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Ryan Confidential Interview In Text
Topic Started: Feb 3 2007, 04:38 PM (1,085 Views)
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Ryan Confidential Interview In Text


Westlife’s Interview with Gerry Ryan on Ryan Confidential.


About Brian’s decision to leave Westlife:
Gerry: Can you describe when he told you.
Nicky: Yeah, we were at home turf. I was at home in Malahaid and were about three weeks away from our forth tour. We were actually at the Meteor Awards the day before that. And we’d won Best Pop Act and we went into the press room to talk to all the journalists and staff.
Gerry: And he was roaming around drinking a bottle of vodka.
Nicky: He was having a few drinks but we didn’t… that was Brian, it could be me the night before, it could’ve been, you know, the lads. We were having fun, we were at the Meteor Awards. We were home. And we did all the press interviews and there was a bit of a disagreement because all the interviews were directed towards Brian about Kerry because she’d won “Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here”. And then Brian at that night said he was going but, you know, he’d had a few drinks, we didn’t think too much of it. And then the next day he continued…
Gerry: And what did you do? Did you bring him into a room and say…
Shane: He called, we were meant to have rehearsals.
Gerry: Is this how your wife says to you “We need to talk”?
Shane: No, it wasn’t like that at all. We never thought he’d leave the band like, you know what I mean.
Gerry: What did you think he was gonna talk to you about?
Shane: Em… We hadn’t a clue because there was something wrong with him, we knew there was something wrong with him for a few months. We knew that he wasn’t fully happy in the band. But he didn’t tell us why. We didn’t know that stuff that was going on with his wife.
Gerry: About two weeks before that he’d been on the radio with me with Samantha Mumba saying that he’d been at the party, you know, with her, he was out of his mind, he’d been found wondering up the Baggot Street, you just go “Jesus, Mary and Joseph what’s the next step…”
Kian: He went wild for a while. There’s no two doubts about that but I think he got to a stage in his life where he was with Kerry and he was in Westlife and whether which one wasn’t working for him he wasn’t sure. So he went to Westlife field first and he decided “My life isn’t the way I want my life to be so I’ve got to get rid of something in my life that controls it”
Mark: Change it.
Shane: Yeah.
Kian: So I think that’s what he did and he left Westlife. And then when he realised that that still didn’t fix problems he ended up with leaving Kerry.
Nicky: But that’s a wonderful thing hyacinth. We know now that the Kerry thing was obviously a bigger issue than what we obviously imagined it’d be at that time.
Gerry: He comes to the flat, right, and he tells you guys, alright, “I’m out of here.”
Shane: No, he didn’t really. He sat down first. We were all kinda smirking, we were kinda chatting and staff, there was a kind of a funny vibe in the room. We didn’t know what he was gonna say. We hadn’t a clue what he was gonna come out with. And he goes “Lads…em… I’m hanging up my boots.” And Nicky straight away was like “What?” He goes “Yeah lads, honestly, I just… I wanna leave it, I’m not happy” or whatever like this. We thought it was a joke. We thought we were being like phunked.
Nicky: We had five years of bond. That’s why, I think in the aftermath of it slightly probably anger, slightly. And I think the press were jumping on us, they wanted us to follow up but we were determined that we had too much in common with Brian, too much kinda love for Brian let’s say to follow in. I think he had for us too, in fact I know it. But it was very hard as Shane said in 19 days to not be a little bit kinda…
Kian: Pissed off…
Gerry: Then suddenly you go… “Do we actually need this guy?”
Kian: That was Louis’ kind of moment there. We rung Louis and you know I was like “Brian’s after leaving the band, this is crisis, what are we gonna do…” he was like (doing Louis’ voice) “Relax guys, relax, I’m coming”
Shane (doing Louis’ voice: “I’m on the way, I’m on the way! I’m after to go through a red light!”
Nicky: (doing Louis’ voice) “Nicky you have to meet me cause I don’t know where I’m going in the North side of Dublin.” So we met him in Fairview.
Kian: And then he came into the room and he was like “What are you talking about. This is no disrespect to Brian, he’s not a lead-singer, he doesn’t carry the band, he’s not the, shall we say, the Ronan Keating of the group, he’s not the Garry Barlow of the Take That” or whatever, you know, “This band can go on as a four-piece,” so we all five in us were like “Yeah it can”.
Gerry: So within five minutes it was “Brian, we don’t need him anymore”?
Nicky: Well before that there was tears. There was a few tears among us because we thought the band was over.
Kian: I cried, I thought the band was over.
Shane: I remember Kian slowing to the couch and I stood up. I kinda got angry more than anything else, I kinda stopped them “Lads, let him leave,” you know what I mean “f**k it like, whatever. If he want let’s leave, that’s his business.” Do you know what I mean and Kian then went (doing a Kian crying voice) “What are we gonna do lads! He’s leaving the band! We have a tour in 19 days!” and I was like “We’ll get it together, don’t worry about it, it’s gonna be alright” and then that’s when kinda Louis came in and put everyone’s mind in a bit of rest.
Nicky: Well it made us realize how fickle it was.
Kian: Yeah, we had got to a stage where after doing our Greatest Hits album we had something like 18 – 20 million albums sold, you know, we’d egos at that stage. We were like “Yeah, we’re Westlife, you know, f**k you, whatever” you know. Not in a big way but we had it about us in a certain extend. And then we just got knocked right back down to earth. Straight away, like that and then the next day we got up and the four of us went to do dance rehearsals we were “Right lads, let’s make this the best concert we have ever done.”
Gerry: Well I think that to the end game he lost you on basically, that’s my analysis.
Kian: I don’t like to look at it like that, but yeah.
Gerry: Yeah.
Shane: If you asked us earlier on like, “Was he an idiot, was he stupid to leave Westlife”…
Gerry: You answered me.
Shane: I think he was mad and absolute rockers. If anyone left Westlife now I think they’d be absolutely stupid.

