MTV Week In Rock 

(April 2000)

Parts of the interview (the blue ones) are also recorded in MP3 format!!! Enjoy them!!!

 

Alessandra: "We are here with Westlife... hi guys!!!"

WL: "Hello!"

 

*Fool Again*  (They show a little bit of the video)

 

Alessandra points at Mark, who is in front of her on the other side of the table...

Alessandra: "Don't laugh too much, Mark, 'cause I know that you are a big Mariah Carey's fan [Mark has a very sweet smile on his face!]... you know, reading magazines, and taking all the photographs and pictures... "

Mark picks up a page, that probably he has torn off from a mag, and shows it to the camera... of course it is a Mariah's pic...

Alessandra: Actually I know that you met her and planned to sing with her"

Mark: "Yeah..."

[Shane mumbles something that we can't understand!]

While Mark is putting away the page on the ground, Nicky seems very interested in the PIC that is on the back of that page, and repicks it up... while a very excited Kian is telling... (Bry is smiling at Shane who is very very serious) :

Kian: "OK, he's reading a magazine... he's reading a magazine [using a mag to make impression of Mark] and he sees a pic of Mariah Carey, tears it off and then he goes "I'm not a Mariah Carey's fan" "

While Kian's speaking, you can see Nicky watching the back PIC, and Mark trying to get it back... but Nicky smiles at him, as if Mark should understand why he's smiling, and when Mark realizes, he has a great laugh, still trying to get it back... but at this moment...

...WHAT A MESS!... Bry and Shane, who are long-sighted and are able to see the incriminated PIC too, have a massive laugh, clapping noisily their hands, Nicky starts to stamp his feet... and someone [maybe Kian] tells:

"Mark is blushing... what a poor figure!!!!"

... Nicky is really beside himself... first he grasps Mark's arm, then he hugs him, and they are both shaking their sides with laughing, while the other guys are still clapping and Shane makes some unadvised gestures, bawling something incomprehensible... and all the guys are pointing at poor Mark, who can't but laugh!!!

[What was that PIC about???????????? .... this is a great question!!!!!]

LISTEN HERE!!!

 

*Fool Again*

 

The guys are still laughing when Alessandra asks:

Alessandra: "Is it true that you would like to sing together with Mariah?"

Bry: "Yeah, yeah, it is!"

Shane: "It's planned to be in May, we'll be in studio together and Mark is looking forward to this"

Alessandra: "Will you go to America, or will she come here?"

Bry: "She'll come to Ireland"

   

*Season in the Sun*

 

Alessandra: "Before the interview, I've studied... "

She's got some sheets of paper, stuff that she's found in Internet.

Bry: "Oh oh... oh oh... "

He seems very worried... he looks at Shane... he looks at Alessandra... more and more worried!!!

Alessandra: "I have to say that there is a lot of stuff (?) on the Internet about you ... right, OK... rumour page... "

Bry: "Ahhh... Ok"

Alessandra: "... and 'How to pull Westlife' "

...showing the page to Bryan, who says...

Bry: "Read us some rumours!"

LISTEN HERE!!!

 

*Season in the Sun*

 

Alessandra's given the sheets to Shane, who starts reading...

Shane: "Rumour number 1: Kian has a tatoo just about his ankle... and Bryan and Nicky also... and Nicky and Bryan also got one too... "

Alessandra: "Is this true?"

Shane: "... well.... apparently, apparently... well well apparently this rumour iiiis true!" [These were exactly his own words!!! Maybe he needs Kian's glasses! :) ]  

Bryan nods.

Kian stands up, puts his right foot on the table, hitches up his trousers, lets his sock down, and full of pride, he shows his tatoo!!!!!!

Nicky does the same, but... no tatoo at all!!!!!!  

Nicky: "No, it's not true!!!". LISTEN HERE!!!

   

*Season in the Sun*


Now it is Bryan's turn... and he starts reading:  

Alessandra: "Come on reading!!!"

Bry: "Rumours number 2: Bryan dumped Lene from Aqua; this rumour is also true because it is said so in the official Westlife website" [These words were all read from the sheet!!!]

Bry looking at the camera: "Don't believe everything you read... don't believe everything you read..." LISTEN HERE!!!

... moving his eyebrows up and down, with a very mischievous look...

In the meanwhile, Kian seems very concentrated... his turn is coming, and he's looking for his glasses...and when he finds them, while Bry is still speaking, he says (looking at the camera!!!!) :

Kian: "I put on... I put on my glasses!!!" :)

 

*Season in the Sun*

 

Kian: "Rumour number 3: Mark is said to be dating a sixteen years old fan"

Everybody turns to Mark with a look of reproach, and Shane cries out :

Shane: "Maaaaaaaark!!!!!!!!!" LISTEN HERE!!!

Mark is astonished... he's lost the power of speech.

 

*Season in the Sun*

 

Nicky: "Rumour number 5... sorry... number 4: I heard Bryan is getting married with some girl named Ally"

Shane: "Ohhhhhh! Congratulations!"

Bryan crosses his arms on his chest, making a very pleased (and funny!) face... he stands up with open arms, and then Shane and Kian do the same and hug him! While Nicky and Mark are still very concentrated on the rumours page!!!

... and the interview finishes with a very happy Shane... "Oh! We get a day off!!!!!"... (for the wedding, of course!!!!) LISTEN HERE!!!

   

And that's all.... only 2 minutes and 45 seconds on TV....and more than two hours (about three...to say the truth!!!! But we're not very proud of it!!!!!) for us to understand everything and write it down!!!! :) :)

 

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