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Caroline Corr
Irish
Musician
About the author
We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Songs
#Play
#Irish
Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
Our parents were musicians.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Parents
#Musicians
Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Time
#Home
#Night
#School
#Parents
#Rules
Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Play
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Family
Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Waking
We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Want
I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Pretty
#Energy
We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Strength
#Music
Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Time
When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Thought
Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Kids
#Mother
#Jobs
#Father
Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Tools
We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Love
#Play
#Music
I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Time
A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Songs
#Beginning
#Guitar
Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Trying
#Baby
I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Ireland
#Irish
I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Country
I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Time
#End
#Deep
#Road
I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Direction
I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#First
#Ireland
I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Play
I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Want
#Children
#Home
#HusbSuccessful
I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.
Caroline Corr,
Irish
Musician
#Idea