About Louis Walsh:
Nicky: We’ve grown up with Louis.
Gerry: And you control Louis, he doesn’t control you.
Nicky: Well no, I wouldn’t necessarily agree with that, no.
Kian: He has a lot of control.
Gerry: Ok, can I just say something… I don’t believe that. I believe you call the shots.
Nicky: No, you’re not right there.
Mark: No, honestly. Together, it’s like he’s fifth member. He’s got as much input as anyone of us.
Kian: If something doesn’t happen that Louis wants to happen…
Shane: Really wants to happen…
Kian: Really wants to happen, he will make it happen. And he will make it happen by constantly badgering us.
Shane: Badgering you (Kian) and then you badgering us.
Kian: Badgering me and then me badgering the others.
Nicky: What he has with us that he says he didn’t have with Boyzone, we’ll never know because we obviously weren’t there, we’ll have it out with Louis. We have a relationship with Louis where if he’s been, if we feel he’s been a little bit too harsh or whatever, we’ll say it to him and he’ll give us just as much of a bollocking as we’ll give him. And every single one of us here at this table have sworn, shout or falling out and not talking with him for a week or two. But the good thing with us is you don’t read about that. Louis doesn’t say those things and we don’t say those things.
Shane: I honestly don’t know what it is but I think he has a genuine love for Westlife, I think he has a genuine respect for each of us individually for different reasons.
(Gerry nods “No”)
Nicky: What do you think it is?
Gerry: I’ll tell you what it is. You’re in charge, you’re on top, you’re more mature than anybody else he’s ever worked with, you make him money, he won’t go around with you.
Kian: Maybe…
Nicky: I don’t necessarily agree with that. If Louis wants to really get to us, he knows how to do it.
Kian: And he won’t be shy doing it.
Mark: And I think maybe other people have let him do it but he knows also we wouldn’t let him away with doing that.
Gerry: Did you hear that? we wouldn’t let him away with doing that.
Shane: No, but it’s true though.
Mark: No, we wouldn’t. But we know he wouldn’t let us away as well.
Gerry: I know, all I’m saying is that the right thing is taking charge of your own desk.
Nicky: I think we we’re more in charge than probably do the artists he’s said those things about maybe but he’d not say it about us. He might say it about us when we’re finished. But then we’ll say things back.
Gerry: Why presuppose that you’ll go for it.
Nicky: Well, exactly.
Kian: You know, everybody goes “When are you breaking up” I mean, I don’t ever actually see Westlife breaking up. You know, I don’t ever see Westlife actually breaking up.
Nicky: We’re breaking up on 22nd December for Christmas.
Shane: We’ll always be a member of Westlife.
Kian: We’ll never say “It’s over!”
Shane: As in, we’ll never have that press conference “It’s over…”. We might take two years out or three years out sometime but we’ll always probably be making another album until we stop making anymore and people are still waiting for a very long time.
Kian: We will get to a point in our lives where we will turn around to each other and whether it’s public or not, we’ll turn around and say “Lads, is that it? Are gonna make another album? Are we gonna make another thing?” and it will get to a point where everybody goes “No, we should let it go now lads.”

