
you fancy going back out on the 
road? 

1332
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:43,920
I've got any. 
And he made us an offer. 

1333
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,400
We couldn't turn down really 
massive big arena tour all over 

1334
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,680
the world. 
So we said we would. 

1335
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,240
But we made a pact with each 
other that we're going to get 

1336
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,520
into the gym and we're going to 
be the fittest that we've ever 

1337
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,800
been. 
So we hired a personal trainer 

1338
00:58:56,280 --> 00:59:00,120
and a nutritionist and we took 
it really, really serious, like 

1339
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:02,160
deadly, deadly serious. 
And we all kept an eye on each 

1340
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:03,560
other. 
So you're not going to cheat. 

1341
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:05,600
I'm watching it and you're not 
going to cheat because he's 

1342
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:07,120
watching it. 
And it was like that. 

1343
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,280
So we, we got absolutely 
shredded. 

1344
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:11,040
We were, we were in the best 
shapes of our life. 

1345
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,080
We're the big, the going gets 
tough. 

1346
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,920
We did on stage on treadmills 
and we've done a dance routine 

1347
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,040
on treadmills and we're all 
shredded and, but so nobody had 

1348
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,120
any shit food. 
All we're having was Turkey and 

1349
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:25,720
eggs and, you know, sweet potato
and, and, and brown rice. 

1350
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:27,800
And I mean, we, we chefs on 
their own riddles. 

1351
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:30,520
But the tour got us out to 
Southeast Asia. 

1352
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:35,000
And there was myself, Mikey 
wasn't, didn't, wasn't on this 

1353
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,800
part of the tour. 
It was myself, Stephen Gately 

1354
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:40,760
God wrestling and and Shane and 
Ronan and we were flying from 

1355
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:45,200
Taiwan to Australia and we were,
our flight wasn't till like 4:00

1356
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,360
or 5:00 in the morning and we're
flying Taiwan, Hong Kong, Hong 

1357
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:52,120
Kong, Australia. 
So we decided that we finished a

1358
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:54,480
lot of the tour and we hadn't 
really let our hair down and 

1359
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,800
we've been watching ourselves 
and no alcohol and no shit food 

1360
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,240
and da da da da da. 
And we decided the record 

1361
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,160
company wanted to bring us out 
in Taiwan and to kind of 

1362
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:03,520
celebrate the success or 
whatever. 

1363
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,280
So we we decided to let our hair
down, have a few drinks this 

1364
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,400
particular night. 
So we got we got well on it. 

1365
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,600
But there was some sort of a 
political thing going on in 

1366
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:15,560
Taipei at the time with Chinese 
delegates that were over, and 

1367
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,680
there was some kind of warning 
of riots and whatever. 

1368
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:21,480
But our hotel was where the 
Chinese delegates were staying. 

1369
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,320
And all the streets that lead 
into the hotel at 12:00 at night

1370
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,800
were barricaded by the riot 
police with Shields, right? 

1371
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,560
But we were already out of that 
area in a nightclub at that 

1372
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,360
time. 
We checked out of the hotel, 

1373
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:34,280
left all the bags in the lobby 
of the hotel. 

1374
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,640
So when we were leaving the 
nightclub, we fly back by the 

1375
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:38,760
hotel, grab the bags and go to 
the airport. 

1376
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:41,480
And I I got hammered really 
early on the time. 

1377
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,680
I'm going to go back to the 
hotel and have a couple of hours

1378
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:44,840
Kip. 
I'm not staying out till 4:00 in

1379
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,480
the morning. 
So I'm the one to find all these

1380
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,600
police with the with the Shields
open like on how am I going to 

1381
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:52,640
get into the hotel? 
All these all these guards up 

1382
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:54,600
with these Shields. 
I literally Dover locked in the 

1383
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,200
shield. 
Excuse me man, sorry I'm from 

1384
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,640
boys zone. 
I'm staying in the same hotel. 

1385
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,960
You wouldn't let me in. 
An ordinary police came along 

1386
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:05,760
and I tried to explain them and 
the guy just turned his shield 

1387
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,040
to the side. 
Let me in and I went back to the

1388
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,520
hotel. 
It was all the hotel rooms are 

1389
01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:11,760
gone. 
So I ended up sitting in the bar

1390
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:13,280
drinking. 
I mean, on to the lads got back.

