Radio Transcript on "B105"

PAUL: Welcome to our, our humble little studio Irish musical quartet of some world reknown I suppose now - The Corrs. Welcome to Brisbane and Australia guys.
ANDREA: Hi.
CAROLINE: Hello.
SHARON: Thanks.
JIM: Thank you.
PAUL: Sharon, Caroline, Jim, and Andrea would you like to...'cause we know your music OK; It must be so wierd, what we you just saying before, it must be so weird to go around the other side of the world and you turn on the radio, you come out of the airport and there you are!
SHARON: Its crazy.
PAUL: That's great. Well would you like to introduce yourselves personally and tell us, y'know, what you play in The Corrs.
SHARON: OK.
PAUL: You get to go first...Sh...Sh...
SHARON: Thanks. (everyone laughs)
SHARON: Don't give it away.
PAUL: Oh I've done it now...
SHARON: "Gee, I feel really from the swine" (mumble). Erm... I'm Sharon and I play the violin and I sing backing vocals
PAUL: We've heard that violin - we like it.
SHARON: Thank you!
PAUL: Caroline, you get to introduce yourself now. (laughs)
CAROLINE: Ok, I'm Caroline and I play um drums, bodhrán and backing vocals.
JIM: And I'm Jim and I play the fool, most of the time.
ANDREA: That's true y'know.
PAUL: You play the fool?
JIM: A lot of times.
PAUL: Jim, you've changed your, you've changed your look from your press photo, you've got this shock of hair now, it looked really conservative before.... (Sharon laughs in background)
PAUL: And that leaves...(waiting for Andrea to respond)...look Andrea's just gone away.
ANDREA: I'm sorry there, I was drifting. It was the waves of his hair. Ahh I'm Andrea and I'm the lead singer and I play tin whistle.
PAUL: Terrific. now I know your drifting because you have been uh - I suppose you haven't been to bed since oooohhh...about April.
ANDREA: Yeah, thats about right.
CAROLINE: Yeah.
PAUL: Is that right?
SHARON: April. It was nice in April. I remember it was ahhh...sunny.
PAUL: It was sunny?(chuckles)
SHARON: Yes.
PAUL: She's got this glazed look. (Sharon chuckles)
PAUL: Because you've been everywhere, on this tour haven't you? It's Denmark, it's France, it's Canada...
JIM: That's right. We just, we didn't get any sleep last night at all because we just flew in from Japan. We were playing in, we were in Tokyo - actually we weren't playing in Tokyo, we were playing in...
SHARON: We were playing in Nagoya
JIM: Nagoya, last night. So we just did a tour of Japan, so unfortunately, no time for sleep, but then they say there's plenty sleep, plenty of time for sleep when we die.
PAUL: Yeah. Well I suppose. If you're travelling so much - this is a question from my wife, OK. I said, "Listen, I'm going to talk to The Corrs today", and she said, " Ask them this;" because we did a trip around the world, you know, very brief, but not like you guys, a couple of years ago; and she just had to take with her her pillow. OK, so you cut it in half, eh because it wouldn't fit in the suitcase otherwise, and she took it y'know, to Japan, across to Britain, across Iceland y'know in the plane, and through America, wherever...Now is there anything you have to take with you when you're travelling - you have to have your own?
SHARON: Clothes.
ANDREA: CD player.
PAUL: CD player - like a Walkman?
ANDREA: Yeah.
PAUL: Yeah...
ANDREA: And that's it...clothes really.
SHARON: Some vitamin C tablets...
CAROLINE: Hairdryer...(laughing)
SHARON: Definitely a hair dryer, definitely.
PAUL: Hairdryer, OK.
ANDREA: The usual. (laughing)
JIM: Knitting.
PAUL: Well, I like too...sorry Jim?
JIM: Knitting.
PAUL: A bit of knitting! On the plane? (laughing)
ANDREA: Yes.. (everyone laughing)
PAUL: We would like to hear some of your music this afternoon and we'll play some from the CD, unless you would like to like to y'know...play some now for us, live on the radio...
SHARON: We'd love to.
ANDREA: Sure, we would love to.
PAUL: What can we hear now?
ANDREA: Well...
