from=19th October 1997
Interviewer-Dave Fanning
Cut out of Forgiven Not Forgotten video
Dave: Fantastic! Forgiven Not Forgotten, that is the Corrs, that is from the first
album and they're all here with us live in the studio on fabulous 2tv, if you're listening
on the radio, you really should be watching on the television aswell and we're here until
half past one, although I dunno if the Corrs are here until then, we'll see. So, what can
I say, album No.1, that was that album No.1 there. Album No.2 is ready and it's out, is it
actually released yet, is it actually in the shops?
Sharon: Yeah
Dave: It is yeah, and you're doin' this HMV thing by the way in Dublin, what's that
about? Might as well get that out of the way first
Jim: That's right, we're doin' an in-store performance of one or two songs and it's
at 2 o'clock at HMV in Grafton Street.
Dave: In Grafton Street in Dublin, OK, fine. Now the second album compared to the
first album, the obvious first thing, I'll throw it to any one of you, what's the
difference?
Caroline: Em, I think this time around, I suppose we had a shorter space of time to
do this one but I think y'know from all the touring that we did, we got a lot more guitar
orientated but em, tried to keep the harmonies and the traditional element that we love.
But I mean it's different, it's a bit edgier the songs are a little bit, y'know more
energetic I think..
Dave: OK so in other words Caroline, harmony and traditional is the sortof core of
the sound of the Corrs or whatever, I actually didn't mean that!! But it's too late now
isn't it. The point about it is that when you play live loads of times it just makes you
that little bit more, if you like, almost loud...
Andrea: ...Yeah...
Dave: ...edgier or whatever, so is this where Jim comes in then, cos he's whackin'
away, I've heard him?
Jim: Well certainly, I mean on stage we're sortof expressin' ourselves much more
freely this time, so y'know, em, certainly it's got more aggressive as a result of that...
Dave: And what about the production side of it then, I mean didn't you do part of
the production on the first album, quite a lot of it?
Jim: I did, yeah but I did three songs on this album aswell
Dave: Right, and what about you Andrea, you wrote a lot on this one didn't you?
Jim: Coughs Sorry! laughs
Sharon: You wrote the single for starters, didn't you?
Caroline: I wrote a lot of the lyrics but we've all contributed to the writing,
but, lyrics, it's kinda the same as the last one too
Dave: OK, now the big guy from the last one was this, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion
whatever you call him, guy, En Vogue, which is David Foster, he's still onboard this time
but he's not the only one
Sharon: Yeah, we had David again this time, David Foster and we also had Glen
Ballard..
Jim: Yeah from Alanis
Sharon: ..from Alanis, yeah, that's right and then we also had Oliver Leiber on the
album then too
Dave: Now that surname is one of the most famous surnames in the history of..
Sharon: Oliver Leiber, yeah
Dave: I mean I don't know about the Christian name, I've never heard of Oliver
before but is he a Leiber in store, is he?
Sharon: Yeah, he's Jerry Lee's son..
Dave: Did you touch him??
Sharon: We have touched him
Dave: Can I touch ya'?? One of the most famous names in music!! So is the son just
hanging on the coattails or is he any good??
Caroline: Yeah, he's good
Jim: He's brilliant
Dave: Really? (to Jim) So were you redundant then on this one because you got
three? Wait a minute did you get three guys in this time because he was no good on the
last one then? Is that the point?
Caroline: Yeah, that was it!! (Everyone laughs)
Dave: So did you just sit back and just play louder guitar and lose your temper on
the guitar, is that it?
Jim: Yeah, I'll just say yeah, no that wasn't the case
Dave: OK, well how did you get this one together if you were writing the songs on
the road all the time, I mean writing the songs and all that, I mean there is no time, the
last thing you wanna do at the end of the day is say, 'I better do my echer', in other
words write some songs and you don't wanna do that do you?
Jim: That was the very difficult aspect all right, I mean we wrote a couple of
songs on tour all right but we found ourselves short so what we decided to do was, we
continually wrote in Los Angeles but we also co-wrote with a few people. We co-wrote with
Oliver, we co-wrote with Glen Ballard and co-wrote with Carol Bayer Sager and eh, that
worked out fantastically well and it also helped us, it evolved our song writing skills in
a sense
Dave: Carol Bayer Sager I know you did two songs with her on the album, is she
married to somebody famous? No?
Sharon: She was married to Burt Bacharach, she's now married to Bob Daly, head of
'Time Warner'
Dave: All these names, I mean they don't come much bigger!!
Sharon: I don't know where we found them!
Dave: You never got the chance to meet Burt did you?? No ?