About making covers:
Nicky: Everytime we got to make an album we always want to make studio songs, you know, original songs. That’s the first thing.
Gerry: Why you don’t? And this is and argument on lots of websites on the internet “I want more original songs from them, I want one or two covers”
Nicky: You know, we don’t have the luxury of writing our songs.
Gerry: Do you suffer from not doing that?
Shane: No, not at all, we haven’t at all.
Nicky: I think what it does do is, not that we care about this by the way. I suppose it’s an element of us deep down inside us cares but it would stop you from being recognized and winning certain award shows.
Shane: It’s not that we have to do it, it’s just that every now and then we like to do it. We’d like to have a song that nobody else has done before and literally that’s the only reason. Just for our own sake. Just for us to feel like this is the first time anyone in the world was going to hear the song. And it’s gonna be from Westlife.

Mark on coming out:
When did you decide “I’m not like the rest”?
Mark: Oh well, I suppose, I mean, I knew that I wasn’t like the rest by then anyway (laughing) to begin like.
Gerry: And when did you tell them?
Mark: Em.. I don’t know, probably about… was it about four years ago?
Shane: About four years ago yeah, in my apartment.
Nicky: I think we probably all had suspicions at this time. It wasn’t like, you know, breaking news to us.
Mark: It more that I confirmed something that they already knew to them than I suppose to tell them this big thing that shocked them, you know.
Gerry: And what did you say?
Mark: I think we just got a bit drunk and then I was like “Right, this is the perfect moment”
Shane: The perfect time, yeah.
Mark: Actually I think Nicky and Shane… I’ve been drinking with Nicky and Shane in London in a pub and then…em… we went back to Shane’s where we were just whatever watching DVDs and stuff like that. We were continuing to have a few drinks or whatever and I was like “Right, there is nobody else around it’s just us and it’s very weird that happening, there’s always somebody else around, you know” so I just said it to them there and then I think that weekend…
Kian: And then… a hundred questions!
Nicky: I think it was hugs. It was kind of a hug and, you know, “we are so happy for you that you confide us now and we can continue on, you know, and you can be happier I suppose” that was it.
Gerry: Did you for a minute think “How is this gonna pan out”, you know?
Nicky: With the fans?
Gerry: Yeah
Nicky: Not one single second and I say God’s honest truth.
Shane: Not at all, no.
Nicky: That we were “we stroke down now”, if that was gonna finish the band there and then, well that was just went to be.
Gerry: Was there anything negative at all?
Mark: Zero, honestly nothing like.
Gerry: I don’t think.
Mark: Absolutely not one, I mean, I don’t know if people kinda say things to themselves when I’m not around there or whatever but em… which I don’t think they do you know…
Gerry: They do.
Mark: They do it. It’s ok ‘cause I do it to them as well so I don’t mind them. Em… I’ve certainly had not even the smallest amount of negativity, anything at all, which is great, you know, because I didn’t kinda know what to expect. I assumed there would be a very small amount. I wasn’t scared.
Gerry: But what did you think was gonna happen?
Mark: Honestly I don’t really know. I knew it was gonna be a big deal for a day or two, do you know what I mean, not a big deal but I knew it was gonna be in the papers for a day or two and stuff like that.
Gerry: What drove you to that moment, what made that happen?
Mark: I suppose ultimate is just being happy and being in a relationship and sort of that was the final nail to tell me like why the hell wouldn’t I tell everyone, you know. You know, I’m living that happy life just like all the rest of the guys, that my friends are and why the hell wouldn’t I just celebrate it and tell everyone just like anyone else would, you know. I mean, I kinda felt like is it’s a disgrace that anyone would think this is something that I would hide.
Gerry: Which you had so that kinda says a lot about the world that we live in.
Mark: I’ve been in the relationship for a good while before it all came out and everything and I didn’t want to… like, you know I wanted to live in the relationship, you know, for a while before all kind of came out in the public… all that crap not to effect, you know, me and Kevin if you know what I mean.
Gerry: And you’re happy?
Mark: Very happy!
Gerry: But you’ve obviously been fancying any of these guys (looking at the rest of the lads) anyway someone? What’s wrong with them…
Mark: I couldn’t even if I tried to be honest. (laughing)
Gerry: Would you not have kept it in the band? (all laughing)

