BRAVO: Last october you moved to Gymnich Castle near Cologne. Were you fed up with living in your manor in Ireland?
Barby: I really had a lot of fun in Ireland. I had ballett lessons and nobody knew I belonged to the Kellys. That was a big advantage and I could learn a lot. But at a certain moment I felt that I didnīt knew where I was at home anymore. I think my real home is in Spain, where I was born.
BRAVO: Barby, how did you get over with your mothers death?
Barby: Five years ago I wrote a text about mama. You can listen to it on our album "Wow!". There I tell, that I will never forgot how my mother made a bread with butter for me. That was one year before her death - she died in the beginning of 1982. The song was called "Oh, Johnny". Thatīs a memory of my mother that I put down on a song.
BRAVO: Angelo, you were three months old, when your mother died. It had to be very hard for you to grow up without mother, hadnīt it?<
Angelo: Yes. Mama knew she would have to die and she said to Kathy: "You have to take care of him for me now!" Kathy took over the role of my mother.
Barby: (laughs) I had to clean Angeloīs botty and to wrap him often.
BRAVO: At the same time you have always had music lessons. Which instrument have you learned first?
Barby: Kathy was my musical idol. She first taught me an italian song on the accordion. A beautiful traditionally song, which I still can play.
Angelo: Not many people know, that Barby plays accordion and piano very well.
BRAVO: But in the last years we only saw you on the congas, why?
Barby: My dream was always, to become a percussion profi. But somehow I stuck at the drums. Now I try to dance more again on the stage and to improve my percussion playing.
BRAVO: What do the other three of you to stay fit?
Paddy: I ride my bike for half an hour several times a week. Then I do one-hundred press-ups a day, but with my knees on the floor. Otherwise itīs bad for the back. And I do some sit-ups, too. Recently I started jogging together with Barby. Fitness is especially important, when we donīt have concerts.
BRAVO: Is it true, that you still get pocket-money from your father?
Barby: When we were younger, we always sat around the fireside. Then my father said: "Ok. Now you have to do something." We used to act little theatre-plays. Then he said: "OK, for that you get one thousand pesetas." We wrote down everything. Joey used to take care of the chickens. Then he got money for the eggs.
BRAVO: Do you have your own TV and stereo in your rooms in the castle?
Maite: I have a very small stereo, too. Itīs Kathyīs old one.
Barby: I always lent Jimmyīs stereo.
Paddy: The stereos in our house go īround and īround.
BRAVO: And if you want to watch TV?
Paddy: There are so many TVīs in the castle...
Maite:...but only eight channels...
Barby: ...our father always watches CNN.
BRAVO: Your long hair is your trademarks. Have you ever thaught about having another hairstyle?
Barby: I always link long hair with the hippies. Itīs cool and interesting to have long hair. For me itīs just Rock īnī Roll!
BRAVO: How must your dream boy look like?
Barby: Intelligence is very important. Certainly I donīt like machos. A bit fat wouldnīt be bad (laughs), because I read, the bigger a person is, the more intelligent he is.
BRAVO: Do you talk about SEX at home?
Maite: My father is the best to tell you the facts of life! He knows all the tricks. When I have a man some day. I first send him to my father.
Paddy: We talk very open about SEX.
Barby: I donīt think one of us will get married before the age of thirty-five, because itīs very difficult to have a relationship when you are always on tour. But we have a lot of cousins, who have a normal life and are married.
BRAVO: Who cleans the house and cooks?
Paddy: Everyone has to clean his own room.
Barby: From time to time I wash the private clothes of the boys.
BRAVO: Barby, what happened to you in the last year? Why did you feel so bad?
Barby: I canīt really explain it. It was just too much stress in my head. Everything was organized perfect. I didnīt get ready with it and flipped out at home. But the fans supported me in this time. That was very good and important for me. I may not disappoint them!
