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Interview
with Westlife 2
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How many are you when
you go out on tour?
Mark: I think last time we were about 83 people and had 11 lorries with
all the equipment.
Have you got any plans
on collaborating with other artists?
Mark: Not at the moment. We done one song with Mariah Carey and we are
probably going to be performing with her pretty soon again. We also did
a song with Bryan Adams called "This Is It." I don´t know
when we will release it though. I think we'll keep it for out greatest
hits album. Most of the times when artists collaborate it's more of a
business thing but for us we just met him and our Bryan began writing
a song with him.
Bryan: Bryan Adams
came across my song and he rang me and we started re-writing it. We took
two songs that we had written and re wrote it and made a chorus. It went
very well. Hopefully it will be on the greatest hits album we plan on
releasing next year.
You must be quite
recognized when you go out?
Mark: Not too much in Sweden really and London is such a big city so we
can move freely there. But in Dublin it's crazy since that's our home
country, we have to write autographs all the time.
How are you planning
on changing your style to attract a greater audience?
Kian: We aren't really planning on doing that but think the music has
matured a lot. We feel like Westlife is the way it is and people like
it that way. We get all this backlash for not doing so many up tempo songs.
We've sold 15 million albums on doing ballads so why should we?
Have you got any new
songs already?
We have a couple of really great songs from our last sessions that we
kept for the greatest hits album.
You used to work with
Ronan Keating?
Bryan: Ronan wasn't our manager but helped us out in the beginning. He
was fake and a phoney really. He was sort of like the face of the management
but not really the manager. He gave us a lot of advice.
What are your opinions
on other boybands?
Bryan: *NSync are good. The Backstreet Boys are probably the best modern
boy band ever. I think the next big thing I think is going to be Blue.
I love the Beach Boys, they are the best boyband of all time.
Blue knocked you off
the UK charts?
Bryan: Yes they did but that's the way it works with charts. There's a
different no 1 every week.
What would you say
separates you from other boybands?
Bryan: It's hard to explain but I think we do have something, which a
lot of pop groups don't have. There is something in out music and our
image which stands out that you cant put your finger on.
How have you changed
from when you began as a group?
Bryan: If you imagine the world as concert and everyone in the world are
the people in the audience and everyone's dream is to go backstage and
we got to go there. If you never been backstage you have a vision as kid
what its like there and we got to go backstage and got to see the great
things and the disappointing things with it. It's a job now but I enjoy
doing it. This is not something we can do for the rest of our lives.
What are your future
plans?
Bryan: I think all of us vision a solo career but witght now Westlife
is what is most appealing to all of us. If we were to go solo it would
hard for any of us to succeed.
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