Dave: Yes
Andrea: Oh, did you? He's written like, he's probably after Lennon and McCartney,
is he No.1 in the world for the best songs ever written or something? He must be, y'know.
Because also, the kinda songs he wrote, they must be the kind of songs that you guys like
aswell , brilliant melodies..
Sharon: Yeah
Caroline: 'Close to you' is fantastic!
Dave: 'Trains and boats and planes' and all that.
Jim: 'Arthursteam' with Carol
Andrea: Did he do that?
Jim: Yeah, with Carol
Dave: So tell us a bit about, like, I mean when you were in the studio, where were
you this time. I know last time you were in Malibu and you were trying to get it together
there and impress David Foster and all this. Where were you this time when making the
album?
Sharon: We were in Los Angeles again this time, we also did some in Ireland, we
worked with a guy called Leo Pearson in Ireland and then we did a lot of it in LA. too, so
basically we were just in each producers' studio
Dave: Right
Sharon: ..In Malibu again, in Disneyland, cos it looks like Disneyland
Dave: Malibu is Disneyland, yeah
Sharon: And then just in Glen Ballards' studio and Oliver Liebers' studio, so it
was all in LA.
Dave: OK, just a couple of individual things, em, Andrea you've done another thing
now which is 'Quest for Camelot'. Disney own animation all around the world, we all know
that but there's other studios' tryin' to make animation now cos it makes so much money,
you're in with one of these big one's now, on what level what is it?
Andrea: Well, em, I'm the singing voice of the main girl animated character, I sing
her songs. It's like I'm her singing voice y'know
Dave: So it's more than one? It's like loads, is it?
Andrea: Of the songs?
Dave: Yeah
Andrea: There's a few yeah, there's a duet and....there's two actually
Dave: Have you heard like Boyzone have one on the Hercules album at the moment and
Steve's, Steve always wanted to work something to do with Disney and he's got it too. Do
you just go in there and do it, is it just another gig?
Andrea: Yeah, well I mean, yeah it's just, I mean it's different because you gotta
be aware of the way the character is moving or whatever and the whole set-up of it like
animation wise, but I mean with the way we move, there's no time to go 'Oh, I'm nervous
about this', all of a sudden you're there y'know
Dave: Well there's no time to be nervous about bungee jumping Jim is there??
Jim: How did you hear about that??
Dave: Tell us about the bungee jump Jim
Jim: Well oh it was, we had three day's off when we arrived in Australia and I was
persuaded to do it by the bass player, our bass player Keith Duffy. And I must say it was
the absolute scariest experience I've ever had, I was confronting death!!
Caroline: Jim was talking about the three days before he did, how he was gonna
y'know do the bungee jump...
Jim: When I got up there, it was like, white knuckles, you couldn't get my hands
off it, I was so scared, but eh I eventually did it, it was then the absolute extreme, it
was the most exhilarating experience, the buzz I got off it was just phenomenal, cos like
the adrenaline, the endorphins flyin' through your system, just like nothing else..
Dave: You three never gave it a bash, no?
Caroline: No I don't wanna lose any legs or arms or anything!
Dave: All too precious. We're comin' back to this, we're gonna show a video first,
I can only presume it's the brand new single, it must be, yeah. Let's have a look at the
Corrs, By the way if you're not watching the television at the moment you're morons!!
Only When I sleep video plays
(Dave calls a viewer over the phone in a spice girls competition)
Dave: Do people like the Corrs for their shoes and their hair?
Andrea: Not my shoes!
Caroline: Check mine out!
Dave: Sharon's got nothin’ to say 'eh, I dunno, haven't been asked that
question before
Sharon: It's possible!
Dave: Tell us about the whole idea that music is a career. Right, music to keep
goin' for ever and ever. I dunno which one of you, but one of you said at a certain stage
you would have to give all this up because it's like 24 hours a day, 25 hours a day. Why
would you necessarily have to give it up, couldn't you take your time off to do what it
is, whatever you want to do and just come back??
Jim: If we stopped enjoyin' ourselves, and I suppose people stopped enjoying us
then we'd probably give it up, but that's a long way away, cos we're in it for the long
haul
Dave: OK, well you're in for the long haul and you're literally around the world
all over the place, the album, as you just said there Jim has already gone gold in Spain..
