BACK I O You
Kian: Tell us the questions before you begin.
Nicky: Nooooooo just ask them!
Us: No! Then you get to think about them!
Mark: Just beat (pronounced "bate") away

Everyone starts going "Bate Away" " Bate Away" (including me...then I'm attacked by stares from every corner of the bus...oops!)

Q.1. HOW WERE YOU FORMED?
Bryan ...(starts going into the formation of the body!!)
Lets NOT go there!
O.k. Lads. Introduce yourselves first!!
KIAN: "I'm Kian"
NICKY "I'm Nicky"
BRYAN " I'm David" (David?????) No no no..(half laughing) " I'm Bryan"
MARK: " I'm Mark"
SHANE "And I'm Shane"

Q.1.HOW WERE YOU FORMED?
KIAN: Basically what happened was we were in a local production in Sligo, of Grease, and we were sitting at a table, at a party after it , and we started singing , and somebody said "That sounds really good, would ye think about doing something serious?" And we were like.. "nah" we wouldn't do something like that.. and it just took off from there!!!! There were 6 Sligo guys at that stage, and we went on then and did a show in the theatre in Sligo , performed our own single ...someone said that to Louis Walsh..and Shane's brother met Louis Walsh's brother.
SHANE: My MOTHER met him.
KIAN: That's what I said.
Everyone in unison... You said his "Brother".
KIAN: I'm Sorry.
SHANE: Me mother.
KIAN: His Mother met Louis Walsh's brother in Kiltimagh(Co. Mayo..where Louis is From) and it went on from there. We kept 3 of the guys from Sligo, and brought in 2 guys from Dublin...
BRYAN: (to us) "How were youse formed?"
no comment!

Q.2 HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU GET SCREAMED AT IN THE STREET?
NICKY: (joking) We never get screamed at !!
US: Yeah Right! (Pointing out the window) Whats that then?
NICKY: I dunno really...Its flattering, I suppose really..for Kian and Bryan they enjoy it the most, because they get most of it... they get a lot more than the rest of us do. We all enjoy it, but its flattering in a way..I'm wafflin' really!!! (followed by much laughter)
SHANE: Its good, it shows you have support.
Bryan is looking at some thing out if the window.... what's up?
(BRYAN gets really excited when he sees a fight outside the window... "A fight lads... Look look look..they're going to jump into the river" (followed by a 10 second silence when everyone watches intently to see what happens!)
Silence is broken by....
BRYAN: (Doing fighting sound effects!)Yeay.. he's got him in a head lock (very excited)
KIAN: (gets all serious) O.k, lads, O.k. now, come on. Lads, lets do the interview lads, come on seriously now lads...

Q.3. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU LIED TO GET YOUR WAY WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?
KIAN: (giggling) Last night!!!
(The others confirm this!!!) It was, and all!2
us: Elaborate, please!
KIAN: I was in a night Club in Sligo
BRYAN (interupts in a female voice) I Love You!
NICKY: Last time I lied??? I can't actually remember..I do it that much! Probably the night before last..No, last night too! I was at a party, in Dublin.
BRYAN: I never Lie!! I always tell the truth! (yeah, right.)
MARK: yeah , he does.
US: Have you just told a lie now?
BRYAN: maybe....not. Ah, no, I always tell the truth.
SHANE: Last night...In a night club
MARK: You LIED to get your way with the opposite sex?
KIAN : You LIED Shane?
marie: (just kidding) "This is disgraceful! I'm so Shocked!"
Then they get all defensive saying things like...
"Well we didn't really LIE"
"Not in a bad way"
"Not all the time"
marie : I'm just joking, lads.
MARK: I'm the same as Bryan, I never lie. I'm an ANGEL!
(The conversation drifts to leaving Cert results....to let you know they all did very well....)
KIAN: Come on now, lads, lets get the interview done and over with.

