Here Below is An interview that we did with DOVE on the 23rd of April, 1998.
In the Eyre Square Shopping center in Galway.
Q: WHO DO YOU MOST ADMIRE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY?
G: Hazel!!Hazel Kaneswaren from DOVE, she's great! Nah, she's crap!!!
H: Soul singers.
G:(interupts) Janet Jackson!
H: Toni braxton, as in the Braxtons as well, I suppose...
G: The easiest thing to do is tell you what C.D.'s we brought down in the car.
Toni Braxton, Mariah Carey , Az yet, Jackson 5 and the Prodigy.
(Graham is a big big big Janet Jackson fan.)
Q: WHICH BANDS DID YOU ADMIRE WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER???
(Graham repeats the question 3 times...)
G: We still are ARE younger!! Lame Question...(joking..I hope)
H: I admired Diana Ross, and Lionel Richie, all the motown....
G: You liked bucks Fizz, didn't you??!!
H: No, That was just my first album, ..as in, Some one bought it for me
(seems like she's in denial that she ever liked them...its all right Hazel,
we understand)
G: I'm a big Prince Fan...
(marie screams out-"yeah, he's cool")
G: (repeats) I still AM younger. I'm only a baby, I just turned 20, I'm
just out of being a teenager.
(Sinéad interupts and shows them her DOVE bracelet... and Graham starts to
make weird sounds)
(G: Just to let you know, she's Just showed us her DOVE bracelet)
G: (repeats for the 14,000th time that he is Still young...is he trying to
imply something here?) The conversation drifts to Daniel O 'Donnell
but we don't want to scare anybody, so we won't tell you what we said!)
G: (in a jokingly serious tone...)Sorry, can we get on with the interview
please?!?!
Q: WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT IN THE BAND??
G: (immediatly)Getting to kiss Denise Van Outen on the Cheek
H: That wasn't for me now luv, I didn't kiss nobody!!
G: NO, she went up to Denise van Outen and told her she looked lovely..
H: Yeah, she was getting all embarrased about going up on stage, she was
fixing her dress , and all that, so I went up to her and touched her
on the arm, and told her she looked lovely, and then I ran on stage.
G: That was one of the best moments, I suppose, getting to perform with
bands like Boyzone, and ALL Saints, I mean, because we still don't
have a record deal, and were not a major, mega famous international
band, so to be on the same stage as bands like that was kinda cool.
H: (all excitedly tells about how Robbie Williams came into the room,
with no top on, thinking it was the make up room, and Hazel told him
it wasn't, but offered to do his make up anyways.)
G: (BOASTS) All the Stars came into our dressing room...(goes onto list
practically evrybody who wasonthe Childline Concert.
H: Will Mellor!
G: Will Mellor fancied Hazel
H: (dreamily) yeah... he followed me around a little bit, so I went up to
Graham, " hold my hand and pretend I'm with ya!"
G: And I said, NO, go away!!!
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Q: WHAT'S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU'VE EVER DONE ON A NIGHT OUT???
G: Hazel??
H: I don't know, what have I done??
G: I don't know--you tell me!!
H: What's the craziest thing I've ever done??(ponders the question for a
while.)
G: (Suggests..) That time you got sick in your handbag was pretty vile!
H: (giggles and throws a dirty look to Graham)
G: It's a lie!! Its a lie!! Its a lie!!!
H: Have I kissed anyone..?
G: (Sarcastically)Oh, that's REAL crazy!!
Hazel keeps repeating the question to herself, so Graham decides to answer
the question....
G: Well, I went on a night out in Dublin, and ended up in Tralee the next
morning going " what am I doing here, on the train, on my own?? ".
So that'd be a crazy thing!! Would that count??? What else have I done?
I'm sure I've done something more stupid!
H: Ah well, look at you on Tx, getting stuff rammed in your mouth....
G: (proudly) I do crazy things for a living! So when I go out, I get all
quiet and subdued....
H: (whispers right into the microphone) Graham dresses up in womens
clothing and wears make up..
G: (also whispering) That's Donald!!
H: ( still whispering) He does too!
H: O.k. I've got one for the whole band!When we went to manchester to do a gig...
G: (starts laughingand then Hazel joins in)
H: We went to this night club, and Donald was dancing with this girl,
and she had this dress with holes in it. Donald took her dress off
in the middle of the night-club, and put it on him, and gave her his
t-shirt, and she walked around in her knickers and his t-shirt, and
Donald walked around with the dress all night!!
US: Oh my GOD!!!(and we start laughing for ages)
G: So, Donald is the only one who has done anything crazy!
US: Will Donald kill us if we put that on the internet????
G: No, put it on the internet, put it on the internet,
put it on the internet!!!!!!
(just in case you are wondering, Don. didn't hear any of this, because
he was talking to his cousin who works in a shop in the afore said shopping center.)
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Q: WHAT WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO CHANGE IN THE WORLD?????
H: All the litle black children getting no food.
G: You'd like to feed the homeless of the world.
H: Especially all the black children in Ethiopia.
G: World Peace.
H: D'ya hear him?????? And he's killing us in the car on the way down!!
(Graham starts laughing, then recommends that we put al the giggly bits
on the internet--Well, we took your advice!!!)
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Q: WHAT WOULD YOU CALL YOUR LIFE STORY??
H: Short!! Short and sweet!!
G: What would I call my life story??????.....I'd call my life story....
What WOULD I call my life story??? emmmmmmmmm..... I've no idea what
I would call my life story!!!! I would call my life story......
(The conversation drifts about 3 times...)