SHARON: This is 'Forgiven Not Forgotten'
ANDREA & SHARON: The latest single.
PAUL: Number two from the CD. Ok, thanks guys, This is The Corrs on Brisbane's B105...live.
JIM: Three, four. One, two, three, four.
ANDREA: Instrument.
(Forgiven Not Forgotten is played live)
PAUL: It's magic. The Corrs, live on B105. We'll talk some more soon guys OK?
CAROLINE: The Corrs. Yeah.
PAUL: Play some U2, is that alright?
ANDREA: Yeah, good idea.
JIM: Cool!
("Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2 is played)
PAUL: Better music variety from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Brisbane's B105; Paul Davies this arvy [1] with Sharon, Caroline , Jim and Andrea - The Corrs, live to get you home, if you can knock off [2] early and get home. You might be going to the concert tonight at Performing Arts Centre [3], which is just about sold out. Isn't that good news?
ANDREA & SHARON: Yeah
ANDREA: Its fantastic.
PAUL: We like to hear that don't we?
ANDREA: We've gotten a good welcome here in Brisbane, that's what we're looking forward to tonight.
PAUL: We all, yeah...we know your music as we said before but we still get faxes in at B105 asking for the 'cause' - C-A-U-S-E (spelled out), occasionally...
SHARON: Oh really!
JIM: (laughing) aha the 'cause'
ANDREA: The 'cause' - oh, right.
SHARON: We definitely get the beer, y'know 'Coors'. You definitely get that.
PAUL: Coors beer?
SHARON & JIM: Yeah, Coors.
PAUL: Right OK
ANDREA: (mumbling) Oh, God it's...
PAUL: Well Ireland is a very musical land isn't it? Did you like the green T-shirt today? (referring to his green T-shirt)
ANDREA: Love it. That's what we were just saying - you look kinda Irish, it's nice.
PAUL: I do at that don't I? (with an irish accent)
ANDREA: You do indeed! Be God!
CAROLINE: Great accent. (in background)
(Caroline & Sharon chuckling in background)
PAUL: So have you been playing and singing - this is a silly question, because I guess you have - since you were little?...little tikes.
ANDREA: Our father taught us -yeah, I mean our parents were musicians themselves, our mother's a singer and our father played keyboards. They're a band themselves so I mean, we grew up watching them, copying them, y'know. And then our father taught us all classical piano at about the age of six - all of us. And Sharon went to classical violin lessons, eh Jim picked up the guitar, Caroline: bodhrán, drums. And...and myself : tin whistle. So yeah, it's from a very early age.
PAUL: And that's a 'thank you' to your mum and dad on the CD isn't it?
ANDREA: Yeah, oh God, yeah....
PAUL: Jean and...?
SHARON & CAROLINE: Gerry.
PAUL: Jean and Gerry.
ANDREA: Well for obvious reasons, ah we wouldn't be here...otherwise, would we?
PAUL: That's right, no I guess not. Well you all grew up so close together - what's the little town you came from?
JIM: Dundalk (in background)
PAUL: It's about 30000 people isn't it?
JIM: 35000 people - Dundalk, yes. It's just in between Dublin and Belfast on the East Coast of Ireland.
PAUL: Right. Does that mean you were all thrown in the bath together when you were little?
ANDREA: Yeah.
SHARON: Yeah, unfortunately.
JIM: Oh the three girls were. (chuckling)
SHARON: You were in with me sometimes as well, weren't you? (reffering to Jim). Oh but we were very young...
PAUL: You're very close ages...
JIM: ...yet dangerous (all laughing)
CAROLINE: I'm glad I have no memories of this!
ANDREA: No, no I was never in the bath with Jim, that's for sure.
PAUL: You're very um...close ages does that ah, does that ah, is that cause problems? Does anyone have any habits while you're touring? Y'know Jim, travelling with 3 girls. Is that alright?...Get out of the bathroom?
JIM: I don't think there's any, any of us have any big habits, it's just, the only thing is that Andrea just continually leaves things behind her. (Andrea winces in background) So we always have to do a scan of the hotel rooms because inevitably there will be a CD player or some clothes left behind.
SHARON: Or a head...some limbs.