Nicky about his marriage with Georgina:
Nicky: I might cross my t's and dot my i's a little more than the public would if I wasn’t married to her. I think I would be the type of person I am if I wasn’t married to her anyway, in terms of… you know I wouldn’t be this mad drag lord or this mad, you know, alcoholic or you know what I mean, I’m not whiter than white just because I’m married to the Taoiseach’s daughter. Put it this way, I’d never want to bring shame on the family but I’d never want to bring shame on my mum and dad on my own family anyway just as much.
Gerry: So for instance, what Brian did wondering up Baggot streets which was a strange time of his life and do you know what… I’ve been there… you wanted to take your trousers down and fart in the face of Ireland… Brian can do that, you can’t.
Nicky: No… no, I can’t.
Gerry: Of all of us here at the table you can’t.
Nicky: I know, I know… but I wouldn’t want to. And that’s the truth.
Kian: It’s not his personality to do something like that anyway.
Gerry: Is he (Nicky) the most together?
Kian: I don’t know, I think we’re all pretty together when it comes to things like that but I think what Nicky is saying is that he’s not the type of person, it’s not in his jeans anyways, it’s in Brian’s to go and take his trousers down and show his arse to Baggot Street you know what I mean, whereas it’s not actually in Nicky’s personality. You know, like I mean, if I was extremely drunk and young enough I might have done it and mark would probably have done it as well and it’s not in Shane’s personality. Do you know what I mean, you know who’s like that and who’s not.
Gerry: Shane looks like he likes the idea though…
Kian: He probably does like the idea, he wouldn’t do it though.
Gerry: So you (Nicky) are the most measured person at this table then I think…
Nicky: No, I wouldn’t say that no… It’s not a chore, it’s who I am, you know what I mean, I’ve never… I was a footballer before Westlife so I never did drugs in a young age, I never did drags in my life, I didn’t really drink that heavily till I was… till I met all them haha. And then I suppose I watched myself a little bit that sometimes I can be a little be hard, you know, I suppose the odd time but nothing measure.

Shane on him and Gillian:
What was the last bit of advice, what was the last slap you (Shane) got (by Gillian)?
Kian: She packs a good slap – Gillian.
Shane: Em…
Mark: Oh yeah..
Shane: Yeah, Gillian’s the boss.
Gerry: Well they’re all in agreement at that.
Mark: I crack my knuckles sometimes and she hates it and she literally thumbs the head off me if I do it.
Shane: Yeah. Eh, the last bit of advice I got, it’s probably to do with like not being out late drinking and making a show of myself. (laughing) I probably was, I want to be honest about it. No if I’m in a club, usually if I’m in a club and I’m having a good laugh I don’t wanna go home, I’m kinda like “Oh come on…”
Gerry (in a drunk voice): So you say “So you go home, I will follow you…”
Shane: “I’ll follow you in an hour”, yeah.
Kian: No, Shane goes (in a drunk voice), “Everybody! Let’s party in my house! Come on, let’s go! Everybody, my house, party!”
Shane: And the Gillian goes round telling everyone “There’s no party, we’re going home to bed, Shane’s going home to bed.” That’s probably the only thing that might annoy her. I’m sure there’s loads of things that annoy her.
Gerry: Have you ever been put out of the bedroom?
Shane: Em… (thinking) … I’m sure I have yea I probably have once or twice.
Kian: Oooh, I’ve never been put out of the bedroom…
Gerry (repeats laughing at Kian): Oooh, I’ve never been put out of the bedroom… (they all laugh)
Shane: No, I probably have, if I’m…
Gerry (interrupts): Honest…
Shane: No no, if I’m… no I’m being honest… If I came home and I was too much drunk and I’d had to much to drink or whatever and I’d be talking in my sleep and the baby be in the cot and she’d say “Look, come on, go out.”