Q.4.DO YOU EVER LIE ABUT YOUR AGE?
sinead: Seriously,we want the truth!!
MARK: Yeah always(joke!)
BRYAN: No I don't lie....
SHANE: No obviously when you're 16 you say you're 18 to get into niteclubs. Everyone does that but I don't lie to say I'm younger for the band.
BRYAN: If you're on holidays and, like, you see a girl and you say, you're like......nineteen... Oh yeah...I forgot, I don't lie.
NICKY: What Shane said really. You lie to make yourself older to get into a 21's nightclub.
MARK: And you make yourself younger to get into football matches , or to get Bustickets .
ALL: Train fares!
BRYAN: 55p please! (putting on a childish voice) I'm 15.!!!!
So what ages are you really??
KIAN: 18.
SHANE: he's 18, (bryan),he's 18 (Mark)he's 18, (Kian)he's 19, (Nicky)and I'm 19.
Us: So, who's 17? It was in the Rte guide.
MARK: I am.
KIAN: You're not 17, now are you?
BRYAN: It'll be in print.
MARK: Oh yeah, the Pod.(Top Dublin Night Club) I'm 18. (followed by lots of laughter)
BRYAN: (doing an impression of a bouncer) "I saw in the paper that you're only 17. You're not getting in!!"

Q.5.WHAT WAS THE FIRST AND LAST RECORD YOU BOUGHT?
BRYAN: Kylie Minogue!
NICKY: Yeah, Kylie.
BRYAN: (starts singing) "Everybody's doing a brand new dance now..."
NICKY: "Especially for you" by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue.
MARK: The first record I ever bought was....."Up Town Girl" by Billy Joel. (begins to sing) and the last one was..Des'ree, "Life" (Everyone begins to sing "Life")
BRYAN: The last one I bought was "Lost In Space" by the Lighthouse family.
sinéad: Oh I HATE that song.
BRYAN and SHANE: Get out!! Get out!! Go on!!
(Bryan leans over an pretends to switch off the dictaphone) sinéad: " I'm sorry!!!!!!!"

Q.6. HOW MANY DRINKS DOES IT TAKE BEFORE YOU GET DRUNK??
NICKY: I don't drink.
BRYAN: Don't drink.
(So I turned off the tape and asked the question again.) (and got the same answers)
NICKY: no seriously, we don't drink that much.
(Lots of laughing and comments like "Be serious")
MARK: I think we should answer the questions honestly lads!
NICKY: No, honestly, I don't drink.
BRYAN: 5 pints.
SHANE: I'd have a couple whenever we're going out or something, but I don't drink much. I'm not a mad drinker.
marie: It takes you 5 drinks before you get drunk?
NICKY: It takes me one and a half, because I don't drink.
BRYAN: It depends what you eat, it depends on the situation.
MARK: (joking) Between 4 and 5 bottles of Vodka!
KIAN: Mark drinks Vodka like its water!
marie: Bottles?
BRYAN: He drinks it all the time! Drinks it with his Cornflakes and everything!
MARK: Rice Krispies and Vodka!
marie: Straight? Glasses or bottles?
MARK: Well...naggins!!!!

Q.7. IS THERE A SPECIAL SOMEONE IN ANY OF YOUR LIVES?
SHANE: Nicky's.
BRYAN: Me Mother
sinead: No no no no, as in Boyfriend/girlfriend.
(Followed by lots of laughter)
MARK: As in BOYFRIEND/girlfriend??? (joking sarcastically) Oh, yeah, I'm going out with this fella called......
(O.k. Sorry, Lads. As in GIRLFRIENDS.)
BRYAN: We're not actually going out with anyone, only Nicky. Nicky's going out with Georgina.
MARK: Bertie Aherns Daughter!!

Q.8. WHY DO FAMOUS PEOPLE PRETEND NOT TO HAVE BOY/GIRLFRIENDS WHEN THEY REALLY DO?
KIAN: We're not famous, so we can't answer that question!
NICKY: I suppose its like, they wanna get fans, and they want to get people to buy their records, and they think that if they say they're going out with someone then the people mightn't.
SHANE: Then again, they might.
sinéad: But Boyzone are NO.1, and they're all married , with Children.
BRYAN: They're established.
SHANE: 5 years ago they didn't have girlfriends. 6 months ago they didn't have girlfriends. They just got married like that! (Snaps his fingers)

Q.9. DOES IT ANNOY YOU THAT YOU HAVE A SQUEAKY CLEAN IMAGE?
KIAN: We don't have a sqeaky clean image.
MARK: I do!
sinéad: Oh, yeah. I quote... "We don't smoke, we don't drink, we don't..."
KIAN: We do have an Image though. If you're in a boygroup, you know you're going to have to have an image. You know you're going to have to have an image like that. Its the life it is.
BRYAN breaks into his rendition of "Life" again.