New Interview with Danny

Ok, Srsly, someone should tell people to STOP ASKING THE POOR GUYS THE SAME OLD QUESTION FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!
Really, don't you feel like hmmmm you can't ask them again about what made them break up back then and what made them come back? If you are a good reporter you will know that by now and ask some juicy questions instead like:
-WHEN ARE YOU GUYS COMING BACK TO EUROPE?
-WHY DO YOU ALL WEAR SO MUCH CLOTHES ON STAGE?
-IS THERE A NEW RECORD?
Ok, now to the interview

Brush up on your ‘New Kids’ dance
By Nancy Bosarge

The New Kids on the Block are back from almost a 15 year hiatus and stepping on the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday in Studio A at the IP Casino in Biloxi.

The band of five hunky males, Jonathan Knight, Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Danny Wood and Donnie Wahlberg are back on top with their new album The Block, which was released in September and debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. top pop Album Chart and at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

New Kids promise fans a few surprises at their show, but Wood wasn’t letting any secrets escape his sealed lips.

“We spent like a week and a half tweeking the show, changing some things, and we let fans know as we go into the next part of the tour, it’s going to be completely different shows, and we want them to come back. So, I can’t give anything away. You just have to see it,” Wood said.

The New Kids toured the country in late 1980s and early 1990s as young mostly teenage kids and sold more than 80 million albums world wide with international No. 1 songs like “Hangin’ Tough” in 1988 and “Step by Step” in 1990. In the mid90s the band broke up and members went their separate ways.

“It was more of people wanted to do their own things,” Wood said. “It was like we had been on that roller coaster ride, and it had been going so fast for so long. I think everyone needed a break and needed to explore things on their own that they wanted to do.”

Getting back together was about the music at first, Wood said, “We didn’t plan to tour. We just said let’s make a good record and let’s go on from there.”

And Wood described their relationship as bonds that could never be broken. At this stage of the tour, things are really getting back on track.

“It feels great now. We are about 80 something shows into the tour,” Wood said.”The hardest part was at the beginning, dance rehearsal and everyone getting back into the swing of things.”

Wahlberg is credited with getting the group back together after being impressed with a demo tape of some songs written by singer/songwriter Nasri Atweh.

Wahlberg played “Click, Click, Click” from the demo tape for Jordan and McIntyre and it seized their interest. “Click, Click, Click” is the first song on the new album.

“The songs (by Nasri) were mature, but they still kind of had the New Kids kind of flavor,” Wood said. “His songs were very easy for us to hear us doing them. And we just clicked.”

The biggest difference in touring these days Wood explained is that most of the members have families and have separate buses, but Wahlberg and Wood are single again.

Fans have been very receptive, Wood said, “From day one it has been incredible, every turn has surprised me. Last night we were in Tulsa and the crowd was insane, they were crazy. It is awesome every night”

And fans don’t have to worry about them going anywhere any time soon. The band will be touring this summer and their single “2 in The Morning” just hit the radio and the video is on VH1, Wood said.