PAUL: Or a head and and a few limbs?
SHARON: Or something like that (jokingly)
ANDREA: Y'know this is the product of being the baby of the family -I'm constantly being picked on!
PAUL: We've started something here.
ANDREA: Can you not, can you not, look after me...
PAUL: I know, I'm the baby of the family too , Andrea (in background)
SHARON: The product of being the baby of the family is that you can't take resposibility for your own stuff. (The Corrs laugh)
JIM: Yoh!
CAROLINE: Yoh!
JIM: Ouch!
CAROLINE: Ouch!
PAUL: It's The Corrs live this afternoon on B105 and we wanna play some more music from you, this is 'Runaway'. B105.
('Runaway'is played from the CD)
PAUL: I heard that you performed on an American aircraft carrier. Now not many people get to do that - was that fun? What happened there?
JIM: It's true, it was great fun. Well we were actually invited um to play by Jean Kennedy Smith, the American ambassador to Ireland, who was the person who, I suppose, would've possibly given us, given us a break - she got us out of Ireland in the first place. We went to play for the Kennedys in Boston and that's where we got to meet David Foster and then got the deal with Atlantic Records. So she invited us to do this and so we said 'yeah, sure we'd love to' and so we did it, and we played for a load of dignitaries, a load of the Heads of State and our Prime Minister and herself and we also played for all of the crew. We did 2 concerts and it went great. It was an amazing experience.
ANDREA: It was really good because also at the same time we were shooting uh...a documentary, uh like, a documentary that we've been shooting from the very beginning of us, and also we were shooting stuff for our next video which will be in Ireland, I think ...
SHARON: Mm.
ANDREA: ... 'Love To Love You', um y'know. So it'll be interesting from the ship.
PAUL: And what about the future? What's coming up next? You're doing this tour which goes on and on doesn' it? Australia isn't the end of it certainly?
CAROLINE: No, um...we go on from Australia and then we go on to New Zealand...
PAUL: Yes...
CAROLINE: And ummm, then we go home for a little while and then...where do we go then? America?
SHARON: Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden...you forgot about that trip.
CAROLINE: Oh yes, oh yes! I forgot, I forgot our horrific trip. We actually have to go from Auckland to Sweden...
PAUL: Oohhh, that's a big flight!
CAROLINE: The very, actually, the very tip of Sweden which is something like 32 hours or something like that.
SHARON: It's just, it's more or less going from the South Pole to the North Pole in one day y'know.
CAROLINE: Yeah.
PAUL: You must have a great travel agent (jokingly) (The Corrs laugh) Now we'd like you to do...
SHARON: No, we're on economy! (everyone laughs)
PAUL: Economy!? You're up the back row.
CAROLINE: Yeah
PAUL: We'd like you to perform one more piece of music if you will.
ANDREA: OK, sure.
PAUL: What would you like to do?
ANDREA: We'll do a traditional piece. This is ah, "Here's to The Wedding".
("Here's to The Wedding" is played live)
(whilst playing) ANDREA: That's lovely Irish dancing you're doing there.(laughs)
PAUL: They're dancing in the corridors at B105 and they'll be dancing tonight.
JIM: I swear one of them is not our manager. (jokingly) (everyone laughs)
PAUL: (still laughing)...your producer
SHARON: Dave, your dancing was phenominal.
PAUL: It's Paul! Stop calling me Dave!
SHARON: Twinkle toes Paul.(everyone laugh)
PAUL: Sharon, Caroline, Jim and Andrea Corr. Thanks for coming in this afternoon and spending some time with us.
ANDREA: Thank you!
PAUL: Enjoy Australia and enjoy your performance tonight. Still just a few seats left I think at 'Q Pak'[4]. Alright now, B105.

FOOTNOTES :
[1]'arvy' is an Australian slang meaning 'afternoon'.
[2] 'Knock off' is an Australian phrase meaning to finish work
[3] Performing Arts Centre is the Brisbane venue The Corrs performed at for first Australian tour.
[4] 'Q Pak'is the name of the Brisbane ticket agency which presented The Corrs during the tour.

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Transcribed by Jess Lai (with help from James Maranion, Thanks James!)