Danny O'Donoghue

And then...

Yeah, I mean, we did everything.

We did the Smash Hits roadshow.

We were on the kind of same year as when Westlife were on it.

But they just had it sewn up.

I mean, Louis Walsh managing them.

You know, the dark arts that kind of go on around that area.

But, you know, fair play to the lads.

They did brilliant.

And while their star was going up, we just completely plummeted into the ground.

And kind of went, like I said, we washed up around 18, 19.

with the little money that we'd made.

Now, we got signed for a lot of money, but you know yourself, you don't see that.

It's put over, you know, the amount of albums that you have and the budget.

And so we took the little money that we had, myself and Mark, we're always producing and writing, even from my town back then, we wrote and produced.

And then we took the studio that we had in James Street in Dublin and we moved it over to Orlando.

And why Orlando?

So it was a friend of ours, Rina, who is now Mark's wife.

She was Justin Timberlake's, one of Justin Timberlake's really good mates.

So they'd kind of not started in her house, but they started in her dance school.