Boybands were all the rage in the 90’s and 2000’s, and it seems they’re making a comeback.
The Backstreet Boys have toured in recent years, Blue recently visited New Zealand, and even NSYNC have been considering a comeback, prompted by ‘Bye Bye Bye’ making its way back into the charts thanks to the Deadpool and Wolverine movie.
But that’s not the end of it, with Boyzlife, a supergroup comprised of former Westlife member Brian McFadden and former Boyzone member Keith Duffy making their move.
They’re touring New Zealand early next year, playing all the fan favourite hits from both groups, plus a few new ones.
The duo joined Mike Hosking for a chat about the original groups and the success they’ve found in Boyzlife.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The boy band is coming back. Apparently the Backstreet Boys
tour recently in sync talking about a comeback, given they're
featured currently in the dead Pool and Wolverine movie. And
then we've got Boys Life. It's what you get when
you put former Westlife member Brian McFadden together a former
Boys Owned member Keith Duffy. There here next year and
Brian and Keith are with us. Good morning listen, lovely
(00:21):
to meet you both, and I'll talk about Coronation Brian,
do you mind if I talk about Coronation Street when
you get sick of people talking to him about Coronation.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Street a little bit because I'm a massive fan of
ease standards, so I have to have to listen to
the coronationship Coronation Street rubbish time.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
No, it was it was me. It was the Coronations
know him?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Okay? Can I ask you and this is this?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
You did your research?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I did my research. No worries now listen, this isn't
This has been videoed as well as being on the radio.
But for people watching this on the audio, do you
two live in that car? Is that why you're in
the car? What's what's gone wrong?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well? Now the truth.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The truth is we're actually sitting outside the golf club
just after playing eighteen holes.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Here we go, we do we have.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
To talk to you. Well, you're very professional, Mike. We're
here for you, mister Hoskin, you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Know very very good. Indeed, what do you what? All right? Handicaps? Please?
Keith your handicap.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Ten point five at the moment, it's not bad.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And Brian eleven point one.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So we both play off eleven basically, so.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's it's a competitive round very we we we.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Actually when we're playing together, we just play off scratch.
We always just play off scratch head.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
To heads all the time, and one of us it's
always a different person that wins every time.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's it's it's too close to call fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
What sort of car you got because you've got your
seats down in the back. Have you got it? You
got a waggon there?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Clearly?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Nah, we had a body in air, but we got
rid of it for the years.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
The mother in law, she's gone now we got rid
of her fair enough. Hey listen, we have the sticks
the sticks man, what have.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You only got one sit between you?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, is set outside the door on its tripe.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But I didn't have time to clean the wheels, so
he said, that's not coming to my car.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
All right, fair enough, fair let me let me ask
you about kit Keith. Let me ask you about Coronation Street.
Because I'm a lifer. I've literally watched Coronation Street my
entire life. I made a documentary funnily enough about Coronation
Street on its fortieth anniversary about twenty years ago. When
you get a part on a show like that, is
that like the thrill of a lifetime or have you
(02:19):
already had too many thrills to be bothered by it?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You know, at that time in my life, it was
something that was very, very needed, and I was so
grateful to to have to have achieved that role. And
I'd been on the road of Boyzone for seven years,
I'd come out. I was kind of last I didn't
know what way my life was gone. And Coronation Street
is something that we grew up in Dublin watching. You know,
if you're in her granny's house at half seven on
(02:43):
a Monday or Wednesday, you know you dare not say
a word.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Nobody will ring.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
The phone, nobody will knock on the door. It was
a sacrilege. You had to just sit and be quiet
for that half an hour.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And when I when I was in Coronation Street, I
joined in two thousand and two. And when I was there,
I worked with Jack Doruckworth, Verit Duckward and Mike Baldwin
and Fred Elliott and Vera Duckward and then with Bette
Lynch and Betty's Hot Pot. You know, I managed to
be there at a fantastic I was there for the
fiftieth anniversary, actually for the big tram crash and the
(03:14):
fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But looking at the.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Show now, because my mum watches it still and looking
at it now, I don't know anybody in the show anymore.
That all those legends are gone, Like Bill Roach is
still there, Ken Barlow and he's been in from day one,
But all of the legends of Corey from when I
was growing up in my granny's house, they're all gone.