Kian on him and Jodi:
Kian: She’s giving me grief she’s like “When you’re gonna make honest one out of me” and I’m like, “When you’re ready.”
Gerry: You want to get married…
Kian: I do want to get married, yeah definitely.
Gerry: Then be careful with what you say.
Kian: I don’t worry it’s ok.
Gerry: Be carefully with what you wish for.
Kian: No, no problems. I definitely wanna marry her and I will definitely marry her.
Gerry: Why?
Kian: Because I love her and I wanna spend the rest of my life with her. I see her as the perfect person for us to have babies together and to live the rest of my life with her really. (Gerry looks at him continuously)
Kian: Stop analysing me. I can see us in there (pointing Gerry’s eyes).
Gerry: You (Mark) can’t get married just yet because are maybe…
Mark: I suppose I could, but not in Ireland but I could if I wanted to.
Gerry: Are you interested?
Mark: That’s not really a question that I can even answer because it’s…
Gerry (interrupts): Can the heteral guys just tell you something… Stick with them, love them, be with them, you (Mark) are not gonna have babies I don’t know what you really need to get married.
Mark: So are you saying that the only reason they owe to get married is cause straight relationships can do have babies?
Gerry: Well actually that’s a good question, why are anyone of us married, why are you (Shane) married?
Shane: I disagree with that cause I think if he wants to… You have your fair point obviously but you know it doesn’t necessarily… obviously they’re never going to have babies but he can marry a guy.
Mark: We can physically have babies.
Shane: But it he wants to have that same commitment let’s say that me and Nicky have… to our wives not to each other. And Kian wants to have, he can have that as well but just in a different way.
Gerry: And do you (Mark) care about that, would you like the marriage ceremony to be part of your experience?
Mark: Yeah I mean…
Gerry: The commitment?
Mark: I mean, the same as when Shane and Gillian got to the point to their relationship they wanted get married, if and when I get to that point in my relationship then I certainly would absolutely get married.
Gerry: And you’re not at that point yet.
Mark: No, I mean, I’m literally kind of, you know, it’s early days, my first serious relationship. It’s just simply not something that I’m thinking about you know, it’s not like, you know, I don’t know when I will think about it.
Kian: I think what Mark’s saying is fair enough because you know, it’s the same with me like you know, I’m with Jodi three and a half years and everyone’s going “When you’ll get married, when you’ll get married”.
Gerry: Did you ask her to marry her?
Kian: No no. They are yet as far as I’m concerned. It’s like as much as we’re there you know like, you wouldn’t… no couple that are together three and a half years don’t wonder to get married, it’s only because I’m in the public eye that people are all “When you’ll get married, when you’ll get married, when you’ll get married.”
Shane: And once you get married “When you have babies, when you have babies....” then when you have a baby “When you have another baby”.
Kian: I wanna get married when I have time to enjoy being married. When I can turn around to her and say “Well babe, let’s go off. Let’s travel the world for six months. Let’s leave all this behind, this mad life that we’ll leave behind for a while” and enjoy each other’s company, you know. Rather having to go back straight into work you know, and doing our tour and our album and all that type of staff.
Gerry: That’s unlikely to happen, you have to do it in the same time.
Kian: No I will, it’ll happen in the next few years because you know, Westlife will start taking a year out year.
Gerry: Do you look at him (Shane) and you see him arriving here with the child…
Kian: I think that’s beautiful, you know, I think that’s fantastic but I don’t think it’s for me yet.
Gerry: Are you looking at this and going “Jesus! The lads are having their babies, they caring them after.”
Kian: Well, I mean, I’m looking out and going the lads are having babies fair play to them, I’m glad it’s not me.
Gerry: So what happens in your life when your missus looking after the child and you’re going out on tour, does she get pissed off?
Shane: Well obviously, you know, she’s at home a lot more, she’s dealing with Nicole on a more basis obviously than I am. Cause I am going to work or I’m doing concerts or whatever. Yeah, but she is a sty-home-mum and she’s getting used to that fact now.
Gerry: What she thinks of that?
Shane: She loves it.
Gerry: So you go on tour, going to the night clubs, record the albums and she stays at home.
Shane: no no no no…no no no no… not not at all! Jesus no way.
Gerry: Ok well redefine that.
Shane: Well, I definitely obviously go on tour, where she comes with me, she’ll be backstage with me, so will Nicole. I go on stage, then I come back, I take her and Nicole out, I go home.
Gerry: That’s how you survive. What about you (Nicky), what are you gonna do, she’ll be coming on tour with you with the baby?
Nicky: Yeah, exactly. The funny is we had an argument the four of us for the tour bus. And this was about three weeks ago and I knew obviously (about the babies).
Kian: You can pay for it, It’s your kids.
Shane: I know, we will.
Gerry: He (Kian) is not gonna put up with it he’s gonna have his own separate bus.
Nicky: He’ll be paying for himself.
Gerry: Clock that.
Nicky: I knew Georgina is pregnant and we are travelling in a tour-bus an we’re actually, Mark and Kian went to North of England…
Mark: When I heard you were pregnant I was like “That’s why he was asking for a second tour bus” you know.
Nicky: It was actually Shane said it to me.
Gerry: A second tour-bus, you need a second tour-bus?
Nicky: No no, Gerry listen. We are all a moan, alright, and for a long time Mark didn’t have a boyfriend or a girlfriend at the time and then when he obviously met Kevin and everything came out Kevin now travels with us. It’s one more persona. We obviously had people on the road that travel with us, Shane had Nicole, Kian has Jodi, I’ve Georgina, Kian now brings his little puppy around.
Kian: He sits in my lap by the sides you know so…
Gerry: Kian it’s your own business. You (Nicky) need your own separate tour-bus do you?
Nicky: No, absolutely not. Myself and Shane, two children, the two of us.
Shane: You know, a family tour bus with babies and a bus with the lads that are rock & roll.