1391
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,600
So it was even worse. 
So we get down to the house, we 

1392
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,120
get down to the airport and we 
decided that we'll keep drinking

1393
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:20,320
through the flight from Taipei 
to Hong Kong. 

1394
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,000
And then when we get on the 
flight from Hong Kong to Sydney,

1395
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,680
we'll sleep because if they hit 
the groundwork and we have to go

1396
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,040
straight into early breakfast, 
TV and radio and stuff. 

1397
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,280
So, so we'll sleep on that part 
of the flight. 

1398
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,120
So we're going through the gym, 
we fly, we drink all the way. 

1399
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,160
And the flight from Taipei to 
Hong Kong, we're in Hong Kong, 

1400
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:39,000
Judy free. 
And none of us had any crap food

1401
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,000
at all at this stage. 
And we just see this big sign 

1402
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:46,320
for Burger King and Ronan's off 
shopping in Louis Vuitton or 

1403
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,400
something like that. 
And we all, we all just see this

1404
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,520
like a shining, like a shining 
rainbow of Burger King of oh, 

1405
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:53,480
will we? 
Will we? 

1406
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:56,160
Why will it? 
You will don't. 

1407
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:58,320
We can't tell row. 
Nobody tells Roni. 

1408
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:02,200
Nobody can't, nobody tells Roni.
So we're the trees are holding 

1409
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,920
each other up, myself, Shane and
Steven, and we go up onto the 

1410
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:06,200
upper level where Burger King 
is. 

1411
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,480
And I said last you sit down, I 
get the food in, I get the food 

1412
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,240
in. 
So I go up to the counter and I 

1413
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:14,800
can't understand any adult. 
I just want three big whoppers 

1414
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,520
and and I said the shadow. 
I don't know what they say 

1415
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:19,120
because duster the menus in 
English. 

1416
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:24,440
Oh yeah, I couldn't even see it.
So I got like double whoppers 

1417
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:27,040
with ketchup and mayonnaise 
meals with chips and the whole. 

1418
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:30,280
And we sat down and we opened up
the burgers and which like 

1419
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,320
honest is like, oh, I remember 
biting. 

1420
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,480
It was like, Oh my God. 
And it's all driven down my chin

1421
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:38,440
on to me chest. 
It's all over me, you know, and 

1422
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:40,600
I'm going on Lazo, you have to 
sleep on this next flight. 

1423
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,440
I have to sleep. 
And then Stephen's going. 

1424
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:44,960
Don't worry, I'm going to give 
you an antihistamine tablet and 

1425
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:47,240
a melatonin and the two of them 
together, they'll make you 

1426
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:48,080
sleep. 
You'll be grand. 

1427
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:50,320
Don't worry about it. 
So we're the only ones 

1428
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:51,720
travelling in business class, 
right? 

1429
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:53,040
There's nobody else up there 
beside us. 

1430
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:55,560
So we have, we have the burgers 
and everything else and taking 

1431
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:57,640
into account we haven't had shit
food for ages. 

1432
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:00,760
So we sit down on the seats in 
the aeroplane and you can't put 

1433
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,600
your seat back until you're a 
cruising altitude. 

1434
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:05,720
And Stephen comes over, gives me
little tablets before we take 

1435
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:07,320
off. 
And I take them and I'm sitting 

1436
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,440
on the plane for about 15 
minutes waiting for the pot. 

1437
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,200
We see there and say there's a 
cup of water right in my arms. 

1438
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:14,360
Reach there. 
I'm sitting on the plane, but I 

1439
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,720
just feel so fucking stoned, 
right? 

1440
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,200
I'm looking at the drink of 
water and I can't even reach. 

1441
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:25,720
It's like too far away. 
Oh God, was he done to me? 

1442
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,240
You know, I'm like, I'm on the 
plane. 

1443
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,520
And that's when it starts. 
You get this little rumble in me

1444
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:36,440
tummy. 
Oh shit, that doesn't feel good.

1445
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:41,320
And it just started going Oh my 
God, right, I got to go to the 

1446
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,640
loo. 
So we take off anyway and I 

1447
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:47,240
literally just kind of slide off
my seat and I crawl up the 

1448
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:50,160
aeroplane. 
I get into the jacks, close the 

1449
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:55,400
door and I sit down. 
Anyway, next I remember Bang 

1450
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,520
Bang Bang Bang bang on the door.
Ronan dusters like dust. 

1451
01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:00,800
You in there duster? 
I'm going you. 

1452
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,560
What's wrong with your man? 
I'm having a dump. 