So I was there at a fantastic time. I got
to work with all of the icons of Coronaesi Street.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do excuse my ignorance now, but you lift from memory
in a cab like so many do is are you
still alive and open for a return or is it
just never gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, Well, my character was a chef in the navy
and he went a wall and hit out with Peter
Barlow on Coronation Street, and he was engaged to be
married to Kim Marsh's character, which was Michelle, and he
ended up leaving Michelle in a black cab going down
Carnation Street heading for to be a chef on the
cruise liners in the Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So he's in them. He's insane, Lucia.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I think at the moment fuck at spaghetti Bolline's for
some tourists from America.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Brian, serious question, because these things fascinate me when you
look back now, as I'm sure you do periodically in between,
you know, whole seven or night. What do you make
of being being discovered, of having your life turned around
and all that's happened to you in the way it did.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Well for us, It was such a sudden and fast
thing to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know, we look at how Boyson started and when
they got together, they started kind of doing all the
little small gigs, and you know, it took them a
few years before they kind of got recognized and got
a single and all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Stuff for West Life.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We were we were signed by Louis Walsh and within
about three or four weeks of that, we were touring
with Boys On, you know, and they were playing like
Wembley Arena to sixteen thousand people and all these massive,
massive arena concerts all over Europe.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And that's how our career started.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Before we'd even recorded our first single, we were touring
with Boys On.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So, you know, it kind of I came out of school.
I was eighteen years old.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I finished school straight into West Life and it just
went so fast.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It was just this massive snowball that just kept rolling
and getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And you know, there was mornings I'd wake up and
pinch myself and I'm just waiting for this to be
all a dream that I've been asleep for the last
few years.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And until the day I left after whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It was six or seven years, you know, it was
the most exciting thing that could ever happen to a person.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And you know, I was just on a constant high.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I always had a smile on my face and just
always felt like I was the luckiest guy in the world.
And to be honest with you, even now, it is.
You know, at twenty five, twenty six years later, I
still feel the same. You know, the fact that I'm
in my forties now, well at them my forties now,
and I can still do this as a job, you know,
something that I absolutely love. I would have done this
for free when I was a kid, to get on
stage and sing songs to p is was. I did
(06:02):
it as a kid for free, and it was the
most exciting thing then. But the fact that I've got
to make a career out of it, have a great life,
and still in my forties to be still able to
go out and perform in front of big audiences and
get that buzz every night.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You know, it's just an absolute blessing.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Once your observation on and you've been involved in it.
Of course, reality television which has evolved in your time
in the industry of people who want instant fame, instant success.
If I pop up sing a song, I might win something.
Is that healthy? Is it good? Does it work well?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I think when it comes to the likes of you know,
the idols and the Get Talents and those kind of shows,
I don't mind it so much because right now and
geology for the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's very very very very difficult.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
To get discovered or if you've got any kind of talent,
for someone to find you. So they are a great
outlet and a great way for you to you know,
find your career and find a way for people to
see what you do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
The other side of it, with you know, the normal
reality shows and people now like TikTok stars and people
that are coming becoming famous, you know after five minutes
for doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That part I find very difficult.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I find it weird now that the biggest stars on
the planet are famous for absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
When I was growing up, it was movie stars and
Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
People like that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They were proper legends and they'd done something and they
were better than other people in the world are doing
and that's why we looked up to them.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
That's why they were so famous.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But now that people at the most famous and influential
people in the world are influencers, you know, and they
don't actually really do anything, I find that hard to
kind of accept.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay, Keith Hugh with the Pioneers, how did you guys
handle it? This fine thing when it happened to you.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I suppose, like Brian said, it all happened so fast,
and I don't think I believed it at the start.
I mean, you know, people were calling us pop stars,
but to me, a pop star was Madonna. Well, you know,
it was Freddie Mercury for me. Popstars and rock stars
was Bono.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
From you two. You know, I suppose that.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
That whole imposter syndrome is something that we might have
all suffered with at the start, you know. But and
you know, maybe to this day people might still kind
of say, yeah, you are in a pastor. But like
the reality is, we did manage to sell sixty million albums.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We did manage to sell out arena tours.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
So even if our audience wasn't you know, critics in
Hot Press magazine, you know, and they were like the
teeny propper market, you know, somebody has to appeal to
that market, and that's what we did.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So we're very aware.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Of where we stand in the popular market.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
But we were very successful within our parameters. But it's
even so, it was very difficult to understand our surroundings
because we come from a very hard working class background
on the North side of Dublin and Ireland, and you know,
I was working from the age of thirteen. I was
selling I was selling vegetables and potatoes at the side
(08:59):
of the row. I was, you know, fifteen, I was
a bellboy, lounge by waiter in restaurants, and you know,
we had to do what we had to do to
try and you know, bring in a few bob to
support the household in which we lived with our parents
and our siblings, so to get an opportunity to join
the band. And all of a sudden you're traveling around
the world and you're staying at five star hotels.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It was all very surreal.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
And I suppose we enjoyed it while it lasted, because
we kind of felt that happened so quickly that it
could be taken away just as quick.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And yeah, and here we.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Are, thirty years later, still getting away with it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So who knows.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I was just about to say, I have to listen
to your last album.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It sounds like you're still selling turnips the turkeys.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
This band of Mules is of all beautifully, I guess,
isn't it. So you get together Initially, I take it
you got together because you might. I mean, you're not
sitting in a car having played golf together unless you might.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yeah, absolutely, every every great working relationship has to have
a foundation of friendship, you know, when it doesn't have to,
but it certainly helps. And we're not we're not behind
the door of having a are having a fight. We
don't agree on everything. You know, there's only two of us,
so you know, you're not always in great spirits around.
