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Sneak Preview: White Light by The Corrs
Edited & adapted by Bridget Haggerty

The family foursome are set to release their first album in eleven years before embarking on a tour of Ireland and the UK in the new year.

While the new album won't be available to download until the end of this month, Andrea has revealed that their old friend Bono has been given a sneak preview and the good news for fans is that he's mightily impressed.

"He has heard it all. We're very fortunate to have him as a friend and also in certain ways a bodyguard. I will often go to him with, 'what do you think of this?'. He has been so supportive and really loves the record", said Andrea.

She added: "I'm really happy when it's positive because also I know he'd tell me the truth if he didn't like it, I'd be hearing all about it, so it's a hell of a compliment."

Andrea, Sharon, Caroline and Jim confirmed their comeback back in June. During their ten year's together The Corrs sold more than 40 million albums worldwide making them one of the most successful Irish groups of all time.

Their father died earlier this year and they say they have found it "comforting" to spend lots of time together.

Andrea said: "Since January now we've been back with each other, and in a lot of ways it seems almost fated. For us it's been great being together. We were doing the record but then our father passed away."

"So actually being together, as we have to be now, has been really comforting, because we do have a shared history and the shared loss and to put that into our work, and into our music and into our performance together is another blessing."

Jim is the only band member to still live in Ireland, and while Sharon said she misses the brown bread, Caroline said she misses "the familiarity of the Irish people".

She said that "When I go home to Ireland I'm always amazed that I just have random chats with people, strangers, there's something really beautiful about that."

White Light features 12 brand new songs that exquisitely mix that endearing, classic Corrs sound with modern pop and traditional Irish folk music. Highlights are many and include the gently political 'Ellis Island', a song already praised by Bono; and the evocative 'Gerry's Reel', an instrumental dedicated to their late father, Gerry Corr.
To hear an edited version of the first single from the new CD, please click Bring on The Night

To pre-order the album, please click White Light

Main Image & Copy Source: RTÉ


 

Thu, Feb 29, 2024

St Patrick's Cathedral

The National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St. Patrick is the full official name and, according to tradition, St Patrick baptised several converts at a well in what is now a park adjacent to the cathedral. To commemorate this event, a small wooden church was built. In 1901, the well was rediscovered and an ancient granite stone, marked with a Celtic cross which covered the well, was moved into the cathedral. The parish church on this site was one of four Celtic churches in Dublin and was known as St Patrick's in Insula - on the island - as it was built on an island between two branches of the River Poddle which still flows under the cathedral.
Image: StPatrick's Cathedral.ie

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