Jim: In one day
Dave: In one day in Spain which is pretty phenomenal, I mean you've sold 500,000
copies of the first album in Australia alone, which is more than REM and U2 put together,
and you've got New Zealand. You've got all these ridiculous figures in France and Canada
and Norway and Japan and double platinum Spain and Denmark and everything else, New
Zealand, by the way when you went to New Zealand this time around, was this guy sortof
able to help you at all, cos you were there with Dolores before weren't you
Jim: I was yeah, that's right I was, you've a good memory
Dave: I'm answering all these questions!! He was there with Dolores Keane by the
way for those of you who don't realise
Jim: A celebration of Irish music, it was a sponsored tour, yeah
Dave: Do you miss Ireland more now, the last time you were on the programme the
first album was well out, you were on about your third single but you were touring a lot,
now you're touring all the time. Do you miss Ireland a bit less now?
Sharon: No, no
Jim: Definitely not
Sharon: I think...
Jim: it actually...sorry go on
Sharon: I think it's something that just, it actually gets worse because it's just
compounded by, you're away, you're away, you're away all the time, I think the first year
it was a total novelty, now it's just "I wanna come home I wanna get home and just
y'know have some fun"
Dave: Sure, but where's home, I mean is home that hotel in Dublin? Or is it
Dundalk?
Caroline: Well sometimes..
Dave: It's not Mammy & Daddies place in Dundalk much anymore
Caroline: We're usually in Dublin when we're home but we do go down to Dundalk
aswell
Dave: Yeah, but also you're parents come up here. Andrea do you remember a time
playing the piano in your house. Cos you had a piano, downstairs, this is a really
ridiculous piece of information, but your parents brought the piano upstairs with six CIE
men and stuck it into this guy's room before he was even born and when you wanted to play
the piano, you had to go into his bedroom to play it, am I right??
Andrea: Yes, and play them with a lot of smells!
Caroline: How do you know all this?? Where are you gettin' all your information
from?
Dave: It's me job! I could ask you something like, what's Michael Jackson like,
have you ever met him?
Caroline: No, we've never met him, no
Sharon: But you've met David Foster yeah?
Caroline: Yeah, on numerous occasions
Andrea: Once or twice
Dave: So you don't miss Ireland as much anymore, or you do, the answer is, you do
yeah, really? I wouldn't have thought that now. What's been the best place you've been,
what was the best gig for instance, where?
Andrea: We really enjoyed Millstreet this time
Dave: Who? Oh Millstreet!!
Andrea: Yeah
Dave: I thought you said "Mustreet", what island is that? Millstreet yeah
Andrea: Millstreet was good fun, cos Sharon Shannon and Steve Cooney came up with
us..
Dave: Wait a minute, hold on, if I was in Belgium and I said what gig you enjoyed
so much, would you say some town in Belgium??
Andrea: Of course we wouldn't
Caroline: No it's true because that gig was the most exhilarating for us because we
got up to play with Sharon Shannon and Steve Cooney and do a trad piece that we've never
done before, usually we're gonna do our own gig and set and this was just exhilarating on
stage to have two Irish musicians that we love, playing with us
Dave: OK well look, before we actually let this video play, there's one question I
would definitely want to ask you, if a band are on the road a lot, there's gonna be some
friction, there's gonna be a little bit of fighting, and like eventually there's lawyers
and that sortof thing. What about you guys, since you're family do you always have to work
it out within the four walls and then it's cool and don't tell me that you don't have
fights!
Sharon: No we just sue each other
Dave: Do you, you sue each other within those four walls, surely there must be a
bit of friction now and again?
Jim: There is, we're like any normal family, of course, from time to time there's
little explosions but y'know we get over it fairly quickly, and I think that's the great
thing about being family, just to forget about it, y'know
Andrea: I haven't forgotten!
Jim: Yes you have!
Andrea: No I haven't OK!!
Jim: Yes you have!!!
Andrea: OK, so look it's HMV at two o'clock this afternoon and the album is now
out, you feel very happy about that
Jim grabs Andrea by the neck to mimic strangling her
Dave: Quick are you catchin' that?? Because you're very happy that the album is
out, because now you got so many songs the people in the audience will know, so where's
next, it's Japan and America next year or something?
Sharon: Eh, well next year we're doing em, oh gosh, we're doing South East Asia and
Japan, New Zealand, Australia. we do a European tour this year, November and December
Caroline: I feel tired already!
Dave: Yeah, just lookin' at the whole thing. I mean, do you have any day’s off
at all?
Sharon: No
Dave: None, nothing, no.
Caroline: I don't think so
Dave:Right OK, I suppose we'd better go, right are we supposed to be watchin' this
video? Yeah, we've kinda missed the video that's playin' underneath us so I
suppose..listen thanks very much indeed, Caroline and Sharon and Andrea and Jim aswell.
And the very best of luck with the second album, and conquer the world
All: Thanks
Dave: And sell even more than two million this time around!
All: Thankyou
Thankyou to Joseph Evans for supplying the tape! thanx