There's days you wake up and you get out of
the wrong side of the bed. You might have had
(10:10):
a late night, your your workie schedule might be so
busy that you can't see the light of day, you know,
and you know you react to that. And there's times
that we kill each other, but you know, we've known
each other long enough to have that solid foundation. And
when any relationship has a solid foundation, the blocks can
be knocked down, but you can always build them back
up again.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And that's what we do.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
We have a great ability to be able to rebuild
the blocks when we knock them down.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Fantastic. How's Chorlie going?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I think it was a you know, when we got.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Involved, it was such an exciting end to last season.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And to be honest with you, Charlie, at the time,
coming to the end of the season being right there.
You know, we were second right up to the end
and got to the playoffs and we just fell short.
To be honest with you, being there was actually a
little bit ahead of schedule. You know, this year is
going to be a massive year now. There's a lot
of development going on, a lot of new recruitment. The
(11:03):
stadium is going to be getting bigger and better. There's
more fans coming. So this year is the year that
we're really pushing to try and get promotion and begin
this road to hopefully getting into the Football League.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Fantastic listen, guys, we're looking forward to seeing you in
the country. I know you're going to Australia game to
New Zealand, so maybe we catch up when we're here.
But fabulous to meet you both and go well and
we'll see you when you arrive.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
During Mike, thank you for your time, Mike.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
No worries at all. Brian mcferden and Keith Duffy Chorley,
I should have referenced to Julie's Football club and they
ended up buying the club, that's all. So Brian and
Keith here in March of next year, so he got
plenty of time to think about it. They're in the
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The boy band is coming back. Apparently the Backstreet Boys
tour recently in sync talking about a comeback, given they're
featured currently in the dead Pool and Wolverine movie. And
then we've got Boys Life. It's what you get when
you put former Westlife member Brian McFadden together a former
Boys Owned member Keith Duffy. There here next year and
Brian and Keith are with us. Good morning listen, lovely
(00:21):
to meet you both, and I'll talk about Coronation Brian,
do you mind if I talk about Coronation Street when
you get sick of people talking to him about Coronation.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Street a little bit because I'm a massive fan of
ease standards, so I have to have to listen to
the coronationship Coronation Street rubbish time.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
No, it was it was me. It was the Coronations
know him?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Okay? Can I ask you and this is this?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
You did your research?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I did my research. No worries now listen, this isn't
This has been videoed as well as being on the radio.
But for people watching this on the audio, do you
two live in that car? Is that why you're in
the car? What's what's gone wrong?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well? Now the truth.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The truth is we're actually sitting outside the golf club
just after playing eighteen holes.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Here we go, we do we have.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
To talk to you. Well, you're very professional, Mike. We're
here for you, mister Hoskin, you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Know very very good. Indeed, what do you what? All right? Handicaps? Please?
Keith your handicap.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Ten point five at the moment, it's not bad.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And Brian eleven point one.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So we both play off eleven basically, so.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's it's a competitive round very we we we.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Actually when we're playing together, we just play off scratch.
We always just play off scratch head.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
To heads all the time, and one of us it's
always a different person that wins every time.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's it's it's too close to call fantastic.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
What sort of car you got because you've got your
seats down in the back. Have you got it? You
got a waggon there?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Clearly?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Nah, we had a body in air, but we got
rid of it for the years.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
The mother in law, she's gone now we got rid
of her fair enough. Hey listen, we have the sticks
the sticks man, what have.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You only got one sit between you?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, is set outside the door on its tripe.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
But I didn't have time to clean the wheels, so
he said, that's not coming to my car.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
All right, fair enough, fair let me let me ask
you about kit Keith. Let me ask you about Coronation Street.
