But this isn`t 1992 and New Kids on the Bar is not the content of discussion (for the most part).
Instead, I`m meeting with McIntyre to talk about his new point at The Palms. Starting Feb. 5, the New Kid will be acting in The Sofa at The Palms with producer and friend Emanuel (Eman) Kiriakou every Saturday of the month. Having worked with some of the biggest popstars in the business, Kiriakou and McIntyre`s show "One Too Many at Midnight" is a mix of early `90s throwbacks, top 40 covers and everything else in between. I sat down with McIntyre and Kiriakou to discourse the new show and how life is fairing - post NKOTB fame. I`d say the kids are alright. The Rebel Yell: Have you been busy preparing for the show? Joey McIntyre: Yeah, we hadn`t performed like this for roughly 5 or six days and so we did a couple shows in the faint and hardly got back together and you know it was so much fun. RY: Why did you need to execute in Las Vegas for this show? JM: Our friend Zoe Thrall who runs the studio at The Palms is good friends with us, especially with Eman. She loved the head and _ we knew how perfect this way would be for what we do - you know, kind of an acoustic intimate fly by the shadow of your pants show. RY: What can we take the film to be like? JM: Well you know we`ve written a lot of music together so a lot of our original stuff. Of class a few New Kids songs, we try to do great covers. Some current stuff, you know, songs that are out now that we think are gonna be the next standards. In NY we did a Taylor Swift song, "You Go to Me." RY: You`re [McIntyre] one of the pop all stars and you`ve [Eman] worked with some of the biggest pop stars. Who do you believe is leaving to be the next up-and-coming artist? JM: Well he`s just gonna say the people he works with! Emanuel Kiriakou: No, I`m not actually! I think there`s so much good music out. I think Bruno Mars is very talented, and I really knew him when he was writing for other people and struggling and I think he`s incredibly talented. RY: So do you [McIntyre] write your own blogs on your website? JM: All the time. RY: Back in October, you announced on your blog that you were no longer playing with Eman and that it might be 25 years before you do again as a duo. What happened? JM: It was good _ I was stressful to be true by saying this is it, we`re not going to be performing anytime soon. And so this kinda came along _ I wanted them to recognise that we`re not going to be doing a 25-city tour. RY: Do you give any independent projects in the works? EM: I`m working with Selena Gomez right now. I just did three songs with Jordin Sparks. I got a line that I`m really mad about with this band called Hot Chelle Rae. RY: How is the crowd different from NKOTB fans? Do people expect NKOTB songs? JM: You know, my fans know. But it`s always nice to get fans who don`t know. I`m sure there`s going to be a lot of people who have never seen this show coming to see [it.] _ Obviously, [it`s] very dissimilar from performing the Staples Center or the Thomas & Mack arena, it`s a different setting. It`s very intimate and kinda anything goes. EM: And they still get to hear Joe`s hits and the New Kids hits, but in a different way. In a way that they have never heard. JM: Yeah. RY: Speaking of New Kids, the band announced a piece with Backstreet Boys that will make this summer. Are you mad to be back? JM: Yeah, you know, it`s fun _ the two groups get on really easily together and we both have been doing it a long time so we know how lucky we are to be doing what we`re doing again _ we want to get it one big amazing awesome concert ride. Since New Kids have gotten back together, we started off thinking, `Okay this might be fun,` but so it just snowballed into this conversion of the relationship that we`ve had with our fans. Except they`re older now and they can follow the past and they can feel young and feel current. RY: You were in one of the biggest boy bands to date. How do you look about New Kids now that you`re older? JM: It is crazy. You know, it`s so long ago. All we know is that right now it`s great so whatever we did we must get done right by ourselves and by our fans. EK: The fact that there`s still such a high demand for it says everything, that it wasn`t just a fluke. It was real. RY: Is there going to be a new record? JM: Another New Kids record? RY: Yeah. JM: The plot thickens. We would like to, you know, hopefully do some music together. It`s hard to get nine guys on the same page _ It`s bad enough getting five guys on the same page now you got nine guys. So that music thing is definitely another level. It`s got great value. I really hope that we can do that.
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