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Issue # 3, 1st - 7th November 1999
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-Pop Of The Class!- |
| Geography
How will you cope with all the travelling? Ronan: It's all right as long as you're working. When you stop is when it kicks in. When you take two weeks off and you're lying on a beach, you realise that you've just wasted and you can't think straight. Your body won't move and you can't perform any more. But, to be honest, you can't wait to get back because it's the only thing that you know. It's something that's been bred into you seven days a week. Bryan: Oh God, you're scaring me. Kian: When we get home we're always on the go. We can't sit still. Ronan: (with relish) That's right - when you get home you wanna see your mates, tell them what's going on, go out on the beers, see what's happening, have a bit of fun. But there's a famous saying that we had: every morning's a Monday morning and every night's a Saturday night. That's what it's like, man. Every morning kills you. You can't get out of bed, but as soon as you get going and you've had a good day out, you want to have a laugh go out partying. (Everyone laughs.) That's the way it is! How do you cope with homesickness? Ronan: I get homesick now more than ever. In fact, I was homesick this morning! Bryan: Morning sickness! Ronan: I was homesick in the beginning when it started, but I just got to love it so much. I wanted to be away with the lads - we used to have such a laugh. I hated being at home. Now, over the past couple of years, we've got more at home for us, so it's important for us to be there. But for Westlife it's only the beginning. I look at them sometimes and wish I was in the band because I want to be back there. The craic we used to have! It was brilliant. Kian: The only bad thing is getting out of bed in the morning, but we love everything about it. It's a constant buzz. Ronan: It gets better and better. And bigger, please God. Maths Ronan, are you going to be a classic old-school manager and nick all of Westlife's money? Ronan: I'm not even here for the money. The boys can have my share! (General uproar.) Bryan: Can we have that in writing? Ronan: I'm not here to do the business side of it; that's not what I'm about. I can't even look after my own business affairs. I'm just here so the lads can pick up the phone and ask me for advice. Kian: He genuinely does it - he's not just saying that. What will you spend what you've got left on? Nicky: Clothes, definitely. Ronan: (changing his tune) They wont' have any money after our cut! No, I can't imagine what these guys'll do with their money. They've got their cars already! Bryan: If I had a hundred grand, I'd buy a Ferrari! Shane: You'd have a Ferrari but you wouldn't have a house! Ronan: What do you want to do that for? You could buy something cheaper that owuld go just as fast. Bryan: (wistfully) But you look great as well. Mark: He wants to buy an Aston Martin V12. Ronan: Yeah, brilliant machine. (They rattle on about cars for a bit.) Will you buy all the drinks when you go in the pub at home? Shane: It depends. For my closest friends, yeah, maybe, but not people we've just met. Ronan: I think you can't help it in the beginning, being a pop star. As much as you try and keep your feet on the ground - 'I'm cool, I'm settled, you know' - you're in a pop band and you think you're the most famous thing since sliced bread. You come home and you're just walking down the street like you're Mr. Cool, your chin up in the air - you think you're rappid, you really do. (Eyeryone falls about.) You go into the pub, you get a few drinks in you and you think you're super and you startthrowing your money around and then you wake up the following morning and you feel so awful and you think: "Urgh, back to the bank." I think you're allwed to be a pop star at the start, just as long as you don't stay there. Will you waste 10 million pounds on Quasar like U2? Nicky: Not 10 million punds. Bryan: If we did, it'd be Ronan's fault. We'd blame everything on him. Shane: 10 million pounds - you'd be sick, wouldn't you? Nicky: Mind you, it'd be spare change to them. |