Because I'm a lifer. I've literally watched Coronation Street my
entire life. I made a documentary funnily enough about Coronation
Street on its fortieth anniversary about twenty years ago. When
you get a part on a show like that, is
that like the thrill of a lifetime or have you
(02:19):
already had too many thrills to be bothered by it?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You know, at that time in my life, it was
something that was very, very needed, and I was so
grateful to to have to have achieved that role. And
I'd been on the road of Boyzone for seven years,
I'd come out. I was kind of last I didn't
know what way my life was gone. And Coronation Street
is something that we grew up in Dublin watching. You know,
if you're in her granny's house at half seven on
(02:43):
a Monday or Wednesday, you know you dare not say
a word.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Nobody will ring.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
The phone, nobody will knock on the door. It was
a sacrilege. You had to just sit and be quiet
for that half an hour.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And when I when I was in Coronation Street, I
joined in two thousand and two. And when I was there,
I worked with Jack Doruckworth, Verit Duckward and Mike Baldwin
and Fred Elliott and Vera Duckward and then with Bette
Lynch and Betty's Hot Pot. You know, I managed to
be there at a fantastic I was there for the
fiftieth anniversary, actually for the big tram crash and the
(03:14):
fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But looking at the.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Show now, because my mum watches it still and looking
at it now, I don't know anybody in the show anymore.
That all those legends are gone, Like Bill Roach is
still there, Ken Barlow and he's been in from day one,
But all of the legends of Corey from when I
was growing up in my granny's house, they're all gone.
So I was there at a fantastic time. I got
to work with all of the icons of Coronaesi Street.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Do excuse my ignorance now, but you lift from memory
in a cab like so many do is are you
still alive and open for a return or is it
just never gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, Well, my character was a chef in the navy
and he went a wall and hit out with Peter
Barlow on Coronation Street, and he was engaged to be
married to Kim Marsh's character, which was Michelle, and he
ended up leaving Michelle in a black cab going down
Carnation Street heading for to be a chef on the
cruise liners in the Caribbean.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So he's in them. He's insane, Lucia.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
I think at the moment fuck at spaghetti Bolline's for
some tourists from America.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Brian, serious question, because these things fascinate me when you
look back now, as I'm sure you do periodically in between,
you know, whole seven or night. What do you make
of being being discovered, of having your life turned around
and all that's happened to you in the way it did.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Well for us, It was such a sudden and fast
thing to happen.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
You know, we look at how Boyson started and when
they got together, they started kind of doing all the
little small gigs, and you know, it took them a
few years before they kind of got recognized and got
a single and all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Stuff for West Life.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We were we were signed by Louis Walsh and within
about three or four weeks of that, we were touring
with Boys On, you know, and they were playing like
Wembley Arena to sixteen thousand people and all these massive,
massive arena concerts all over Europe.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And that's how our career started.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Before we'd even recorded our first single, we were touring
with Boys On.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So, you know, it kind of I came out of school.
I was eighteen years old.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I finished school straight into West Life and it just
went so fast.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It was just this massive snowball that just kept rolling
and getting bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And you know, there was mornings I'd wake up and
pinch myself and I'm just waiting for this to be
all a dream that I've been asleep for the last
few years.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And until the day I left after whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It was six or seven years, you know, it was
the most exciting thing that could ever happen to a person.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And you know, I was just on a constant high.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I always had a smile on my face and just
always felt like I was the luckiest guy in the world.
And to be honest with you, even now, it is.
You know, at twenty five, twenty six years later, I
still feel the same. You know, the fact that I'm
in my forties now, well at them my forties now,
and I can still do this as a job, you know,
something that I absolutely love. I would have done this
for free when I was a kid, to get on
stage and sing songs to p is was. I did
(06:02):
it as a kid for free, and it was the
most exciting thing then. But the fact that I've got
to make a career out of it, have a great life,
and still in my forties to be still able to
go out and perform in front of big audiences and
get that buzz every night.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You know, it's just an absolute blessing.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Once your observation on and you've been involved in it.
Of course, reality television which has evolved in your time
in the industry of people who want instant fame, instant success.
If I pop up sing a song, I might win something.