Gerry: That sounds pretty cool so that’s what we’ll have, we’ll have the Rock & Roll tour bus for Westlife, heading up by you (pointing at Kian). By the way who else will be in it?
Kian: Me, Jodi, Mark and Kevin. And all our mates.
Gerry: And your (Shane & Nicky) tour bus will be sponsored by pampers.
Shane: Yeah!
Nicky: Yeah, we’ll fit a logo on the sides.
Kian: I’m definitely not getting on that one (laughing)
Gerry: Will that be the thing that eventually decides it all will it?
Kian: Well I mean, I argued against the tour bus because I said there is no way in the world we’re spending another extra money on a second tour bus, it’s completely stupid and completely irrationall.
Gerry: This is the Larry Molon of Westlife.
Kian: Why in a world would we spend that much money, if you wanna spend it off you go ahead but you aint taking my cut out of it. That was my attitude towards it.
Nicky: And then you’ve got backtrack and you have on everything you said.
Kian: No, I’ve not gone a backtrack in anything.
Nicky: You have to.
Kian: Why?
Nicky: What we’re gonna do though.
Kian: Well that’s up to you, you have the kids not me.
Nicky: Yeah but you have the dog as well.
Shane: For us to be in the band and prolong the life of the band which benefits you and you as well (Kian and Mark)…
Nicky: We have to be happy.
Shane: We have to accommodate.
Kian: Now we sit down and argue this out in another time.
Shane: No it’s true though, it all helps.
Gerry: You can sort it out now, that’s what I say.
Nicky: Yeah absolutely.
Gerry: Everybody’s got to be happy, don’t they?
Kian: Yeah, that’s all that matters.
Mark: Exactly!
Gerry: If being happy means two tour buses…
Nicky: That’s my point, exactly.
Gerry: Can I ask you all then this question… How do your partners feel about being part of the public persona?
Shane: They don’t like it, I think is they right answer but they know that it’s part of what we do.
Gerry: No, Shane when you say they don’t like it, do you mean they really don’t like it and this is something I’m gonna have to end of dealing with.
Shane: Well they’d rather not be in the spot like, they’d rather not, you know, have to about things if they’re on their holidays, some of us have got pictures before on holidays and staff like that and they’re never gonna be flattered of photographs. They don’t like that side of it, if you like. The fact that we bring attention to them that they don’t need to have if you know what I mean.
Gerry: Have you had the conversation, have you had the “Look, what about the car, what about the helicopter, what about the villa, don’t be giving out to me about it.”
Shane: Not in that way, they don’t give out about it. It’s not like that, they don’t give out about it.
Gerry: Your missus.
Shane: Yeah, Gillian she understands what it is, she understands that that’s part of my life, she’s understood from the very start.
Gerry: What if she said to you “I can’t handle this anymore and you have to leave Westlife.”?
Kian: A person that loves you would never put that demand on you.
Shane: Yeah, exactly.
Gerry: That’s an amazing response. A person that loves you will never say that to you.
Kian: No, a person that loves you will never demand that off you, for you to give up your passion.
Gerry: But what about their passion?
Nicky: I’d be gone if Georgina said that to me.
Shane: It’s great and I’m happy enough. We’ve enough.
Gerry: You’re happy out.
Shane: Yeah.
Gerry: Ok… (Pointing Kian)
Kian: I’d be happy out at this stage. I’d say goodbye at Westlife at this stage because of the last eight years. If she said it to me at the start of the band, I’d say no way, forget about it. But she would never ever ever ask me to do that. And neither would Georgina, and neither would Gillian and neither would Kevin. And that’s why we’re with them.
Gerry: You don’t know that.
Kian: We do know that because we’re with them.
Gerry: Sorry hold on guys. You actually don’t know that. You don’t know what’s the future’s gonna hold for you.
Shane: yeah you can’t tell the future. But why do you think would they ever want us to leave?
Kian: Unless something drastic happen.
Gerry: I’ll tell you why I think this right. Because I think that one of the most challenging things for anybody is to be associated with somebody who’s famous, who’s in the public eye and who becomes iconic. All of which you four guys are. And you don’t realise it. So when the partner say “I can’t take it anymore” you’re all going to slip.
Mark: No no, I don’t think it’s a thing of just someone turn around and go “Right, that’s it”, like it’s in their decision “I’m gonna be there for you in Westlife now and you come home to me”.
Gerry: No but that’s what happens in relationships.
Shane: I can never see it happening. I honestly could never see that happening.
Gerry: No no hold on, bare with me right? This happens in relationships. If it happens to you (Nicky) you’ll slip.
Nicky: I think, I’m not naïve to think that something like that couldn’t happen especially with the way we’re planning Westlife to go for the next 10 years among signing new contracts and staff and I think if one of our spouses was the crack on the pressure with kids and school while you’re away all the time and around the world and I’m not saying it will happen over a dinner when she’s like “You have to leave” like “Oh right lads I’m going.”
Gerry: That’s exactly the way it happens.
Nicky: Yeah, but I’m not saying I would make this like, I’d wanted to ring the lads in it’s pain like that. Obviously it’s not as decision that you would just make it twenty-four-hours. I would try and talk thing around, see if I could make things better in the situation but if it was the last straw, I would go, absolutely.
Gerry: He’d go. What would you(Kian) do?
Kian: In that scenario, I’d go yeah.
Shane: I’d go definitely.
Mark: Honestly, he would never say that. He wouldn’t say it’s me or the band. Like there’d be massive reasons, probably if it did happen, like I told you it never will, but it’d have to be going under months and months of problems in the relationship. And it’d be a last resort, you know.
Shane: Yeah it’d be problems within the relationship or problems with kids, or problems with school or something like that.
Gerry: This is fantastic. They were all suffering from the shamed illusion. Westlife, it has been an absolutely pleasure to be talking to you.
All: Thank you
Shane: cheers Gerry.
Kian: cheers.


