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Andrea talks to the RTE Guide

“I would like to marry somebody with the knowledge that if he’s not treating me right, or if he’s taking me for granted, I’ll leave,” Andrea Corr, who is in a loving, secure relationship, tells Paddy Kehoe.

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Andrea talks to the RTE Guide


“I would like to marry somebody with the knowledge that if he’s not treating me right, or if he’s taking me for granted, I’ll leave,” Andrea Corr, who is in a loving, secure relationship, tells Paddy Kehoe. Photos Barry McCall.


Down The Factory I find myself, on Dublin’s Barrow Street, where the Corrs are currently working on the early arrangements for a new album. The band haven’t arrived yet, but nice yummy things for lunch await them, vacuum-packed green olives and cheese. Also on the table, there’s an impressive juicing machine, which will be fed with strawberries and pineapples and pears as the day goes on. Bob, the band’s friendly ‘teccy,’ (instruments technician) from Cork pours myself and himself a creamy beaker each and he tells me that The Corrs all have juicers in their homes.

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I’m hovering in the hallway when a diminutive figure rushes in, apologising for lateness. No matter how many times you see Andrea Corr, you’re surprised afresh by the slightness of the singer and actress who turns 31 in May. Today, she has that familiar homely, prairie look, there’s a sort of gypsy cut to the dress she wears. She gives me a warm, yet mildly hesitant, handshake, and a look that could be described in much the same terms. Then she moves speedily to the next room where we sit down.

She looks directly at me as she speaks, a stray curl occasionally falling down her cheek. Sometimes she talks at length, sometimes not. The latter is an endearing trait, because interviewers hate listening to waffle, but also a faintly frustrating trait, because you want to know more. I mention her actor boyfriend Shaun Evans, whom she met two years ago on the set of the forthcoming coming-of-age comedy movie The Boys from County Clare. They had a kissing scene at the end. Were they already fancying each other then?

“I suppose we were, the job wasn’t very tough,” she laughs, getting all coy. She lives in Ballsbridge, he’s based in London. “I kind of get a little private about all this, to be honest,” she says, when I ask her to describe him. “He’s very artistic, he’s very adventurous about life and the world, he’s very spirited. It’s probably like anybody else: you meet somebody and you hear what they say, and you go ‘wow! that’s kinda what I think.’ There was something he said which I thought was quite different for a guy to say. It was something to do with nature: I remember looking at my friend, ’cos she heard it, it just kind of rang true to the way I look at life.”

Another woman might want a guy to be utterly different from her, I suggest. He might say something mysterious that didn’t actually chime with her and that could be the very thing that made him more attractive. “Years ago when I was in my teens, you’d fancy guys who didn’t speak very much. You’d think that was terribly interesting, but really the guy had nothing to say. That’s what you learn as life goes on. I suppose that mystery you’re talking about is more to do with teens than reality, and about your illusions about somebody, rather than the truth about them. To me, you’ve got to be able to share interests. What works for me is that we do love, and are passionate about the same things.” I gather they go to plays and films together. He is taller – surprise, surprise – and, yes, she likes the protective element of having a boyfriend.

Andrea wrote the lyrics to a song called Humdrum which featured on the last album, about the way people sometimes take each other for granted in marriages. “I would like to marry somebody with the knowledge that if he’s not treating me right, or he’s taking me for granted, I’ll leave – I don’t want to take somebody else for granted, either,” the singer says, adding: “I know that’s probably controversial on a Catholic level.” She likes the ‘steadiness’ of marriage. “I would like to say ‘that’s my husband’ or I’d like to have a next of kin, if something happens.”

Andrea’s mother, Jean, died at 57, in 1999, after suffering from a rare lung disease. While talking about her mother, she suddenly looks at her watch and notes that it’s her mam’s birthday today. Back in April 2002, when I spoke to her, emotions were more raw. She declared then: “You sometimes get a very dark moment where you feel, ‘oh my God, how have I lived without her, how have I laughed, how have I done this, how have I done everything? You feel quite guilty and shocked all over again. There is something that gets me about actually ‘going on’ – why haven’t I fallen apart?”


That was then, this is now. How is she today, about her mother? “I’m fine, I suppose I’m fortunate that I have a very strong Christian faith. I believe in God and I believe she’s in a better place and I believe it’s for some reason that we don’t know. I know she was a vital woman who loved life far too much to have it by half-measure, as a sick woman, with the clock ticking on it – five years, if she’d had a lung transplant, if it had ever gotten that far.

“That’s not what Mammy was about, to live in fear of something cutting her time off. To be sick, not to have a full life, wouldn’t be for her.”

She recalls how her mother didn’t smile as much after she got sick. “If she smiled, it was really for us. I think she really knew that this rare disease was going to kill her.” Losing her mother suddenly turned Andrea into an adult, which she found weird.

“The ground you walk on is different, the way you look at everything completely changes. But she’s included in my daily life, you can’t help but always think, ‘she’d love this, if she saw this.’ Or, ‘how would she do this?’ All these different things . . .”

While her mother was a strong woman, Andrea says she was not a formidable presence. “She was very loving, and very fun-loving.” Her father Gerry isn’t ‘formidable’ either, she laughs, suggesting a gentle soul. How is he? “Daddy’s great, he’s an independent man and he has his faith which is very important to him.”

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Andrea’s sister, Caroline, now has two children, two-year-old Jake and Georgina, who is four months. She would like to be a mother herself, “but I don’t think I’m ready for it, for a couple of years yet”. Could children be a curb on her career? “As you give your career everything, I’d want to give my kids everything. I’d want to give them what my mother and father gave me, and us. I wouldn’t be torn then. When I talk about it with Caroline, she says the most important thing you do in your life is to have children, and I understand that. But you do have to be ready. I would want to feel fully fulfilled by the time I do it.”

While still a bit nervous about interviews, Andrea is no longer manically driven by the sordid business of getting well known. I remember a phone call to Tokyo once when she was in the middle of all this frenzy. I think she was speaking to me from a bathroom, which can’t have helped. “We are ambitious people, but we never thought we’d do as big as this at the same time. Having said that I suppose your goal-posts move all the time and get higher. You set out just to make music and you hope to fulfil yourself. Of course, if you think you’ve written something good you do want the world to respond accordingly.

She recently won Best Actress award at the Colorado Film Festival for her role in The Boys From County Clare. She won’t be attending the ceremony, but she will attend the film’s premiere in New York in March. She is interested in further acting roles, which will presumably come her way in time. Wasn’t she voted the Most Attractive Woman of 2004 by Hello magazine? “Yes, I think so,” she replies. She also won Best Singer in Hot Press. The Best Singer and Best Actress awards were “really big deals,” she says.

Turning 30, on the other hand, was no big deal. “I think life gets better, you get more able to cope with whatever it throws at you.” More wisdom? “Hopefully, you don’t lose your fun as you gain wisdom,” she says. She casts a sceptical look upon the very magazines that are emblazoned with images such as hers. “These relentless articles on being slimmer, that focus is not really healthy for women and teenage girls who can be vulnerable, and it’s moving into men now, I suppose.”

Just like any girl, she worried more about her appearance when she was in her late teens and early twenties. “Now, if you have a day that you don’t feel really great, you know that day will go. I felt really insecure with my looks when I was younger, I feel a bit okay with them now. Although maybe I looked better then, that’s the irony of it.” Oh come on, Andrea.

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“I would like to marry somebody with the knowledge that if he’s not treating me right, or if he’s taking me for granted, I’ll leave,” Andrea Corr..
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What a great interview :) Thanks Mathias :) And those 2 pics are SO adorable!! :love:

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