1453
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:04,080
He goes. 
We're landing. 

1454
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:08,400
I've been on the jacks for 8 
hours. 

1455
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,520
Imagine I'm in the first class 
bed and you sleep on the jacks 

1456
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,600
the whole way over. 
And I don't know if you've ever 

1457
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:17,880
tried to wipe your ass after 8 
hours, but it's crusty. 

1458
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:21,480
It's not easy. 
Yeah. 

1459
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:23,040
Have you got those baby waves on
your brain? 

1460
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:28,040
Sandpaper Lasagna. 
The Hostess is afraid to let 

1461
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:29,600
herself in. 
She knows you're going to find 

1462
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,400
to Ronan have to come and Get Me
Out of the. 

1463
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:38,000
Time I I love what you're doing 
a belt see what Belfast shows 

1464
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,720
right. 
You always get the bands talk 

1465
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,760
about the Belfast fans are 
incredible and that kind of 

1466
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,440
thing is that, is that like a 
real thing? 

1467
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:50,400
Because it's got a little 
wildness about them, you know? 

1468
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:54,520
And the, you know, Dublin is 
obviously like your home city 

1469
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,800
crowd kind of, but it always 
felt like for both bands, like 

1470
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:01,160
Belfast was a second kind of, 
you know, just as much. 

1471
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,800
Could have even been better than
Dublin sometimes, right? 

1472
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:04,440
OK. 
Absolutely. 

1473
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:05,640
They're a little bit wild, 
aren't they? 

1474
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:07,320
Yeah. 
And in the UK to further north 

1475
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:13,800
you go like Scotland like is a 
lot more Larry than than than. 

1476
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,360
England, maybe it's the same for
comedy. 

1477
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,560
We would say the the best 
crudge, the best UK crowds are 

1478
01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:22,200
like Liverpool. 
Yeah, Glasgow. 

1479
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,480
Manchester There's a reason you 
got the the Edinburgh Fringe 

1480
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:26,880
Festival. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1481
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,440
Yeah, all the comedians just had
to because the audiences are 

1482
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:30,120
great. 
Yeah. 

1483
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,280
Even for the big arenas, it was 
always the same, like the 

1484
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:35,080
working class towns, you know, 
we're always much more. 

1485
01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:37,520
I think people just appreciate 
the night outlet, their hair 

1486
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:39,200
down. 
Like, you know, I always 

1487
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:42,240
remember the London gigs, you 
know, especially in a boy band, 

1488
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:44,880
It was always that loud screams 
and the, you know, the hysteria.

1489
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:46,560
But it was never as much in 
London. 

1490
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:48,080
Yep. 
People are a bit like, yeah, 

1491
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,760
they had to have the attitude as
like we where we get to see 

1492
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:51,800
everything here. 
They're very aware of 

1493
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:53,720
themselves. 
Yeah, you're not too special. 

1494
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:54,840
Yeah. 
That's it. 

1495
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:55,960
They're very aware of 
themselves. 

1496
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,600
They won't let their hair down. 
Yep, you get them gone. 

1497
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:00,400
It's a kind of a challenge, I 
mean. 

1498
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:04,080
And when you succeed, there's a 
real feeling of achievement when

1499
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:05,400
you get the London crowd to go 
I. 

1500
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:07,160
Remember, and I don't know if 
this was a nerve myth, I 

1501
01:06:07,160 --> 01:06:10,080
remember I was talking to a 
security guy or guy worked in 

1502
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,640
BBC and there was some sort of 
story about Westlife that a gig 

1503
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:17,880
in Belfast for children need 
needed to be in Dublin airport 

1504
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:19,560
by a certain time. 
This is probably a common 

1505
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:21,520
occurrence for you guys who will
probably don't even stand out. 

1506
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:24,880
But I remember him saying 
something like and the urban 

1507
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,880
myth, the time probably changed,
but it was like he's like 41 

1508
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:29,040
minutes. 
They got them that you've got a 

1509
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:30,920
police escort or something. 
I don't know if you remember. 

1510
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:32,320
This that's happened a few 
times. 

1511
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,000
It was like a police escort and 
like you needed to be the 

1512
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,080
airport by a certain time. 
The time changes. 

1513
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:40,040
Next time put 13 minutes Belfast
to Dublin. 

1514
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,160
We like we did a residency in 
the Odyssey Arena. 