Is that healthy? Is it good? Does it work well?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I think when it comes to the likes of you know,
the idols and the Get Talents and those kind of shows,
I don't mind it so much because right now and
geology for the last twenty years.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It's very very very very difficult.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
To get discovered or if you've got any kind of talent,
for someone to find you. So they are a great
outlet and a great way for you to you know,
find your career and find a way for people to
see what you do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
The other side of it, with you know, the normal
reality shows and people now like TikTok stars and people
that are coming becoming famous, you know after five minutes
for doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That part I find very difficult.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I find it weird now that the biggest stars on
the planet are famous for absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
When I was growing up, it was movie stars and
Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
People like that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They were proper legends and they'd done something and they
were better than other people in the world are doing
and that's why we looked up to them.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
That's why they were so famous.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But now that people at the most famous and influential
people in the world are influencers, you know, and they
don't actually really do anything, I find that hard to
kind of accept.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Okay, Keith Hugh with the Pioneers, how did you guys
handle it? This fine thing when it happened to you.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I suppose, like Brian said, it all happened so fast,
and I don't think I believed it at the start.
I mean, you know, people were calling us pop stars,
but to me, a pop star was Madonna. Well, you know,
it was Freddie Mercury for me. Popstars and rock stars
was Bono.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
From you two. You know, I suppose that.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
That whole imposter syndrome is something that we might have
all suffered with at the start, you know. But and
you know, maybe to this day people might still kind
of say, yeah, you are in a pastor. But like
the reality is, we did manage to sell sixty million albums.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We did manage to sell out arena tours.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
So even if our audience wasn't you know, critics in
Hot Press magazine, you know, and they were like the
teeny propper market, you know, somebody has to appeal to
that market, and that's what we did.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So we're very aware.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Of where we stand in the popular market.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
But we were very successful within our parameters. But it's
even so, it was very difficult to understand our surroundings
because we come from a very hard working class background
on the North side of Dublin and Ireland, and you know,
I was working from the age of thirteen. I was
selling I was selling vegetables and potatoes at the side
(08:59):
of the row. I was, you know, fifteen, I was
a bellboy, lounge by waiter in restaurants, and you know,
we had to do what we had to do to
try and you know, bring in a few bob to
support the household in which we lived with our parents
and our siblings, so to get an opportunity to join
the band. And all of a sudden you're traveling around
the world and you're staying at five star hotels.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It was all very surreal.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
And I suppose we enjoyed it while it lasted, because
we kind of felt that happened so quickly that it
could be taken away just as quick.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
And yeah, and here we.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Are, thirty years later, still getting away with it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So who knows.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I was just about to say, I have to listen
to your last album.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
It sounds like you're still selling turnips the turkeys.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
This band of Mules is of all beautifully, I guess,
isn't it. So you get together Initially, I take it
you got together because you might. I mean, you're not
sitting in a car having played golf together unless you might.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Yeah, absolutely, every every great working relationship has to have
a foundation of friendship, you know, when it doesn't have to,
but it certainly helps. And we're not we're not behind
the door of having a are having a fight. We
don't agree on everything. You know, there's only two of us,
so you know, you're not always in great spirits around.
There's days you wake up and you get out of
the wrong side of the bed. You might have had
(10:10):
a late night, your your workie schedule might be so
busy that you can't see the light of day, you know,
and you know you react to that. And there's times
that we kill each other, but you know, we've known
each other long enough to have that solid foundation. And
when any relationship has a solid foundation, the blocks can
be knocked down, but you can always build them back
up again.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
And that's what we do.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
We have a great ability to be able to rebuild
the blocks when we knock them down.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Fantastic. How's Chorlie going?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I think it was a you know, when we got.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Involved, it was such an exciting end to last season.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And to be honest with you, Charlie, at the time,
coming to the end of the season being right there.
You know, we were second right up to the end
and got to the playoffs and we just fell short.
To be honest with you, being there was actually a
little bit ahead of schedule. You know, this year is
going to be a massive year now. There's a lot
of development going on, a lot of new recruitment. The
(11:03):
stadium is going to be getting bigger and better. There's
more fans coming. So this year is the year that
we're really pushing to try and get promotion and begin
this road to hopefully getting into the Football League.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Fantastic listen, guys, we're looking forward to seeing you in
the country. I know you're going to Australia game to
New Zealand, so maybe we catch up when we're here.
But fabulous to meet you both and go well and
we'll see you when you arrive.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
During Mike, thank you for your time, Mike.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
No worries at all. Brian mcferden and Keith Duffy Chorley,
I should have referenced to Julie's Football club and they
ended up buying the club, that's all. So Brian and
Keith here in March of next year, so he got
plenty of time to think about it. They're in the
need and christ Geige Palmerston, Wellington TOWERNGA and Auckland. For
more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to news
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