Louis Walsh

I don't know what you're talking about.

I was actually reading up on all this this morning and there was a headline from weeks ago that Louis Walsh said, this will all be forgotten by tomorrow.

No, Louis, I don't think the Ed Sheeran, Matthew Moore stuff will ever be forgotten.

He's so annoying, but I kind of love him.

You're back in it.

Basically, lads, what I'm looking for is like, you know, like kind of Louis Walsh kind of vibe.

We need to find someone to manage us and we'll be doing, you know.

Yeah, we'll work that out.

You can't, but you can imagine him being one or two people away.

Like, Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell and all these kind of figures were amongst these boy bands in the 90s.

And who fucking knows what? Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

You know who you

sounded like there? Who? Louis Walsh.

You just sounded like Louis Walsh to me there.

I

doubt Louis Walsh goes to the bottle bank and the clothes bank.

What?

Maybe he does.

somewhere.

Is Louis Walsh on there anywhere?

Yes, he is.

I bet he was great.

Brilliant.

[clapping] Suddenly felt the spirit of Lou Walsh.

[laughing]

He's around us.

Like, let's just take Nadine's Passport.

That came from 2002-2001, Ireland's first full-blooded reality television show, Popstars, where essentially we were getting under the hood of the car to see how a pop band was made with Louis Walsh, Linda Martin, Bill Hughes.

It was a much more innocent time to be a pop star and reality TV was just new in its genre.

So when Nadine had that very famous slip of the tongue when she was lying to get into the band, she was 16 when she had to be 18, it became this cataclysmic moment in Irish culture where even the Labour Party and Eamonn Gilmore were thrown over the hot coals because of the fact that Eamonn Gilmore said, well, I thought Nadine Coyle showed great initiative in terms of coming clean with her age.

Well, we, we won't know till we try, will we? It's gonna be very different.

Obviously, back when Boyzone and Westlife started, everything was done through television performance, and obviously Louis Walsh would obviously have some nice stories in the paper, m- most of them not true, but at least we were in the papers.

That's all you would say.

So it's gonna be very different, but I think the essence of this is about having a boy band that, you know, kids can, they can kind of be a part of 'cause that's what it was with Boyzone and Westlife.