Credit/Source: Thanx Jasna for the video / Thanx Joanne for helping me
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JoanneVIP
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yeah its posted, it took you ages, me a little time and alot of listening to westlife. not that i mind trhat lol thanks hunnie
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That is a veerrryy long interview.

WOW i love it!!! love it!! love it!!!

thank you soooooo much... ^_^

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biffboff2006
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THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH GREAT INTERVIEW
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youre all welcome, it was about 40 minutes on tv so yeah along interview thanks again to villy fortyping it up x
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emotions
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thanks for typing it up for us.now I can totally understand what they said.sometimes they speak too fast.so hard to understand ::con
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Yes lol I had to listen again and again some parts... Esspecially when they were talking all together :P
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thank you very much, it must have taken lots of time.
Really enjoyed it :)
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Wow! That must've taken some doing!

Thanks for sharing. Best interview. Ever! :D
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yeah poor villy having t listen to the lads for hours lol.. it was hard work for her well done hunnie, you should be proud, it was i think ther best interview for a while honest x
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oh gosh thnx villy hunnie i enojyed it shooo took ages to read :lol: blees those lads they so adorable
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wow villy thanks so much for typing all this hun.
i dont like the guy who is the moderator of this show
he is so mean to them especially to mark :angry:
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Gerry Ryan he was a bit hard but the lads stuck up for Mark which is only right
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Villy Feehily*McDaid
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Yeah Gerry was mean to Marky :(

It has taken days lol but I don't complain :P Listening to the lads again and again wasn't bad at all :lol:
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Nicky's Sparkler,Feb 5 2007
04:40 PM
Gerry Ryan he was a bit hard but the lads stuck up for Mark which is only right

this was so great from the guys
thats the prove that they are ver good friends :)
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