I would call my life story...........(GET ON WITH IT GRAHAM!!!)
emmmmmm...... SEEN IT, DONE IT, BOUGHT THE T-SHIRT!!! because I have!
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Q: WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE DAY OF THE WEEK????
G: Emmm...My favourite day of the week is Today!!!
US: Why?
G: Because it's good to live life for the NOW. Don't worry about what's
happened, or what going to happen, live in the Now. Like,Tommorrow.
my favourite day would be today, (being Tommorrow)
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Q: HAZEL, DO YOU EVER FEEL INTIMIDATED BEING THE OLY FEMALE MEMBER OF DOVE?
G: Well, Donald counts as an honorary...after Manchester!
H: No, not really. I'm a lad, sort of, as well. Amn't I?
G: Yeah...put it this way--we share razors.
H: We share razors and we share changing rooms. When we did the
Childline gig, we were in with the Carter Twins too, and I said to them,
" If you don't mind seeing my knickers, I don't mind seeing yours!"
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Q: WHAT'S THE MOST USELESS PIECE OF INFORMATION ANYONE HAS EVER GIVEN YOU?
G: Probably that!!!(refering to above answer, obviously!!) I don't KNOW
What the most useless piece of information I've ever been given is!
Do you mean professionally, or what?
US: Anything.
G: Well, I met this girl, and in the space of 20 minutes she was telling
me all about this big medical procedure she's just gone through. I was just
there thinking, " That's information, I don't want to know" Does that count?
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AT LAST DONALD JOINS US!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!
MARIE HANDS OUT THE CADBURY'S CREME EGGS, AS A PROP FOR QUESTION 10.
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Q: CADBURY'S CREME EGGS--HOW DO YOU EAT YOURS??????
D: Well, to tell you the truth, I just munch into it! NO time wasting,
whatsoever!!Go straight for the middle!!!!! Bite right through it,
and suck out all the lovely gooey stuff!
G: Hazel? HAZEL!! Cadbury's creme eggs, how do you eat yours??
Hazel pops hers into her mouth, wrapper and all!
(She's bust talking to a fellow "temperature contoller person"--i.e.
Somebody who works for Thermo King, a fridge making company Hazel works
with in Dublin.)
G: Are Mr. Thermo, or Mr. King????
G: Cadbury's creme eggs, how do I eat mine????? All in one go!!!!!
When I eat Creme Eggs, I usually eat them whole, but usually, I
absolutley despise Cadbury's Creme Eggs!!!! I never eat them!! But
If I do eat them , I eat them whole, just to get them over and done with!!
(Graham actually eats it then, without biting into it or anything--Just a big
lump going down his throat!)
Would that be a sufficient answer?? I eat it whole, just to get rid of it
but I'm a complete chocaholic!!!
(accidentaly I asked Don how he eats his, forgetting he had already answered...
D: I already told you--I munch through it!!! What more do you need to know?
you munch through it, and suck out all the gooey stuff!! No time wasting
whatsoever, cause it's so lovely, and shiney, and....
(Donald and Graham discuss the methods of eating creme eggs, while Graham
reads through the q. list again, and picks out the highlights to ask Don.)
Q: WHATS YOUR FAVOURITE DAY OF THE WEEK?????
D: My favourite day would be Sunday, because on the last day, God rested!!
Q: WHATS THE CRAZIEST THING YOU'VE EVER DONE ON A NIGHT OUT????
D: I've done a lot of crazy things....
G: But what's the craziest???
D: I do a lot of crazy things and every night is a crazy night for me!
G: Ah, come on, you're avoiding the question!!!!!
US: If we only rewind this tape 15 minutes!..
D: O.k. o.k., o.k., I'll admit it!! The craziest thing I've ever done on a
night out is dressing up in a dress--me and this lady friend of mine
swapped clothes. I put on her long white and see through dress, and
she put on my top. There you go, that's the craziest thing I've ever
done in a night club, while everyone was watching!!
G: If we were on Mr. and Mrs. we'd be winning, because me and Hazel
already said that for you about 10 minutes ago!!
D: No way!!
G: But WE went into Detail about the whole ordeal!!
US: Remember, this is going to be on the internet!!!!
D: Oh my God!!! Oh my God!!!
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Q: THERE ARE SO MANY UP AND COMING BANDS IN DUBLIN, IS THERE EVER ANY
RIVALY BETWEEN YOU ALL???
G: The way we look at it is, the world is a damn big place,
and there are a lot of people so no matter who you are, what kind
of band you're in, there is somebody out there who will like what
you are doing! There is room for everybody!! Somebody who likes what
Dove are doing, mightn't neccessarily like what one of the other bands
are doing. Everybody is different, and ther's loads of room for
everbody. Ireland is a pretty small country, and Dublin's a very
small place, and everybody knows everybody, but once you get outside
of Ireland, it doesn't really matter, you know. There's loads of people,
and loads of people to buy things, and loads of money!!!
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WE'D LIKE TO THANK DOVE , (GRAHAM CRUZ, HAZEL KANESWAREN, AND DONALD ADE,
{as if you didn'tknow by now})FOR ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS, GRAHAM FOR
READING THE QUESTIONS, (DID WE DO THE INTERVIEW AT ALL???) THE ROAD
MANAGER BARRY STEWART FOR LETTING US DO THEINTERVIEW WITH DOVE, AND
THEIR MANAGER, DERMOT MC EVOY FOR GIVING PERMISION FOR THIS INTERIVEW
TO TAKE PLACE.
THANKS TO ZHIVAGO FO GETTING DOVE TO GALWAY, AND THANKS TO ALL THE FANS
WHO WERE THERE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WAITING ON DOVE.)