NKOTB News Blog: Joey McIntyre Interview with The Rebel Yell

Joey McIntyre Interview with The Rebel Yell

Joey and Eman did an audience with The Rebel Yell about their upcoming Vegas shows, the NKOTBSB tour and will there be a new album? As I pass into The Lounge at The Palms, Joey McIntyre is Tweeting away feverishly on his phone. It`s 10:30 a.m. and the New Kid is in high spirits, waiting to complete his lineup of interviews for the morning.

But this isn`t 1992 and New Kids on the Block is not the subject of discussion (for the about part). Instead, I`m meeting with McIntyre to speak about his new point at The Palms. Starting Feb. 5, the New Kid will be playing in The Lounge 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 evidence 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 approximately 5 or six years and so we did a couple shows in the light and barely got back together and you recognise it was so much fun. RY: Why did you take 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 mind and _ we knew how perfect this way would be for what we do - you know, kind of an acoustic intimate fly by the tail of your pants show. RY: What can we carry the picture to be like? JM: Well you know we`ve written a lot of music together so a lot of our original stuff. Of course a few New Kids songs, we try to do great covers. Some current stuff, you know, songs that are out now that we believe 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 future up-and-coming artist? JM: Well he`s just gonna say the multitude he plant with! Emanuel Kiriakou: No, I`m not actually! I suppose there`s so much good music out. I think Bruno Mars is very talented, and I actually knew him when he was writing for other masses and struggling and I believe 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 days before you do again as a duo. What happened? JM: It was good _ I was trying to be honest 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 make any independent projects in the works? EM: I`m working with Selena Gomez right now. I simply did three songs with Jordin Sparks. I got a strain that I`m really excited 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 certain 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 cozy and kinda anything goes. EM: And they even 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 spell with Backstreet Boys that will establish this summer. Are you mad to be back? JM: Yeah, you know, it`s fun _ the two groups get along very well together and we both have been doing it a long time so we recognize how lucky we are to be doing what we`re doing again _ we need to get it one big amazing awesome concert ride. Since New Kids have gotten back together, we started off thinking, `Okay this power 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 adopt the preceding and they can feel young and feel current. RY: You were in one of the biggest boy bands to date. How do you feel about New Kids now that you`re older? JM: It is crazy. You know, it`s so long ago. All we live is that right now it`s great so whatever we did we must get done justly by ourselves and by our fans. EK: The fact that there`s still such a high need for it says everything, that it wasn`t merely 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 wish to, you know, hopefully do some music together. It`s difficult 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.