1515
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:46,200
I think for we did, I think we 
did 14 nights at the Point, the 

1516
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,520
Old Point Depot and 13 nights in
the Odyssey. 

1517
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:51,440
So we did 27 basically nights in
Ireland. 

1518
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:55,200
And yeah, most nice, we come 
back, come off stage and in 

1519
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:56,640
Belfast and go straight back to 
Dublin. 

1520
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,720
But I remember we came off the 
King's Hall years ago and Shane 

1521
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:03,120
had just got himself a twin Cam 
Corolla with bright purple with 

1522
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:05,960
roll bars. 
And we come off stage and our 

1523
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,320
wardrobe, people would literally
drag the clothes off you from 

1524
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,800
because you do four or five 
clothes changes within the show 

1525
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:14,320
and your encore outfit would be 
soaking because by the time you 

1526
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:15,880
put that on, your sweating. 
Yeah. 

1527
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:17,520
And we were doing a runner, 
what's called runner. 

1528
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:20,480
So you get out of the car park 
before the patrons get into 

1529
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:23,080
their cars and leave so that 
you're on the road early. 

1530
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:25,120
Yeah. 
So Shanes going right, Duster 

1531
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:28,640
straight off into our jocks, 
into the car, and we're gone. 

1532
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:30,640
And we grew up in the same area 
together in Dublin. 

1533
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,080
So the two of us, literally 
we're in the car, in our boxers,

1534
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:37,520
no tops on harness, seatbelts. 
If you passed that, you probably

1535
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:38,880
think you're having 
hallucinations. 

1536
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:41,800
You're like, Nah, wasn't it? 
The IUC putters over, I came 

1537
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,400
down, you see me and Shane bare 
Chester dinner. 

1538
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:48,400
We just played the King's Home 
Guard, you know what I mean? 

1539
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,680
I sure it's the lads obvious go.
Like that Remember that joke 

1540
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:54,280
about your man comes out, comes 
out with the pub and he comes 

1541
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,160
back and rings the wife and the 
wife's looking she's doing the 

1542
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,280
iron looking at the TV and the 
news is on. 

1543
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:02,760
It's gone are the some fella 
bases driving the up the wrong 

1544
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,120
side of the motorway and she 
rings the husband says you any 

1545
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,200
way back until because yeah, she
goes be careful. 

1546
01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:09,200
They're just there's some fella 
driving up the wrong side of the

1547
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,000
motorway. 1 fella, they're 
fucking loads. 

1548
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:18,560
Of them the Ulster Hall Ulster 
Hall is one of the best venues. 

1549
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:19,960
It's beautiful. 
We were there the other day. 

1550
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:21,600
You had a little look inside. 
It looks amazing. 

1551
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,680
It's great, Steve, steeped in 
history of performers before 

1552
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:26,040
you. 
That's what's great about. 

1553
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:27,720
Your eyes. 
There you go. 

1554
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:30,399
Led Zeppelin, that's that would 
have them for the first time 

1555
01:08:30,399 --> 01:08:32,560
there. 
Really, a lot of the venues you 

1556
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:36,040
play in the UK, you know that 
you don't know their history. 

1557
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:37,680
And then till you go backstage, 
yeah. 

1558
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,160
And you see the posters on the 
back walls and the side walls of

1559
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:43,560
the people that have been there 
before you and maybe engravings 

1560
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:44,680
in the wall in the dressing 
room. 

1561
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:46,880
And when you figure out who it 
is, you're kind of going, Oh my 

1562
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:49,120
God. 
Yeah, the Olympics like up for 

1563
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,240
me. 
Look start doing the Olympia 

1564
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:54,160
last few years and the posters 
they have yes of who's. 

1565
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:57,760
Been there the Olympia is such a
stunning building like you go up

1566
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:00,920
down St you have no concept that
there's this beautiful concert 

1567
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,120
hall or theatre in behind the 
walls they're. 

1568
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:04,920
So close to you, like, even when
it's packed. 

1569
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,200
Yeah, people furthest away feel 
like you could reach. 

1570
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:08,479
Out and touch them. 
Have you ever played the 

1571
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:10,479
Everyman in Cork? 
Yeah, that's the exact same 

1572
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:11,479
theatre. 
Did it for the first time. 

1573
01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:13,800
It's, I think it's the same 
architect, Brian. 

1574
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,000
Is it the same architect? 
Maybe just a smaller version? 

1575
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,319
Smaller version. 
It's beautiful. 

