Andrea Corr chats to I Like Music

I learned so much from him. He has a different way of working than anyone else I've known and really brings the stories to life. He really listens to the lyrics, and I really like that, and he'll further emphasise what you're trying to say within it and just add to the whole picture of it, the whole scenario and the scene.

ILM: So he brings it to life?

ANDREA: Yeah he dramatises it, absolutely.

ILM: Your single, Shame On You (to keep my love from me) is out on June 18th. about conscription and war, " how these men and women who go off to war are leaving behind partners they will never marry and children they will never have." Can you tell us how the song came about and describe its whole vibe?

ANDREA: I had just read the book Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks, which is about war and obviously, it's so relevant today and pretty much every day. I didn't know I was writing about it when I started writing the song to be honest, as often happens with me, it just comes along and then I know what I'm writing about … I was, as everybody is, affected by photos you see in the papers of young people looking out in their uniforms and they've been killed, and that one person, the immense waste of it; gone in their 20s… the children they won't have and the husband or wife they've left behind or won't marry, and all the beautiful things in life that won't happen and the people affected by that, so it's really about the immense waste of war, it's just so sad.
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