Keith Duffy has admitted he hoped to be in a rock band like U2 growing up – rather than “crystal-clean” Boyzone.
The Dubliner has been with the band for 21 years but always hoped to be a drummer instead of joining Louis Walsh’s group.
“I was more into the U2 kind of thing,” he said. “My dream as a kid growing up was always to be a drummer in a rock band certainly not to be in a crystal-clean type of boy band.”
And the 40-year-old has found their new Motown record, From Dublin To Detroit, one of the first Boyzone albums he’ll actually listen to.
Dream: Keith wanted to be drummer in band like U2
He said: “It’s one of the first Boyzone album’s that I enjoy putting on and listening to myself.”
However Keith doesn’t want to dwell on what could of been – and instead hopes to help to Louis Walsh’s new band Hometown.
He wants to give them advice on how to survive the music industry when he meets them at the Childline concert later this month.
“I’m looking forward to meeting them and trying to remember what it was like to be young,” he said.
Advice: Keith wants to help Hometown survive industry | BRIAN MCEVOY
“You go through this industry and you could be in the band for years and years but the new bands that come along and the last thing they want to hear is advice from the older guys.
“But it would be nice though to try and teach some of the lads not to have some of the pitfalls that we had because some of the times you go through in the band can be tough.
“But when you’re famous and more people know you than you know them it can bring on problems and insecurities and there’s no need for it if they watch themselves going forward.”