1576
01:09:17,399 --> 01:09:20,439
It's great. 
When you mentioned, I'll let you

1577
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:22,960
go on a SEC. 
When you mentioned doing like, 

1578
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:24,560
what did you call it when you 
leave before the crowd? 

1579
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,600
Runner. 
We went to see Van Morrison do a

1580
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:32,240
very small show on the limelight
in Belfast and it was brilliant.

1581
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:36,040
He was doing Gloria at the end 
and he was sort of go. 

1582
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:39,200
He finished up and he sort of 
say didn't say he was finishing,

1583
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:42,200
but he played for ages and he 
was sort of like introducing his

1584
01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:43,279
bat. 
You know, he was sort of like, 

1585
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,240
you know, you do a solo, you do 
a solo. 

1586
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:49,399
So Van Morrison steps back to 
let them do like their own kind 

1587
01:09:49,399 --> 01:09:50,920
of souls and stuff. 
And I was like, fuck, that's 

1588
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,399
that's nice of them to do that. 
And he steps back. 

1589
01:09:53,399 --> 01:09:55,320
He's also having a drink of 
water and he come out for one 

1590
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,640
last song. 
So, you know, you go to the the 

1591
01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:00,480
guitar player play for like a 
riff for like a minute because 

1592
01:10:00,480 --> 01:10:04,600
over to the drummer. 
Does we think he was God, my 

1593
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:08,000
mate was like he would have been
at his house by the time we were

1594
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:10,240
leaving. 
He lives like like say he lives 

1595
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,960
a 13 minute drive. 
So we call with stand up now. 

1596
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:14,640
We called doing a Van Morrison. 
That's it. 

1597
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,640
Sometimes you got to say to the 
boys like it's a Van Morrison 

1598
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:17,520
tonight. 
Yeah, yeah. 

1599
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,080
It's just, it's a, it's a quick.
Van Morrison, comedian, though, 

1600
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:21,880
he'd probably leave in the 
middle of a joke, yeah. 

1601
01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:30,480
Just talk about putting a new 
music, the process of that of 

1602
01:10:30,480 --> 01:10:34,720
like the fact that it's you 2 
guys and it's not a group and 

1603
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:38,120
you have all the experience of 
having made music before, Is it 

1604
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:41,080
way more like laid back when 
you're making a track? 

1605
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,520
Is it totally different to the 
way you would have made tracks? 

1606
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:46,120
Come It's completely different 
in general because the music 

1607
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:48,720
industry has completely changed.
You know, the old days of you 

1608
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,160
would make an album, then you'd 
bring out a single and that 

1609
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:53,160
would go on radio and then it 
would go out and it would chart 

1610
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,680
and did that's all gone. 
You know, like right now we're 

1611
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:57,600
in the middle of making an 
album, but we don't even really 

1612
01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,640
need to make an album. 
We can just keep releasing the 

1613
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,160
songs because, yeah, it's 
literally just stream now. 

1614
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,320
So people just listen to the 
songs they want to listen. 

1615
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:06,040
Nobody's going out and buying 
CDs anymore. 

1616
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,160
So the whole kind of format of 
releasing music has completely 

1617
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:12,320
changed, which kind of then 
changes it for us as songwriters

1618
01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,800
too, because you're not really 
going in going. 

1619
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:16,680
Right. 
Well, we have, you know, the old

1620
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,880
days like write a movie, you'd 
kind of have arcs and different 

1621
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:22,520
movements on an album. 
Now, you don't have to do that. 

1622
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,640
You don't have to sit there and 
go, oh, we've no ballad or we've

1623
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:26,880
no up temp with that. 
You just write songs now. 

1624
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,640
And every song is its own 
individual project now. 

1625
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:31,360
So we'll write a song, go, yeah,
we love that. 

1626
01:11:31,440 --> 01:11:35,000
We'll put that out, make a video
for it, and then we could write 

1627
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:36,600
something a couple of weeks 
later ago, right? 

1628
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:37,840
That's next. 
We'll put that out next. 

1629
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:40,640
So there's no bigger picture 
with music anymore. 

1630
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:42,720
Everything is kind of in the 
moment. 

1631
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:44,920
I think you tell much enjoy 
because like you say, you don't 

1632
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:46,200
need that. 
You don't need to be relation 

1633
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:46,840
music. 
You could. 

1634
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,880
You've got the back catalogue 
that you could do. 

