Blue were in Hong Kong last month on a short promotional visit. HKClubbing.com was able to get to talk to the guys and chat about driving, women and a whole lot more!
Alyson – A: Lee Ryan – L: Simon Webb – S:
A: Welcome to Hong Kong once again! Especially Lee, first time here! L: Is it my first time here? S: Is it? L: But I was in this picture with ya! A: Nooo! This is not Hong Kong! S: Oh right, yeah yeah yeah~ L: Why is it my first time here?? (Others): Last time you had a go-cart accident… (All): Oh yeah… yeah yeah! Haha... L: Yeah, I remember that… It was a bad accident… I wanted to come away, but I wasn’t allowed, coz if I got that wound infected, then I would have got… not saying this country is dirty, but I’m saying being on a plane and stuff like that, germs and… S: We just wanted him to be at home instead of getting infected! A: Sure… L: So… I’m back though! A: How d’ya like it so far? L: I’m loving it, man! I keep on saying I’d love to go up to the mountains, I really wanna go up to the mountains, I’d love to do that! S: Are there poison snakes and stuff like that? L: There’s monkeys and stuff! Cats and everything! S: Can you just walk up there freely? L: If you see a black gorilla? Run! S: Really? You can just go up there and walk? A: Yeah! L: Free-land, ain’t it? Yeah! I’m just saying, if you see a silver back gorilla… S: Man, I’m just saying, I’m asking! I’m never gonna go up there! L: Why not? S: Not if I’m a guy! L: Yeah, but what’s a guy gonna do? S: Make sure that I don’t bump into no… grey back gorilla! L: Silver back man! S: Silver one! That’s what I’ve said! L: Silver back! But then what you have to do, it’s silver than it’s gold, then it’s platinum! S: You know what I’m saying? That we went PLATINUM! (All: Laugh!)
Lee and Si speaking on rumours:
L: That’s all lies! I’ve got more respect for myself, and I’ve got respect for women and ladies, than to turn around to a woman and tell her to “F” off… I’m more of a gentleman than that. I open doors for women when they walk in, I stand up when a woman enters the table, you know? I don’t let woman pay for anything… so… I wouldn’t disrespect myself like that… They said that to make me look bad… S: You know, it’s “pick-on-Lee” time! L: Yeah! S: I was there, we was all there! (Others: How about the “making-out-in-the-loo”?) S: I was there too! L: Uh? (All: Laugh) L: Did I have sex with a woman in the loo? I never had sex with a woman in a toilet! You know what? For me? I’ll tell you this right now, Simon can speak up for me, Johnny (Manager of Blue) can speak up for me, if I get caught in doing something, I’m the first to go (Hand-raising), alright! If I do something wrong, I’m not gonna turn around and let someone else take the blame for it. If I do something right, I’m not the sort of person to brag about it… I’ll ask for someone’s opinion, ‘guess what I did’! Or ‘I did this thing or whatever like that’… At the same time, I wouldn’t shag anyone in a toilet either! S: Where there’s a lot of people… that I’m gonna say something! That’s a bit silly! Haha! L: If I wanna go and have sex with a girl, I’ll take her up to my room, but if I do have sex with a girl, that’s big news as well! But… what am I suppose to do? I enjoy women… I enjoy… haha… I’m a young bloke! At the same time, I DIDN’T have sex in a toilet with a young girl.
A: So do you guys have more responsibilities on the writing process for this new album? S: Yeah, we’ve co-written all of it. A: Really? S: Yeah, we co-wrote the first one… half of it, 6/12… second one, 12/15… this one, we’ve co-written all of it. So it’s not like, we’re progressing outta this, it just happened this way… We’re proud of ourselves as well! L: Someone said to me the other day, “Oh it’s CO-WRITTEN’…you’ve written all the album, but it’s all CO-WRITTEN…” and I went, “Well… none of are producers…” But we actually do sit there and write our own songs. We all sit there and write a whole song and then take it to someone else, but the way… sort of… the writing process goes… even if sometimes someone don’t write something on it, you still give them a credit, as respect. A lot of the time, you might have written the whole song, but the producer might say, “Look, I need…” everyone’s gonna get paid. Which is fair! It’s nothing bad, it’s just the way this business goes, and the song-writing process goes. You can’t be tight and “that’s-all-mine”… and that’s gonna be… S: There’s no love! There’s no “One-Love”! L: “One-Love” man! S: Yeah! “One-Love”! Quote me, quote me!
Speaking on what kinda girl do they like…
S: Half oriental! My weakness is women… when I go to Japan, I’m like “Uh!” when I come to Hong Kong, I’m like “Uh!” I change my mind everyday! “Uh!” L: I think a mix… someone who’s not from my own race… I never wanna be with someone who’s English… I wanna be with someone who’s… maybe oriental… or… S: Or not! L: Yeah! I wanna meet the girl in my dreams, but I gotta fall asleep every night to meet her, man!
A: I’ve wanting get a tattoo as well… but I’m just too scared of the pain… L: They hurt man! S: They really hurt man! L: But I like them… coz they stay with ya! S: Don’t do this to yourself… Coz once you start ,you can’t stop, just like you can’t pop! And I never flop! And now I’m gonna shut up!! Next question please!
Good singer, bad driver?
L: Actually I was quite a good driver, wasn’t I? S: He was a good driver… it’s just the route and stuff… he’s been punished… that he’s sorry about… L: I was a good driver though! S: He was alright… he’s alright… yeah… L: I WAS a driver man! S: Yeah! I was about to say that man! (Manager of Blue):Don’t go back to go-cart… L: Haha… I would never go back to go-cart again! But I’ll get a real car!!