1635
01:11:49,640 --> 01:11:51,600
And that's, that's kind of the 
only thing that, you know, I 

1636
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,920
think for a while there when we 
were writing, we kind of said to

1637
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:56,760
each other, this is bloody hard 
because we would have to write 

1638
01:11:56,760 --> 01:12:00,600
something seriously amazing to 
take one of the number one songs

1639
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:02,400
out of our setlist. 
You know, these songs that have 

1640
01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:06,200
been around for 30 years. 
So we've kind of just figured it

1641
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:07,920
out now we're just going to 
look, we'll constantly write 

1642
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,920
songs and then every tour we'll 
maybe do 2 of the new songs and 

1643
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,800
just stick with the old ones. 
And if, if we write something 

1644
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:17,040
better now than our own stuff, 
the original boys life stuff, 

1645
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:19,280
we'll swap it in and out. 
But you know, we, we know as 

1646
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:22,160
music fans ourselves, when you 
go and see a band, you want to 

1647
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:23,800
hear the hits. 
You don't want to hear the album

1648
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,360
tracks, you don't want to hear 
the songs that they like 

1649
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:26,560
singing. 
You want to hear the bloody 

1650
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:27,120
hits. 
Yeah. 

1651
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:30,040
So we always make sure that we 
sing the songs that the people 

1652
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:32,120
coming to the show are going to 
want to hear, whether we want to

1653
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:33,320
sing or not. 
The songs we sing. 

1654
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,080
We fucking hate singing, right? 
You know, songs like Mandy and 

1655
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:39,160
stuff like that. 
We hate singing My Love, but we 

1656
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:42,840
know absolute turds. 
But we know that the fans love 

1657
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:44,520
it. 
So as much as we hate singing 

1658
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:46,520
it, we're still going to sing it
because they don't. 

1659
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:48,280
We don't. 
Really sing it anymore, do we? 

1660
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:53,280
We kind of just sing the first 
line and go, and then we go 

1661
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:54,840
another vodka. 
Can't wait for them to finish 

1662
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:56,160
the song. 
You keep singing. 

1663
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,600
Keep going. 
You guys do a runner your way 

1664
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,640
back to the. 
Mars on it. 

1665
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:04,600
We're gone. 
Yeah, I love it. 

1666
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:08,840
The gig in Belfast, 19th of. 
1515. 

1667
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,280
First night of the World Tour, 
15th January. 

1668
01:13:12,480 --> 01:13:13,920
In Belfast. 
The whole tour starts in 

1669
01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:14,960
Belfast. 
Yeah, for show going. 

1670
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,360
To be crazy when we sing Love me
for a reason. 

1671
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:20,480
Yeah, you see you're coming on 
stage of us. 

1672
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,560
To sing that, yeah. 
Yeah, yeah, maybe we'll do that.

1673
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:25,200
But after teaching the dance 
routine, that was. 

1674
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:26,360
You won't. 
Maybe it's a crazy thing. 

1675
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:29,760
We should. 
Probably do that last time. 

1676
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:30,920
We'll do a Van Morris. 
What he's saying. 

1677
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:33,480
You look around, we'd be gone 
too. 

1678
01:13:33,480 --> 01:13:35,000
Yeah. 
It has the best backup band, but

1679
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,000
we'll be gone. 
Huge and the crowd of God and. 

1680
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,120
It's not just me. 
We leave a mirror on stage for 

1681
01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:41,560
you. 
That's all I need. 

1682
01:13:41,640 --> 01:13:44,160
There you go. 
Thank you very, very much. 

1683
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:45,320
Thanks for having us. 
We've enjoyed it. 

1684
01:13:45,480 --> 01:13:48,200
We'll put a link in the 
description below for for 

1685
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,560
tickets for the show for Alter 
Hall, but they won't hang a bit 

1686
01:13:50,560 --> 01:13:51,120
long. 
Which ticket? 

1687
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:52,920
There's only a few left. 
That's great. 

1688
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:57,480
Or a few sold which is a. 
Few slay on the positives man. 

1689
01:13:57,480 --> 01:13:58,880
Stay in the positive. 
There's a few left. 

1690
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,480
Get Milan Milan's gone from our.
Lands gone from everybody. 

1691
01:14:01,480 --> 01:14:04,480
Fucking loads left in Milan. 
Forget Milan, that's thank you 

1692
01:14:04,480 --> 01:14:05,760
very much for thank. 
You thanks for having. 

1693
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:06,400
US. 
Thank you boys.